Art Festival
The Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts is this weekend in the heart of downtown Peculiar, Missouri - a worthwhile twenty minute drive from Kansas City, Missouri or Johnson County, Kansas. Festival hours of operation will be Friday June 12, 2009 from 5 pm - 11 pm ; Saturday June 13, 2009 from 10 am - 10 pm and Sunday June 14, 2009 from 12 pm - 4 pm. You may find more info on our website, www.downtownpeculiar.com
Open air location will be the on Broadway Street east of Main Street/C Hwy. We have an exciting mix of artists to feed your eyes and food vendor booths to feed your tummy. There is also a beer and wine tent on Friday and Saturday. There is a "jam session" tent where musicians will gather to jam and attendees will be invited to bring lawn chairs and sit in the warm night, watch the lightning bugs and listen to the music. Friday is a free-for-all-campfire kind of night. Musicians are invited to join us around 7:00 to jam together and sing/play the songs they want to sing. Requests from the crowd are encouraged and singing along is one step short of mandatory (toe tapping is mandatory!). Saturday is Bluegrass - need I say more? Bluegrass pickin' starts at 3 pm (earlier if you're so inclined) and goes until 10 pm. It's a big tent - bring your bluegrass friends. There will also be a rooftop HVAC unit hooked to the tent to use if it is too hot or too cold (we know the music will be just right!).
There will be diverse stage performance art - everything from a classical viola presentation to cloggers. The performers will cross the age spectrum, will test the definition of eclectic and will be sure to make you smile, engage and be glad you came to the festival! The schedule for the stage is given below - be sure to pick your favorites and come early and stay late for all the other things you can experience while you're here! All stage performances are free to the public.
Sunday will be a great day for a church, youth group or family outing. The music will be gospel and contemporary Christian. The art, food and fellowship will be abundant and the chance to learn origami or how to make a photo block (everyone loves these) in the workshop tent.
"Get your art on" by participating in the art demonstrations and workshops held throughout the festival. Some that have already been confirmed are: a regionally known chainsaw artist from Iowa - www.carvingbykeenan.com - will be giving a chainsaw art demonstration by creating two pieces of art during most of the festival; a three day mosaic workshop which will create a lasting piece of public art; a Rangoli workshop; pottery and wood block printmaking demonstrations as well as hypertufa (faux stone) and artist trading card workshops are examples of planned demos/workshops. We are excited to involve - submerse even - those attending the festival in the art experience. Most workshops are walk -in. Some have a sign up requirement and some have nominal fees to cover materials. Please scroll down to pick those you want to attend. You don't have to see yourself as an artist to come and have fun with us!
The festival is named for Clara Brierly, a Peculiar artist whose form of expression was oil painting. While her subject matter was traditional, the surfaces upon which she painted put her in squarely in the outsider artist camp. Miss Clara, as everyone who knew her called her, lived and painted in Peculiar for the greater part of the 20th century. A book and DVD about Miss Clara will be available for purchase at the Welcome Tent during the festival.
Open air location will be the on Broadway Street east of Main Street/C Hwy. We have an exciting mix of artists to feed your eyes and food vendor booths to feed your tummy. There is also a beer and wine tent on Friday and Saturday. There is a "jam session" tent where musicians will gather to jam and attendees will be invited to bring lawn chairs and sit in the warm night, watch the lightning bugs and listen to the music. Friday is a free-for-all-campfire kind of night. Musicians are invited to join us around 7:00 to jam together and sing/play the songs they want to sing. Requests from the crowd are encouraged and singing along is one step short of mandatory (toe tapping is mandatory!). Saturday is Bluegrass - need I say more? Bluegrass pickin' starts at 3 pm (earlier if you're so inclined) and goes until 10 pm. It's a big tent - bring your bluegrass friends. There will also be a rooftop HVAC unit hooked to the tent to use if it is too hot or too cold (we know the music will be just right!).
There will be diverse stage performance art - everything from a classical viola presentation to cloggers. The performers will cross the age spectrum, will test the definition of eclectic and will be sure to make you smile, engage and be glad you came to the festival! The schedule for the stage is given below - be sure to pick your favorites and come early and stay late for all the other things you can experience while you're here! All stage performances are free to the public.
Sunday will be a great day for a church, youth group or family outing. The music will be gospel and contemporary Christian. The art, food and fellowship will be abundant and the chance to learn origami or how to make a photo block (everyone loves these) in the workshop tent.
"Get your art on" by participating in the art demonstrations and workshops held throughout the festival. Some that have already been confirmed are: a regionally known chainsaw artist from Iowa - www.carvingbykeenan.com - will be giving a chainsaw art demonstration by creating two pieces of art during most of the festival; a three day mosaic workshop which will create a lasting piece of public art; a Rangoli workshop; pottery and wood block printmaking demonstrations as well as hypertufa (faux stone) and artist trading card workshops are examples of planned demos/workshops. We are excited to involve - submerse even - those attending the festival in the art experience. Most workshops are walk -in. Some have a sign up requirement and some have nominal fees to cover materials. Please scroll down to pick those you want to attend. You don't have to see yourself as an artist to come and have fun with us!
The festival is named for Clara Brierly, a Peculiar artist whose form of expression was oil painting. While her subject matter was traditional, the surfaces upon which she painted put her in squarely in the outsider artist camp. Miss Clara, as everyone who knew her called her, lived and painted in Peculiar for the greater part of the 20th century. A book and DVD about Miss Clara will be available for purchase at the Welcome Tent during the festival.