A Different Path Gallery owner Katherine Weston and artist Sarah Hart have great fun with their fake beards. Brockport Arts Festival events include a beard growing contest this year. Provided photoChallenged to come up with new ideas for the Brockport Arts Festival (August 11-12), Sarah Hart, a local artist who has her studio at A Different Path Gallery in Brockport, wants Brockport to celebrate Don Quixote Day, August 12 with a Beard Contest. Sarah, who has studied in Italy and is known for her portrait work, would provide a charcoal portrait of the winner as a grand prize. Other prizes would be given out to the beard most like Don Quixote’s, Best Fake Beard (have to let non beard growers have a chance), and similar categories.
The contest will be held at A Different Path Gallery, Sunday, August 12, beginning at 2:30 p.m. There is a rumor that the charismatic Steve Appleton may take a turn as Beard Contest MC. More information, including entry forms, will be available at www.DifferentPathGallery.com and at the gallery (23 Market Street).
BISCO invites merchants to have a role in Festival
BISCO is on a quest to make the 2012 Arts Festival the best ever as it returns to Main Street in mid August. For the first time in the 18 years of the festival, merchants are being invited to assume a larger, more visible role. Business owners may register as festival sponsors for a modest fee and those who wish to put out a display on the sidewalk in front of their business are encouraged to do so as long as the appearance adds to the festival. Those who wish to go further, like Hart and A Different Path Gallery owner Katherine Weston and present an activity, project or separate event directly enhancing the festival’s attractiveness, will have their efforts included as part of the festival schedule.
Business owners who have not yet received an explanatory letter and registration form should contact Jo Matela at Red Bird Café and Tea Shoppe (637-3340). See www.brockportartsfestival.com for a list of those merchants who have signed up to this point.
