Austin ArtWorks Festival bigger than ever this year
Published 9:40 am Friday, August 22, 2014
By Albert Lea Tribune
AUSTIN — The Austin ArtWorks Festival is back and bigger than ever for its third year.
The festival takes place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23 and 24. There’s every expectation the festival will be bigger than ever — the event drew 5,000 attendees in 2012 and 6,500 in 2013.
Eleven authors will be featured at the festival this year, including P.S. Duffy, author of “The Cartographer of No Man’s Land,” this year’s Austin Page Turners selection.
There will also be glass blowing, a potter, a hoola-hoop artist, a mosaic artist and an artist who sets up a canvas and allows anyone who wants to participate in making a painting. The Volkswagon Bug will also be set up for children to paint, as in previous years.
For the second straight year, Cloud Cult is playing the Music in the Outfield concert at Marcusen Park at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Last year, Cloud Cult played with Austin natives Martin Zellar and Nick Ciola of the Gear Daddies. This year, they will join Pert Near Sandstone.
The Austin ArtWorks Center will be front and center during the festival. Motorcycles — along with two-wheeled vehicles of all shapes and sizes — will be on display during the Spare Arts Motorcycle Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday outside the center on Main Street between Second and Fourth Avenues. The show is an expanded version of the Build Art Bike Show held at the bank building this spring.
ArtWorks schedule
Saturday
Galleries Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; ArtWorks Center Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Spare Arts Show Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Authors
10 a.m. Phil Formo
11 a.m. Randy Hilmer
12 p.m. Julie Kramer
1 p.m. Carole Hyder
2 p.m. P.S. Duffy
3 p.m. Sherrie Hansen
4 p.m. Kristy Bina
Outdoor Music
9 a.m. Austin High School Jazz Band
9:45 a.m. Brian Gorman
10:30 a.m. Full Circle
11:15 a.m. Terry Schmidt
12 p.m. Weathered Ivan
1 p.m. Echo Messenger
2 p.m. Joshua Whalen
3 p.m. Cosmic
4 p.m. Trace Bundy
Indoor Music
9 a.m. Cedar River Strings
10 a.m. Kalle Akkerman
11 a.m. LeBelle Vita
12 p.m. S a.m. Bergstrom
1 p.m. Jim Knudson
2 p.m. Peter Jacobs
Music in the Outfield
Cloud Cult and Pert Near Sandstone
Tickets $25, available at the gate.
Doors 6 p.m.
Concert 7:30 p.m.
Austin’s Marcusen Park, 901 S. Main St.
Sunday
Galleries Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; ArtWorks Center Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Authors
12 p.m. Al Batt
1 p.m. Grant Blackwood
2 p.m. Lydia Emma Niebuhr
3 p.m. Chuck Keller
Outdoor Music
11 a.m. DC Drifters
12 p.m. The SPAMettes
1 p.m. Jeremy Jewell
2 p.m. Kevin Bowe & the Okema Prophets
3 p.m. The Last Revel
4 p.m. Charlie Parr
Indoor Music
12 p.m. Confuocoquartet
1 p.m. Ted Hingecliff
2 p.m. Stringendo
3 p.m. Jon Stowell