Free event celebrates local artistic creativity
The Twisp Spring Art Walk will showcase some of the Methow Valley’s finest artists, craftspeople, businesses, and nonprofit organizations on Saturday (May 14), during the all-day festival held in downtown Twisp.
Free to visitors, shoppers and vendors alike, the event’s purpose is to celebrate spring with an arts-infused experience.
The event, which starts at 11 a.m. and stretches from North Glover Street to TwispWorks, features more than 50 artists and makers from throughout Okanogan County, as well as live music, participatory art activities, custom caricatures, and delicious offerings from local food trucks and family-owned restaurants.
Twisp Chamber of Commerce Marketing Director Jamie Petitto said that the Art Walk committee chose the event date with the Methow Valley Farmers Market in mind, in hopes of encouraging the Farmers Market shoppers to stick around after the market for Art Walk.
“After the market closes at noon,” Petitto said, “artisan vendors from the market will relocate their booths to TwispWorks.”
Petitto also noted that art booths will offer art pieces in a range of pricing that will appeal to budgets of any size.
“If you’ve had your eye on a piece of art from afar, now is the perfect time to come out and support locally made works,” she said.
Handmade soap, greeting cards, jewelry, sculpture, paintings, fiber arts, metal art, apparel, pottery, paper goods — it will be a vibrant explosion of high-quality, local and regionally created products.
Artisans will display their wares in their TwispWorks and Glover Street studios, under tents located throughout the venue, and even in businesses that are not galleries, such as the Twisp Daily Business, where artist V-Blast will show his work.
“Peek into doors you might not expect to have art behind them,” Petitto said. “You will be surprised by how much art there will be in Twisp that day.”
Interactive arts-focused opportunities include the community mural painting at Methow Arts, the selfie-station — complete with costumes and props — at The Merc Playhouse, and oversized versions of Jenga, Scrabble, Connect 4 and other games. Cascadia Music will offer live music at The Confluence: Art in Twisp and there will be a DJ outside Methow Arts. The band Vera Loves Vinyl will keep the energy lively at the after party.
“Especially because it’s our first public spring event since COVID,” Petitto said, “Art Walk will be an exciting way to kick off summer events.”
The Twisp Spring Art Walk will take place from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Glover Street in downtown Twisp and on the TwispWorks campus, where the after party will also be held from 4-7 p.m. Find more information at http://twispwa.com/spring-art-walk.
