Art – A Marvelous Experience
Since early summer, I have been busy organizing the Evergreen Artisan Market in Prince Albert. Normally, this isn’t column – worthy but there were many reminders for me at this event of how many treasures we have close to home.
The Evergreen Artisan Market had formerly been the Evergreen Artisan Trade Show. Like all other trade shows in Prince Albert, it was at the Exhibition Centre and the exhibitors lined up in rows to display their wares. However, after years of repeating the same formula the trade show and sale had lost its’ specialness, its’ Je ne sais quoi for artists as well as audiences.
So this summer and fall volunteers and I have been busy creating a new event – something to not just bring people through a door to (hopefully) buy local art and craft – but to come through the door and have an experience so marvellous it would change their perspective on the arts as something frivolous – to see the arts as something the enhances the soul.
And – amazingly, we made a good start at it.