Participating food vendors include Del Vecchio’s, Fat Cat’s Orange Tent Events, Hot Ash Wood Fired Pizza, Galaxy Donuts, Knapp-Kins, Conny Creek Brewery, Bubbles and a Bite, Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream, Wok on Wheels, Vandergrift VFD No. “The quality of artists and variety of foods coming to Vandergrift are incredible.”
“This year, ‘Beyond the Yellow Brick Road’ is taking us to the next level,” Artfest chairperson and organizer Lisa Dormire said. More than 100 artists and vendors will occupy a closed-off Grant Avenue. Her palette features three painted sections depicting the ruby red slippers and Toto, The Emerald City, Glenda the Good Witch’s bubble, the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man and the Wicked Witch and farmhouse complete with a tornado funnel.Įvents include a scavenger hunt at 3 p.m., live music throughout the day and a children’s play area with free games and activities from noon to 4 p.m.Ī free shuttle service, provided by Byers Taxi, will be available from the Kiski Plaza (Big Lots) in Allegheny Township. I think I could draw and paint before I could write.” There’s so many beautiful things that we overlook. Everything around us is art - the trees, sky and ocean. “Since the pallet, I’ve been painting almost every night. Local artists paint dozens of palettes for The Myers Family Palette Project, which are all displayed along the sidewalks of downtown Vandergrift before Artfest and during the event.
Shoop brings her artistic talents to the annual event that draws thousands to Vandergrift’s business district along Grant and Washington avenues, with an original Oz-themed oversized art palette she recently painted.
The celebration’s theme this year is “Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.” Shoop is prepping to follow the yellow brick road back to Vandergrift to attend the upcoming “Wizard of Oz”-themed 2023 Vandergrift Artfest on July 30. “We went there all the time to visit my aunt and uncle,” said Shoop, a Realtor and amateur painter. Karen Shoop of Springdale has fond childhood memories of visiting Vandergrift with her grandfather.
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