Fall Fountain Festival of Fine Arts & Crafts
The Fountain Festival is the PERFECT place to complete your Holiday shopping with one-of-a-kind, handmade gifts. Whether if it’s for you or others, you will certainly find artwork that speaks to your soul. This Festival truly represents the movement to make Fine Art more accessible to the public, and we take pride in being one of the leading Southwest Festivals for 49 years! Join us THIS WEEKEND November 10-12 to meet our artists of all types and categories! For more information visit fountainhillsartfairs.com
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00:00 If you are still looking to find those one-of-a-kind gifts or a piece of art that speaks to your soul,
00:06 a Fine Arts and Crafts Festival out in Fountain Hills might be the place for you.
00:10 Joining us is Hannah Toth to tell us more about this amazing festival. Hannah, welcome!
00:14 Hi, thank you so much for having me. I am so glad to welcome you to the Fountain Festival of Fine
00:23 Arts and Crafts. We're celebrating our 49th year of this event. Our vendors are still getting ready.
00:29 We don't technically open until 10, but I thought we could take a sneak peek real quick at a few of
00:34 our wonderful artists. Absolutely. We have our western artwork over here that you can kind of
00:39 see in the frame, but we're approaching a metal artist that makes some really unique wall art
00:45 with different colors. It's really fascinating how they create these pieces. You can see we have so
00:52 many different metalworks in the festival if you walk the whole show, but each of them have a
00:57 different strategy for creating their work, a different way that they create their colors,
01:02 whether that's through heat or through paint or other methods of showing off these beautiful,
01:09 beautiful creations. I take so much pride in our artwork here. The celebration of fine art in
01:15 Fountain Hills is so important to me. I was born and raised here in town, so I've been going to
01:20 this show since before I could walk, and now I have the honor of bragging about it on TV. It's
01:25 pretty cool. Yeah, that's amazing. I absolutely love everything you're showing us. It looks
01:30 beautiful, and so this starts today and runs all the way until Sunday, correct?
01:34 Yes, yes. We are starting today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and then we'll run Sunday, 10 to 4 p.m.,
01:45 so we got Friday and Saturday, 10 to 5, and Sunday, 10 to 4. Just as a reminder,
01:50 you can find art of every single category here, from wall art to sculptures to culinary to jewelry
01:56 to clothing to glass. Everything that you can think of is here at the Fountain Festival. It is
02:02 the perfect spot to do your holiday shopping, to get that unique piece for your house or for another.
02:10 It is the season of giving, so you will find something that's a perfect match for you and a
02:15 perfect match for all of your friends and family here at the Fountain Festival. Oh, Hannah, I love
02:21 it. Okay, so I do have a quick question for you that's not related to this exact festival, but I
02:27 know you guys have your Spring Festival coming up, and I know you're taking applications right now
02:31 for that, right? We are. Our applications are currently open to artists, and I did kind of
02:40 hint at it. I mentioned that this one is the 49th, so that means that our next Spring anniversary is
02:46 the 50th anniversary of the Fountain Festival, so we're going to have a lot of special stuff
02:52 for the February event. It's February 23rd through the 25th, and those applications,
02:56 the deadline is December 1st. Oh, I love that. Okay, well, if you didn't make it in for this 49th
03:04 festival, then the 50th is coming up. That's really, really exciting, and Hannah, show us a
03:09 little bit more about what you guys got going on down there. I mean, we saw the metal, we see the
03:12 glass. What about clothing? What about anything else? Is there something for everybody out there?
03:18 Oh, there sure is. There is something for everybody. So we did pass by clothing over here.
03:26 There's some very lovely work. We've got our artist here that's creating one right in front
03:32 of us. How amazing is that? Beautiful. And Hannah, what about food? Do you have any food,
03:39 drink, anything like that out there? We have plenty of food, so we're going to pass by these
03:46 Christmas wreaths right here, and then we are arriving at our Verde River Food Court, which is
03:53 one of four food courts at the festival, so we have about any food that you could imagine as well.
04:00 We've got kettle corn and ice cream are the most easily seen, but we've got Mexican, we've got our
04:06 beer garden hosted by the local VFW chapter, got Wetzel's pretzels, we've got the Fountain Hills
04:12 food cart, which is a local delight. We love the Fountain Hills food cart here in Fountain Hills,
04:17 and any of your local vendors, really, you'll be able to see here at the show. So if you are
04:24 familiar with Fountain Hills, you'll see some of your favorite restauranteurs here as well.
04:29 Oh, Hannah, I love it. It sounds like it is the perfect festival for everybody to come out
04:34 to eat, to drink, to get an amazing holiday gift, and it starts today and runs all the way
04:40 through Sunday. Really quickly, tell us where you can find more information for those who are looking.
04:44 Yes, for any more information, either download the Visit Fountain Hills mobile app
04:51 or head to FountainHillsArtFairs.com for information about the show, or come see us
04:56 at the Chamber Info booth. We're right here at Verde River and Avenue of the Fountains in Fountain
05:01 Hills. Oh, Hannah, that's awesome. I love it. All right, thank you for that sneak peek. It looks
05:05 absolutely fantastic, and the weather is amazing, so this is the perfect day to go out and enjoy.
05:11 All right, guys, stick around. We have more of The Mix coming up after this.
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