Coeur Dalene Art on the Green and Street Fair

Bring together us for a weekend of fun throughout Downtown, Coeur d'Alene!

It's an art fest. Information technology's a food fest. It'south a summer extravaganza of Inland Northwest talent a mere 5 minute walk from the Coeur d'Alene Resort. Three annual festivals – Art on the Green, Gustatory modality of Coeur D'Alene and the Coeur d'Alene Street Fair – make full the lake city'south parks and streets with over 400 arts, crafts, retail and nutrient booths on August four, five, and 6.

I tin't assist but retrieve the term "stay-cation" was invented for a three-solar day fine art, food, music, sunshine, lakeside festival like this. What a perfect fourth dimension to book a long weekend escape at the Coeur d'Alene Resort so you can leisurely take in all three events, enjoy a piddling spa time (shopping is hard work!) or post-festival cocktails at Whispers overlooking the lake. And when twenty-four hour period is done, yous can slide the Resort's lite blocking curtains closed for a good nighttime's sleep, wake upwards the next morning time and so refreshed you'll be fix to head out and do it all over again.

One of my favorite things near fine art festivals is the vendors themselves. Virtually of them are non shy and they love to tell you almost their craft, how they got started and what goes into creating their special pieces. If I'yard looking for a unique gift for a hard-to-buy-for person, I can always find it at one of these three fairs. As likely, I'll be able to find something I tin't resist, similar a slice of jewelry…a photograph…a ceramic cosmos…a painting…a fabric wall hanging…yard sculpture…the possibilities are endless.

Fine art on the Green sprawls beyond the grassy grounds of North Idaho College. Over 190 vendors display and sell everything from sculpture to paintings to glass, ceramic, leather and fiber art.  No ticky-tacky hither, juried art is located beneath the big white tent and quality goods curated by the Citizens Quango for the Arts make full the surrounding lawns.

This yr you'll take a chance to come across (and peradventure you lot volition purchase) work by Ben Joyce, Jessica Bryant and Mai Leisz, nationally recognized artists who call the Inland Northwest home. Joyce's abstract topophilia® will give you lot suspension as you ponder what, exactly, that mixed media abstract is. Then wham! You lot recognize the aerial views of one of your favorite lakes, or a familiar city or a distant isle. Jessica Bryant, Creative person in Residence for the National Park Service, volition be selling her haunting watercolors that preserve some of the nation's last best places in subdued, whisper shades of tan, blue, green and cream. 1 of the festival'southward most sought-later artists, Maia Leisz, showcases festive, bold abstracts, still life and landscapes that reflect her love of travel, the outdoors and nature.

Local musicians entertain on middle stage, food vendors sell everything from sausages to salads to sandwiches, and a special area is set upwardly for budding child artists where kids tin can create, get messy and have fun under the helpful middle of instructors.

The Idaho Panhandle Kiwanis sponsors the annual Taste of Coeur d'Alene at nearby City Park. The Kiwanis have been at this for 30 years so yous know their 100-plus vendors will showcase some pretty fine food choices from local favorites like Baja Babes, King of Tacos, Southern Corn on the Cobb, Charlie'southward Cheese Cake, Eldon's Sausage and Ekness Catering. You'll observe icy beverages and specialty arts and crafts brews in the beer garden, a perfect spot to balance up for the last of the three Coeur d'Alene festivals, the annual Coeur d'Alene Street Fair.

Downtown's Sherman Avenue is transformed into a pedestrian mall where a staggering 220-plus vendors, retailers and crafters set up tents offering handcrafted and imported goods. Many crafters create on the scene, and downtown's favorite retailers move their goods onto the sidewalk for endless browsing and buying. From tie-heart to chain saw carvings to kids' toys and jewelry, the options are endless.

A costless shuttle circles the events to get in piece of cake to wander from festival to festival. Admission for all fairs and musical performances is free. Food booths are another matter, of course, and choices run from annihilation that can be grilled (veggies, craven, fish and sausages) to ice cream, snowfall cones, wine, beer, even a health nutrient snack shop. All 3 festivals run August 4, 5 and 6. Start and finish times vary somewhat but are generally 10am to 7:30pm.

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