This was my first year visiting the Shoreline Arts Festival and I was fairly pleased. Going into this, you must understand, I’m from Edmonds. Home of an absolutely huge, intense, overwhelming, people-come-from-far-away arts festival that usually left me with heat stroke, panic, and a need to be in a small dark room and not interact with people for at least three days afterward. So in my adult life I have mostly avoided arts festivals, which is a pretty dumb thing for a professional artist to do. Shoreline, in contrast, was quite pleasantly community based, big enough to have lots to see and small enough not to be overwhelming. I still have enough introvert-excursion-points left over I may even visit Artopia or Live Arts Bothell this weekend, too!
Highlights, for me, of the Shoreline festival:
When we were there, there was a steady flow of people throughout, but not enough to clog the walkways or get irritating. I will definitely go back again next year, and will look into the possibilities of getting a table and selling prints; I haven’t really had many opportunities to be face to face with people as they look at the work.
