Cave Spring art fest continues today
The show will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rolater Park.
The 42nd annual Cave Spring Art Festival opened Saturday with a wide variety of goods and promises of a busy weekend.
According to Rip Montgomery of the Cave Spring Historical Society, the favorable weather and the growing crowd looked encouraging as he walked the festival grounds inside Rolater Park.
The Cave Spring Art Festival is also open today, featuring its 80 plus vendors with a wide range of art from stone work to photography.
The festival brought a few new additions this year including a quilt show and activities for kids spread throughout the festival. Activities for children included an inflatable obstacle course, face painting and rides on a mini train — the A&B Express — which took kids and parents around the festival grounds.
Also a first this year, the McCord’s Crossroads
Homemakers Club brought their quilt show to the Cave Spring Art Festival. The quilts are displayed on the pews of the Old Baptist Church in the festival grounds and presents quilts of all shapes, colors and sizes. The show also includes a quilt that the homemakers club will raffle off.
“Our club is trying to keep this alive,” president of the club Peggy Dempsey said. “It’s a dying art form.”
Along with the newcomers,
veterans of the festival can be found all over. Jerry Lashley of Lashley Woodcrafts in Lithia Springs has been coming to the Cave Spring Art Festival for 20 years, bringing his outdoor friendly furniture made from cypress wood.
“It’s a good show,” Lashley said, “We enjoy it and have a lot of fun.”
Tucked in the corner near the historic Hearn Academy building is the metal artwork of Argelia Gonzalez from Spring Branch, Texas. Gonzalez said she has been coming to the festival for about five years now, and found out about it on the festival’s website.
The Cave Spring Art Festival is sixth on a circuit that she takes each year throughout the region to display and sell her art. Her next showing will be at the Moon Pie Festival in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and then in Nashville before going home to Texas.
The McCord’s Crossing Fire Department has also returned this year, serving their barbecue to hungry festival-goers. There are also several food trucks and booths selling popcorn, ice cream, lemonade and even bacon-wrapped corn dogs.
The admission price to the festival is $5 for ages 13 and older, and free for children 12 and younger. All proceeds from admission to the festival go to the restoration and care of Cave Spring’s several historic buildings that can be seen at the festival and downtown Cave Spring.