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Location/County: Huntington, Cabell
April 23, 2015 — April 25, 2015
After a one-year hiatus, the Dogwood Arts and Crafts Festival is returning to the city with a new and improved format. The Big Sandy Superstore Arena will host the arts and crafts festival April 23-25.
“The Dogwood Arts and Crafts Festival has provided a forum for artisans on a local and regional stage to show off their passions for more than 40 years,” Mayor Steve Williams said. “Considering that Huntington was recently designated as a Certified Arts Community, there’s no better time to reintroduce the festival.”
To maintain an outstanding quality of exhibitors, all West Virginia artisans participating in the festival previously will have been juried into Tamarack. All out-of-state artisans also will have gone through a strict jurying process.
Spearheading the jury process will be Huntington resident and ceramic artist Carter Taylor Seaton. Seaton directed an Appalachian craft cooperative for 15 years, has served as a juror for Tamarack and the Mountain State Art & Crafts Festival and directed the Dogwood Arts and Crafts Festival in 1985.
The festival will kick off on the evening of Thursday, April 23, with a preview party hosted by Mayor Williams and First Lady Mary Poindexter Williams.
It will be open to the public from noon to 9 p.m. Friday, April 24, and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, April 25. A variety of local Appalachian musicians will perform both days.