ART & THE VINEYARD---Art and Wine Festival by birchy99
Wow!! It's hard to believe that this festival has been going on each Fourth of July for 22 years, but it has. It takes place in Alton Baker Park in downtown Eugene for 4 days over the 4th of July.Each year a dozen or more local wineries have booths set up for tasting and drinking pleasure. But the main feature is the dozens and dozens of artists who hawk their wares from their booths. Most are local artists and they feature garden art, paintings, pottery, weavings, jewelry, photos; if you can imagine it it will probably be there.
Besides the wine and art there are 20 or so food booths, many of them extensions of local restaurants in town; others the traveling trailer types that show up at every event. Choices range from Peruvian, to Thai, to BBQ. What's is nice that there is plenty of table seating available, many with umbrellas to ward off the sun or rain as the case may be.
Center Stage also features live music every day, usually with a couple of Northwest or national headliners and several local groups.
All proceeds go to support the local Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, which is a teaching gallery for local artists and aspiring artists.