Driftless Area Art Festival

An Event of the Crawford County Tourism Council / Community Development Alternatives, Inc.

 

 

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Inaugural Driftless Area Art Festival —Original Oil Painting by Ken DeWaard

Celebrating the visual, performing, and
culinary arts of the Driftless Area...

   

The Driftless area, a unique region that escaped the glaciers of the ice age, is an inspirational setting to many talented artists and artisans.  Its hills and valleys are home to painters and potters, woodworkers and weavers, musicians and metalsmiths. 

 

To see the breadth and variety of their creations, you usually have to visit studios, stores and galleries across the area.  But once a year in September, these artists gather together in Crawford County, Wisconsin, at the Driftless Area Art Festival.

 

Area originality reaches beyond the visual arts into the performing and culinary arts.  You can listen to musicians who perform lively bluegrass, sophisticated jazz or the best of classical music.  You can enjoy theater from improv to Shakespeare.  And then there is the food, from spring's maple syrup to summer's honeys to fall's apples, from artisan cheeses to wines made from cool climate grapes.

 

Spend a few hours strolling through the exhibits.  Meet with the artists and learn the source of inspiration for the piece you take home, and the painstaking or free-wheeling way in which it was created.  Have a bite to eat, sip some local wines and listen to some great music.

 

Celebrate the beauty and artistry of the Driftless Area.