LYNNFIELD — The Lynnfield Art Guild (LAG) is holding its Spring Arts Festival on Saturday, May 3, taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Meeting House and on the Town Common.
The Spring Arts Festival will include a judged Art Show and Sale and an opportunity for the public to create art and interact with local artisans and organizations. There will be vendor and artisan tables, creative activities including free face painting for kids, live music and dance, a bake sale, raffles and prizes. Local organizations and town committees with booths include Centre Congregational Church, Girl Scouts Troop 8259, Friends of the Library, the Library Foundation, Lynnfield Rail Trail, Lynnfield Tree Committee, Lynnfield Veterans/American Legion and the Village Home and Garden Club.
Seventeen artisan tables on the Common include Kish Pots, April Rose Jewelry, Grateful Tastes, Fascinating Pearls, EJW Designs, Nichols Art Images, Glasgo Gal Knits and Fabrics, Fresh off the Hook, Fayzo Art, Barara Douglass Decorations and Accessories, Veresk Art Studio, Fork on A Road, Breanna Nigohosian Paintings, Siempre Verde Farm Specialty Coffee, Judith Armistead Dollhouse Items, Brewster Road Wooden Items and Heidi Reynolds Re-Create Studio.
In the Meeting House, over 100 pieces of original art and photography by LAG artists will be for sale along with works by Lynnfield High School art students. At the start of the show, there will be an announcement of the ribbon winners chosen by the judges Laurie Schmidt, lifelong fine artist and artisan, retired art teacher and graduate of MassArt and RISD, whose work can be seen at venues and galleries throughout New England; Deidre Tao, the owner of Deidre Tao Fine Art, a professional for more than three decades and graduate of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth whose work can be seen in private collectors locally and through art galleries internationally and in her Cambridge studio; and Tricia O’Neill, photographer and founder of the company Signs Unique with a fine arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. O’Neil’s documentary style work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Ireland and in solo, juried and group shows.
There will be a memorial award for excellence in memory of Jeanne Rose and The Savings Bank will award cash prizes. The Guild will also be holding a bake sale instead the Meeting House along with a raffle. The raffle includes a Lottery Tree, restaurant gift cards, original art and donated gift baskets.
Outside on the Common, D.J. John Bohn will entertain the attendees, which followed by The Swamptones, a popular jazz and swing band, performing at 2 p.m.
“The Guild is grateful for its many supporters, sponsors and volunteers who are making the Spring Arts Festival possible,” said LAG member Beth Aaronson. “For further information about the Spring Arts Festival, including a complete list of artists and submissions, please go to lynnfieldarts.org and see us on Instagram and Facebook at LynnfieldArts.”