Mark you calendars for Renaissance Park 2009

Saturday May 23rd
and Sunday May 24th
Renaissance Park on the Northshore of Chattanooga, Tennessee!
We are, literally, already planning for next year and promise to bring you even bigger and better for Memorial Day 2009!

Who-Fest Photo Galleries

We will have an “official” set of photos up soon, but I thought I would share some other photo galleries of this years Who-Fest. If you have a gallery you want to share, just leave the link in the comments and we will add it to the list.
Here is a gallery from the Chattanooga [...]

From the Sunday Morning Times-Free Press…

Who-Fest at Renaissance Park celebrates folk art

By: Kathy Gilbert
(Contact)

David Smotherman
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A celebration of the self-taught artist, Who-Fest, covers Renaissance Park with art and music this weekend.
“It’s really soulful art,” said Hailey Moses, a 20-year-old Guilford College (N.C.) student who bought paintings on Saturday while visiting with her mother, [...]

Times-Free Press Weekend Section Article

Very nice article, the only thing that I felt is little out of context was the part about “creating only for money”…it makes it sound like I was downing some artists as people only being in it for money. The actual conversation was more along the lines of that while professionally trained artists are [...]

It feels a little like Christmas Eve…

I am so excited I can barely sleep (and I probably won’t do much of it until sometime Sunday night).
Can’t wait to catch up with old friends and meet new one’s. Everyone please drive safely!
Our last look at the weather forecast…
Fri
May 23

Partly Cloudy

85°
64°

20%

Sat
May 24

Partly Cloudy

84°
58°

20%

Sun
May 25

Sunny

84°
62°

0%

Special Thanks: Promotion of Who-Fest [08]

I have been struck by how many different groups have helped spread the word about Who-Fest this year, so much so that I wanted to take a quick moment to thanks some of them…
Of course, all our artists, friends and patrons…thanks for forwarding our press releases.
We have also had great luck generating web traffic to [...]

Bucketman is in the house!

Danny “Bucketman” Hoskinson will be making his way down from his secure, undisclosed, location near the Ocoee. We hear he will also be debuting a new art car at Who-Fest [08].
And we have another last minute addition…one of our favorite coppersmith’s, Mont Overton.
Now if we could just figure out a way to get Eric [...]

Promotion: Artile in the North River Edition of the T-FP

Well, this was an unexpected bonus. The Times-Free Press prints a supplement in the Wednesday paper that is specific to different area’s of town. There was a nice article on Who-Fest in the North River edition of the paper (which the paper says reaches about 12,000-15,000)
I screen captured the article…

More Last Minute Additions…

Better late than never, we got us a few more friends for this weekend. Some you know well, some are new friends to folk…
Pete Adkins (Chattanooga, TN)
Jes Crownover (Memphis, TN)
Marguerite Durham (Atlanta, GA)
Charlie Durham (Atlanta, GA)
CoCo Hardwick (Conway, SC)
Whitney Nave Jones (Chattanooga, TN)
Ed Russell (Tracy City, TN)
John Smedley (Cleveland, TN)
Dallas Williams (Rossvile, GA)
Sandy Erickson [...]

Promotion: Radio Interviews

The taped interview I did on the local NPR station aired this morning…I have already gotten a few calls from friends that heard it. Our friend at WUTC, Elizabeth Miller, said she was going to send a copy of it to me that I can upload.
Tomorrow morning I will be doing a live, in-studio, [...]