Eagle Rock Art Guild holding its annual Sidewalk Art Festival for community members

IDAHO FALLS — The Eagle Rock Art Guild’s yearly Sidewalk Art Festival is returning for its 69th twelvemonth this weekend.

The Eagle Rock Art Guild (ERAG) is simply a volunteer-run nonprofit statement founded successful 1948. Their yearly Sidewalk Art Festival will return spot connected Saturday, July 20 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, July 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. astatine nan Idaho Falls Greenbelt Riverwalk connected Memorial Drive.

“Our (ERAG) members and different location artists subordinate america to show pieces and to sale,” Dawn Langston, ERAG president, said astir nan festival. “We person a really bully assortment of artists this year.”

Langston said location will beryllium astir 50 artists and 41 different booths for organization members to cheque out.

Of nan artists successful attendance, location will beryllium those who activity pinch pottery and ceramics, solid blowers and stain solid artists, arsenic good arsenic woodworkers. There will besides beryllium sculptures, painters and drawers and items featuring oil, acrylic and charcoal.

“The Bonneville Art Association … will person a group booth, truthful aggregate group from their relation will beryllium showing pieces too, which is thing caller to america this year,” Langston added.

The 2024 poster was painted by Doug Jorgensen and is titled “Don Arnulfo and Friend.”| Courtesy Doug Jorgensen

Arctic Circle will beryllium passing retired free ice-cream connected Sunday astatine 1 p.m. A fewer vendors, including Hawaiin Ice, Kona Ice and The Villa Coffeehouse will beryllium astatine nan arena some days. On Saturday morning, nan show will overlap pinch nan Idaho Falls Farmers Market truthful nutrient vendors will besides beryllium nearby.

The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho will person a booth pinch a free creation activity for those willing successful participating. Community members will person nan opportunity to observe artists drafting and coating during nan arena and a caricature creator will besides beryllium there.

Langston said Jonny Nichols from Vacant Gate will oversee nan euphony arsenic nan DJ astatine nan event.

“We usually expect that we person astir 10,000 group travel done complete some days,” Langston explained.

She believes this is an arena organization members look guardant to. She mentioned really important it was for her to spot this show proceed complete nan years, truthful she primitively joined nan creation guild pinch that successful mind.

“I retrieve this show from erstwhile I was young. My family lived adjacent nan greenbelt truthful I ever retrieve each twelvemonth stepping done looking astatine nan art, seeing what different group were doing and loving this festival,” she said. “It’s a awesome nationalist assets and a humanities arena for nan city.”

ERAG will beryllium putting connected a raffle successful conjunction pinch nan festival. It’s free to participate but you person to get your raffle summons earlier nan arena and bring it to nan ERAG booth during nan festival. To download a raffle summons to capable out, click here.

Items that will beryllium raffled disconnected are creation donations, erstwhile years posters from nan Sidewalk Art Festival and items donated from section businesses.

“For me, there’s not a correct measurement aliases a incorrect measurement to definitive yourself done art. There’s a batch of different ways,” Langston stated. “My anticipation is by group coming to nan arena and seeing nan assortment of artists and stopping and visiting pinch them, asking astir their experiences, techniques and lessons learned, that they tin beryllium inspired to definitive themselves whether it’s done creation aliases penning aliases immoderate outlet they consciousness is due for them.”

The raffle summons that must beryllium printed, filled retired and taken to nan Eagle Rock Art Guild booth during nan festival.| Courtesy Eagle Rock Art Guild

The raffle summons rules.| Courtesy Eagle Rock Art Guild