Local and out-of-state artists display their work at long-running Sasquatch conference

POCATELLO — Many artists, some from eastbound Idaho and out-of-state, sewage nan opportunity to showcase their creation astatine a section Sasquatch conference.

The Bigfoot Rendezvous took spot Friday and Saturday and it was a waste out, pinch astir 160 tickets sold. There were sixteen vendors. Most were trading worldly related to Sasquatch, others were location to showcase their activity and immoderate were both.

Even though nan arena has been held each fewer years since 2006, nan organizer said it initially didn’t person overmuch attention.

“It very slow to start. I deliberation everybody was skeptical going into it and it didn’t get immoderate coverage… but past astatine nan past minute, (people) sewage very excited astir it,” said Brandon Tennant, organizer of nan arena and proprietor of Falling Rock Productions and Sasquatchprints.com.

The past Bigfoot Rendezvous took spot successful 2022. Tennant ever waits a number of years successful betwixt each arena because he doesn’t want nan nationalist to get burned retired connected them.

West Jensen stands down his pottery. | Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com

One of nan artists, West Jensen, sewage his commencement trading his activity astatine nan past Bigfoot Rendezvous. Jensen creates stickers, bookmarks and pottery pieces, and had a postulation of his handmade activity connected show astatine this year’s event.

Jensen is friends pinch Tenant’s son, who told him that he should waste his art. Jensen liked nan thought and created immoderate Bigfoot pin-up prints arsenic well.

“So that benignant of group maine connected nan way that I’m astatine now wherever I’m making importantly much pottery and doing beautiful good astatine it,” Jensen said.

While Jensen would emotion to waste his activity online, he hasn’t been capable to support capable banal to do that and waste successful person. People who are willing successful uncovering his activity tin find him astatine nan Mystic Realms Fantasy Fair, nan First Friday Artwalk and different type trade fairs.

Some of West Jensen’s mugs. | Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com

While Jensen doesn’t see himself “a Bigfoot believer,” he isn’t wholly closed disconnected to nan thought that it exists.

“I decidedly wouldn’t opportunity that I’m incapable to beryllium convinced of nan legitimacy of Bigfoot,” Jensen said. “I bask engaging pinch cryptid civilization successful nan consciousness that I deliberation it is really bully to time off immoderate magic successful nan world.”

Leon Anthony sits adjacent to his artwork. | Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com

Some of Anthony’s depictions of sasquatch. | Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com

Another artist, Leon Anthony, was trading his artwork of Sasquatch. Anthony, a personnel of nan Navajo Nation, said his grandpa, uncle and dada each warned him to debar Bigfoot erstwhile he was increasing up.

“We were told not to pursuit him, arsenic he would find us. If he were to find us, we were not to sprout him aliases fuss him,” Anthony said successful a written connection he gave EastIdahoNews.com, successful lieu of an interview.

Anthony said that Bigfoot takes attraction of “our evergreens, our ceder; our mint, and our tobacco.”

“This depiction of Bigfoot has a relationship to galore group who person seen Bigfoot,” Anthony said.

It’s Anthony’s belief that Bigfoot will time off group unsocial arsenic agelong arsenic they do nan same.

“Bigfoot will not fuss us, if we don’t effort to find him and fuss him,” Anthony said.