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Our
42nd Annual Mifflin-Juniata Arts Festival
will be held on
Saturday, May 22nd from 10am - 5pm and on
Sunday, May 23rd from 11am
- 5pm
Admission is free to all ages.
The festival is held rain or shine in Rec. Park located in
Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
We offer free music and children's entertainment as well as
international foods, artist demonstrations and artistic wares for
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Demonstrating Artists -
Popular Festival Draw |
 While free music, festival food, and the
opportunity to shop are powerful draws to the Mifflin Juniata Arts
Festival, others come to see the artists working.
The most visible example of this is the "Artist in
Action", a yearly event in which a local artist, chosen by the
Mifflin Juniata Arts Festival Council and sponsored yearly by friend
of the festival, Dr. Braunstein, creates a piece during the course
of the two day event. This year, Jodi Myers has been selected
for that honor. Many of the artists in attendance this year
will also be demonstrating.
Todd and Melissa Tabb of Wildfire Pottery will bring a kick wheel to
this year's festival, to demonstrate how they create their pottery
using traditional methods that date back centuries.
Kick wheels do not use a motor, but rather, a
counterweight which the potter builds momentum with to shape a
piece.
 Jenny Ladis will be demonstrating her needle felting
technique, which she uses to create dolls. Like the Tabbs,
Landis uses largely traditional techniques.
Those interested in jewelry-making will likewise be
pleased: many of the jewelers present at the festival will be
demonstrating a variety of techniques that they use to craft their
items.
And, again this year, artists from the Creative Oasis
studio in State College will be performing a raku firing, a
tradition which comes from Japanese pottery.
In raku firing, pottery is taken from the kiln while
still extremely hot - often at temperatures around 1800 ºF - and
then placed in a combustible material, before finally being quenched
in water.
The process places an unbelievable strain on the
pieces, which sometimes explode from the shock. Potters wear
safety gear and use special tongs to handle the pieces. |
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