Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival

The 2012 Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival is set for Saturday, April 14 from 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM and Sunday, April 15, 2012 from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM along The Woodlands Waterway and in Town Green Park in The Woodlands Town Center.

Save the date for the Seventh Annual Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival!

Amos Amit has been named Featured Artist for 2012. Amos Amit has established himself as one of the leading batik artists in this country. Art critics and collectors alike have praised his unique style and highly refined technique. Amos has received numerous prestigious national and international awards and his works are a part of many prominent collections.

Approximately 200 fine artists are expected to showcase their works from many mediums including clay pottery, digital art, drawings, fiber and glassworks, jewelry, leather tooling and metalworks as well as painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and wood carvings and constructions. Student Art is also juried and displayed at the festival, with prizes awarded at a special presentation.

More than 15,000 people attended the 2010 Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival, earning the Festival a Top 100 ranking of 68 out of 564 festivals nationwide by the internationally published ArtFair Source Book in the Fine Art and Fine Craft category, as well as a distinguished "A" grade in the venue environment category. Patrons enjoy performing arts and live entertainment throughout the festival weekend.

As part of the fun, The Woodlands Art League and The Woodlands Children's Museum will plan a range of children’s events hosted in the "Artopoly!" tent in Town Green Park. They come up with some pretty interactive and entertaining activities for the kids.

The hugely successful addition to the Art Festival last year were the new activities available in Waterway Square. This free, ungated area of the Festival will once again be open from 2:00 - 8:30 PM on Saturday and 2:00 - 6:00 on Sunday. Sidewalk chalk artists will be drawing live on the square and children can join along in their own children's chalk area. Plan to make a day of it by stopping by the Hubbell and Hudson food booth on site, or one of the many nearby Waterway restaurants to grab a quick meal, then enjoy listening to some great music on the live entertainment stage!

Once again, the Festival hours are from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM on Saturday and 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM on Sunday. Admission for adults is $10.00 per person, or $15 for a two-day pass, and admission for children under twelve is free. Tickets are available online, with a $1 surcharge per ticket. Ample parking will be available, therefore those attending the Festival are prohibited from parking in the Market Street (HEB) parking lot. Free public parking is available at the Waterway Square Parking Garage at Waterway Square Drive and Fountains Plaza. Finally, The Arts Festival asks that you do not bring pets to the event. For more information, visit The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival Website.

Artist: Kelly Faltemayer

The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival

The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival is an annual, two-day outdoor celebration of the visual and performing arts with an average attendance in excess of 12,000. Recognized among the best outdoor juried visual arts events in Texas, The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival also offers a variety of art activities for children and adults, live cultural performances, and tantalizing culinary offerings. More than 200 fine artists from across the nation and other countries are showcased in this juried fine art event. Their works of art are available for purchase throughout the Festival area.

Steven Potts of Palmetto, Georgia was honored as the Featured Artist for 2011. Steven specializes in creative wood vessels turned from exotic and unusual domestic woods. He has won numerous awards at shows around the world, including Second Place at the Houston Bayou City Art Festival in 2007 and Best in Show at the Bayou City Art Festival in 2008. Steven says, "Every tree, every branch has a story to tell, so... even if its life has ended we can preserve it, and it will continue to live, and show its beauty forever."

The Featured Artist for the 2010 Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival was Bulgarian-born Canadian Tanya Doskova. Her work can be found all over the world, and in 2010 Tanya Doskova won an Award of Excellence in The Communication Arts Illustration Annual Competition. Tanya has won many prestigious awards including the John Purcell Prize for best lithograph, the Cannon Canada Gold Award, the Readers Digest Merit Award for Editorial Illustration and the Adobe Systems Gold Award to name a few. This was the first year that a digital artist was featured.

The 2009 Waterway Arts Festival included a Floating Art Parade with the theme "Outer Space." Participants were asked to design and create a float reflecting this theme. Festival jurors voted for the best entry, which received The Waterway Cup, a unique piece of art designed by one of the festival artists. Rod Garrett, an acrylic sculptor from Grant, Florida, was the Featured Artist for the fourth annual event. For more than 35 years, Garrett has worked with acrylic creating sculptures with the illusions of continuous movement and coloration that reveals itself differently with every angle. Rod carves, colorizes and shapes each sculpture entirely by hand in his studio, rendering wonderful one-of-a-kind creations. Rod has been a previous Best of Show award winner at The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival.