STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
More than a hundred artists from the Wood River Valley and Idaho will take part in the 2022 Ketchum Arts Festival this weekend in Sun Valley.
The festival, which began in 1999, will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, at Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road. It will conclude from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 10.
There’ll be a free kids activity tent, as well as food and beer booths from Wood Fire Pizza and Grill, Maui Wowi Coffees and Smoothies and others. Our Lady of Snows Catholic Church is allowing the use of its parking lot when it’s not needed for church events.
Artists will have on hand fused glass art, hand-carved and inlaid walking sticks, pottery, T-shirts, Western wearable art, sterling vintage coin jewelry and torched glassworks featuring Western motifs.
Melissa Boley is back with her weighted hula hoops. Hailey artist Marcia Dibbs has added a new line of jewelry utilizing pressed sagebrush and other native plants to her locally themed jewelry. Ketchum artist Jineen Griffith is offering a new line of miniature plein-air oil paintings. Hailey artist R. J. Nikula has several shelves full of custom handmade felt hat.
Hailey jeweler Lisa Horton has some new colorful bangles and baubles and Anne Jeffery, new digital montages of original photographs. Tracie McBride of Boise is showcasing an unusual blend of mixed media and glass mosaics, and Boise artist Jeff Leedy is back with “Art that makes you laugh.”