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FESTIVALS
MAY 11�18, 2022
EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS
AROUND EASTERN OREGON
Hermiston Art Festival is a full day of fun
Festival and
spring bazaar both
happen May 14
By Jennifer Colton
Go! Magazine
H
ERMISTON — Visual arts will
fi ll downtown Hermiston on
Saturday, May 14, while vendors
fi ll the Hermiston Community
Center for the 2022 Art Festival.
“It’s going to a happening
place,” said Brandon Artz, Hermis-
ton Park and Recreation director.
“It should be a fantastic day, a re-
ally fun weekend for Hermiston.”
The activities start at 9 a.m.
Saturday with the opening of the
annual Hermiston Spring Bazaar
at the Hermiston Community
Center. Artz said there will be
about 80 vendors from across
the region at the bazaar sell-
ing items from baked goods to
metal art. That event lasts until
4:30 p.m. — or until items sell out.
Just an hour after the bazaar
opens, activities kick off on Main
Street and Festival Street at the
2022 Hermiston Art Festival,
which runs 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and fea-
tures an art walk, live music and
interactive competitions.
Judy Pederson, president of
the Hermiston Downtown Dis-
trict, said festival visitors can ex-
pect a variety of family-friendly
art inside and outside downtown
businesses.
facebook.com/Hermistondowntown
“We’ll have some professional
artists throughout businesses,
and we’ll have lots of vendors out
on the festival street,” she said.
“We’ll have some food, we’ll have
some entertainment — it’s going
to be a really fun-packed day.”
During the festival, visitors
can pick up a map of artist loca-
tions at the information booth on
Festival Street and then travel
the art walk, viewing pieces from
professional and student artists.
All festival attendees will have
the option to vote for their fa-
vorite artist, and some of those
pieces will be for sale.
Cash prizes will be awarded
— the winner of the People’s
Choice Award takes home $50,
and fi ve student pieces will each
receive $20.
The event will also include live
music as well as some interac-
tive elements, such as an op-
portunity to show off in creating
sidewalk chalk art and a LEGO
building competition.
“Bring the kids down because
there’s going to be some things
to do, look at, touch, feel and
create,” Artz said.
Admission is free to both the
Hermiston Spring Bazaar and the
Hermiston Art Festival.
The Hermiston Art Festival
kicks off the Hermiston Down-
town District’s summer festival,
and information about upcoming
events will be released soon.
For more information, visit
hermiston.or.us/parksrec or the
Facebook page for the Hermiston
Downtown District.
11am-8pm Tuesday-Saturday