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Celebrate Art at The Norwalk Arts Festival

Celebrate Art and much more at The Norwalk Arts Festival

An exciting new festival is happening  this year in Norwalk  – the 2013 Norwalk Arts Festival.  This event is slated to take place on June 29 and 30 at Mathews Park conveniently located on West Ave. off exit 15S and 14N on I-95.  Even better, this event is free and open to the public both days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  For more information call 518-852-6478 or visit www.gordonfinearts.org or www.norwalkartfestival.org.

This juried fine art and craft festival, will bring over 75 of the country’s top artists and craftspeople to Fairfield County along with several outstanding performing artists. A children’s art project and a creative arts area rounds out the event with fun for the entire family.

The Norwalk Art Festival provides the perfect opportunity to find an original painting for the empty corner of a family room, the perfect birthday or wedding gift as well as the chance to just get to know the artist before you bring your newly found treasure home.

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In addition to the artwork featured at the festival, don’t miss the opportunity to visit three museums that call the park home.  The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, http://www.contemprints.org, located in a 19th c. stone carriage house offers quality original artwork and printmaking.  The Lockwood Mathews Museum,http://www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, a National Historic Landmark built in the Second Empire Style has a special exhibit that focus’s on the “futuristic” discoveries of the Victorian Era that are still relevant today.  The award winning and recently expanded Stepping Stones Museum for Children,http://www.steppingstonesmuseum.org, is featuring the Dinosaur Revolution in their traveling exhibit section that let’s kids become junior paleontologists through the discovery of fossils and facts about these magnificent beasts among their many fascinating exhibits for kids.

Gourmet food trucks and vendors have food at the ready so don’t forget your blanket and lawn chairs.  For area information www.visitfairfieldcountyct.com.

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