Perry’s annual celebration of music, song and the visual arts — with handicrafts, too — opens Saturday in the downtown business and cultural district, with promoters predicting 8,000 visitors to Perry over the course of the two-day art mart.
From its humble beginnings in 2010, the regional art fair has grown into one of Perry’s touchstones of revisioned retailing, with many long-vacant storefronts showing signs of renewed life and an active colony of artists and artisans busily creating.
Nine downtown buildings will serve as venues for this year’s prairie art show:
- Security Bank, 1102 Willis Ave
- Perry Public Library, 1101 Willis Ave.
- Hotel Pattee, 1112 Willis Ave.
- Carnegie Library Museum, 1123 Willis Ave.
- Center for Towncraft, 1122 Willis Ave.
- Peterson Designs, 1121 Second St.
- Citizens State Bank, 1124 Second St.
- Mary Rose Collection, 1215 Warford St.
- La Poste, 1219 Warford St.
This year’s featured artist is the illustrator Paul Micich, whose gentle and heartwarming illustrations grace children’s books such as “The Littlest Angel” by Charles Tazewell and “The Memory Box” by Mary Kay Shanely. His work has earned awards from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. are the hours.
