Wickford Art Festival
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The Wickford Art Festival is an annual arts festival held in July in Wickford, Rhode Island.
The Wickford Art Festival was founded in 1962 by two Wickford residents, and managed by the Wickford Art Association. The arts festival has a national and worldwide reputation among professional artists in the United States <ref name="projo20190526">[cite-news|last name=Gray|First name=Channing| title="Tiny Wickford a major draw for artists|source=Providence Journal|date=26 May 2019|page=123| NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2:1652098DCED03C80@AWNB-173A9410059A0A07@2458630-1743DA6BCDF9CD56@122-1743DA6BCDF9CD56@. Accessed 7 Aug. 2019.</ref> <ref>http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/loc.afc.afc-legacies.200003495/</ref>. The festival only takes fine, and not functional artwork, and admits more than 200 artists to sell each year. Attendance of the festival has been estimated at 60,000<ref name="projo20190526" /> and "close to 100,000" <ref>http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ri/es_ri_arts_1.html</ref>.
The festival was included in the Local Legacies project undertaken by Congress in 2000.
External Links
[https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991022_afs22267/ Library of Congress interview with David Huszer about art in Wickford and the Wickford Art Festival]
[https://wickfordart.org/archive-of-festivals-2015-and-prior/ Archive of Wickford Art Festival websites]