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15th Annual Y-Bridge Arts Festival showcased

local talent in an array of mediums by Lynette Dotson

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PICKUP LOCATIONS
DRESDEN: Bonnie Longaberger Senior Center,
Scotties Den, Circle K, Thirsty Dawg, The
Warehouse Restaurant, Dresden Branch Library,
Creno’s Pizza, Beauty By Design, Dresden Buzz,
Main Street Pizzeria, The Mill, Agin Hardware,
Certified, Subway, Shrivers Pharmacy, Humble
Heart, Smore Baskets, Post Office
FRAZEYSBURG: New Beginnings Drive Thru,
Dairy Queen, Frazeysburg Village Office,
Subway, Duchess Gas Station, Fallsburg Pizza,
Post Office
NASHPORT: Crenos Pizza
ZANESVILLE: Kroger, The Muskingum County
YMCA, John McIntire Library, Muskingum County
Center for Seniors, Mass Media Comics,
Denny’s Classic Diner, Fieldhouse Family Sports
and Wellness Center, Donald’s Donuts,
The Zanesville-Muskingum County Conference
& Welcome Center, The Elk’s Eye Art Market, Tents displaying artwork for sale by local artists were set up along pathways on the Zane State College Campus Green. Lynette Dotson
Walgreens (Military Rd.), The Carr Center,
Sunrise Bowling Center, Colony Square Mall, ley, Steve Spires Band, and Spelchek. list of sponsors, greatly enhanced this “I make the forms first, by hand-build-
Chatty Cat Cafe, A Taste Of Ohio Wine Bourbon
& Beer Yoga with Megyenn’s Yoga Room, Brian year’s festival. ing, and then I’ll take a tool and create
Smith, Studio 51 Marjorie & Butch’s One of the best things about the Y- lines and everything. Some of the lines
SOUTH ZANESVILLE: South Branch Library,
Darrell’s Donuts, Central Pike Coffee Co. School of Dance, Mister Joe, Evan Bridge Arts Festival is being able to are a little bit thicker for a reason, a lit-
Abood, Dr. Laura Schumann, and Tonga meet and talk to the artists who have tle bit more prominent, and then cover it
AVONDALE: Tina’s Diner
Rad all enhanced Saturday’s Arts Festi- their work available for sale. One of the all with black clay. And when that dries,
WEST PIKE: Litten Home Hardware, val experience. artists at this year’s festival was Ken I’ll start putting colored clay on top, not
West Side Market The large $10,000 grant awarded by McCollum from New Concord. He ex- with a brush or anything like that, but a
NEW CONCORD: Scott’s Diner, Wally’s Pizza, the J.W. & M.H. Straker Charitable Foun- plained some of the process behind his little squeeze bottle, and I’ll just sit there
New Concord Branch Library, Creno’s Pizza, dation, as well as support from a long unique ceramics. and do that. And I let it dry in a single
Post Office
firing of 2000, and it seems to work out
DUNCAN FALLS: Duncan Falls/Philo Branch just fine.”
Library Weaver Barbara White sat near her
ROSEVILLE: Roseville Branch Library, booth and worked on spinning silk onto
Higgins Lumber, Midtown Bar and Grill, spools to be woven into her handmade
Old Town Pizza
rugs.
Bold type indicates a location with an “‘75 was when I got my first wheel.
outdoor newspaper box.
And then I met a woman here who was
a spinner. And she had a great wheel,
...And she said, you know, a good spinner
can put 15 miles in walking. So I bought
a great wheel,” White said before add-
ing jokingly, “because I was going to get
skinny.”
The monthly First Friday Art Walk was
also held during the opening evening of
the festival. So art lovers could visit both
the festival at the college campus and
Pottery made by Ken McCollum of New Concord. Ken was an educator at Muskingum University where the art studios throughout downtown
he taught ceramics and sculptural design for 20 years. Lynette Dotson Zanesville and enjoy the best of the lo-
cal art scene.
The festival will return to downtown
Zanesville in 2027 once construction ef-
forts at Secrest Auditorium and near the
Welcome Center are complete.
There are more art-inspired events
coming soon. The next two First Friday
Art Walks will take place on Septem-
ber 5th and October 3rd in Downtown
Zanesville.
For further information about the fes-
tival and to learn how to participate next
year, please visit artcoz.org and face-
book.com/ybridgeartsfestival.

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Barbara White of Zanesville has attended the Y-Bridge Arts Festival six times over the years. She enjoys
seeing people she has not seen in years. She was one of many artists who were set up at the festival.
Barbara’s booth displayed her colorful hand woven rugs. She is photographed above using a portable
spinning wheel that she brought to the festival to make spools of silk. Lynette Dotson
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