Craft Lake City | |
Location City: | Salt Lake City, Utah |
Founded: | 2009 |
Founder: | Angela H. Brown |
Homepage: | http://www.craftlakecity.com |
Craft Lake City is a nonprofit organization that produces an annual outdoor alternative arts festival in Salt Lake City, Utah. Held the second weekend in August, the festival features do it yourself (DIY) items like silk-screened posters, reconstructed clothing, knitted items, and jewellery, along with live entertainment that includes craft demonstrations, street performers, musical acts, and local food vendors. Craft Lake City received their nonprofit 501(c)(3) status in 2011.
The second annual Craft Lake City was held August 14, 2010, again at the Gallivan Center. This time, 130 artists were selected to participate and over 7,000 people attended. Musical performers included Salt Lake locals Joshua Payne Orchestra, the Boomsticks, Red Bennies, Hello Amsterdam, Mad Max and the Wild Ones, Spell Talk and Muscle Hawk. That year also featured a belly dance showcase with the Hathor Dance Collective, Trisha McBride and Blue Lotus dance troupe performing. The festival partnered with the Salt Lake Film Festival to continue festivities a second day, August 15, with a screening of Faythe Levine’s film “Handmade Nation” followed by a question and answer session with some Craft Lake City artists.[5]
In 2011, Craft Lake City festivities began with an exhibit at the Utah Art Alliance's Main Street Gallery in Salt Lake City called “Art vs. Craft.” The show ran July 5 through July 30 and featured the work of fourteen Craft Lake City artists.[6] The festival expanded to over 180 vendors, once again held at the Gallivan Center on August 13 with about 12,000 attendees. This year, the festival set up two stages for musical performances, which included a variety of local bands: The Mooks, the 3 2 1's, Muscle Hawk, It Foot It Ears, Subrosa, S.L.F.M., Dances With Wolves, Dark Seas, Kenshin Taiko, Birthquake!, Joshua Payne Orchestra, Ann-Britt Kennedy, No Nation Orchestra, Rifamos, Mad Max and the Wild Ones, Max Pain and the Groovies and Spell Talk. More entertainment was provided with a belly dance showcase by Blue Lotus, Hathor and the Lunar Collective, as well as ongoing breakdancing routines by Ensoul Collaboration.[7]