(Photo provided) The front of the bookstore in downtown New Martinsville is shown here. Bookstore owner Heather Wetzel Parks is organizing a First Friday Art Walk on Main Street between North and Jefferson Streets on September 6th from 5-8 p.m.
NEW MARTINSVILLE – A First Friday Art Walk is planned for September 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in downtown New Martinsville.
Organizer Heather Wetzel Parks, owner of The Book Store, has already signed up several artists and vendors to participate, but is still looking for more. Artists, crafters, writers, musicians and others who would like to participate can call her at 304-455-5080.
“Main Street will be blocked off from the corner of North to Jefferson with five writers and over 16 artists/craftspeople from across the Ohio Valley,” she said.
“A wide variety of goods are available for sale: soy candles and wax melts, jewelry, prints of original watercolors and acrylic paintings, body care products, wire sculptures, batik, car charms and keychains, and more.
“Your food options will of course include Baristas, Dos Hermanos and Stalder’s, but Black Bear Kitchen and VanCamp Farm’s Blizzard Bites will also be represented.
Children can create art at the Kid’s Art Space, sponsored by Peoples Bank and Hero Plumbing. And The BubbleWagon will be there, too.
According to Wetzel Parks, the set-up is free for the vendors. The vendors are invited to demonstrate their crafts, sell their original art, teach a class, read their poetry and more, she said.
Artists scheduled to participate so far include: Tina Rush, founder of North Fork Jewelry Design; award-winning writer Jan Thornton Jones, author of The Angel in City Park, Last Letter to Gettysburg, and Why Me?; writer Vickie Price Taylor, whose pieces can be found at ThisSideOfHope.wordpress.com; writer AE Fox, author of the High Blood trilogy; Sarah Shepherd, owner of Prodigy Dyes and Prodigy Wellness Center; writer Julie Coraccio, author of 15 books and a certified life coach; writer CL Johnson, author of the crime novels Hiding and Hunting; soy wax candle maker Courtney Moulder, owner of Apartment Two Art; Papa Faith, Too Cute to Burn; MoonCloudKat; Caro; Trees of Life; The Spirited Sunflower; Brandyberry Blooms; Goat and Soy LLC, Opal and Twine Designs; and more.
