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We pick a few of our favorite visitor photos or videos every day, and take them to a wider audience by featuring them on our Festival blog.
Over the past two weeks, a Quilting Bee workshop has sprung up under a tent, dedicated to helping the public create 3′ x 6′ panels to add to The AIDS Memorial Quilt.
While curators are extremely busy during the Festival, they do often carry their cameras with them and remember to take photos now and then.
The mercury reached 105 degrees today, and still we witnessed some awesome feats at the Festival.
“It is not magic, it is medicine.”
At the Test Kitchen, three universities entered their cheeses into a blind taste-test competition.
This delicious salad features important Salish traditional foods, including huckleberry and wood sorrel.
Here Christylez Bacon showcases his many skills as he strums the guitar while rhyming and providing funky beatbox rhythms
“Creativity activates. Without creativity life can be quite harsh.”
Jay Coleman paints a portrait in fifteen minutes for a demonstration and shares his thoughts on the process
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