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A heron with a garden shears beak and a crest of forks, stands sentinel outside Josh and Tiffany Price's booth.
The Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept. 16-18.
Musical Theatre Workshop performed a skit mid-day on Saturday
Those with the Hindu Temple of Augusta drew herbal Henna tattoos.
Augusta's Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept 16-18.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Augusta's Arts in the Heart festival.
The Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept. 16-18.
Josh and Tiffany Price have perfected the craft of nut-and-bolt sculptures.
Reuben Brauer said the design phase of his work is much more extensive than the actual construction.
A heron with a garden shears beak and a crest of forks, stands sentinel outside Josh and Tiffany Price's booth.
The Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept. 16-18.
Musical Theatre Workshop performed a skit mid-day on Saturday
Those with the Hindu Temple of Augusta drew herbal Henna tattoos.
Augusta's Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept 16-18.
The Arts in the Heart festival was held on Broad Street Sept. 16-18.
The call of “chicken, ribs, chop suey! Fifteen dollars, full plate!” comes through the steam and the glancing sunlight of mid-morning.
It's just after 11 a.m. on Augusta Common.
This might be one of the few places where in a few hours, a person can eat their fill of Samoan cuisine, have the herbal tattoo of henna drawn on their hand (while bag pipes play in the background and a Renaissance sword fight plays out across the street), and then pick up both some “$5 SLIME” and a $300, 1,481-piece cutting board.
A.C. Daniel works on his piece "Safe Soil" at the Arts in the Heart of Augusta festival Sept. 17.
"Champ the Bulldog" by Alexander Brown
Sculptor Alexander Brown displayed this signed missive for any of those who might have sway with the premier golf club.
A $5 bill worth much more than $5. Blake Gore is master at tiny art.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Not all henna tattooed by those with Hindu Temple of Augusta is traditional: Cheri Kotalis (left) gets a "cattoo" from Meena Arun.
Those with the Hindu Temple of Augusta tattooed henna at Arts in the Heart.
Six-year-old Finley Aiken, of North Augusta, beats out a rhythm with Drum Circle Augusta's George Rhodes.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Irissa (at left; by day, Candace Ward) and Ayla Roper dressed in full cosplay to represent Eastwind Castle at Arts in the Heart.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Jason Travis adds some unusual elements to his lamps.
Jason Travis combines media to create his art.
Cat magnets, anyone? Jennifer Keller might just be your gal.
Painter Kristin Thorsen's work was part of Arts in the Heart of Augusta this weekend.
Work by Maile Lani Holloway was on display and for sale at Arts in the Heart of Augusta.
A heron with a garden shears beak and a crest of forks, stands sentinel outside Josh and Tiffany Price's booth.
Perhaps a story best told by the artists and their work. Catch a glimpse of this year's Arts in the Heart of Augusta.
A.C. Daniel works on his piece "Safe Soil" at the Arts in the Heart of Augusta festival Sept. 17.
"Champ the Bulldog" by Alexander Brown
Sculptor Alexander Brown displayed this signed missive for any of those who might have sway with the premier golf club.
A $5 bill worth much more than $5. Blake Gore is master at tiny art.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Not all henna tattooed by those with Hindu Temple of Augusta is traditional: Cheri Kotalis (left) gets a "cattoo" from Meena Arun.
Those with the Hindu Temple of Augusta tattooed henna at Arts in the Heart.
Six-year-old Finley Aiken, of North Augusta, beats out a rhythm with Drum Circle Augusta's George Rhodes.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Irissa (at left; by day, Candace Ward) and Ayla Roper dressed in full cosplay to represent Eastwind Castle at Arts in the Heart.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Arts in the Heart.
Jason Travis adds some unusual elements to his lamps.
Jason Travis combines media to create his art.
Cat magnets, anyone? Jennifer Keller might just be your gal.
Painter Kristin Thorsen's work was part of Arts in the Heart of Augusta this weekend.
Work by Maile Lani Holloway was on display and for sale at Arts in the Heart of Augusta.
A heron with a garden shears beak and a crest of forks, stands sentinel outside Josh and Tiffany Price's booth.
If you didn’t know, this weekend is Arts in the Heart, the festival organized by the Greater Augusta Arts Council and that in recent years has brought more than 80,000 people into downtown Augusta.
It’s also the 40th year of the festival, and it’s larger than ever; Arts in the Heart was extended for an entire extra block of artistic and culinary talent, and more than 100 juried artists had a place on Broad Street between 6th and 9th for the weekend of Sept. 16-18.
Food aplenty and from traditions the world over at Augusta's Arts in the Heart festival.
A staggering 133 separate live acts played out across the festival’s five stages this weekend, and it was a veritable smorgasbord: martial arts, belly dancing and roller derby; jazz acts by the dozen and soul acts in a number to match.
Ashlynn Hanes, 11, may have been one of the youngest artists at the festival – it's her first year taking part, and her work, she said, is a way to put out what she’s feeling so that others might experience it, too.
Reuben Brauer said the design phase of his work is much more extensive than the actual construction.
Navy veteran Reuben Brauer, of Grovetown, had a delicately layered wood piece that he said took only three days to construct – the design work is the tough part of it, he said.
Brauer had worked for years in construction, acquired a good many power tools and said he wanted to try something a bit more intricate. Now he’s putting out “2D art in 3D” with cutting boards that have a mesmerizing optic to them (mind you, they’re tough nuggets and still serve their food prep purpose: “you can beat the hell out of it,” said Brauer).
Arts in the Heart is a chance for artists to get some exposure, and the variety seems unlimited.
Josh and Tiffany Price have perfected the craft of nut-and-bolt sculptures.
Josh and Tiffany Price, in from central Florida, had a menagerie of nut-and-bolt animals: four proud herons with garden shears for beaks and circling forks for crests stood sentinel at their booth.
Josh said it probably all started with a single nut-and-bolt Don Quixote his 14-year-old-self found at a yard sale.
A mother who pushed creativity, no questions asked; followed by a career in auto body repair that taught him welding; and his marriage to Tiffany, who now is herself making the mechanical figures... all the gears turned to, eventually, bring their “Contrived Curiosities” here to Augusta for the seventh year.
The festival had an Easter egg for everyone. Truly: one woman advertised her talents with the proclamation, “I’ll draw anything.” She was tucked between the $5 SLIME and the “Soap Kid.”
Elizabeth covers politics, government and business in North Augusta. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and previously worked with a Twin Cities weekly. Her work has appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and MinnPost.
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