Handmade Art Show returns to Patriot Park

Homewood now has an outdoor art show to call its own, and it is returning Saturday, May 9 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

For 20 years, Handmade has brought a unique selection of local artists’ works to home settings, but this is only its second event at Patriot Park. 

“The park setting allows more of the public to come and makes it easier for the artists to set up,” organizer Jill Lindsey said.

Around 30 fiber artists, potters, glass artists, painters, woodworkers and jewelry artists will set up their wares in tents that form a circle inside the park. Organizers Lindsey and Valerie Holley, both potters, recruit local artisans who create high quality works that are, of course, made by hand for the event. They said they are always looking for new artists but also don’t take just anyone. Instead, they would rather have a smaller number of sellers with a strong balance and variety of wares.

The event will also feature live music by Woochega as well as Ferocious Dogs hot dogs and homemade ice cream from Big Spoon Creamery 

For the first 15 years, the show was held in the yard of its founder Carol Richard’s home. From there it moved to Cindy Parker’s Homewood home. Last fall Holley and Lindsey worked with Caroline Hubbard of the Homewood Arts Council and the Parks and Recreation Board to move it to a more public space and make it an official Homewood event.

Lindsey said she has collected Handmade art for 20 years now.

“It makes my home happy,” she said. “It puts a smile on my face to collect art from fellow local artists.”

For more information, visit facebook.com/HomewoodArtsCouncil.