(Bartlesville, Okla.) Planning has already started for the annual Family Arts Festival at Price Tower Arts Center in downtown Bartlesville. The event, in its tenth year, is set for October 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The festival is free for all to attend. The day-long event includes hands-on crafts and games for kids of all ages to enjoy with their families. Each year the Family Arts Festival includes a youth art show and a scavenger hunt inside the Price Tower. For the first time, festival coordinators added a sidewalk chalk art contest to this year’s schedule.
As in years past, there will be food vendors offering food and drinks at a nominal cost, free musical performances and other special entertainment that will highlight some of the local talent that Bartlesville has to offer. Additionally, there will be an art bazaar for regional artists to show and sell their creations. Applications for this space are still being taken. Please contact Deshane Atkins for more information by calling 918.336.4949 ext or at
datkins@pricetower.org.
Sponsors for the 2012 Family Arts Festival include ConocoPhillips, Doenges Family of Autos, Debbie and Mark Haskell, More Branding, National Endowment for the Arts, Oklahoma Arts Council, Schwegman Insurance and Financial Services and 66 Federal Credit Union.
Volunteers are needed for this special event; please contact Judy DuVall at jduvall@pricetower.org. For more information about the Family Arts Festival or Price Tower Arts Center, please call 918.336.4949 or visit pricetower.org.
The landmark destination for art, architecture and design, Price Tower Arts Center, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit, provides local, regional and global audiences with the experience of great art, architecture and design in an arts complex whose centerpiece is Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper, the Price Tower.
This National Historic Landmark building, completed in 1956, contains a museum with permanent and changing exhibition galleries, original and restored historic Wright interiors (available by tour), and The Wright Place museum store. The building has also been nominated as a World Heritage Site.
Visitors may also experience Wright's masterpiece as guests of Inn at Price Tower, a high-design hotel that the Arts Center has created within Wright's skyscraper, along with the Inn's eclectic Copper Bar.
Historic tours are available with advanced reservations. Admission is $12 adults, $10 seniors (65+), $10 for children 18 and under and includes admission to the museum exhibitions (applicable sales tax not included). For more information, call 918.336.4949 or visit the web site at www.pricetower.org.
