What's Blooming on Harrison - May 31, 2025
What's Blooming on Harrison is (usually) the third Saturday in May. For 2025 we managed to scoot it to the end of the month. The event includes special events and shows in the galleries and shops, artist demonstrations, music and dance performances, an art fair featuring guest artists, food vendors, a beer garden, and special activities for families.
The 2025 “What’s Blooming” festival takes over Harrison Street on Saturday, May 31. The street is closed from Cuyler Avenue to Humphrey and is filled with artists, crafters, a children’s carnival, live music, dance, and hands-on workshops. The festival begins at 11 am with the art fair running until 7 pm. Music continues at the Taylor Street Beer Garden until 9 pm. Visit the Oak Park Arts District website for more information about shows and activities in the shops and galleries.
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Drop-in Workshop at Bead In Hand 1 - 5 pm
Snowflakes (we're not kidding) $6 per item You’re invited to participate in the Museum of Beadwork’s annual Collaborative Community Project.
Their theme for this year is “No Two Alike,” and they are accepting beaded snowflakes that will be part of an installation exhibit in their gallery.
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- Make a beaded snowflake during our drop-in workshop.
- Take your snowflake home, or, if you want, leave it with us and we’ll send it to the Museum of Beadwork.
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Museum of Beadwork, Portland, Maine
museumofbeadwork.org No Two Alike
Each year we ask artists to contribute a beaded item of a specific theme. We install these collected items in an exhibition highlighting the power of people coming together for the purpose of community and creation. The exhibition is then on display for roughly a year. Once finished, the individual items are used in fundraising efforts for the Museum supporting the staff, development, and programs of this community-based institution.
The theme for this year is "No Two Alike" and we would like you to create beaded snowflakes that will be part of an installation exhibit in our gallery. We will be creating a truly unique beaded blizzard in our gallery, a visualization of the combined imaginations of dozens of artists—no two are alike—working in a variety of styles, coming together for a spectacularly collaborative experience. Each individual piece will be unique, and yet part of the greater whole. We invite you, no matter your experience, style, or technique, to make your own beadwork snowflakes and send them to us to be included in “No Two Alike.” Fine print, please read! Upon receipt, the snowflakes become the property of the Museum of Beadwork. They are intended to be on display at the Museum of Beadwork as an installation for roughly a year before becoming part of an annual fundraising effort for the MOB. Individual snowflakes will not be returned. All submissions to this project become the full property of the Museum of Beadwork and can be used by that institution in any lawful way including (but not limited to) publicity, marketing, exhibitions, sale, etc. in perpetuity. All proceeds resulting from this project will go to support the Museum of Beadwork and its mission. |
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