{"id":27757,"date":"2019-07-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59045"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T14:34:47","slug":"living-color-fraser-mural-festival-draws-crowds-to-watch-artists-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/living-color-fraser-mural-festival-draws-crowds-to-watch-artists-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Living color: Fraser mural festival draws crowds to watch artists compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#imageGallery-59045-27').lightSlider({ gallery:true, item:1, loop:true, thumbItem:9, slideMargin:0, enableTouch:true, enableDrag: false, currentPagerPosition:'left', onSliderLoad: function(el) { $( '.gallery-loading' ).hide(); $( '.swift-gallery' ).css('opacity', 1); var maxHeight = 0, container = $(el), children = container.children(); children.each(function () { var 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<\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/DSC_0293-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/DSC_0293-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | One of the artists competing in Fraser's Mountain Mural Festival Walter Onver Macias utilizing spray paint on his canvas.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>One of the artists competing in Fraser&#8217;s Mountain Mural Festival Walter Onver Macias utilizing spray paint on his canvas.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/DSC_0293-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<li 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--> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fraser kicked off its Mountain Mural Festival on Friday with the event drawing local, regional and out-of-state artists competing for cash and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, 19 artists began customizing eight-foot square panels with their work on Friday. Shortly before 3 p.m, however, rain drops forced them to cover their canvases with tarps or an umbrella, though many kept working. <\/p>\n<p>The weather didn&#8217;t keep visitors away either, as Friday afternoon saw a busy downtown with people wandering in and out of the festival and surrounding businesses.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFWPPD%2Fposts%2F2319574031599760&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The creativity and festivities continue Saturday with live music, including a performance by Hunker Down, before culminating in an awards ceremony Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The judges \u2014 Mayor Philip Vandernail and artists Karen Vance and Emanuel Martinez \u2014 will pick the top three pieces, and a people&#8217;s choice award will also be given out.<\/p>\n<p>All of the proceeds from the event will go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/new-arts-center-will-be-haven-for-artists-creatives\/\">Fraser Center for Creative Arts<\/a>, a Public Arts Committee project that would encompass an art gallery, studios, makerspaces and seven apartments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"swift-infobox p402_hide aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"module module-promo card shadow-sm\">\n<div class=\"card-header\"><i class=\"fas fa-info-circle\"><\/i> If you go&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<p>8 AM \u2013 9 PM: Artists check-in<br \/>\n9 AM: Artists start painting<br \/>\n11 AM \u2013 1 PM: Lunch Break<br \/>\n10 AM \u2013 4 PM: Live DJ<br \/>\n4 PM \u2013 6 PM: Live Music by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunkerdownmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunker Down<\/a><br \/>\n6 PM: Finish Painting<br \/>\n6:30-7 PM: Awards<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END .card-body --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .module --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .swift-infobox --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Sepia of Fairplay paints on despite two fans hanging on her every stroke.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com Artist Helena Martin of Austin, Texas gets technical on her portrait of Doc Susie.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com One canvas was left blank and invited visitors to paint what represents Fraser to them.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 10:33:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27766,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions\/27766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}