School’s back in session, summer has begun to slip behind us, and Friday nights are filled with football. This all means only one thing in Boerne and Kendall County: Festival time.
Every weekend for the rest of the year seemingly has one festival or another to draw residents, tourists and otherwise curious crowds to a nearby location for festive fun.
On Saturday, the county launches into “full festival mode” with the Comfort Arts Festival on High Street and the general downtown vicinity.
More than 40 talented artists from all over the Hill Country and beyond bring their works, hung on shelves, racks and tent frames all up and down the festival path.
The Comfort Public Library rests prominently among the angles that visitors will walk as they meander from artist to artist, admiring the oil pastel, ink, charcoal, watercolors, acrylic paint and other mediums on display – and for sale.
“The Comfort Art Festival is a wonderful way for shoppers to see the works of outstanding Hill Country artists and build their personal collections,” said Julie Kuykendall, event organizer.
Artists will greet shoppers and have displays inside and outside of Comfort restaurants, boutiques and specialty and antique shops throughout the downtown historic district. Comfort Art Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A list of artists and their locations will be available at participating merchants.
But visitors won’t need to rely on a list — strolling up and down High Street and its connectors will bring guests face-to-face with dozens of the artists, from as far as San Antonio, Wimberley and Austin.
The Festival has become a Hill Country tradition, established in 2009 as the Comfort Fall Art Walk. Now in its 12th year, the event features artists who capture the spirit and beauty of the Hill Country in their works.
In conjunction with the Art Festival, the Comfort Table and Food Pantry is holding its primary fundraiser of the year, Empty Bowls Comfort.
Bowls will be available Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon in the Comfort Public Library annex on Seventh Street, around the corner from the library’s main entrance on High Street.
“We do it on that day because we have some overflow from the festival, coming in to check us out,” said Susan Die, Comfort Table and Food Pantry executive director.
Eight artists have crafted the 125 bowls, which will be available for $25 each. Each purchase of a bowl comes with a serving of the Skyline Gelato flavor of their choice.
Die said to come early to get the pick of the litter. A fuse glass artist, Die has donated some bowls for the event ... and expects to buy some as well.
“I do glass but I don’t know how to do pottery,” said Die, who plans to snatch up a number of bowls for herself by artists she admires.
Tickets for bowls are available online at comforttablepantry.org.
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