Considered the largest free street festival on the West Coast, the Fremont Festival of the Arts attracts 400 thousand people each year. It features great music, great food, and more than 700 artists and crafts people spread over four walking miles.
- Discover how wire gets turned into art.
- Explore the process an author/illustrator uses to create books.
- See what it takes to weave indigenous Pre-Columbian designs.
- Find out how writing in the sand became a full-time job.
- Learn how firefighting training has been turned into a sport.
Please note: Since this episode was produced some of the websites mentioned have stopped working. Here is a list of working links:
- Sten Hoiland, Wire Sculptor
website: stenwire.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007389856278
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sten_hoiland/ - David Hoobler, Author and Illustrator
website: https://www.davidhoobler.com - Zenon Hipolito, Master Weaver
website: https://www.interwoven.art/ - Supe Davis, Sand Scribbles
website: https://sandscribbles.net/ - Fremont Festival of the Arts
website: https://www.fremontfestival.net/ - Firefighter Challenge
website: https://firefighterchallenge.com/
If you do not have time to watch the entire episode in one sitting, here are links to individual chapters:
- Twisted Art
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- Indigenous Pre-Columbian Designs
- Sand Writing
- About the Festival
- Western Regional Firefighter Combat Challenge
(Footage for this episode was recorded August 4, 2007. The host segments were recorded and the show was edited and uploaded in 2024.)