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The Finishing Touch
Ketchum Arts Festival To Feature 140-Plus Artists
This sun kachina by Bob Wiederrick was among the works at last year’s Ketchum Arts Festival. STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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J Harpham will be one of more than 140 Idaho artists featured in the Ketchum Arts Festival this weekend at Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road near Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday. The array of artists runs the gamut. It includes silversmith David Anderton, drawing artist Anthony Anderson, painter Blair Blake, woodworker John Beehler, mixed-media artist Scoti Carden, silversmith Lee Drake, jeweler/photographer Sue Dumke, and mixed-media artist Nancy Gervais. There will be free kids’ activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. There will also be free live music from noon to 6 p.m. each day, along with a variety of food for sale. Parking is available in the Catholic Church lot from 2 to 6 pm. Friday, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Street parking will also be available.
EJ Harpham also creates ceramic bowls, platters and cups, many of which she sells at the Wood Rivers Farmer Market in Ketchum and retailers like Silver Creek Outfitters. STORY AND PHOTOS selling her beautiful but durable handcrafted ceramic cups and platBY KAREN BOSSICK ters that boast intricate carved images of Idaho trout and wildflowers at the Ketchum Arts Festival Friday through Sunday in Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road. or EJ Harpham, it’s all about finishing the race. Her decorative pottery has earned the admiration of her fellow That goes for the myriad of races she’s skied and artists. run, including the 50-kilometer American Birkebeiner “Her work is so intricate and detailed,” said Ketchum painter Nordic race,which she won in 1987 and the San Diego-to-YuDeanna Schrell. ma road race, in which she set a bicycling record. “What amazes me is how she goes beyond just creating the pottery That includes the platters and mugs that she knows are to add yet another layer to it with her carving and painting,” said never done until she takes them out of the kiln in one piece. painter Jineen Griffith, who had Harpham make a commemorative And it includes her 2,000-square-foot tile installation wedding bowl 31 years ago. depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe that adorns the exterior Harpham’s foray into pottery and tile work started when her parwalls of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los ents gave her a potter’s wheel upon her high school graduation. Angeles. “Here, my friends were going to Europe or driving around in a new “Until it comes out of the kiln or it’s on the wall, it’s not VW Beetle—their graduation presents—and I got a potter’s wheel,” a done deal,” Harpham said, turning on her native Long Island accent at will. “I spent a lot of time as a Harpham said, It turned out to be the best thing Harpham’s parents could have pointing out the child in Scandinavia where graveyard behind given her. Harpham took a couple pottery courses and finally ended up at barn where I became very familiar with her the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in 1977 when the art center was the remnants of their rosemaling patterns.” cracked pottery lie. bringing in the country’s foremost potters. Harpham will be
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This piece by Dave LaMure was among the works at last year’s Ketchum Arts Festival. tws