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23rd Annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Art
Presented by Midcoast Fine Arts
Date: September 18 & 19, 2010
Where: Lindsay Park, Village of East Davenport - Davenport Iowa
Time: Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. & Sunday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Admission: $3

The Riverssance Festival of Fine Art continues to enjoy a reputation among regional festival enthusiasts and art buyers by presenting the highest quality fine art in the most beautiful outdoor setting. Complimented by a unique blend of delightful live entertainment and delicious food, Riverssance is a celebration of art like none other in the Quad-Cities!

The Artists
Over 100 talented artists traveling from the Iowa/Illinois region and a dozen other states, will be exhibiting a variety of amazing artworks. There will be something for everyone: affordable original art to adorn the home or office, one-of-a-kind clothing, jewelry and accessories, and gift items to please any special someone. Festival-goers can choose from paintings and drawings, sculpture and pottery, photography and prints, clothing and jewelry, glass and wood, and much more. The artists exhibiting at Riverssance have been accepted only after a strenuous jurying process so local buyers can be assured of fine quality

Live Music & Entertainment
Riverssance continues its tradition of providing wonderful music to entertain artists and art lovers alike. The quality of Riverssance music performers is so highly regarded, KUNI Public Radio often sends a crew to tape segments for their weekday Folkways program. Riverssance continues to partner with River Music Experience and Ellis Kell to provide festival-goers with the best in regional entertainment.


Band Schedule
Saturday, September 18th
11:00 - 12:30 - Loj Russo, powerful rocking original folk music
1:00 - 2:30 - Milltown, rogressive bluegrass
3:00 - 4:30 - The Barley House Band, Irish traditional


Sunday, September 19th
10:30 - Noon Paige Popejoy, singer-songwriter
12:30-2:00 - Firesale, reggae & rock beat
2:30 - 4:00 Ragaman, funky goulash

Food
The Riverssance Festival delivers top quality art and music, why should the festival food be any different? Great pains are taken to assure a variety of great food vendors offering mouth-watering selections. Enjoy your food and rest up for more art buying under the giant hospitality food tent.

Food Vendors
Colonial Saigon
Lagomarcino's
Steve's Meat Shop
US Food King
Uncle Zorba's



Children's Art Tent
MidCoast and Riverssance are thrilled to welcome mother and daughter team, Corrine and Jenna Smith, to the event. The children's art tent will be providing all the artistic fun for the kids at this year's Riverssance. Plans are underway for three different make and take crafts for the kids each day. The Riverssance Children's Art Tent is free to children 12 and under accompanied by parents or guardians.

New! Tabor Home Vineyards Wine Tasting; Take Home a Commemorative Wine Glass
Festival goers 21 years of age and older may participate in the Riverssance Festival wine tasting hosted by Tabor Home Vineyards! Wine Garden customers will receive a beautiful wine glass with the Riverssance logo. These may be purchased at the wine garden entrance. $10 buys a glass plus 6 one ounce wine sampling tickets. The tickets may be redeemed at the Tabor Home Vineyards & Winery wine tasting area. For more information about this great local winery, please visit www.taborhomewinery.com



Looking for a convenient and inexpensive way to get to the Village to join us for Riverssance?  Ride The Loop!  These beautiful new buses are only $1 per ride and they’ll be running from 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.  They stop in the Village just down the street from Lindsay Park.  The normal CitiBus also stops in the Village.  Learn more about routes and schedules at http://www.qctransit.com

Riverssance Limited Edition T-Shirt
For over two decades Riverssance has been offering limited edition collector T-shirts commemorating the festival. These heavily sought after emblems of fashion and taste have been adorned with original images from artists participating in the event. Steve Nowatzki of Minneapolis, MN created this year's limited edition Riverssance T. His intriguing stone lithograph entitled, "Natural Defenses: Lemon Clouds II", was chosen from among hundreds of other works of art during the jurying process. Steve's award winning prints are the ultimate in "green art". Not only does he employ techniques and processes in his art that cause the least amount of environmental impact possible, Steve chooses to create art that informs the viewer of the impact our life choices have on the rest of our planet. The fewer than 200 shirts may be purchased

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