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Saucier artist
takes top STORY AND
Blue PHOTOS BY Moon SUSAN
art prize
“Blue Moon has been a perfect fit with the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival. With a focus on artfully crafting masterpieces, whether it be from making
Blue Moon products to artists’ interpretation of Blue Moon on canvas, this partnership helps
to inspire entrepreneurs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” said Cynthia Dobbs Sutton, executive director of the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce-Main Street-Tourism Bureau.
The Chamber hosts the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival which has been held the first Saturday of November each year for the past 38 years. A few years ago Blue Moon came onboard as the top sponsor, it now “presents” the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival.
The 2017 festival marks the
The partnership between the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival and F.E.B. Distributing Company’s Blue Moon beer has endured because of the creativity of the festival and the crafting of the beer.
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seventh year for artists to participate in the Blue Moon
Art Project. Artists from around Mississippi entered their work inspired by the theme,“Where do you Blue Moon?” The submitted pieces remained unsigned so the judges cannot see who created each work. A winner is selected and kept secret until Sunday
of the festival, and the top 10 finalists’ work is on display during the festival for a People’s Choice Award.
The Blue Moon Art Project winner and People’s Choice Award
will be announced at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5. The top winner
will receive $2,000 cash and the People’s Choice winner gets $500. The 2017 winning art will become the official artwork for cups, banners and other marketing opportunities before and during
the 2018 Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival.
Elizabeth Huffmaster of Saucier has been in the Blue Moon Art Project winner’s circle more than once. Her piece, “The Natural Favorite,” won the top award
in 2016. The bright image of a rabbit, dragonfly, flowers and vines against a fence with a blue moon painted on it can be seen on official festival cups and banners this year. Her distinctive work also won in 2012, and she captured the People’s Choice Award in 2013 and 2014.
“It’s humbling because the pieces are selected blindly. I can’t tell you how honored I am. I am blown away,” Huffmaster said.
By the end of the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival each year, she is already thinking about her Blue Moon Art Project for the