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Artists shine at annual Harvest Festival

The Dahmen Barn hosted the third annual Harvest Festival on Saturday in Uniontown.

With numerous booths and attractions on all three stories of the barn, visitors had plenty of things to keep them occupied.

One booth featured the art of six women artists, three from Clarkston and three from Lewiston. Judy Wayne, a 77-year-old local artist among the group of six, spoke highly of the barn and events hosted there. She said her group was first to reserve a spot for this event.

The studio where the group’s work was on display offered a variety of mediums and styles from each of the six women. One of the artists, Judy Fairley, has had her award-winning scratchboard art featured across the country.

Scratchboard art involves layering ink over white clay and scratching through to reveal the white in detailed patterns.

“Once, I saw Judy working on this tiny section of a branch for her piece,” Wayne said. “I went upstairs and came back about an hour later, and she had only made about an inch of progress. She told me she thought it was really coming along, and I thought, ‘I would never have the patience to do that.’ ” The women all attend or host art classes at the barn and in the area. Wayne added that the classes she began taking four years ago are what started her working on art for fun.

“It’s a great way to spend old age,” she said.

WSU students and fine arts majors Christine Alexandre-Zeoli and Eva Smith manned the face painting booth. Both women felt the day had been a success despite the rain, and they looked forward to future events at the barn.

Smith said that she plans to become an art teacher, so she loved the opportunity to work with the children who attended the event. While this was only her second event at the barn, she enjoyed the day enough to be inspired to start her own art studio someday, she said. She also said she plans to attend more events at the barn in the future.

Alexandre-Zeoli agreed.

“Any day at the barn is a good day,” she said. Alexandre-Zeoli said she enjoys the tractor wheel fence, a clear focal piece at the Dahmen Barn.

The fence has been featured in “National Geographic” magazine and took Steve and Junette Dahmen, original owners of the property, 30 years to build. Now those who have grown to love the fence can participate in the Donate the Wheel project and choose a wheel to sponsor and adorn with their name and number, which supports the now community-owned barn, Alexandre-Zeoli said.