Patron's Award Program Honors Artists and Craftsmen

There are many ways the participants in the Arts & Crafts Festival in Fairhope are honored including the Awards Dinner, where over $14,500 in prize money is given to the best of the best. However, the best honor they receive is when visitors to the festival purchase their works.

The planning committee for the 57th Annual Arts & Crafts Festival in Fairhope, an Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce event, is offering a way patrons can further honor their favorite artists and craftsmen through the Patron Award Program. By doing so, the patrons themselves also receive recognition.

It's so simple. All one needs to do is contact the Chamber and sign up for the Patron's Award Program and commit to purchase at least $100 worth of arts or crafts from one vendor. When those patrons visit the festival they will drop by the Chamber office in Fairhope and pick up a ribbon to be placed on their chosen vendor's booth and a placard bearing their own name or the name of a business, which is also be placed at the vendor's booth. Patrons may purchase works from any vendor they choose. All the money goes directly to the artist. The more patrons who commit - the more money that is guaranteed to be spent at the festival.

The 57th Annual Arts & Crafts Festival is an Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce event. For more information on how to sign-up to be a patron, contact the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce at 621-8222.

Patron’s Awards

Jerry W. Williams
Cindy Ward – Magnolia Trace Real Estate
Walter Kirkland – Kirkland Capital Resources LLC
Gary and John – By the Bay Pet Resort
Jim Byrd – Safe Harbor Financial Services
Mickey & Sue Ladd
Pam Brown – Concept Promotions
Nancy Little
Signature Properties, Inc.
Guarantee Title Company
A.J. Cooper, Esq. – Cooper Law
Benjie and Donna Hughes – Hughes Cremation & Funeral Service
Michael J. Hoyt – Harbison & Hoyt LLC
Tom Byrne – Riviera Utilities
Joyce S. Hershberger
Eugenia Lanaux – Creative Outlet Dance Center
Dr. James V. Corte – Fairhope Animal Clinic
Baldwin Bone & Joint, PC
Hartmann, Blackmon & Kilgore, PC
Amanda Spybey – Gulf Coast Mortgage Co., Inc.
Nancy Thompson – Honey Baked Ham Co. & Café
Bill & Cynthia Tunnell
David Adkins – Furniture Medic
Don Gordon – Bay Village Stone
Dr. Mike & Linda McDuffie – South Alabama Orthodontics
Denise Knox – Private Gallery Jewelry & Accessories
Randy Englebert – Climatemp Cooling & Heating
Chuck Bartle – Ferguson Enterprises
Lanier Chew – Sunbelt Business Brokers
Darrelyn Bender
Elizabeth Stone – Vision Bank-Point Clear
Andrew Braswell – Vision Bank-Foley
Fran Slade – Roberts Brothers Real Estate
Leslie Costigan – Long’s Human Resource Services
Louie & Barbara Blaze
Barbara Haas
Greg Strachan – Bryant Bank-Daphne
David Sutley – Bank Trust – Fairhope
Steve Pearson – Vision Bank Trust and Investments
Dr. T. J. Rosandich – U.S. Sports Academy
Danny Spybey – Jackson’s Fresh Market
Dr. & Mrs. John Stump
Katherine Monroe – A. G. Edwards
Pat Johnson – Gulf Coast Newspapers
Richard Cox – Peaches ‘n Clean
First Gulf Bank - Fairhope
Ron Wiggins – Farmers Insurance
Alton & Margaret Powell – Duct Doctors
Rick & Cindy Wilkinson – Pen & Ink Office Supplies
Coldwell Bankers - Reehl Properties, Inc.
Ron & Linda Scott – Scott & Associates
Lola Connert
George Irvine – Stone, Granade & Crosby, PC, Attorneys at Law
Ty & Effie Thompson
Mac & Jaca McLaren – Herbal Life
Pagan S. Mosher – Creative Outlet Dance Center
Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects
Diane Douglas
Prudential-Nichols Real Estate