PROJECTS AND NEWS

Farmers Market
300 West Main Street
Escalante, Utah

Opening July 4th through October 24th, 2010
Saturdays 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Fresh produce, organic fruits and vegetables, plants, flowers, crafts and live music. More Info..

Skyhoopi Thrift Store
40 West Main Street, P.O. Box 96
Escalante, Utah 84726
435-826-4566

Inspired by the WabiSabi Thrift Store in Moab and the Catholic Thrift store in Cedar City, Envision Escalante opened the Skyhoopi Thrift Store opened on July 1, 2008. Celebrating it's 1st birthday July 4th, 2009. The 2009 store proceeds were given to Escalante Elementary School to help with the running track project. Physical Ed teacher Karin Smith-Simmons was given a check for the school in the amount of $2,000 by Envision Escalante and the thrift store employees.
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Envision Escalante along with a team of volunteers, will open, clean and stock the old Rufus Liston cabin with Escalante area information for the coming 2010 tourist season. The cabin will open from May to October and provides visitors with historical information on the area along with a comfortable place to sit and put their feet up.

Last year the Utah Department of Community and Culture matched a $3,000.00 grant from the county commissioners for the Rufus Liston Welcome Cabin. The cabin was chinked and sealed. A back porch was added and a small garden planted.

Collaborative Communications - 2010

February 13, 2010 - Escalante Community Asset Building Workshop sponsored by Envision Escalante, Escalante City and The Escalante/Boulder Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Steve Daniel's, Utah State University, USU Extension, and Utah's Pioneer Community Program facilitated a public meeting to discuss Identifying and linking assets that can be used to accomplish community goals. Over forty citizens came together to discuss community needs and how to achieve them.

The workshop was held at the Escalante High School, a fund raising lunch was served by the high school cheerleaders and the sophomore class.

Escalante Canyons Working Arts Festival
Everett Ruess Days
September 24-25, 2010 in Escalante, Utah

Plein Air Competition
The Sixth Annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival held September 10-23, 2010

2009 marked our 6th annual success story with 114 beautiful plein air entries into the painting competition, up form 96 entries last year. Plein air paintings are painted on location, outdoors, and in a short amount of time. The quality of the art entries was superb.

Artists from all over Utah and several other states participated in the competition. We awarded $7,500.00 in prize monies to the artists, making it worthwhile for the artists to compete. Most of the artists reported feeling that they benefited financially as well as artistically from the experience of painting in the Grand Staircase -Escalante National Monument, Dixie National Forest, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Capitol Reef National Park.

Grand Prize winner in the oil/acrylic category: Herb White

Grand Prize winner in watercolor/mixed media category:
Tryntje Seymour

Artists had a sense of camaraderie and enjoyed the added benefit of painting with each other. There were some great discussions around campfires about the nature of art, painting techniques and style, and the beauty of the fantastic landscape around Escalante. This year we initiated what hopefully will become a regular feature of the festival, an all day workshop on Wednesday, where the artists can paint together.

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