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35th annual Huckleberry Days Art Festival

KELSEY EVANS | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 11 months AGO
by KELSEY EVANS
Whitefish Pilot | August 14, 2024 12:00 AM
The Huckleberry Days Art Festival is a highlight of the weekend's huckleberry season festivities.
    Judy Howell of Montana Earth Pottery in Columbia Falls said on Friday that she has had a booth at the Huckleberry Days Art Festival for about a decade. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
    Ruth Naldrett and Shelly Naldrett from family-run Shelly's Jellys in Kalispell offer up sweet, savory and even spicy varieties of huckleberry jams at the Huckleberry Days Art Festival in Depot Park. The Shelly's Jellys booth has been at the same corner of the festival for years. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
    Annie Peck from Whitefish poses with the ‘waffles in space’ poster created by Nick Mask. Mask is based in southwest Montana and is the author/illustrator of the Waffles the Adventure Cat children's books. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
 
    Dave Thompson from Hungry Horse decks out The Galivanting Goat’s huckleberry food stand in all purple at the Huckleberry Days Art Festival. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
 
    Nathan Stoltzfus and Kelsey Holmes of Creative Combinations make one-of-a-kind functional art pieces out of metal with wood, and new and old materials at their shop in Columbia Falls. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
 
    Visitors admire sculptures by Malen Pierson from Utah. While Pierson is new to the festival, his sculpture of a metal horse can be seen on Baker Avenue in front of Five Star Rentals. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
 
    Beta Sigma Phi sorority members Bevy Flood and Kris Queen help sell huckleberry baked goods at the Huckleberry Days Art Festival. Money raised from the sorority's bake sale go towards a scholarship given to a graduating Whitefish High School student every year. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
 
 
 
 


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