Art T-Shirts

The annual Blueberry Arts Festival is held the first weekend of August and is sponsored by the Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council. It is an outdoor arts and crafts fair that takes place in downtown Ketchikan. Each Spring there is a contest open anyone in the community who would like to submit their design idea for a Blueberry Festival logo. The wining logo is printed on t-shirts and sold to residents and tourists in Ketchikan throughout the summer.

I have submitted designs in this contest during the past two years. In 2004 my dragonfly design won the logo contest.

This year, I had worked on some logo designs but wasn't satisified with any of them so I had decided not to participate. Then, just days before the 2006 contest deadline, I was encouraged by someone to submit a design again for this year.

When I showed Chris what I had been working on he became excited and saw potential with some of the ideas. We ended up working together for several hours on a couple of ideas. What became the "Frog of the Blueberry Forest" design won this year's contest!

It will be fun seeing people wearing the t-shirts around town this summer. The Ketchikan community really gets into the spirit of the Blueberry Arts Festival - we always see people wearing their blueberry t-shirts from many previous years of logo designs, as well as the current design. It makes for a very festive atmosphere.