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Customers check out the wares of Sunny+Olive, a women's clothing store during the Milton Art Crawl on Saturday, Oct. 12. 2024.
HANNAH POWELL/HANNAL.POWELL@APG-SW.COM
MILTON — Artists and vendors exhibited and sold locally-made items during the first ever Milton Art Crawl on Saturday.
Ten businesses opened up their shops, hosting live artist visits to highlight their creative work and to also draw attention to local merchants.
Artists like print maker Laurie Hunt set up stands with the basic tools of their craft. Passersby were able to experience art-making themselves and took home a small keepsake.
Vendors, meanwhile, displayed and sold the work of a variety of local artists, including a woodworker, acrylic painter, watercolor painter, jewelry maker and several tattoo artists.
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HANNAH POWELL/HANNAL.POWELL@APG-SW.COM
The Milton Area Chamber of Commerce meets with the retail businesses monthly and comes up with plans showcase them, explained Amy Kelley, owner of Sunny + Olive , a women’s clothing store in Milton.
“We were a big part in planning it,” Kelly said, of Saturday’s Art Crawl. “I had suggested an art crawl because other towns do similar things and I thought it would be really fun to do it here. I think it has been successful so far. I hope it will become an annual event.”
