Although this year’s Foothills Folk Art Festival originally planned for Saturday, October 3, 2020 has been cancelled due to Covid, several Downtown Newton businesses plan to host folk art displays the weekend of Oct. 2-4 to keep the spirit of the festival alive. Check with your favorite businesses for their offerings.

The festival maintains its commitment to artwork that is intensely influenced by and displaying the spirit of folk, visionary, and outsider art. Organizers remain confident that as we recover from the pandemic, the festival will move forward next year on Saturday, October 2, 2021, as one of the nation’s finest celebrations of folk art.