Westport's 36th Annual Fine Arts Festival, a tradition held in downtown Westport, was held outdoors this past weekend.  Over 140 artists came to showcase their work.  The artists set up their booths along the beautiful Saugatuck River in Westport and showed their original artwork to the thousands of viewers that attended.

There were 7 different mediums of artwork presented:  photography, print making, oil, mix media, water colors, sculpture and drawing.  Each category was judged by the Westport Arts Center and a winner in each of these mediums was awarded a Simon Pearce Thetford Bowl as the prize. 

The Best in Show award went to Mark MacKinnon(c), a photographer from Beacon, N.Y. Festival chairman and owner of Cocoa Michelle, Michelle Weber (l), presented the ribbon, while Bob Le Rose (r) president of the Westport Downtown Merchants Association and owner of Bobby Q’s, presented MacKinnon with a gift from Simon Pearce. 

above photo courtesy of WestportNow.com