North Augusta bustled with shoppers, entrepreneurs and artisans, Saturday morning, for the Downtown Spring Fest.
Painting of downtown North Augusta displayed at the city’s Spring Fest. Staff photo by Skyler Andrews.
The Downtown North Augusta Merchants Alliance and North Augusta Forward, the city’s revitalization organization, organized the annual festival, launched in 2022.
The market and fair kicked off at 10 a.m. with tents encamped along a block at West Pine Grove Avenue, bordering Georgia Avenue, in the heart of downtown.
Timothy Fitzgerald II of Handcrafted Cutting Boards displays his handiwork for sale, a variety of cutting boards, cheese boards, meat mallets and other woodwork at the Downtown North Augusta Spring Fest. Staff photo by Skyler Andrews.
Some 50 food vendors and merchants—most, but not all, local—displayed their wares, making the colorful one-day market a kind of microcosm of what North Augusta artists, craftworkers and business owners have to offer.
Artist Monica Wells works on a painting at her tent at the North Augusta Spring Fest. Photo by Skyler Andrews.Blackville, SC artist Terrence Washington, and one of his award-winning paintings, at the North Augusta Downtown Spring Fest. Staff photos by Skyler Andrews.Augusta artist Kenneth James Benson offers personal illustrations at the Downtown North Augusta Spring Fest. Staff photo by Skyler Andrews.
Skyler Andrews is a bona fide native of the CSRA; born in Augusta, raised in Aiken, with family roots in Edgefield County, S.C., and presently residing in the Augusta area. A graduate of University of South Carolina - Aiken with a Bachelor of Arts in English, he has produced content for Verge Magazine, The Aiken Standard and the Augusta Conventions and Visitors Bureau. Amid working various jobs from pest control to life insurance and real estate, he is also an active in the Augusta arts community; writing plays, short stories and spoken-word pieces. He can often be found throughout downtown with his nose in a book, writing, or performing stand-up comedy.
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