New vendor map will guide you at Lemonade Art Fair

Use our new vendor map to find your favorite arts, crafts and artisan food at the June 22 Lemonade Concert and Art Fair.

Your phone + open WiFi + vendor map = easy navigation at our signature summer event.

Look for Lemonade_WiFi on your phone. On the login screen there is a map showing the indoor and outdoor coverage areas. To gain access, login with first name and last name and accept the terms and conditions.

Organizers say this year’s fair will offer greater variety among its approximately 200 vendors.

“While there will be more total vendors than last year, there will be fewer in the jewelry and apparel categories,” according to David McCandless, assistant director of campus involvement.

Providing some of that variety is a new category: Artisan Home and Body. Karen Zimmer ’89, proprietor of Faraway Farm Handcrafted Soap, St. Cloud, makes soaps for a wide range of skin types using high-quality oils, butters, herbs and flowers. Can you say Cranberry Crunch Soap?

Beth Jewett of MakennaDel Nature Products, Otsego, uses soy to make clean-burning candles and scented lotions. Hawaiian Hibiscus lotion, anyone?

The fair runs 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Parking is free on streets adjacent to campus and $1.50 per hour in the 4th Avenue Parking Ramp. A free shuttle service will run from K and Q parking lots to the center of campus, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Volunteers are needed for vendor check-in, information booth, load-out/clean-up and in the Little Lemons Art Park. Each volunteer gets a free T-shirt and meal dollars with a fair food vendor. Complete the volunteer form (MS Word) and email it to [email protected] by June 17.

The World Commons Stage, near the fair’s center, will offer a range of performers. Here’s a tentative schedule:

11 a.m. — Five Good Reasons is a multi-genre, five-voice, a capella group that includes Kristen (Marschel) Mattick ’09 and Jody Martinson ’04.

Noon — Paige Gielen is a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from Albany.

1 p.m. — Shiver Fusion Belly Dancers is a Minnesota-based troupe of five dances.

2 p.m. — St. Paul duo Hot Date — Eric Carranza and Nora O’Brien — delivers songs about love.

3 p.m. — Seven-piece Minneapolis band Sawyer’s Dream performs pop-rock originals.

4 p.m. — Guitarist-vocalist Adam Hammer ’05 plays, folk, blues and originals.

5 p.m. — To be announced.

Veteran multi-instrumentalist Paul Imholte ’82 will roam the fairgrounds 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

The Little Lemons Art Park will offer children art projects, craft projects, performance art and more. Paramount Arts District staff members will coordinate activities 11 a.m.-6 p.m., south of Stewart Hall.

Mayor Dave Kleis ’89 will honor recipients of the Rock-On Awards during the 6:30 p.m. Granite City Days opening ceremony. The award recognizes St. Cloud individuals, organizations and businesses that have demonstrated outstanding civic participation, leadership and achievements. A

A St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra concert will follow at 7:30 p.m. Conducting will be Brian Dowdy, artistic director.

Farmer’s market vendors and some artisan food vendors will offer fresh produce, plants, food and more between the Miller Center and Administrative Services Building.

The Lemonade Concert and Art Fair is managed by the Department of Campus Involvement, with sponsorship from Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, T-Mobile, Leaf Filter and St. Cloud Granite City Days. The symphony’s concert is funded by the Central Minnesota Arts Board, via the state Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

The vendor map at lemonadeartfair.com was created by Dylan Edwards ’09. Edwards’ day job is technical project leader for Stearns County.

St. Cloud State is a tobacco-free campus: stcloudstate.edu/tobaccofree.