The House and Home Magazine Features The Cook Foundation and Gloucester Arts Festival

Read an excerpt from our feature in the current issue of The House and Home Magazine:

The 2022 Gloucester Arts Festival does more than spotlight the arts. It celebrates community. During the party that lasts the entire month of June, Virginia’s coastal daffodil capital invites residents and visitors to reconnect with one another while sampling a palette of events from one-act plays and studio tours to the first-ever Village Arts Day along Main Street.

The festival that runs from June 4-25, 2022, kicks off with a pair of new offerings. Local painter Theresa Stifel will take groups behind the scenes into the actual creating spaces of working artists in Gloucester County. The sites include a trip to Perrin Creek Custom Cowboy Boots, where craftsman Steve Christo hand stitches every pair of cowboy boots using the same vintage machinery from 100 years ago.

The 2022 festival is expected to attract more than 5,000 visitors. Adrianne Ryder Cook-Joseph, founder of the Cook Foundation, cherishes the festival as both an expression of what a remarkable place Gloucester is to live and a restorative event that will contribute to overall community wellness.

“Arts are very healing,” she said. “We feed our soul with the arts. They give us the chance for us to pause and think about our lives and other people’s lives and what is meaningful in life. The Gloucester Arts Festival is an event that makes people feel part of the community fabric by offering a place for everyone to bond over art.”

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