Inspiration is all over Wonderland Mountain at ACE Adventure Resort. Perched on the grassy knoll you will see the colorful and lit up art tent captivating you to explore it. Upon venturing inside you will find the festival scene’s best visual artists showing off their creativity and inspiration. Prepare to be blown away with the friendly, talented artists and what they have created. Many will be painting live and creating new works before your eyes! This is the third year we welcome artists to the mountaintop event and they continue to amaze us each year. We cannot wait to see what these folks will be showing off this June 1st, 2nd & 3rd!
Get a taste of whom you will meet inside the art tent this year at Mountain Music Festival.
Ashton Hill has been the true inspiration for visual artists each year at our festival. She came to us three years ago with the idea of adding art to the event and we couldn’t be happier that our paths have crossed. Each year she puts in tons of work to assemble talented artists, plan an amazing space and of course create some awesome artwork! She does all this before even getting to Wonderland Mountain at ACE Adventure. Talking bout her art she says;
“As a live painter I extend my creative self to the people for entertainment, for intrinsic thought, for your soul to be touched. Journeying from festivals to galleries to events to street performance, my goal is to bring a consciousness of creation to all I encounter. Along the way I vend my craft, interact with the public, and expose my heart and soul through every painting.”
Brian Zickafoose is an award-winning commercial artist, musician and publisher, who specializes in piercing the perimeter of perception, and illuminating the vibrant and divine nature of the human spirit. Although he has a penchant for exploring parallel dimensions, intergalactic adventure and time travel, Brian currently resides deep in the mountains of West Virginia with his wife Jeannine, daughters Daisy, Xia and Zenna, and a polydactyl cat named Butterfly, near the New River Gorge.
A bohemian adventurer sails far, and wide into the vast seas of inner space. From there, he delves into its depths in search of many visual treasures and oddities. Letting the flow of all things take the wheel, Ryan Byrd merges dancing and painting into one. The art takes on a life of its own, and he just becomes the observer. The canvas becomes a door way into the lucid depths of the human imagination. He lets his subconscious mind paint to the rhythm and beats of the music and the high vibe energy in his environment. He keeps layering on paints in shapes and patterns creating levels of depth. Eventually his imagination begins conjuring radically whimsical creatures and creations, built out of the depths of reality, the fractals, and the spirit realm. This is his Psychonautical Voyage.
Check out the Visual Artist Lineup and find out more about all the talented folks who will be getting inspired in the mountains of West Virginia this summer! With acts like Umphrey’s McGee, The Revivalists, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Twiddle and Big Something the good vibrations will certainly be flowing through the paint. You can still save big by getting early bird tickets before Valentines Day when ticket prices will increase. Call us at 1-877-382-5893 to lock in this discounted rate for ONLY $25 with our payment plan. Stay up to date with all the news and announcements by following us on Facebook and be sure to join the Event Page and invite all your art loving friends. The fourth year of MMFest is shaping up to be pretty memorable so start making plans to be on the mountain with us this June. See you soon!
