About The Festival

SCITUATE - It might feel like a stretch finding a connection between a sugary doughboy, and a college scholarship.

But the analogies exist as surely as organizers of the annual Scituate Art Festival cross their fingers and hope for good weather over Columbus Day weekend when they schedule the annual event.

Good weather spells a hefty crowd, which leads to greater profits in food sales to turn back into funding scholarships and other helping hand projects that are Scituate-based. It also means greater numbers of festival-goers to buy raffle tickets and to consider purchasing the original artwork and craft items on display, or antiques, and sales make for happy artists and dealers who will likely return next year to pay the application fee to sell their work.

The Scituate Art Festival "is so many different things to so many different people," said committee member Sheila Durfee, a longtime volunteer who now oversees dozens of grant applications submitted to the committee each year.

Grants are generated from artist application fees, a raffle and from a percentage of food sold by nonprofits. After festival expenses the generated profit goes to support community organizations, like the Scituate Health Alliance, the Scituate Scholarship Foundation, or the Scituate Food Pantry.