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Work of art
Festival success is focus of organizers
Raychel Rork's qualifications for
her new leadership role at Art In The
Park cannot be questioned. She started
preparing for her new responsibilities
35 years ago and has been on the job
ever since.
She will take over from her mother,
Dianne Quinn, the founder of the
event, who is retiring after the art festi-
val this year.
“Raychel is more than ready and
capable of taking over,” Quinn said.
“We've been talking about this for a
long time.”
While Art In The Park takes place
only one weekend in July every year,
the organization and planning is a full-
time, year-long job. Quinn and Rork
said that this event is their primary
focus.
“We're responsible for everything.
No detail is too small. “It's our party, it's
our city. We want it to be great,” Rork
said. “This is all we do every day of the
year.”
Rork noted that the focus this year
would be on the 35th anniversary of
the event, which, she said, changes and
improves every year. She said this year,
as usual, the festival would have some
“exciting new stuff ” including, Jon
Mel-O, a musician who plays the
Vibraphone discovered at Eastern
Market.
“We're always looking for things that
we think most people would enjoy,”
she said.
Rork, the mother of first-time volun-
teer Dylan, 11, and Lily, 8, said there
would again be lots of entertainment
for children this year including a
strolling princess that little girls can
meet withandhave their photos taken.
“We try to keep about 25 percent of
the entertainment newevery year,” she
said, “and we keep the traditional
attractions that seem to bring people
back.”
Those include the Children's Mural
in Kellogg Park which every child who
visits the event is invited to help paint.
After the event, the mural will be on
display at St. John's Providence
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