Chauvin Folk Art Festival and Blessing of the Fleet
This is a past event- Chauvin Sculpture Garden
5337 Bayouside Drive
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Chauvin Sculpture Garden holds its annual festival, timed with the local shrimp-boat ceremony.
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The Blessing of the Fleet in Chauvin, Louisiana, in April 2016. Image via WWNO.
Chauvin Sculpture Garden hosts its annual Folk Art Festival, which features tours of the garden, music, and food. At 12 pm, Chauvin’s Blessing of the Fleet passes the garden, ceremoniously sending off the community’s shrimp boats for the season.
For more information on this year’s festivities, visit Facebook. And to learn more about the Chauvin Folk Art Festival and the Blessing of the Fleet, read Ingrid Norton’s essay from the Art Review archive.
