Chelsea's Journey as a British Columbia Ambassador Candidate : Merritt Art Walk 2015

Friday, September 4, 2015

Merritt Art Walk 2015

After our interviews came time for a fun and unique way for us to spend some time exploring the city of Merritt as we embarked on the Merritt 2015 art walk. Lucky for us we had two fabulous women who helped organize the event to take us around Merritt to 16 of the 17 locations in just over 2 hours. Which was an incredible feat and an extremely enjoyable way to see our host city.

For those who don't know Merritt is known as the Country music capital of Canada and has a country music walk of fame similar to the Hollywood stars. Only these are strictly country music stars who had been to the city during one the legendary Merritt mountain music festivals.

So we got one of the very best ways in which to experience Merritt by walking around th city, learning about the architecture and community as well as embracing the local art culture and stick our hands in countless hand prints (and boot prints) of the rich and famous country music stars. Or at least I did as I tried to high five every hand print.

During our adventure we not only got to meet several artists one of whom was Lin Sherwood with whom I reigned with in 2009 when she was a Merritt ambassador!

We also were able to explore the Merritt Museum whilst on our tour and it was as I said my favorite way to become better a quaint ed with the host city of the annual British Columbia ambassador program.
During our walk we met many people interested in what we were doing or people who just wanted to say hi and good luck. We also had lots of people honk and wave at us.

As I said I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to go on the 2015 Merritt art walk and collecting stamps in our art books. I also was intrigued by the way art was mixed into local shops providing for some very unique artistic atmospheres. There were displays in stores that I would've probably never visited otherwise!