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The
TENTH
ANNIVERSARY
SYLACAUGA MAGIC OF
MARBLE FESTIVAL
Ted Spears, Marble Festival Chairman
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 256 249--0961
www.bbcomerlibrary.net/marblefestival
Alabama Power Foundation, Inc.
Alabama State Council on the Arts
Alabama Tourism Department
American Legion Post 45 Sylacauga
Architectural Stone Imports
B.B. Comer Memorial Library
Blue Bell Creameries
Blue Horizon Travel
City of Sylacauga
Conn Equipment
Coosa Valley Medical Center
Curtis & Son Funeral Home
Imerys
Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center
J. Craig Smith Community Center
Miller Lumber Company
Morris Custom Marble & Granite
Nemak
Omya, Inc.
Pizza & Pint
Representative Ron Johnson
SouthFirst Bank
Sylacauga Arts Council
Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce
Sylacauga Housing Authority
Sylacauga Marble Quarry
Towne Inn
21st Century Signs
Utilities Board of Sylacauga
CONTACT INFORMATION:
email: [email protected]
City of Sylacauga —(256) 401-2424
B.B. Comer Memorial Library —(256) 249-0961
The mission of the Sylacauga Marble Festival is to recreate the magic of marble through its
artistic, commercial and industrial applications.
Marble Festival Sponsors SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
March 5 “Nemak’s Children’s Poster Contest” Area Schools
March 23 Posters Turned into Schools
April 3 Sculptors Arrive (Registration Mayor’s Office
Pick Up Marble—Select Carving Spot - Bring Marble Items for Sale-Hightower Room-Comer Library)
April 3-14 Marble Product Displays
Marble Sculptures for Sale
(9:00am-5:00pm Daily—B.B. Comer Library)
April 4-5 Imerys Quarry Visits
Observation Site—10:00am to 11:30 am Each Day (Registration—Mayor’s Office 256 401-2424)
April 5 Spirit of Italy Party
Pizza & Pint (6:00pm—8:00pm)
April 7 Fish Fry For Sculptors and Their
Wives/ Husbands, American Legion Hall 6:30 pm
April 11 Ruth Cook, Historian—Life of Giuseppe Moretti
B.B. Comer Library (10:00am)
Mayor’s Reception for Sculptors and Sponsors (6:00pm—Sylacauga City Hall)
April 11-12 OMYA Quarry Visits
10:30am-11:30 Each Day (Registration—Mayor’s Office 256 401-2424)
April 12-13 Sylacauga Marble Quarry Visits
1:00pm-3:00pm Each Day (Registration—Mayor’s Office 256 401-2424)
APRIL 14—FESTIVAL ENDS
The Marble Festival
is located in Sylacauga, AL on
North Norton Avenue across
from Blue Bell Creameries GPS
33.174352,-86.252007
April 3 –14, 2018
T e n Y e a r s o f M a r b l e M a g i c
“We Are All In The Same Boat” Rino Gianinni—Marble Festival 2009
“The Mask” Marble Festival
2010
“Sofi” Marble Festival
2011
“Penelope and Ulysses” Renzo Maggi—Marble Festival 2012
“La Natura” Francesco Galeotti
Marble Festival 2011
Giovanni Balderi
“Il Piede” Francesco Badalacchi—Marble Festival 2014
“La Mano” Elena Mutinelli—Marble Festival 2015
“The Nest” Giovanni Balderi—
Marble Festival 2016
“Sylacauga Awakening” Stefano Pierotti—
Marble Festival 2017
“Black” “Thousand Cuts”
Stefano Pierotti Marble Festival 2017
“The Hero” Roberta Giovaninni Onniboni
Marble Festival 2013
These pieces of sculptures can be seen at B.B. Comer Memorial Library