Only 10 years ago, Main Street Ravenna collaborated with Main Street Kent to develop its own summer art & wine festival. Fast forward a decade later, the ART on Main Festival has become an annual summer tradition, having just celebrated its 10th anniversary last Saturday afternoon on Main Street in downtown Ravenna.
“We are really excited for this to be a big year for our 10th year,” said Main Street Ravenna secretary and ART of Main chairwoman Brooke Bolevich. “This is our nice kick-off of the summer. We do it the second week in June every year, so people are familiar with the dates. We love getting people downtown to see what amazing businesses we have, and we have some fun with the live music, drink some wine and see all of the amazing local artists.”
In the annual summer festival’s 10th year, Bolevich said that there was 15% increase in local vendor and small business participation compared to last year. Since inheriting the responsibilities of chairing the event four years ago, Bolevich said that one of her primary goals has been to increase business participation…