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Our blog is where you find the latest Skagit Valley Tulip Festival news and resources. We keep you in the know and help you maximize your visit!
Seeking artist for 2025 festival poster

Seeking artist for 2025 festival poster

Love tulips? Love art? Do you have a favorite artist? Or are you an artist who wants to be our featured artist for the 2025 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival? Here's how you apply Send us the following to Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, PO Box 1784, Mount Vernon, WA 98273: -...

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KeyBank Tulip Ambassadors busy at festival appearances

KeyBank Tulip Ambassadors busy at festival appearances

KeyBank Tulip Ambassadors Harper McCown and Carter See have a full slate of appearances scheduled throughout the 2023 Tulip Festival. We thought we'd show some of what they are doing: Behind the scenes at RoozenGaarde Olympia Governor, Secretary of State and...

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Be sure to Enter the North Coast Credit Union Photo Contest

Be sure to Enter the North Coast Credit Union Photo Contest

Come and visit -- take some pictures -- enter our contest Enjoy your visit to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and share your favorite picture! The rules: Photos must have been taken no earlier than April 1, 2023 or later than April 30, 2023 and be submitted under one...

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woman holding fidalgo coffee roasters tulip festival blend

Official Coffee of the Tulip Festival Now Available

Fidalgo Coffee Roasters creates a Special Tulip Festival Blend each year This year's label and blend will please tulip fans as they enjoy the artwork of Kerry Clavadetscher and see the Savannah Sparrow perched on their coffee. The Official Products of the Tulip...

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revealing of 2023 poster

2023 Poster Unveiling a resounding success

People love the 2023 poster The 2023 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival featured artist Kerry Clavadetscher captivated the crowd at the annual poster unveiling on Nov. 9 as she explained how her artwork came to be. By focusing on "the little people," the small critters...

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2022 award winner by pinnacle

We won!

Our 2020 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Poster wins Gold Pinnacle The Gold Pinnacle Award was recently given to our 2020 poster by the International Festivals and Events Association at its annual convention. There are many different award categories AND each category...

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pasek winery mixing bucket

Official Products a WIN, WIN

Great Products made locally We select local companies who make great products here locally in Skagit Valley. They are branded with our featured art each year and we help to promote them. And, those official products help the festival by giving the festival a...

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tulip stack getting maintenance

Tulip Stack Blooming Brightly

Mount Vernon's iconic "Tulip Stack" is all spiffed up and ready to greet visitors journeying here during April, thanks to the work of the City of Mount Vernon, Jose Cardona of Cardona & Sons Painting and Birch Equipment. We think you will enjoy the new look....

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