East Carolina Wildlife Festival - Washington, NC - February 6-8, 2015The 2015 IWCA Style Shorebird and Working Decoy Championships are just around the corner! Here's a link to the show's website and important information....
Rules, Brochure, and Registration Information
Walter Gaskill - Best of Show - Tri-County Telephone Canvas Gunning Decoy
The East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships is presented by the nonprofit East Carolina Wildfowl Guild. The weekend long event is centered around Washington’s Civic Center at the corner of Main and Gladden Streets with many adjacent areas on Stewart Parkway beside the Pamlico River. The carving competition will be located at the Peterson Building adjacent to the Civic Center and the Wildlife Art and Decoy Auction will beheld at the Washington Yacht and Country Club at 7155 River Road. Again at this year’s event will be the “Dockdogs” Competition as seen on the Outdoor Channel and ESPN. The Dockdogs events, held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will be held at Kugler Field at the corner of Hudnell and East Fourth Streets.
The show will begin on Friday, February 8, 2013, with the Dockdogs Competition and a Preview Reception, co-hosted by The East Carolina Bank and the guild, for sponsors and invited guests at The Meeting Place 225 West Main Street, Washington, NC. The entire festival will open to the public at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, and will close at 5:00 p.m. The show will reopen at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 10, and will close at 4:00 p.m.
On Saturday, February 9, 2013, over one hundred pieces of wildlife art and decoys will be sold at the annual auction. A seafood buffet will be available along with a cash bar. A silent auction will begin at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:00 p.m. and a live auction at 7:00 p.m. Reservations and prepayment will be required by contacting us at 800-999-3857 ext. 2 or 3 starting January 1, 2013.
Admission to the festival will be $10.00 for a one day ticket (Friday, Saturday or Sunday), or a three day weekend pass can be purchased for $15.00 for all events. Friday will be Dockdogs only, as all other parts of the event will not be opened until Saturday. For additional information on any show details, contact us at 800-999-3857 ext. 2 or 3.
Festival Events Include:
You can find out more details about the decoys carving contest, as well as download entry forms, on the newly revised ECW Guild website here: http://www.ecwguild.com/ecw-arts-festival/decoy-carving-competition-rules/
The 2012 East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival will be held on February 10-12 in Washington, North Carolina.
Andy Pope's 3rd best of show goldeneyes in the Pamlico River Gunning Pairs Competition
You can download a copy of therr rules brochure here: 2012 EC Rules and also download a copy the entry form: 2012 EC Entry Form
This festival features many IWCA events such as decorative floating, decorative non-floating, IWCA style, shorebird, and canvas divisions. They also have many contests that are unique to their show including several gunning bird and gunning pair contests, contemporary antiques, and a decorative head and bust contest.
In additional to the carving contests, this festival includes manu other fun activities such as the dock dog contests, judging of the NC duck stamp competition, childrens decoy painting contest, and a duck, goose and swan calling contest.