Moorpark Arts Festival Set for Saturday

The annual Moorpark Arts Festival is here again, set for Saturday along High Street.

The free event this year features artist Alan Scott Craig, who creates artistic boomerangs.

According to his The Art of Boomerang website, Craig's been making boomerangs since he was a boy. When he first started, it took him seven shapes and attempts before he could get one to work, he wrote.

"It has been that way throughout my boomerang career," he wrote on his website. "I have made so many more mistakes and failures than happy returns. This has caused me to realize that if you want to succeed, one has to endure many wonderful lessons and crashes."

Craig wrote he decided to become an artist after taking some ceramic classes at Moorpark College and working with tile artist Richard Keit, but a role in the movie Bagdad Café lead to a different type of art.

When he returned from filming his role, in which he threw a boomerang, his friends wanted to buy boomerangs from him.

"My ceramic sculpture business was soon replaced with good boomerang returns," he wrote. "I found that I was pioneering a new art form. Uncharted territory… and it excited me!"

The Moorpark Arts Festival also will have arts and crafts for purchase, musical and performing arts and more.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on High Street near the High Street Arts Center, 45 E. High St.