Nick and I are always excited when we get the chance to come to Epcot during the Festival of the Arts. During this short festival in January and February, Epcot sets up booths for you to walk around and see artwork from a variety of talented artists. It is like the Art of Disney store just takes over the World Showcase.
One cool photopass offering this year is a light art creation with Spaceship Earth behind you (pictured first). There are also lots of fun photo opportunities that let you “live” in the art. We didn’t get around to all of them, but we had a lot of fun drinking tea with some new boating party friends. I think Nick may have to have some tea with Washington next year.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Peter Pan Storybook
Venus
Van Gogh
I love how the Festival of the Arts has so many things for you to be on the hunt for. First you have the living art paintings, but you also have the Figment Scavenger Hunt and the hidden character chalk art. Searching for things at Disney is definitely a favorite for me because it encourages you to dive deeper into the details and you may find something new. I do this a lot when I am taking photos of our teas and I end up getting new ideas in the process.
This is from the scavenger hunt, Figment’s Brush with the Masters. The Mona Figment can be seen in the Italy Pavilion.
I decided to have a little extra scavenger hunt of my own and find all of the chalk characters that are in any of the movies that have inspired one of our teas. But, there was an added time limit challenge because I came up with this idea as the sun was already setting. So I had about 30 minutes to quickly find and snap photos around the World Showcase starting in Norway and ending in the UK Pavilion.
These are in order of me taking the photos, so you can see as I lose the light, haha. Looking back, I missed the Hyenas at the African Outpost for our Circle of Life tea and the tiny little Jiminy Cricket in Italy for Wish Upon a Tea.
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Overall, the Festival of the Arts in Epcot feels very spontaneous and fun and is not one to miss. I will definitely be coming back next year for another spark of inspiration in my tea.
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