Poster touts shrimp festival

The 23rd poster local artist Eleanor Curol designed to promote the Delcambre shrimp festival is simple.

It uses metallic colors to portray a shrimp on a toothpick. A seashell is in the bottom right hand corner.

In past years, Curol’s posters have depicted a shrimping boat making its way home in a storm, a baby king and queen of the festival, a priest blessing a boat, a Delcambre ship yard dedicated to wooden boats and more.

“Each print has a story,” she said.

Curol began to design the posters in 1986 after learning festival organizers were looking for someone to design the posters. Her husband, Everett Curol, is a retired shrimper.

Now, the posters are “all over the U.S. and the world,” she said.

She is commissioned yearly — already commissioned for next year, in which festival organizers are planning to coordinate the poster’s design on goods like T-shirts, said Curol.

This year’s Delcambre Shrimp Festival began Wednesday and will end Sunday, featuring a fais-do-do and shrimp cookoff on Saturday, live music, a street fair, and the traditional “Blessing of the Fleet” Sunday.

More information is available at:

www.shrimpfestival.net.

There have been 125 posters printed. They are for sale for $20.

Any remaining after the festival, said Curol, will be given to the vendors.