80 artists, vendors at this year's Summer Festival of the Arts

YOUNGSTOWN

If you have a date at 8 and don’t want to be late, you could buy a clock made from slate.

“We specialize in slate, salvaged or recycled,” Brad Coulson said Saturday about the material that is the centerpiece of the business he and his mother, Linda Coulson, run.

About eight years ago, the Coulsons, of Clarion, Pa., started Slate Accents, which specializes in clocks, picture frames, light-switch covers, tables, address numbers, mirrors and more made from the fine-grained, foliated material.

Mother and son are among the estimated 80 local, regional and out-of-state artists, photographers, woodworkers and other vendors who make up the 15th annual Summer Festival of the Arts show on and near the Youngstown State University campus.

The free gathering began Friday and continues from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.

Read more about the artists and affiliated activities in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.