Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild

This year marks the Twenty-Third Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival and we need Decoy Festival poster entries for our annual poster competition.  The poster to the left is last year's winning entry by Kelley Nelson. 

The Decoy Festival Poster Contest, in its tenth year, is sponsored by the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. The competition gives local artists the opportunity to submit the entry which will used on Decoy Festival posters, advertising flyers, and apparel. 

The featured carver for 2010 is Joe Lee of Virginia Beach, VA, and the decoy is a Common Goldeneye. 

Please visit our 2010 Poster Competition page for complete information about our annual poster competition.

The Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild would like to thank all the many members, volunteers, competitors, sponsors, and patrons who made the 2009 Decoy Festival such a tremendous success. Although the weather didn't exactly cooperate, everyone else certainly did by coming out and enjoying the show, and it was a wonderful event.

Special thanks also go to April Lilley, Principal of the Harkers Island Elementary School, and all the teachers, staff, students and parents who helped us make the 2009 Decoy Festival a success. The school's enthusiastic cooperation is so important to the Decoy Festival and we want them to know how much we appreciate it.

Please make plans now to join us in 2010 for the 23rd Annual Decoy Festival on December 4th and 5th