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TOP ARTISTS RETURNING TO SACRAMENTO CONVENTION CENTER
The Sacramento Arts Festival features 225 of America's best
contemporary craftspeople and fine artists offering 15,000 original
works. Each exhibitor is selected through a jury system for
the originality and quality of his or her work. The event has
become not only the premier art show in Sacramento, but is also
developing into one of the top art festivals in the country;
many of the artists who exhibit at such renowned events as the
Sausalito Art Festival, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver,
the Coconut Grove Arts Festival in Miami, and the Ann Arbor
Art Fairs, now also exhibit at the Sacramento Arts Festival.Festival
visitors have the rare opportunity to actually meet and talk
with these talented artists and craftspeople who have come to
Sacramento from across the West and as far away as Texas, Minnesota,
and Connecticut. Several exhibitors will also be demonstrating
how they make their unique items.
Strolling through the festival, attendees will see a vast selection
of extraordinary work. For example, twenty five ceramic artists
are exhibiting their stoneware, porcelain or raku works, offering
clay creations ranging from functional hand-thrown plates, cups,
tea sets and vases, to whimsical sculptures and hand-carved
tiles assembled into bas-relief clay paintings. Or consider
wood. Twenty woodworkers, each specializing in the carving,
turning or laminating of a variety of domestic or exotic woods,
are offering such works as candlesticks, salad bowls, jewelry
boxes, toy trains, lamps, chairs and chests of drawers.
In fine art, forty two painters, working in watercolors, oils,
pastels, and acrylics, are displaying traditional and modern,
landscape and still life, animal and floral, portrait and abstract,
whimsical and surrealistic, originals and limited-edition prints.
And twelve sculptors are exhibiting works ranging from bronzes
that fit on the mantle to giant welded assemblages suitable
for the yard. Regarding personal adornment, forty jewelers,
working with gold and silver, enamel and fabric, precious and
semi-precious gemstones, are offering rings and necklaces, earrings
and pendants, bracelets and brooches, constructed or cast, forged
or fused, simple or elaborate.
Attendees can also shop from a wondrous selection of handmade
wearables and accessories or from an extensive assortment of
functional and decorative glass. In fact, every category of
fine art and contemporary craft-including drawings, printmaking,
photography, decorative fiber, leather, metal, stone, and two
and three dimensional mixed media-is thoroughly represented
by a variety of exhibitors. Shoppers will find spectacular works
of art and craft in all price ranges for themselves, their homes,
and as one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts.
Returning to the festival this year is the Schools Gallery which
spotlights art works from the Sacramento Area Schools Art Competition.
Each elementary, middle, and high school participating, is displaying
its student's entries in six two-dimensional and three-dimensional
categories. Overall winners receive cash and other prizes.
In addition to all the visual art, the festival features continuous
live Main Stage entertainment including jazz, blues and bluegrass
groups. And hungry festivalers can dine on Restaurant Row from
great area establishments offering a wide variety of international
specialties.
The Crocker Art Museum Partnership for Arts Education program
directly benefits from the festival as the recipient of a share
of ticket sales.
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