Sep 29 2009
12th Annual Sacramento Arts Festival
12th Annual Sacramento Arts Festival is happening October 2-4, 2009 at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Ticket prices are Adults, $7.50, Seniors, $6.50 and Children Under 12 free. Click on this link for more ticket info.
The festival features 225 of America’s best craftspeople and fine artists offering more than 15,000 original works. The event is one of the premier art and craft shows in Sacramento, but is also developing into one of the top art festivals in the country.
The festival offers ceramic artists that are exhibiting their stoneware, porcelain or raku works, and clay creations ranging from functional hand-thrown plates, cups, tea sets and vases, to whimsical sculptures and hand-made tile tables. Also 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, tables, lamps, and chairs.
In fine art, 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. Sculptors are exhibiting works ranging from bronzes that fit on the mantle to giant welded assemblages suitable for the yard. 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.
There will also be handmade wearables and accessories as well as 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.
Besides all the visual art, the festival features continuous live Main Stage entertainment including jazz, blues and world-music groups. And last but not least is Restaurant Row which is great area restaurants offering a variety of delicious edibles including Greek and Indian specialties.
