Details
American Art Festivals, producer of premier art events across California for the past ten years, is coming back to Santa Monica Friday, February 22 through Sunday, February 24, 2008. The Second Annual Santa Monica Arts Festival boasts more than 200 of America’s most talented fine artists and contemporary craftspeople, all selected through a jury system for the originality and quality of their work. The February event features 15,000 original works. Festival visitors have the rare opportunity to meet with these talented artists and craftspeople that have come to Santa Monica from more than 20 states all across the nation.

WHEN:
Friday-Sunday, February 22-24, 2008
Friday Noon - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 7pm
Sunday, 10am - 5pm

TICKETS:
At the Door: $8 Adults, $7 Seniors, Children Under 12 free
$1.00 off with online coupon www.americanartfestivals.com or flyer


Ring by Sasa

Strolling through the festival, attendees will see a vast selection of extraordinary work including:

- Fine art: More than 50 painters working in watercolors, oils, pastels, and acrylics, are offering traditional and modern, landscape and still life, animal and floral, portrait and abstract, whimsical and surrealistic, originals and limited-edition prints.

- Sculpture: 12 sculptors exhibiting works ranging from bronzes that fit on the mantle to giant welded assemblages suitable for the yard.

- Photography: Eight photographers are displaying works of natural and architectural landscapes, and American and international scenes, plus fascinating portraits of peoples around the world and wild and domestic animals, in dramatic color or striking black and white.

- Contemporary crafts: Nine 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.

- Wood: 10 woodworkers, each specializing in the carving, turning or laminating of a variety of domestic or exotic woods, are offering everything from more utilitarian wares such as salad bowls, cutting boards and jewelry boxes to exquisite furniture including chests of drawers, wine cabinets, chairs and lamps.

- Personal Adornment: More than 40 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.

- Fashion and Accessories: 20 renowned clothing and accessory fiber artists offering one-of-a-kind distinctive attire from edgy chic to contemporary sophisticate made from hand-woven wool, natural cotton, painted silk, leather, felt and other fine materials.