49th Annual Thanksgiving Arts & Crafts Fair November 28, 2008

The Mendocino Art Center hosts the 49th Annual Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Fair, Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days. Forty juried artists and craftspeople from throughout Northern California will exhibit original handmade artwork in all media. The fair is a fund-raising benefit for the Mendocino Art Center.

In what has become a north coast tradition, the Mendocino Art Center's galleries and workshop studios will be transformed into a two-day holiday marketplace, providing residents and visitors a pleasant alternative to hectic, stressful mall shopping while supporting local and regional artists. This year's fair showcases a wide array of unique, high quality artwork and gift items, including stained, fused and engraved glass; enameled, gold and mixed metal jewelry; original paintings and photographs; functional and decorative ceramics; sculptural work, wearable fiber art, and local art books.

Fair exhibitors have been selected in a competitive juried proccess with participants representing the Bay Area, Sacramento, Chico, Sonoma County, inland Mendocino County, and the Mendocino Coast, as well as Oregon and New York.

The fair will also include a food court serving a delicious assortment of items, a selection of Mendocino County beer and wine, a special recipe mulled wine, and Jennie Zacha's traditional blackberry sundaes.

The Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Fair will be held indoors and is free and open to the public. The Mendocino Art Center is located at 45200 Little Lake Street at Kasten Street in Mendocino. For more information, please call 707-937-5818 (toll-free 1-800-653-3328) or visit www.MendocinoArtCenter.org.

Official Website: http://www.MendocinoArtCenter.org