The all new 18th Annual Craft And Fine Art Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept. 27, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor.
Participants from 26 states and every region of the continental United States were selected from 644 applicants by a jury of professional craft and art experts.
In addition, a selection of moderately priced and delicious food and desserts including French sweet and savory crepes, smoothies and more. Continuous craft demonstrations will also be available.
Dramatic metal and stone sculpture, designer apparel in silk, cashmere, organic cotton, alpaca and other natural fibers, diamonds, rubies and sapphires set in gold and platinum, fine paintings on canvas, home furnishings sculpture, original fashions in dyed leather, blown and stained glass, as well as hand crafted creations fashioned from exotic, non-endangered woods, will all be presented personally by 90 American master craftsmen and fine artists under large tents.
An estimated 10,000 visitors are expected to visit the museum for the exhibit, which is produced by the American Concern for Art and Craftsmanship, the same organization that produces the Crafts Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Admission is $9 with children under 12 admitted free. There$1 discount for seniors on Saturday.
Of the 90 crafts displays all will be presented by the master craft artist-designers and artists themselves and will combine the unusual with the traditional hand crafted works and fine art.
One of the most novel creations will be presented by Joan Michlin of Sarasota, FL, who will display a hand fabricated one-of-a-kind sterling silver triangular container decorated with handcarved Lapis Lazuli and with a 14karat gold bracelet embellished with diamonds, as well as a 14karat gold and diamond stick pin enhancing the exterior, yet removable for use as body adornments is priced at $11,500.
Most items range in price from $50 – for a multi-colored enameled ladybug on a lily pin available from Cynthia Chuang of Locust Valley – to $450 for a full-sized functional guitar fabricated and decorated with multicolored fused and cold-worked glass combined with metal plasma by Maria Livrone and Bill Zack from Plains, PA.
