The American Art Festivals with Warren Cook as the show's producer has been putting on art shows from he year 1998. One of the best ever in quality and variety, the American Art Festivals is organized almost all over America especially in the fall and the winter. Returning with more than 200 of America's best contemporary craftspeople and fine artists and each offering more than 15,000 original works, people from all over the world come out here to buy or also just graze in wonder at all this magnificent art pieces. Taking place in different parts of the country, this special art event have become not only the premier art and craft shows, but are also developing into some of the top art festivals in the county.
The American Art Festivals are acclaimed by exhibitors and attendees alike as among the highest-quality contemporary craft and fine art events presented in the West. In this Art Festivals in America, unlike many other fairs, is strictly juried with exhibitors selected for the originality and quality of their work. All the visitors visiting have the rare opportunity to actually interact with the talented artists and craftspeople that have come from across the nation. Some of the exhibitors even go to the extent of demonstrating how they make their unique items. Basically, the American Art Festivals creates a forum thus making it possible for all present to intermingle and know each others work better.
What is more is that, one will be able to watch the artists work there with their crafts. The ceramic artists for instance displays their stoneware, porcelain or raku works, presenting clay creations ranging from functional hand-thrown plates, cups, tea sets and vases, to whimsical sculptures and hand-made tile tables. The woodworkers each specializing in the carving, turning or laminating of a variety of domestic or exotic woods, offer works as jewelry boxes, salad bowls, candlesticks, lamps, tables, and chairs. The sculptor's exhibit works ranging from bronzes that fit on the mantle to giant welded assemblages appropriate for the yard.
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In fine art, the painters can be seen working in watercolors, oils, pastels, and acrylics and showing traditional and modern, landscape and still life, portrait and abstract, animal and floral, whimsical and surrealistic, originals and limited-edition prints. Even intricate jewelries adorn one side of the American Art Festivals. Artists working with gold and silver, enamel and fabric, precious and semi-precious gemstones offering earrings and pendants, bracelets and
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brooches, rings and necklaces, constructed or cast, forged or fused, simple or elaborate are all made out here.
For more information on the Summer Festivals in Europe, log on to the index page World Festivals.
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