PORT TOWNSEND — The 29th annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair will take over the Port Townsend Community Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday.
Port Townsend Arts Guild’s juried arts and crafts fair will be at the center at 620 Tyler St.
All three floors will be full of handmade crafts by Pacific Northwest artists.
Local student musicians will perform downstairs in the gym, where there also will be many more crafts.
Booth fees will go toward scholarships for Jefferson County students majoring in the arts. The artists donate a portion of each sale to the Jefferson County Food Bank, as they have done for the past 27 years. In 2018 the fair raised $3,600 for the food bank.
Artists from all over Jefferson County, Sequim, Port Angeles, Tacoma, Seattle, Arlington, Shelton and Portland, Ore., will participate.
Among the goods to be found at the fair will be handwoven rugs and clothing, gold and silver jewelry set with semi-precious gems, leather belts, purses, photography, sculptural jewelry, turned bowls, Damascus steel kitchen and hunting knives, turned pens, felted animals, stoneware, porcelain and earthenware pottery.
Also enameled art jewelry, a variety of woodwork, painted silk scarves, nuno felted scarves, capes and clothing, hand-knit items from alpaca wool, fleece clothing, baskets made from seaweed, 4H kitty toys, sweaters, watercolors, lampworked beads and paperweights, vintage style aprons, children’s clothing, hand-bound leather journals, pine needle baskets, mosaic and fused glass sculptural work, painted floor cloths, oil paintings, David Michael’s harp music and CDs.
For more information about the guild, which has been self-supporting for more than 48 years, see www.porttownsendartsguild.org, call 360-774-6544 or email ptartsguild@yahoo.com.
