WEEKEND — Port Townsend Art Guild’s Crafts by the Dock Fair this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Arts Guild will hold its 38th “Crafts by the Dock Fair” on Madison Street downtown and at the new Port Townsend Civic Plaza on Saturday and Sunday.

The fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

The show will include 54 artists from the North Olympic Peninsula, the Pacific Northwest and out of state.

Fair-goers will find glasswares, handmade furniture, handmade wood jewelry, rugs, pottery, hunting and kitchen knives, cedar-carvings, boat paintings, hammocks, beads, photography, laminated and carved wooden bracelets, toys and children’s clothes.

The Community Bowl Project will provide tables of blank bowls awaiting creative paint designs and bowls that are already painted that can be purchased, with all proceeds going to the Jefferson County Food Bank.

Musicians are welcome to play during the fair and put out the hat.

The Port Townsend Arts Guild is a self-supporting nonprofit arts organization funding art college scholarships and other cultural events, made possible by booth fees paid by the artists.

The arts guild donates $3,000 to $4,500 yearly to college-bound arts student from Jefferson County.

For more information, visit www.porttownsendartsguild.org or email ptartsguild@yahoo.com.

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