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On the Road Again: Life on the Craft Circuit |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Stephen Henkin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 3,192 Words, 19,268 Characters |
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Each year, thousands of craftspeople crisscross America in vans and mobile homes, selling their artworks at craft fairs both big and small. These "artists of the highway" pay their dues to bring their unique talents before the public, who not only reward them with on-the-spot purchases but provide them with valuable feedback about their work. The craft fair can be a dynamic, creative laboratory, where many a new idea is born in the exchange between an open-minded craft-stall operator and a potential customer with artistic opinions.
Last fall, the twenty-sixth annual Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was just such a craft mecca, gathering more than 575 of the nation's finest craftspeople and designers. On display were examples of ...
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...f only during retirement--might make the time to create, create, create.
Information on the Sugarloaf Craft Festivals can be accessed on the Internet at www.sugarloafcrafts.com. Internet access to artists discussed in this article is as follows: Ed Kidera (kidera(www.sugarloafcrafts.com/dustin.html), Deborah Martin and Preston Scott (didjguyeeper (www.sugarloafcrafts.com/sleeper.html).
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