{"id":7760,"date":"2012-04-13T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2012-04-13T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:40:15","slug":"50th-annual-art-fair-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"50th Annual Art Fair Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"friendsoflibrarylogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo.gif 180w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/friendsoflibrarylogo-150x75.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Press Release Posted 4\/13\/12<\/em><strong> &#8211;<\/strong> The 50th annual Friends of the Sierra Madre Library\u2019s art fair will be held in Memorial Park, 222 West Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, on Saturday, May 5, from 9:30AM to 6:00PM and Sunday, May 6, from 9:30AM to 5:00PM.\u00a0 More than 80 artists will be displaying and selling their fine arts during the weekend.\u00a0 Mediums include oil paintings, jewelry, water colors, glass, wood, metal, photography, pottery, ceramics, mixed media, and hand woven baskets and rugs.\u00a0 The Art Fair will be the perfect place to find that unique Mother\u2019s Day, graduation, or wedding gift and to find art that you will be proud to wear or display in your home.<\/p>\n<p>Live music will be featured throughout the weekend in the band shell and on the south lawn and a food court will offer a variety of food and drinks provided by local non-profit groups as well as food vendors.\u00a0 For the children, the Creative Arts Group has planned a fun and imaginative craft activity on Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm.<\/p>\n<p>A new feature of this year\u2019s fair will be a silent auction.\u00a0 So far, forty of the artists who are displaying and selling their creations at this year\u2019s fair have donated lovely, one-of-a-kind pieces for the auction which means that you\u2019ll have a chance to bid on some really beautiful artwork.<\/p>\n<p>So come early and stay all day.\u00a0 Browse through the wonderful displays of artwork, sit on the lawn and listen to music, have a little lunch, check on your silent auction bids, and then go back and purchase those lovely pieces of art that have been calling your name ever since you spotted them.\u00a0\u00a0 Proceeds from the Art Fair benefit the Sierra Madre Library.\u00a0 For more information, visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrelibraryfriends.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.sierramadrelibraryfriends.org<\/strong><\/a> or call 626 355-7186.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Posted 4\/13\/12 &#8211; The 50th annual Friends of the Sierra Madre Library\u2019s art fair will be held in Memorial Park, 222 West Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, on Saturday, May 5, from 9:30AM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[12,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}