by Noella Noelophile®
(Graphic courtesy of San Pedro Art Association, and used with permission.)
You’re walking down the street, when something festive catches your eye.
In a parking lot are tables, covered with white cloths and decorated with garlands, greenery and Christmas ornaments.
As you get closer, you see a table on which sterling-silver handcrafted necklaces dangle from gilded branches. Handmade rag dolls of varying sizes smile from a second table. The third is covered with pencil drawings that evoke street scenes, animals and people in just a few deft lines.
Further along, a woman has set up an easel. Deftly, she mixes colors. As her brush moves, a seascape comes to life.
This moment of reverie has been brought to you by San Pedro Art Association. But you don’t have to limit it to your imagination.
Today, Sunday, December 2, SPAA hosts a “Holiday Craft Fair and Harbor Interfaith Toy Drive”, in the B of A parking lot on Pacific Avenue, near 10th Street in San Pedro.
Here’s your chance to find unique handcrafted gifts for all the special people on your Christmas list. As well as to help make a child’s Christmas magical, by bringing a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Harbor Interfaith Services.
As mentioned in earlier posts, San Pedro Art Association has been serving artists, and the arts, since 1936. Every summer, they host a “Harbor Wide All Grades Student Art Competition” for the local schools. (Every entrant receives art supplies, there are prizes for the top winners, and the students’ work is professionally framed and displayed at CRAFTED!) They also offer classes and monthly “First Thursday” free guided art walks.
And here’s an early Christmas gift: SPAA is now planning to offer craft fairs on a regular basis! Starting in 2019, they’ll host three a year, according to SPAA Secretary Bill Boisselle-Schalaba! (They held their first one this past spring, and it was great!)
San Pedro Art Association’s “Holiday Craft Fair and Harbor Interfaith Toy Drive” happens Sunday, December 2, from 10 am to 5 pm in the B of A parking lot at 951 South Pacific Avenue (near 10th Street) in San Pedro. Admission is free.