As part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, we’re proud to announce California Rising: Beauty By Hand.

This craft fair, taking place at Palos Verdes Art Center from Saturday August 22 through Sunday August 23, is an important, local voice in this year’s semiquincentennial celebration, Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026. It was organized by a small but dedicated group of Southern Californian craft professionals and artists, to include Californian craftspeople from all corners of this great state.

PARTICIPATING CRAFT ARTISTS:

PAUL BRAYTON, ADRIAN SANDSTROM, ANNE OLSEN DAUB, LISETTE THIERY, BEANIE KAMAN, DA AIE PARK, JOAN ROBEY, REGINA VORGANG, JOAN TAKAYAMA-OGAWA, LESLIE ROSDOL, KATHLEEN KLEIN-WAKEFIELD, MICHAEL F. ROHDE, CHERYL ANN THOMAS, CARRIE BURCKLE, MEREDITH STRAUSS, BARBARA DANZI, RACHEL SHIMPOCK, JOSHUA SALTMAN, ELAINE HYDE, BILL MEEK, PEGGY SIVERT, HAROLD GREENE, MONA & ALEX SZABADOS, TZIPORA HOYNIK, MARIANNE AND BILL HUNTER, DEBORAH CROSS, RANDY STROMSOE, ROBERT MILLER, ERIC SILVA, AUDREY JUNG, SUZI CLICK, VALERIE MITCHELL, THE WORK OF MICHAEL NORMAN BAYES, TERRY DE CASTRO, MICHAEL FREITAS WOOD, AND CINDY KEEFER