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, Carrie Burckle, Suzi Click, Deborah Cross, Terry de Castro, Anne Olsen Daub, Barbara Danzi, Harold Greene, Tzipora Hoynik, Marianne & Bill Hunter, Elaine Hyde, Audrey Jung, Beanie Kaman, Cindy Keefer, Kathleen Klein-Wakefield, Bill Meek, Robert Miller, Valerie Mitchell, Joan Robey, Michael F. Rohde, Leslie Rosdol, Adrian Sandstrom, Joshua Saltman, Eric Silva, Peggy Sivert, Rachel Shimpock, Meredith Strauss, Randy Stromsoe, Alex & Mona Szabados, Lisette Thierry, Cheryl Ann Thomas, Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Da Aie Park, Regina Vorgang, Michael Freitas Wood

Read about HANDWORK 2026, presented by Craft in America, HERE

See the artists’ work in California Rising at beautybyhand.net