Excited to start holiday shopping but don’t know where to begin? Come to CRAFTS AT PURCHASE, October 31st and November 1st, 2015. This unique fine craft event features 100 elite artists and offers the first look at outstanding one-of-a –kind items. Collectors, art enthusiasts and discerning gift shoppers will enjoy the exclusive opportunity to meet these exceptional makers and purchase their latest work.
Crafts at Purchase, Westchester County’s only indoor fine craft show, is set creatively on the stage and in the lobbies of the award winning Performing Arts Center at Purchase College and is a benefit for this world-class arts venue. The show will include inventive one-of-a-kind and limited edition jewelry, clothing and accessories, home decor pieces, as well as functional and sculptural works in ceramics, glass, metal, painting, photography, wood and mixed media some of which has never before been seen in Westchester. In addition, the popular Clay Art Center of Port Chester will present a pop-up show of artists-in-residence and invited artists.
Crafts at Purchase is directed by Artrider Productions the creators and producers of Crafts at Lyndhurst, Westchester's nationally acclaimed craft show series in Tarrytown, as well as several other of the nation's most successful fine craft shows such as the Rhinebeck Arts Festival, CraftBrooklyn, CraftWestport, and CraftMorristown. The event is being produced in conjunction with The Prompters, The Center's volunteer corps, and all proceeds from ticket sales will go to The Performing Arts Center.
Show hours are Saturday, October 31 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, November 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admission is $10 and includes free parking is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, just off Route 287 at Exit 8E, in Purchase, New York. For more information visit www.artrider.com or call 845-331-7900.
