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Here are almost 20 Lawrence-area opportunities to shop local and support artists, farmers and small businesses this holiday season, starting with this weekend.
Art in the Park, which began as an event to showcase local artists, is now a two-day event with more than 125 artists from across the country, food trucks with both savory and sweet treats, and live music.
The Lawrence Art Guild invites you to stroll through South Park on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 14 and 15, where more than 130 artists will be exhibiting their work.
Wendy and David Vertačnik are both well known in the community as accomplished artists and for their long careers as arts educators. The public will have a chance to see their studio, rebuilt after the 2019 tornado, this weekend.
Kyla Strid, a ceramicist who makes pots inspired by small everyday observations, will be opening her studio May 4-5 during the Lawrence Art Guild’s Art Spaces.
Artists across Lawrence will welcome the public to their studios during the Lawrence Art Guild’s open studio event, Art Spaces, coming up Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5.
The Lawrence Art Guild’s annual Holiday Art Fair this year will feature fine art and crafts from 23 Guild member artists.
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The long-running tradition of the Lawrence Art Guild’s Art in the Park continued Saturday, with more than 100 artists and creators at South Park to sell their works.
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More than 150 artists will display their work Saturday and Sunday for Art in the Park, one of the Lawrence Art Guild’s biggest annual shows.
“The Lawrence Art Guild invites you to Art Spaces, our first open studios event!” Maria S. Martin writes. “Art Spaces is an opportunity for artists to open their studios, homes, or alternate display locations to the public in Lawrence and in Douglas County.”
