Sawdust Art Festival
sawdust art festival also known sawdust sawdust festival art festival held annually late june august laguna beach california festival feature handicraft well traditional fine art nonjuried exhibitor required laguna beach resident visitor attend year sawdust also host annual winter fantasy art fair midnovember december open nonresident exhibitor sawdust art festival annual art festival held laguna beach california end june end august also “sawdust winter fantasy” festival running weekend midnovember december open nonresident exhibitor nonjuried art festival laguna sawdust display painting sculpture printmaking photography glass ceramic jewelry woodwork furniture textile clothing mixed medium festival also feature glassblowing demonstration ceramic center art workshop childrens art booth outdoor cafe saloon variety live musical entertainment festival drawing visitor year group hippietype artist dissatisfied nearby laguna beach festival art foa jury system viewed rigged part establishment group held first exhibit vacant peacock lot near park avenue laguna called reject festival medium foa group held second showing kronquist lot north laguna festival moved present threeacre site laguna canyon road across street established foa location sawdust artist began building wildly conceived mostly woodbuilt quasidwellings heavy rustic theme two alike also built wooden fortlike gate spread sawdust wood chip onto bare ground festival early day carnival atmosphere streaker religious fanatic preaching amid booth sparsely attended admission initially free raised cent early “only local came chant preach rather look” according early exhibitor attendance grew reached peak early mids homemade booth gate sawdust remained festival became respectable attendance fell around sawdust spent new front facade mockup nearby hotel laguna three laguna building later sawdust management erected permanent bavarian style facade sawdust “benevolence fund” started nonprofit organization assisting artist living laguna beach “suffered catastrophic event making unable work fund hold yearly fundraiser late sawdust becoming bigger tourist attraction festival art festival acquired professional management charging admission visitor season new artist allowed exhibit laguna beach resident sawdust joined laguna two festival offering one admission ticket three event also several artistexhibitors festival since early day include doug miller nikki grant dion wright david nelson thereafter saw strict measure covid pandemic including wearing mask enforcing social distancing sawdust art festival