GLAA to host art fair

The Geneva Lake Art Association’s 33rd annual Fine Art Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Flatiron Park.

Free parking and a free shuttle will be available from the Office Max and Petco parking lot at Highway 50 and Edwards Boulevard. The show will feature ceramic pottery, fiber, glass, graphics, jewelry, metal, multi-media, pencil and pastels, photography, oil and acrylic painting, sculpture, wood and watercolor painting.

Eighty-one professional artists will be juried in to the show. The judge is Lucy Tonyan, artist and instructor at The Studio Art School in McHenry, Ill. Tonyan will select the award winners, including Best of Show, which will be awarded $500, and five Merit Awards, which will receive $200 each and a gem donated by Chinawest Jewelers of Lake Geneva.

A GLAA members’ tent will be set up in which association members will exhibit their artwork. The event also will feature a kids’ tent sponsored by the Neal Heffernan Foundation and the Lake Geneva Rotary; food and beverage tents supported by Lake Geneva Troop 239 Boy Scouts; and musical performances throughout the day in the gazebo.

The musical performance schedule is:

• 11 a.m to noon Saturday – Geneva Strings with director Pam Kundert;

• 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. Saturday – Tom Stanfield with piano, vocals, trumpet and fluegel horn;

• 2:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday – singer, songwriter and guitarist Tracy Beck;

• 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday – The Flute Lade, Su Ash Gustafson;

• 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday – vocalist John Ludy Puleo;

• 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday – Dolce Consonant Choir with director Pam Kundert.

Caribou Coffee will provide coffee to art participants on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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