Brookfield Craft Center 34th Annual Holiday Sale Begins October 31
Brookfield Craft Center 34th Annual Holiday Sale Begins October 31
BROOKFIELD â Where can holiday shoppers find unique handmade gifts of lasting value, made exclusively by American artists, while they explore three floors of a charming, Colonial-vintage restored grist mill overlooking a river and waterfall?
The answer, says Richard Herrmann, executive director of Brookfield Craft Center, is at the craft centerâs 34th Annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale. The highly anticipated event will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sundays from noon to 5 pm, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The sale will continue until December 31.
The national profile non-profit school hosts this popular event every year.
The legendary Holiday Sale spans a tradition that began in 1975, when a handful of artists sold their work for just one weekend. Now, 34 years later, the event showcases the work of more than 200 artists from across the country, and runs a full eight weeks. It has grown to become one of the largest and longest running retail exhibitions of handmade American craft in the Northeast.
For the holiday shopping season, the Craft Center will again transform its vintage mill building into a pleasant un-mall-like atmosphere. The holiday sale attracts several thousand visitors from across the Northeast, who travel to the Craft Center to actively support American craft, and to purchase affordable heirloom quality gifts, festive holiday decorations, and special tableware for holiday entertaining.
Shoppers can spend hours exploring three floors of unique handcrafted gift items, from pottery to jewelry, turned wood to blown glass including ornaments, functional and decorative artwork for the home, stocking stuffers and wearable art.
Shoppers not only acquire distinctive and affordable gifts, they also provide income for participating artists, and lend important support for the Craft Centerâs educational programs. Classes and workshops are offered year-round, and talented faculty members from around the country teach traditional and contemporary craft skills to total beginners and experienced professionals alike. Gift certificates are available for any class or workshop, and can add a wonderfully creative spark to holiday gift-giving.
Faculty members will demonstrate their skills on December 12-13 in the glass and woodturning studios, housed in a renovated railroad station on campus. Shoppers will have a unique opportunity that weekend to see how some of the pieces are made, and can provide an interesting story to enhance their gift.
Brookfield Craft Centerâs campus is at 286 Whisconier Road (Route 25), just east of the âFour Cornersâ intersection with 7/202, a few miles north of Danbury off exits 7 or 9 of Interstate 84.
For more information, visit BrookfieldCraftCenter.org or call 775-4526.