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Throughout the day, hundreds of people have been assembling booths, setting up lights, and carefully arranging their crafts at the Asheville Civic Center in preparation for The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands. The event features over 200 exhibitors, live regional music and demonstrations and runs through Sunday.
Photos by Michael Muller
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Here’s the text from the Smart Bet on the fair, in this week’s Xpress:
“Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is the grand dame of artisan expos, filling the Asheville Civic Center with 45,000 square feet and four days worth of crafts, crafters, exhibitors and demonstrations. Paper, metal, glass, leather, wood, jewelry, clay, fiber arts, mixed-media and natural materials will be represented. It’s a wonderful place to find lovely handcrafted pieces of all sorts, made with the quality the Guild artists necessarily represent. Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $7/free for children under 12. southernhighlandguild.org “