The Boatworks Marina Green, in the center of Tahoe City, will host a Fine Arts and Crafts Festival August 20-22. The festival will feature over 45 artisans and craftspeople showcasing a wide variety of arts and crafts including photography, oil paintings, ceramic vessels, jewelry and more.
 
Providing a unique venue for patrons to view original handmade creations while enjoying the outdoors, this free event take places over two weekends, August 13-15 and August 20-22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, at the Boatworks Marina Green in Tahoe City, an open grassy area overlooking Lake Tahoe between the Boatworks Mall and the Tahoe City Marina at 760 N. Lake Boulevard right off Highway 28.
 
Among this year’s featured artists is award-winning jeweler Meg Black-Smith of Nevada City who has been making jewelry for more than 20 years, bringing quality, professionalism and top-notch artwork to every show.  Meg uses gold and sterling silver to create her Victorian style pieces. By using precious metals and striking gemstones, Meg solders and casts the swirls of silver and gold into works of wearable art including rings, bracelets, earrings and pendants.
 
Dirk Yuricich of Stateline, Nevada will be showcasing a variety of photos that feature the Lake Tahoe area, available in a variety of sizes from note cards to large pieces.  This self taught photographer uses a 35 mm SLR camera to capture landscape images, wildlife, abstract, travel, photojournalistic and documentary images.  Dirk's passion is travel, so travel photography makes up a fairly large portion of the images you will see at the Festival including a collection of beyond-the-average-tourist view of Japan, a large selection of Europe, Ecuador and Bali photos, and of course beautiful Lake Tahoe/ mountain images.
 
Karen Colbert of Incline Village is one of Lake Tahoe’s most recognized artists, creating a variety of hand crafted functional quilts for the wall. Her unique twist of using color instead of complicated quilt patterns make her pieces stand apart visually from more traditional quilts. “My work forces the viewer to want to get a closer look, then step back to see the beauty of the whole piece,” says Karen. “The vibrancy of the colors makes you stop to look, whether you like fabric or not.”
 
Other artists participating include Bob and Paula Evans from Roseville, California with their nature photography; Sherri Kremer of Los Molinos, California showing her Vintage Swarovskian crystal jewelry; Jane Markham of Grass Valley, California displaying her handcrafted sustainable wood designs including furniture, boxes and vases, and Sharon Medler, who will be showing her variety of bright and vibrant oils and watercolors, including new pieces from Lake Tahoe.  
 
The event is presented by Boatworks Mall and Tahoe City Downtown Association. For more information about the Boatworks Marina Green Fine Arts and Crafts Festival, contact Pacific Fine Arts at (209) 267-4394, or visit www.pacificfinearts.com.