Holiday Crafts Sale at UCSD
Dec. 4-6 Offers One-of-a-Kind Items from
Ceramics and Jewelry to Christmas Ornaments

November 21, 2007

By Jan Jennings

The 35th annual Holiday Crafts Sale, featuring ceramics, blown glass, jewelry, and Christmas ornaments, will be held December 4-6 in the Crafts Center at the University of California, San Diego.

The one-of-a-kind items are created by UCSD faculty members, instructors, staff, students, and community members who have taken classes at the Crafts Center. The glass and ceramic work runs the gamut from functional ware, such as bottles, vases, plates, and bowls, to more non-traditional, sculptural forms. The jewelry items are cast and constructed from a variety of precious metals and adorned with beads and semi-precious stones.

More than 50 crafts persons will be represented. All work will be for sale.

“The basic requirement is that the items be hand-made,” says Ron Carlson, director of the Crafts Center. “Traditionally, there is such a wide variety of works that there is virtually something for every one, for every taste.”

The Crafts Center at UCSD offers a wide range of classes – taught by some of San Diego’s top artists/crafts persons – in everything from glass, clay and jewelry to weaving, photography, graphics and metal work.

The Holiday Crafts Sale will be held at the Crafts Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 4, 5, and 6. A preview sale will be held Dec. 3 from 2 to 6 p.m. The Crafts Center is located in the Student Center, on the bottom deck of the Grove Caffe, on UCSD’s Revelle College campus off Eucalyptus Grove Lane. Directions and parking information are available at the Gilman Drive information center at the entrance to the campus.

For more information about the sale or the Crafts Center, call (858) 534-2021, or visit the website at http://www-crafts.ucsd.edu

 

Media Contacts:
Ron Carlson, Crafts Center director, (858) 534-2021
Jan Jennings, (858) 822-1684