WHAT: "Texas Metal Arts - A Festival at Gruene"
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, September 13 & 14, 2008 from 10am-5pm both days
ADMISSION: FREE
From red-hot steel to polished gold, you will find a full range of imagination and craftsmanship in the artwork at the FIFTH ANNUAL TEXAS METAL ARTS - A FESTIVAL AT GRUENE. Artistic Metal Work including fine jewelry, decorative art pieces, sculpture, fun and funky garden pieces and functional objects will be presented at this art show and sale.
- Forty Texas Artists, including blacksmiths, bronze sculptors, tinsmiths, silversmiths, steel sculptors and goldsmiths will present their creations for your shopping pleasure.
- Ongoing demonstrations will reveal the wide range of intricate skills, techniques, and tricks used by metalworkers to transform raw metal into Fine Art, Jewelry, Furniture, Folk Art and Functional Everyday Objects. These demonstrations will include metal working processes that have been handed down through the ages, as well as materials and methods from the space age. From sophisticated to practical to radical, it will be a "Red Hot n' Hammered" weekend!
- Visitors will be able to watch the jewelers cut, form and assemble metal into wearable art, a blacksmith making functional objects with a hot forge, hammer and anvil, and sculptors cutting steel and assembling large works of art for the home or garden.
The Festival will be held in the heart of Gruene Historic District at New Braunfels, Texas, on the banks of the Guadalupe River. Be sure to visit the unique stores, dine at a variety of local restaurants, and kick up your heels at Gruene Hall, Texas' oldest dance hall. The E Flat Porch Band will play on the festival grounds both days. Gruene is located in New Braunfels just off IH 35. Take IH 35 to Exit 191 (Cayon Lake, FM 306), go west 1.5 miles and turn left at the traffic light on to Hunter Road and go one half mile to Gruene.
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