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Event Preview: Art on Millionaire's Row

The event, which is this Saturday, features arts and crafts displays and vendors, live music, and food vendors.

This Saturday will be the second annual event, which will feature an array of local artist displays, crafts vendors, live music, and food.

The event takes its name from its location at the Altadena Library on Mariposa Street.  The area was home to many mansions in the late 19th Century, some of which still stand today.  The name was suggested by local historian Michele Zack, according to Michel Choban, one of the event's organizers.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and has free admission.  We've one of the artists, Ken Jones, a local Altadena artist  who photographs old faded commercial signs in towns across the county and digitally transforms their setting to come up with a unique view of the site.

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Choban sent us the following list of what to expect at Saturday's event:

1. An exhibition of art, all for sale, in the library building itself. There will be a juried competition, with prizes awarded. The twenty-five to thirty pieces include ceramics, art glass, oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel landscapes and nature studies, sculpture, and digital and film photography. On Friday, from 6 to 9, an artists reception will be held in the library .  All of the artists are from Altadena or surrounding communities, including Pasadena, South Pasadena, Monrovia, LaCanada, San Marino, and Covina.

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2.About forty artists and craftspeople will be selling their work in booths on the library grounds. Objects and materials include jewelry, ceramics, gourd art, art glass, clothing, paintings, sculpture, quilts and other fabric art, wood carvings, and photography.

3. Live music will play all day long on the grounds. We will start with the Eliot School orchestra playing light classical music, followed by the Pasadena High School Jazz Ensemble (we're very happy about getting our students in on this). Other musicians will include Celtic harpists, guitar players, and singers of folk, popular standard, and torch songs. In addition, there will be "wandering minstrels" roving the grounds and playing as inspired.

4. A special children's art project, with materials and instructions provided.

5.An exhibition of works of art based on books, featuring actual (deaccessioned) books made into artworks. Many of the Salon exhibitors have agreed to create special pieces for this part of the show.

6.Food vendors, mostly local favorites, selling fried chicken, Louisiana-style sausages, tamales (Salvadorean style), salads, sandwiches, fruit cups, pastries, cookies, cupcakes, and ice cream, and hot and cold coffee drinks and smoothies.


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