The St. James Art Fair has come a long way from buying gas lights in 1957 to presently being ranked the #1 Fine Art and Design Show in the country!!! This rating was made by the art fair industry standard, Sunshine Artist Magazine! Bill and I will be part of 750 artists and over the next few days we will be visited by some of the 200,000 shoppers! Just setting up on the streets housing huge Victorian homes takes us all day. We arrive very early on Thursday in order to get our car and trailer in to unload! But, we do it because there is not another art fair like this one! The artists are friendly, the art is spectacular and the artists travel from all over the world! During the first decade I was part of St. James I used to tell customers, "Come early on Friday before the crowd arrives!" But later teachers chose Friday as a holiday, so now Fridays are packed with customers too! As to parking, swing into any of the private pay parking lots and shorten your walk to the fair. If you happen to score a free street parking place, all the better! Wear good walking shoes and bring a water bottle and cell phone. Weather will be in the low 60's with no rain so its perfect for almost everyone! Hope to see you as you travel down Magnolia AV, between 3rd and 4th Streets! www.stjamescourtartshow.com
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