Upcoming Events at Highlander Park
Description
Festival attendees will have the opportunity to shop the work of over 200 artists and makers who work with an array of mediums from jewelry, fiber, glass, and ceramics to photography, watercolor, and mixed media.
Event Details
Dunedin, Fla. (Aug. 20, 2019) —The 56th Annual Junior League of Clearwater Dunedin (JLCD) Art Harvest will be held in Highlander Park, Dunedin at 903 Michigan Blvd Dunedin, FL. The art festival will take place on Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. However, donations are appreciated. Parking at the event is $5.00. Funds raised during the event supports JLCD’s mission of promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community with the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
Festival attendees will have the opportunity to shop the work of over 200 artists and makers who work with an array of mediums from jewelry, fiber, glass, and ceramics to photography, watercolor, and mixed media. JLCD Art Harvest will also feature a juried art show in which artists will compete for over $27,000 in prize money and awards in 13 categories including Ceramics, Digital, Fiber, Glass, Graphics, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Oil/Acrylic, Photography, Sculpture, Watercolor and Wood.
The featured artist this year is Leslie Peebles. Peebles received a BA in Studio Art at Newcomb College, in New Orleans, Louisiana and completed an MFA in Art Education at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida. She has had her work on display at a number of Florida art exhibitions and art galleries such as High Tide Art Gallery, in Saint Augustine, Thomas Center Galleries, in Gainesville, and the Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville.
About the Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin
The Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin is 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community with the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively education and charitable. More information on the organization can be found at www.jlcd.org
Festival attendees will have the opportunity to shop the work of over 200 artists and makers who work with an array of mediums from jewelry, fiber, glass, and ceramics to photography, watercolor, and mixed media. JLCD Art Harvest will also feature a juried art show in which artists will compete for over $27,000 in prize money and awards in 13 categories including Ceramics, Digital, Fiber, Glass, Graphics, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Oil/Acrylic, Photography, Sculpture, Watercolor and Wood.
The featured artist this year is Leslie Peebles. Peebles received a BA in Studio Art at Newcomb College, in New Orleans, Louisiana and completed an MFA in Art Education at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida. She has had her work on display at a number of Florida art exhibitions and art galleries such as High Tide Art Gallery, in Saint Augustine, Thomas Center Galleries, in Gainesville, and the Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville.
About the Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin
The Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin is 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community with the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively education and charitable. More information on the organization can be found at www.jlcd.org
