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Sawdust lines the walkways at the aptly named Sawdust Art Festival, which marks its 60th anniversary this year. Photo courtesy of Sawdust Art Festival
Both marking their 60th anniversaries this year, Sawdust Art Festival and Laguna Art-A-Fair share an intertwined history.
Back in the mid-1960s, traditionalist artists were finding it difficult to gain exhibition space at the renowned Festival of Arts, a juried show in Laguna Beach, as trends moved away from representational pieces in Southern California...
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