Butler's popular holiday fine arts sale continues Sunday

YOUNGSTOWN

If you ask Ruth Jennings how she feels about Christmas, she might say that the holiday is more than it’s cracked up to be.

“I just fell in love with it,” said Jennings, owner of Alcraft Egg Artistry LLC of Brookfield, referring to her passion for decorating real eggshells. “It’s addictive.”

Only strategically placed cracks, however, can be found on Jennings’ decorative eggshells, numerous sizes and shapes of which she uses to make everything from vases on rotating stands to a ballerina.

She also is one of more than 100 local, regional and out-of-state artisans, crafters and other vendors taking part in the 41st annual American Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Show and Sale, which got under way Saturday at the Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., on the city’s North Side.

The two-day event continues from

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at The Butler.

The show, which is a fundraiser for the museum’s education department, also kicks off Christmas in the city and is intended to give vendors a chance to show and sell their work, noted Kathy Earnhart, the Butler’s public-relations director.

For more on the vendors and the show, read Sunday's Vindicator or Vindy.com.