Michael M. Rogers, whose painting “Wayah Bald Winter Road” is shown here, is a featured artist at the Hard Candy Christmas Arts and Crafts show, Nov. 28 and 29 at WCU’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center.

The 21st annual Hard Candy Christmas Arts and Crafts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, November 28, and Saturday, November 29, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.

Approximately 100 fine artists and master crafters will offer a wide assortment of heritage and contemporary items, including functional and whimsical pottery pieces; fused glass; Christmas ornaments; wire-wrapped jewelry; gourd art; quilts and dolls; soaps and sweets; wooden boxes, platters and bowls; Appalachian brooms and rustic furniture; and heirloom rocking horses and wooden toys.

The Hard Candy Christmas show recalls simpler times, when the holidays were celebrated with an apple, an orange and a piece of hard candy in the stocking, and many gifts were handmade. From its 1987 beginning, Hard Candy has grown into Western North Carolina’s largest Christmas arts and crafts show, held each year on the weekend following Thanksgiving.

Admission is $3, with children 12 and younger admitted free. Parking is free.  For a complete list of exhibitors, visit www.mountainartisans.net. For more information, call (828) 524-3405 or e-mail djhunter@dnet.net.

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