For anyone looking for the best in fine art and craft arrays that originate from the mountains, the Church Street Art and Craft Show is a must go, running from the morning of October 9, a Saturday, from 10 in the morning to five in the evening in Downtown Waynesville.

The art and craft show comes when the color season is very high in the Great Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge, attracting a minimum of twenty thousand visitors. There will be artists and crafters, all more than 120, plus food vendors lining the Main Street of Waynesville on the Southeast, helping in celebrating the festival.
The event started as just a small coming together of art and craft individuals on Church Street, growing into the echelons of one of the best and finest shows held in a single day in the area of Western North Carolina.

The show is juried and comes once every year, this time being its 27th time, displaying 2 &3 dimensional arts. The art in the show includes acrylic, colored pencil, pastels, watercolor, pottery, basketry, warble art, handmade jewelry, and woodworking, sculptor, quilting and weaving.

The Church Street Art and Craft Show will feature demonstrations of arts and crafts, local and international foods and professional mountain dance and music. The entertainment will include Balsam Range, Whitewater Bluegrass, Montreat Drums and Pipes, Honey Holler, Dixie Darlings, Southern Appalachian Cloggers, Ashegrove Garland Dancers, Green Valley Cloggers, Balloon Man (Mr. Tom), Living Statue, Randy Orwig and Fines Creek Flatfooters.

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