Jackalope Art Fair 2026 — Old Pasadena

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You turn a ceramic mug over and find a thumbprint fired into the bottom, where somebody held it before the kiln — and it occurs to you that you have spent your whole adult life buying objects with no history in them.

Two hundred artisans, every one of them juried in: potters, jewelers, printmakers, woodworkers, textile artists, all selling work they made with their hands at prices a normal person can actually pay. This is not the craft market where every booth sells the same wholesale candle. Admission is free on purpose, because the model is artists selling directly to you rather than a ticketed experience selling access to artists. Live music. Food trucks. And the specific quality of light Pasadena gets on a September afternoon.

Central Park on South Raymond Ave in Old Pasadena, free to walk in.

Go with the friend who keeps saying they will start making pottery. They will leave with supplies. You will leave with something somebody else already finished.