Explore 200 artisan shops filled with precious handmade gifts like blown glass, leather goods and jewelry. Watch as artisans create masterpieces right before your eyes!
Just East of Apache Junction on U.S. Highway 60 in Gold Canyon, AZ., lies a world filled with Renaissance-themed amusement that happens only once per year. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it was like to travel back to a time when jousting knights on horseback were commonplace, visit the 38th annual Arizona Renaissance Festival!
The Arizona Renaissance Festival is celebrating from January 31 through March 29 each Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Engage in tomfoolery, feasting, tricks, and thrills that’ll be sure to leave ALL of your senses fully engaged and satisfied. It’s the ultimate non-stop, day-long family adventure.
1. Purchase beautiful woodwork from Goodly Woods
Sip from this unique tankard with a malachite inlay during your next gathering with family and friends, and it will surely spark conversation.
2. Honorable Company of Metalsmiths
Discover creative metalsmithing works such as this gold-plated armillary sphere that will make an eye-catching addition to your home decor.
3. Take a peek through colorful stained glass from Draecstone Glass
Look through this beautiful piece of handmade stained glass and get a glimpse into an entirely different world.
4. Blonde Swan Hats
With a background in theatrical design, our designers are reinventing the art of hat-making and have already created over 150 original designs inspired by both historical and newly imagined shapes.
5. Make a splash with a distinctive fountain from Copper Garden
Turn heads in your neighborhood and add a special touch to your home with a handmade copper fountain.
6. Apothacoffee
Apothacoffee Roasting Co, coffee from all corners of the globe, delivering nothing but the best quality. We pride ourselves in offering blends and origins not found everywhere. Enjoy every sip.
7. Raven’s Glass
Raven’s Glass is a torch-worked glass studio with over 25 years of experience shaping molten glass into works of art. Since 2008, the focus has been on hand-made glass marbles—each one a small world of color, depth, and motion.
8. Touch a colorfully delicate silk scarf from Feather Tree Silk
All Feather Tree Silk scarves are hand painted feature eye-pleasing intricate designs ranging from dragons to various other medieval themes.
9. Crow Nouveau
Purveyors of pretty shiny things created from glass, copper and natural elements.
10. The Horn Shoppe
The Horn Shoppe – While horns can look very similar at a distance, up close, each one is distinct and unique. High- quality hand-made drinking, blowing, and combination horns.
11. Purchase a delicate piece of jewelry from Fleur du Jour
Known for her Victorian era rose pendants, owner and self-taught artist Betty St. Clair, beautifully crafts each one of her pieces for approximately $78 each.
Other incredible vendors this year include: House of Bubbles, Pixie Point, Gypsy Eyes, Whirlwood Magic Wands, Travelers’ Treasures, Arizona Birds of Play, Majestic Hair Flowers, Sterling Toe Rings, Medieval Mapmaker,Wylde Phoenix Leather, Mythologicae, Clay Maiden, Elf Ears, The Rabbit Hero, Bad Badger Horns, Caina Tea, Fairytale Fynery, Gypsy Fortunetelling, Cinnamon Almonds, We’re Knot Working, Mahamudra Body Art, Knotty Lady, Lofton’s Caricatures, Black Dragon, The Bard’s Musik Shoppe, Crystal Underground, Moonbeams, Dreamstress and Oakshire Oddities.
Before you head to the faire, visit Arizona.RenFestInfo.com or call 520.463.2600 to get all of the information you need.
