festivals Photo: Nicole Hamel
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n 1975, Mount Dora led the charge to promote visual arts in the area when a group of art lovers put together a small event in the historic downtown. It was beyond anyone’s dreams that more than four decades later the event would be one of the best-loved and largest fine arts festivals in the nation. Mount Dora has become known as “Festival City” with good reason,
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as other municipalities around Lake County began imitating the successful arts festival model. Juried art shows in several communities—as well as arts and crafts fairs—have made Lake County a premier arts festival destination for artists, visitors, and art lovers. No matter where you are in Lake County, there’s bound to be an art show near you.
Photo: Nicole Hamel
Lake County festivals
