Sanibel Fine Art Festival

From Sanibel Fine Art Festival Website:

SATURDAY 10-5
FEB. 13, 2016
SUNDAY 9-4
FEB. 14, 2016

The Sanibel Island Arts and Craft Fair is a much-anticipated yearly event in southwest Florida that begin in 1984 through the Sanibel-Captiva Rotary Club. It started as a Pancake Breakfast, which is a fairly common fundraiser for Rotary Clubs everywhere. In 1981 George Brauch and Jack Slagle spent $550, bought two grills, and rented out the Sanibel Community House to hold the annual pancake event. But over the course of the next couple of years, the two men were fielding many requests from local artists to exhibit their work during breakfast. So, being the innovators that Rotarians are, the club decided in 1984 that an Arts and Crafts show would take place during the fundraiser. In 1985, the event was expanded to two days, and by 1986 we had stopped selling pancakes all together, and the Fair had become the major fundraiser for the club!