NEW IBERIA, La. --- The Shadows-on-the-Teche Fall Arts and Crafts Fair will take place in the Shadows gardens on Sat., Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Vendors from around Louisiana, including the L’Acadian Art Guild, will display and sell their original work. A variety of hand-crafted products will be available for sale, and just in time for you to start your holiday shopping. 

Original art and woodwork, handmade jewelry, and candles make perfect gifts for friends and family. Children’s clothing, bows, headbands, and dolls are great stocking stuffers for little ones. Homemade preserves, jellies, salsa, and oils are just the things for those on your list that have everything else.

Admission to the fair is $5 for ages 13 and over, and free for anyone 12 and under. Food and dessert vendors will also offer tempting choices. Once you’ve shopped ‘til you dropped, take a short walk to Bouligny Plaza for the first day of the World Championship Gumbo Cookoff. Come spend the day in downtown New Iberia with your family and friends while supporting local artists, craftsmen, and Shadows-on-the-Teche.

About Shadows-on-the-Teche:

The Shadows-on-the-Teche, National Trust for Historic Preservation site, opened to the public in 1961 with the mission to preserve the buildings, landscape, collections, and historical integrity of the site; to research and interpret through education programs a 19th century southern Louisiana plantation economy and community and their evolution; and to encourage an appreciation of and interest in historic preservation.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which owns and operates the Shadows-on-the-Teche, is a private, non-profit organization. The Shadows does not receive funding from federal, state, parish, or city government. The site supports itself through admissions, special programs and events, and donations to the Friends of the Shadows.

For additional information, contact Jayd Buteaux, Senior Manager of Operations & Marketing, at (337)-369-6446 or at by email. Any funds raised from this event will be used for the continued preservation and maintenance of The Shadows.