The Coffee County Arts Alliance will host the 44th Annual Piney Woods Art Festival on Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8, on the running track of Enterprise State Community College.

The Piney Woods Arts Festival is one of the oldest juried arts and crafts shows in the area,” said Ginny Canon, CCAA marketing. “The festival will feature around 100 artists, a children’s fun center, food and entertainment.”

Special events for this year’s Piney Woods Arts Festival are a Civil War Living Display and the Weevil City Cruisers Car and Truck Show. Admission is free.

Canon said this year’s festival is dedicated to Duane Larson, a bird carver who has been an artist at Piney Woods since 1985.

“Duane estimates he has carved more than 2,000 birds,” she said.

Canon said, as always, this year Pine Wood Arts Festival has an outstanding lineup of artists that create a variety of handcrafted jewelry, pottery and artwork in a variety of mediums, functional and decorative wood items and toys.

Jarrod Alberich, a “Yard Sale Artist’ and comic book creator, will be among the participating artists as will Mark Caldwell who creates copper insects, frogs, hummingbirds, fish and flower.

Lindsay Farms will be on the festival grounds with Southern gourmet food products,

Festival hours are from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 7, and from noon until 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 8.