By Todd Martens
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES—The Sawdust Art Festival started in the mid-1960s as a reaction to—or a “rebellion,” as one of the participating artists put it—Laguna Beach’s more uppity Festival of the Arts, home to the long-running living-pictures show known as the Pageant of the Masters. Today, it’s a professionally-run affair, a place to hang and drink and dine as much as it is to explore handmade art.
