Thursday, May 21, 2026

Altadena Arts Collective Returns With Second Fair at Eagles Hall

The free June 6 event brings local artists, food and music to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, building on a post-fire inaugural gathering last fall

Three years after its founding, ALTA Arts Collective is doing what it set out to do: getting artists and neighbors in the same room.

The collective will hold its second art fair on Saturday, June 6, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall is a free, family-friendly gathering featuring a juried selection of local artists, food vendors, live music and interactive art activities, according to a press release from the organization. The event follows an inaugural fair at the same venue in October 2025 that ALTA described on its website as “a meaningful moment of reconnection” after the Eaton Fire.

That fire, which started January 7, 2025, destroyed more than 9,400 structures in Altadena and killed 19 people. In its wake, ALTA expanded its mission to include what the organization calls opportunities for “healing, expression, and togetherness” through art, according to the collective’s website.

The June fair will showcase artists working across a range of disciplines — fine art, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, woodwork, glasswork, metalwork, mixed media, fiber art and photography, among others — selected through a juried application process that gave priority to past and present Altadena artists, according to the call for artists posted on the collective’s website. Both indoor and outdoor booths will be available, with indoor spaces offering refreshments and cooling areas.

“There’s something incredibly powerful happening right now,” SukiMoonPie, the collective’s founder, said in the press release. “People are gathering again, making things again, reconnecting through creativity again. This fair is a celebration of that energy and of the artists helping shape Altadena’s creative future.”

SukiMoonPie, a self-taught mixed media and assemblage artist with a background in community organizing and work with unhoused and at-risk young adults, founded ALTA in 2023, according to the organization’s website. Nina Ehlig, who handles artist and community relations, co-founded the collective. Since then, ALTA has organized open studio tours across Altadena and Pasadena — a 17-location tour with 41 artists in October 2023, a 48-artist open studios event in June 2024, and an eight-studio tour featuring 31 artists in November 2024.

The Eagles Hall, which has operated on Woodbury Road since the 1950s, has recently hosted other post-fire community events, including comedy shows and a free outdoor marketplace in May as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Fest supporting Eaton Fire relief.

The ALTA Art Fair 2026 takes place Saturday, June 6, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. The fair will be held at the Fraternal Order of Eagles #719, 455 East Woodbury Road. Parking: street parking is available; the October 2025 fair at the same venue advertised free parking, but specific parking arrangements for the June event have not been confirmed by the organizer. For more information, call 626-604-6248 or visit altaartscollective.com.

The logs that burned 17 months ago are gone. What is growing back is not timber. It is the thing that happens when someone sets up a table, lays out what they have made, and waits for a neighbor to stop and look.