Unless a suitable facility can be found for the right price, the annual Arts Alive art show, the longest-running arts event in Mill Creek, will not take place this year.

Last fall, the Foundation for the Arts in Mill Creek, the sponsoring nonprofit organization, moved the event to North Creek Presbyterian Church on 164th Street Southeast after several years at the Mill Creek Country Club. But the church location didn’t work out as well as foundation members wanted.

“Everybody thought it was a fundraiser for the church,” said foundation member Marlene King. “Our sales were half what they usually were.”

The event has traditionally been the group’s largest fundraiser, with proceeds going to provide an arts scholarship for a local college-bound high school senior. King insists the foundation will continue providing scholarships.

The foundation moved the show from the country club to North Creek Presbyterian because of rising rental rates for the club’s Cedar Room. The group isn’t having any luck finding a new local home for the show in part because it can’t get room rental rates because the country club is being sold to members.

“We need a room as big as the Cedar Room,” King said.

Foundation members are looking to resurrect the show in 2008, King said, although a location must be found. In addition, foundation members are looking to have local artists highlighted at the Huntron Building, the office building owned by the city of Mill Creek that is located next to city hall.

The show, which spotlights local and regional artists who work in several mediums, has a history of moving from place-to-place. It originally was held at Mill Creek City Hall until the show outgrew the small facilities available there and moved to the country club.