ArtWalk is a different sort of festival, as the streets are kept open and displays are set-up throughout the downtown in and around parks, sidewalks, galleries, wine bars, restaurants and shops. This allows visitors and the local community to experience all that this wine country downtown has to offer with art as the theme for the day. Parking is free.
Explore the works of over 150 artists ranging from contemporary to classical, abstract to realism, pottery to mixed media, with subject matter from floral to figurative and much more.
The 2014 hand-painted art banners that were hung as street art were, in many visitors' opinion, the best overall art banner show so far. Visitors can examine them up close and place bids at the Art Banner Auction until 4:30.
Select "songwriters, minstrels and balladeers" will perform free concerts all day. The lineup and background on these fine musicians is available on www.valleysingout.com, the all-volunteer company that produces the music event for ArtWalk.
Special art destination offerings include the reception for Connections III, an exhibition of art works by alumni of CSUEB at the Bankhead Theater, open studios at the popular Firehouse Art Studios, and Bothwell's Downtown Art Studios. ArtWalk also provides free space for the Empty Bowl Project, where well over 100 ceramic bowls are created and sold by local teens to help support Open Heart Kitchen the high school and district-wide art show and an annual exhibit from the Disabled Veteran's Painting Program, an all-volunteer program led by Charles "Bud" Donaldson. ArtWalk also provides discounted booth space to worthy nonprofits such as Shakespeare's Associates and Ruraq Maki, Hands that Create, a group dedicated to raising funds for women in third-world countries by selling their handmade wares.
Maps for the event will be available online in early October. Our 2014 website galleries are available at www.bothwellartscenter.org and www.artwalklivermore.com.
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