Taste the Arts returns to Visalia
The 6th annual Taste the Arts festival returns to downtown Visalia on Saturday, Oct. 17 from noon to 6 p.m. Organizers said the free event will have something for everyone.
The main attraction is the street fair, with more than 70 artists exhibiting on Garden Street. For a list of artists, visit Facebook.com/tastethearts.
Organizers said the festival will provide visitors with plenty of opportunities to be creative.
Members of the Urbanists Art Collective will be at the Old Lumberyard, providing interactive workshops, demonstrations and music. Pro Youth Heart will have interactive activities for kids of all ages and a display of student photography.
The Visalia Farmers’ Market will feature the Fun with Food contest. Each contestant may choose to make their food sculpture at home and bring the entry to the competition hours, or create the sculpture on-site with produce provided by the Farmers’ Market.
A Hide Out aka Confidence Booth, created by artist Bachrun Lomele, is an interactive art installation exploring issues of privacy, data collection and scrambled understanding. A person attempts to express his inner life to the world, but what comes out is un- recognizable to himself, misunderstood by others, and potentially usurped for obscure purposes.
The Task Party, from the imagination of artist Oliver Herring, provides a simple structure and a few rules to create a platform for people to express and test their own ideas.
A photography demonstration is planned at Garden Street Plaza. Local photographer and videographer Phet Kham-say-soury has partnered with Salon Estes to present a live photography demonstration featuring students from Salon Estes with avant-garde hair styling.
For more information, visit artsconsortium.org/tastethearts.