VERO BEACH — Since 1981, the Vero Beach Museum of Art has presented an annual Children’s Art Festival for the enjoyment of families and children of the community. The festival, to be held on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. throughout the museum, offers young people and their families an admission-free cultural event throughout the museum that celebrates the creativity and diversity of the arts along Florida’s Treasure Coast and beyond.
Whether you have children or not, you are invited to come and celebrate the importance of the arts to the children of the Treasure Coast. All visitors will enjoy free admission to all museum exhibitions, as well as free live school/student music and dance performances, free child and family studio art activities, K-5 school art displays, and other presentations for the young-at-art.
All attendees enjoy free admission to all of the museum’s art exhibitions, including BEYOND REALITY: Hyperrealism and American Culture; STEPHEN KNAPP: Lightpaintings; CYCLE OF CHANGE: Tom Nakashima’s Treepile Paintings; FUSED, BLOWN, AND CAST: Glass from the Permanent Collection; MATTHEW GELLER’S Woozy Blossom and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection in the Alice and Jim Beckwith Sculpture Parks; and the opening day of the Indian River County Juried Student Exhibition.
Lunch, snacks, and refreshments will be available for purchase at Chelsea’s @ the Museum Café in the Laura and Bill Buck Atrium.
The Vero Beach Museum of Art is located at 3001 Riverside Park Dr., in Riverside Park, Vero Beach. From I-95 (Exit 147) or U.S. 1, take State Road 60 east towards the beach, cross over the Merrill Barber bridge and turn right at the first traffic light into Riverside Park.
For further information, visit the museum’s website at www.VeroBeachMuseum.org or call (772) 231-0707.