Creativity overflowed during the annual Children’s Art Festival at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.

Many little ones busied themselves by creating their own art, making their way from studio to studio in the Education Wing, painting masterpieces, building tubular cycles, doodling and designing mazes. Techniques ranged from thoughtful contemplation to considered restraint, while others happily used their hands to apply paint with wild abandon.

The Art Zone was open for some interactive, creative playtime, and local students performed throughout the day. The Osceola Singers + Explorer Ensemble, and the Fellsmere Musical Mustangs were ‘high notes’ of the afternoon; dancers from Vero Classical Ballet and United Ballet Academy pirouetted gracefully; and the Rhythm & Soul dancers soothed the audience through movement, demonstrating that art comes in a variety of mediums.

Early in the day, awards were presented for the ‘An Artistic Discovery 2023’ Congressional Art Competition, and visitors were able to view those entries as well as works in the ‘Indian River County Student Art Exhibit.’

The event also offered an opportunity to get one last look at the remarkable Rolling Sculptures: Streamlined Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles exhibition before it rolled out of the museum. Docent-led tours engaged families in activities to help them view the exhibit in meaningful ways.

Two new exhibits, ‘Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists,’ a juried fine arts exhibition of recent works by living local artists, and ‘Jack Tworkov: Drawings 1948-1981,’ works from his seven-decade career, will both be on display through Sept. 3.

For more information, visitvbmuseum.org.

Photos by Joshua Kodis