Over 100 visual art pieces were displayed, around 25 kid vendors sold their crafts and a dozen young performers dazzled the audience at the 2^nd annual KidzArtz show hosted and sponsored by local organization Mother Artists at Work and co-sponsored by the Couchfire Collective. 

Visitors took in the visual arts which included ceramics, mixed media collages, paintings, photos and other media.  They also shopped in the vendor area. Plushies of all shapes and sizes were definitely a popular item being sold and purchased.  Other homemade wares being vended ranged from lavender lip gloss to stenciled t-shirts to programmed computer games. 

The stage area bustled with exciting sights and sounds.  Some of this year's KidzArtz performances were kid-made movies and violin solos. The Grimaldi Circus returned for an awe-inspiring encore performance. And other amazing movement arts were showcased in the stage area by the Whetstone breakdancing group as well the Irish Step Dancers.  All in all it was a multi-cultural feast for the eyes and ears!

In the kids' art-making area, hosted by pepperpaints.com, youth and adults decorated several tepees made with natural materials.  The littler ones seemed to enjoy playing inside the festooned tepees as much as adorning them. 

While not viewing art, purchasing art, creating art and listening to more art, KidzArtz participants and visitors took advantage of the free face painting by Mik Heslin of BigSmiley and also had their photo taken by Groovy Doodle.