Welcome to Arts Fest 2024
10:00 - 5:00 ⭕️ September 14 ⭕️ 3300 Alpine Rd. Portola Valley
Come join us for this year's gathering of our creative community.
All Kinds of Art
Local Food & Wine
Art Activities all day
Music & Literary Events
Deeply rooted in the community, the Arts Fest has heart and talent.
The Portola Valley Arts Fest exists in a unique place between other events you may have attended. It is more home-spun and intimate than your average town art festival, and yet it is of a higher quality than your average community art event since many local, professional artists are on display. It is a festival of the arts, but at its core, it is an expression of our creative connections to each other. Come catch up with friends, do some art activities, hear local authors read their work, buy a painting, hear some live music or maybe just kick beachballs with your toddler in the field under the redwoods and relax with local wine and food.
10:00 - 5:00 ⭕️ September 14 ⭕️ 3300 Alpine Rd. Portola Valley
Performances all day long.
KIDS: The morning will have a children's focus with story time of local authors' books and an hour of silly, sweet music and acts from our Portola Valley Theater Conservatory. (Plenty there to be enjoyed by all ages.)
EVERYONE: The afternoon will be a mixture of back-to-back literary events and music. In the spirit of the Creative Circle, we will have events which look into the process as well as the presentation of these arts. I am excited to close out the day with an "Irish pub under the redwoods." I invite you to join the joyful music at our cèilí.
10:30 am -- Local Author Story Time
for the Kid in all of us in conjunction with our wonderful PV Public Library
11:00 am -- Variety Show
Local youth from the Portola Valley Theater Conservatory will perform selections from this summer's musical, Shrek Jr., and an original pre-show experience, The Stinking Onion.
😱This is an evolving schedule.🫣
You will know when you can trust these times and performances when this disclaimer is gone.
1:00 pm -- Jen & Jim
Their beautiful music mixing vocals and guitar seems the perfect soundtrack to the lovely setting, beautiful art and some post-lunch languor. (Taco Truck and Little Sky Bakery... yum!)
2:00 pm -- I am working on something very special for this spot. 🤞🏽 🤞🏻 🤞🏿
3:00 pm -- Local Author Readings
Ellen Barker, Toby Brooks, Miriam Freedman... Come enjoy excerpts from their recent publications exploring community, family and the life choices which shape our paths.
4:00 Barry O'Connell and Friends
This award-winning musician will recreate the energy and joy of a traditional Irish cèilí in our performance space under the redwoods. A bit of Guinness may be on offer to complete our Irish pub California style!
Location
3300 Alpine Road
Just off 280 in Portola Valley
Lots of Parking
The generous folks at Ladera Community Church have graciously opened their grounds to us again this year, so come enjoy the birdsong and redwoods along with all the beautiful art.
Thank you
Stelli, Jeff, Sue &
everybody at the LCC
This is an inclusive, non-religious event.
10:00 - 5:00 ⭕️ September 14 ⭕️ 3300 Alpine Rd. Portola Valley
🟢 Artists to Enjoy in 2024 🟢
Stop back to see more as we upload additional artists.
Group Exhibition
Metal Smith Katie El Fishawy poses before her cast jewelry. Libby Raab's paper weavings in the Group Exhibition caught the eye of the director at CSMA who offered her a solo show.
In addition to nearly 30 artists selling their work from booths on the church grounds, approximately 15 artists will be showing their work in the Group Exhibition in Peabody Hall.
Arts Fest artists Jean Pettigrew Whelan and Kevin Gill were selected for the 2023 De Young Open.
The Group Exhibition is the fullest expression of the community spirit of the Arts Fest. People who may not have time to produce the amount of art which warrants a booth hang their work side-by-side with professional artists and those whose work can be seen in museums.
Participating
Artists, Writers, Musicians, Performers
from Previous Years
The following list is everyone who took the leap and joined us our very first year. I will forever be grateful for our brave and wonderful community!
Hema Agrawal
Shana Astrachan
Vladimir Bacvanski
Levon Badalyan
Myrtle Carey
Kit Colman
Diana Crain
Tamara Danoyan
Reed Easley-Sullivan
Holly Eger
Eva El Fishawy
Nancy Freire
Jeanne Gadol
Patrice Gelband
Mahin Ghazi
Barbara Grauke
Ateret Haselkorn
Ana Lisa Hedstrom
Christine Hemiup
Marilynn Host
Krista Kahl
Judy Kramer
Jeff Munnis
Stelli Munnis
Lindsay Marx
Terry Ow-Wing
Jean Pettigrew Whelan
Dan Quinn
Wilma Reichard
Michael Scandalios
Jan Schachter
Adele Seltzer
Harriet Shaftel
Namnam Shekarchi
Kay Small
Sara Leith-Tanous
Eliza Thomas
Karen Urbanek
Mami Weber
Some of the following folks will be in the Group Exhibition, but they weren't able to have booths in 2024.
Authors who Read in 2023
