Congratulations to Donna Roisom of Portland, Oregon.  Donna is the lucky winner of the iPad drawing conducted as part of the Patron Profile Survey during our 2013 La Quinta Arts Festival. She is pictured here with her new 32 GB iPad retina display.  
Donna attended the Festival for the last three years and always looks forward to [...]

Award Winners 2013 La Quinta Arts Festival

Santiago Gutierrez accomplishes almost dizzying geometric designs on pottery with amazing design and detail.

La Quinta Arts Foundation announces the unveiling of a newly created mobile website for the upcoming La Quinta Arts Festival, March 7-10, 2013 at http://festival.lqaf.com/
Set to launch on Monday, March 4, 2013 the new website is accessible from any mobile or standard browser, however, the experience is tailored to Smartphones and Tablets.  The new mobile [...]

Holly Foss ~ Printmaking     NEWARTIST!Minneapolis, MN ~ Booth #719
“For many years I have been a printmaker, creating serigraphs.  To make my serigraphs I begin with a drawing in pencil. I then ink it with a very thin black line. For each color I cut a stencil from a green lacquer film. This film gets adhered [...]

Wealth of Hispanic Artists Exhibiting at La Quinta Arts Festival 2013

Cali Hobgood  ~ PhotographyUrbana, IL
Cali Hobgood’s images are hand-colored black and white photographs which she prints in a silver-process darkroom and then paints with oils.  Her techniques in shooting film and hand-coloring the photograph combined with her high-contrast printing style, produce georgeous tones and textures in ideal union with her compelling subject matter.   Between the variability [...]

David Barkby is the only wood craftsman creating one-of-a-kind intricately designed turnings reaching up to 10 feet in diameter.

Armando Adrian-Lopez constructs mixed media folk art sculptures from natural materials embellished with 24k gold leaf and egg tempera colors.

Arriving from Florida, master jeweler, gemologist Harry Roa creates “art attire” embellished with gemstones and diamonds.