City of Desert Hot Springs Art in Public Places RFP

Dear LQAF,
“Just writing again to update you on my semester abroad.
Its been a whilrwind experience, I can hardly believe I only have 2 weeks left in Italy. This past long weekend I visited Paris, France where I spent hours in the Louve as well as the multitude of museums Paris has to offer. The overall [...]

 
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 [...]

CIAO!  From LQAF Scholarship Recipient Sarah Murphy – Studying Abroad in Italy
 LQAF Visual Art Scholarship recipient Sarah Murphy is attending Henry Radford School of Fine Arts at Indiana University with of goal of earning a Bachelors of Fine Art degree in studio art. As part of this program Sarah departed at the end of January [...]

LQAF Scholarship Student Roberto Velasquez creates art for Desert Island Country Club.

Award Winners 2013 La Quinta Arts Festival

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

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 [...]