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Arts Downtown, Puyallup's Outdoor Gallery, is a nonprofit all volunteer organization that curates a rotating and permanent collection of quality art by professional, emerging and student artists.
Arts downtown is a synergistic force of vision and imagination promoting diverse artistic culture and increasing visual literacy.
It's time to cast your VOTE for your favorite work of art. Check our calendar to see what artful events are going on in Puyallup.
Arts Downtown Walking Tour Guide click here.
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| Announcing "Arts in the Park" Saturday August 14, 2010 Pioneer Park - Puyallup |
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The first public fine arts festival, presented by VALLEY ARTS UNITED in downtown Puyallup: all arts for all people!
Call to Artists for "Arts in the Park" click here.
All parts of the festival, including the concerts, are free.
The festival will take place within the Farmer’s Market in Pioneer Park, on Saturday August 14th. Art booths will be open from 10 - 4pm. The art booths and exhibits will be located around the bandstand/stage and towards Meridian.
Featuring: Northwest Sinfonietta, sponsored by the Puyallup Kiwanis Club. NWS will present a quintet to perform two family concerts of classical music with an animal theme. Also, NWS will offer a hands-on, interactive “Instrument Petting Zoo”. Concert times are 11am and 12:30pm, with the petting zoo before and after each concert.
Fetured events:
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Metro dancers and a Samoan Dance group will be on stage performing.
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“Chalk the Walk!” in front of the Puyallup Public Library.
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"Children’s Corner”, a place for kids to try their hand at painting and drawing.
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Frances Buckmaster’s “Artist Studio” with artists at work. Frances will set up still-life props, and her multimedia artists will have the option to work on a still-life or any vantage of the surrounding crowd/landscape as “plein air” painters. Each artist will be invited to bring work for sale, as well as selling the piece they create that day as a “wet” painting.
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“Experience Art Project” with 3-4 examples of famous artists’ works, and easels with a blank canvas (with suitable paint brushes and paint) for the curious to explore a specific painting style.
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Artist Commons and Artist Booths: art for sale, all approved by VAU selection process, including a few artists from the Outdoor Gallery (Arts Downtown program artists).
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Fred Oldfield Gallery, PMSA (Art and Wine Walk)
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VAU will be celebrating the opening of Gallery 3, a cooperative art center, located on the ground floor of City Hall.
