This weekend’s forty second Palo Alto Pageant of the Arts will flip town’s College Avenue into an open-air gallery with 250 fine-arts cubicles plus Italian chalk artists, a youngsters’s Chalk-A-Lot space and — new this 12 months — a DJ spin zone.
The occasion, hosted by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, will run from 10 a.m. to six p.m. each Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23-24. Admission is free.
Displaying their creations on the pageant will likely be West Coast artists working in sculpture, ceramics, glass, fiber, wooden, metallic, images, leather-based, paint and combined media.
These whose medium is chalk will descend on Tasso Avenue for the Italian avenue portray expo, with the featured artist duo of Wayne Renshaw, a Santa Clara architect, and Cheryl Renshaw, an area panorama designer, demonstrating how they create trompe-l’oeil, or 3-D, chalk photographs. They’ll be utilizing the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina because the inspiration for his or her works.
At midday every day, DJs from Pacific Crew will begin spinning on the inaugural Ramona Beats & Brews space, at Ramona Avenue close to College, the place there will likely be room for dancing. Satan’s Canyon Brewery Co. is supplying the brews on faucet, together with NA beers and their standard root beer.
Greater than 20 musical performances are scheduled for 2 phases and two avenue nook websites. Highlights embody fiery fiddler Tom Rigney on Saturday on the Waverley Stage and a Uke Jam on Sunday on the Webster Stage. And once more this 12 months, festival-goers are invited to sit down down on the “Play Me” piano positioned on the Chopin & Chandeliers exhibit on Bryant Avenue and make some music of their very own.
This 12 months’s meals and beverage cubicles, clustered at College-Bryant and College-Waverley, will provide smoked turkey legs, shawarma and falafel, teriyaki rooster, sausage sandwiches, crepes, garlic fries, roasted corn, gelato, non-alcoholic pina coladas and extra.
Particulars: Deliver tote luggage for purchases. Band lineup and particulars: www.paloaltochamber.com/festival-of-the-arts
Initially Revealed: August 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM PDT
