New Festival Celebrates Art in the Gardens
Ready to "dig" the arts? Enjoy spring in the Florida Botanical Gardens with art experiences from area museums.
Experience a day of family fun in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of the Florida Botanical Gardens at the Diggin’ the Arts festival. This new event will offer hands-on activities, displays, vendors, booths, music and refreshments on Sunday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Participate in the plein air — open air — painting competition. Registration for this free event is at 10 a.m. and the works, painted in the gardens, are judged at 3:30 p.m. First prize is $150, second prize is $100 and third prize is $75. Visitors may watch the contestants in action as they paint beautiful garden scenes. Enter a raffle to win a rain barrel, each decorated by one of the participating museums; tickets are $1 each or six for $5. …
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