ChiVAA, the Chico Visual Arts Alliance, is proud to announce that our 2024 Chico ART Festival will be held on Mother’s Day Weekend, Friday and Saturday, May 10th and 11th, 2024, outdoors on the beautiful grounds of St John’s Episcopal Church on Floral Avenue in Chico. This will be our 11th annual art festival. Our two-day,… Continue reading Call For Artists 2024 – Applications Available Now!
Last minute addition, a 3D Printer Demo, at the Chico ART Festival this Friday, May 12 (4-8pm) and Saturday, May 13 (10am-5pm) on the 6 acres campus of St John’s Episcopal Church on Floral Avenue:
Christian Davila, a Chico artist and one of the tech from the Butte College Makerspaces will bring her 3D printer and demonstrate how it works. It is fascinating to watch the process!
Here are the doers making the 2023 Chico ART Festival possible.
Preview Marion Hunziker-Larsen”s work. She will be one of the exhibitor at the Chico ART Festival, May 12 & 13, 2023.
The Chico ART Festival has added a Latin flavor to our music and dance offering. Saturday, May 12 at noon, Ballet Folklorico De Chico will be performing Mexican traditional dances, followed at 1 pm by the Chico Latin Orquesta Pequeña, a music group passionate about Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue and Bachata. Bring in your dancing shoes for this set.
Katie Shrank and Maggie Towne are an aunt/niece team. Katie the wheel thrower specializes in marble ware textured surfaces. Maggie a hand builder brings whimsy and happy colors to her hand painted pieces. See their ceramics at the Chico ART Festival, May 8 & 9, 2026 at St John’s Episcopal Church in Chico.
Here is a preview of Sofia Whitehead’s fabric art. Check her artist statement and visit her booth at the Chico ART Festival, May 12 & 13, 2023. This event will be outdoors at St John’s Episcopal Church on Floral Avenue in Chico. Sofia Whitehead is a Chico Area Artist.
Douglass Moody will be one the exhibitor at the Chico ART Festival on May 12 & 13, 2023 on the beautiful grounds of St John’s Episcopal Church, at 2341 Floral Ave in Chico.
Meet Rachelle Montoya, one of the exhibitor at the at the Chico ART Festival to be held at St John’s Episcopal Church grounds on Floral Avenue, in Chico, on May 9 & 10, 2025. Friday from 4pm to 8 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
My work is what gives meaning to my life. I have been learning, developing it for the last 50 years since I left school. There are so many techniques that I explored and introduced to others. My wish now is to teach and seriously share my knowledge with others. Anything from the basics of jewelry fabrication and soldering, or lost wax casting I offer, and techniques like Korean Keum Boo, or Japanese Mokume Gane, to Indonesian granulation techniques I can demonstrate and instruct. These are dying arts and I wish it were not so.
