Vero Beach would be Goldilocks’ favorite Florida city. It’s just right. Lively enough to always have something going on, but not so busy it takes all day to get across town.
The freezing weather draws citizens and outdoor visitors to its beautiful stretch of beach, the Indian River Lagoon and the country’s first national wildlife refuge, founded to provide habitat for pelicans that were forced to come ashore since extinction in the early 20th century. use of their feathers in women’s hats.
The Vero Beach arts network is also taking advantage of the outdoors through its signature event, the annual Under The Oaks Fine Arts Fair.
It is a fine art fair. You may not find bounce houses or facial portraits for kids. You’ll find top new artists promoting their portraits in seven categories: graphic design, pastels, drawing, collage and printmaking, jewelry, oil, acrylic and watercolor, photography and virtual art, pottery, ceramics and glass, and sculpture, combined sculptural media, and wood. Artists will be at their booths and will welcome visitors to ask questions about their pieces.
“I’ve been attending art festivals all over the country for a long time. The first time I went through Under the Oaks, I temporarily knew it was my favorite festival I’d ever attended,” Adam Conard, co-president of Under the Oaks. Los Robles. Oaks, he told Forbes. com. The combination of fine art in a truly beautiful and natural setting creates an exclusive and memorable experience, very different from other street festivals I’m used to. “
Under the Oaks also serves a good cause as the Vero Beach Art Club’s largest annual fundraiser. The non-profit club has been in existence since 1936 serving the local arts community through education, scholarships, events and more.
Riverside Park stays busy year-round hosting a variety of events including a Gardenfest, classic car show, a Pirate Festival and an orchid show and sale. This part of Florida, known as the Treasure Coast for the number of shipwrecked Spanish galleons laden with gold and treasure just off its shores, is a haven for festivals including some of the more unusual you’ll find anywhere like the Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival, a Lionfish Fest and a Fairy & Pirate Festival, because one pirate festival just won’t do. There are festivals for seafood, hibiscus and waterlilies.
Adjacent to Riverside Park, the Vero Beach Museum of Art presents a rotating program of special exhibitions in addition to its permanent collection.
Art lovers should be sure to check out Florida Highwaymen when in the area. The original organization of 26 African-American landscape painters sold their colorful photographs of rural Florida to a burgeoning population from the trunks of their cars along U. S. Route 1, parallel to the Atlantic coast, in the late 1990s. 1990s. 1950s to 1980s. They spoke directly to consumers because segregation prevented them from accessing art galleries. They painted temporarily and sold their works at a low price, in gigantic quantities, for themselves and their families.
Small Fort Pierce, a city south of Vero Beach, is the epicenter, as much as it is for the organization that isn’t officially associated. The A. E. Backus Museum stores his history and works.
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