Laguna Beach Festival of Arts

For about 80 plus years the nation's oldest and very highly celebrated fine art show, the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts has offered this breathtaking showcase for artists and art lovers alike.  The Festival's respected art show includes a huge variety of art such as paintings, photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry, handcrafted wood and furniture, ceramics, glass and much, much more.

We strolled over and checked out the nearby The Cliff restaurant in Main Beach for dinner. After dinner, we used the same tickets to enter "Art A Fair", which is for non-Laguna artists, free. However, the tickets didn't work for "Sawdust Festival"!

We also enjoyed great Spanish guitar music playing the night we walked the grounds and the temperature was perfect.

The only way to describe the Pageant of the Masters is to say that is live art. Instead of painted people you have real people that are painted to look just like the picture of "Washington Crossing Delaware". All of the cast are volunteers!  It is held in an outdoor amphitheater, with a professional orchestra, live narration, and the sets are so intricate. The lighting also helps to pull the breathtaking re-creations of classical and contemporary masterpieces together.