Venice California, is, after Disneyland, the second most popular tourist destination in Southern California,. Unlike Disneyland, Venice is also a community. Houses line the beautifully canals and residents have the choice of using a canoe to visit their neighbors. The boardwalk has numerous sidewalk cafes where people out for dinner, simply skate with their dogs to their favorite restaurant for a dinner eaten while watching television and movie crews film along the famous strand.
An environment so unique along the Southern California coast has, as one would expect, attracted more than a city’s share of artists. One weekend a year 55 of these artists’ studios open their doors to the public during the Venice Art Walk and Auction.
Organized to raise funds for the Venice Family Clinic, the Venice Art Walk auctions off 440 pieces of art donated by local artists, provides food from the many creative and unique restaurants of the community and sells tickets to the tour of 55 artists’ studios and private galleries.
The Venice Family Clinic is the largest medical outreach facility in the United States and support for the clinics programs is very strong., expectation for funds during this, their 25th annual art walk, was expected to exceed $650,000. 466 local physicians donate their time to provide much needed services to the many low-income men, women, children, teens and seniors who lack health insurance.

Contact Information:

Venice Family Clinic
604 Rose Avenue
Venice, CA 90292
www.VeniceFamilyClinic.org

To see some pictures from the 2005 Art Walk: Click here

 

Past Featured Societies :

June, 2005: Transparent Watercolor Society of America
April, 2005: Louisiana Watercolor Society
March, 2005: California Community College Media Arts Competition
January, 2005: Mystic Arts Center
October, 2004: Carlsbad 2004 ArtSplash
September 2004: Watercolor West
July, 2004: Morro Bay Art Association
June, 2004: Alabama Watercolor Society
April, 2004, The Watercolor Scoiety of Missouri
December, 2003 The Lakewood Artists' Guild
July 2003, The Sausalito Art Festival
June 2003, The Northern Arizona Watercolor Society
May 2003, The Paso Robles Art Society
April 2003, The Virginia Watercolor Society
March 2003, The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
January 2003: The Experimental Artists of Alabama
December 2002: The San Diego Watercolor Society
November 2002: The Portrait Society of America
September-October 2002: Colored Pencil Society of America
August 2002: Citrus Watercolor Society
July 2002: Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
June 2002: Taos National Society of Watercolor
May 2002: Lodi Community Art Center
April 2002: Pastel Painters of Maine
March 2002:Alaska Watercolor Society
February 2002: Pastel Association of Ontario
December 2001: South Carolina Watercolor Society
November 2001: Central Ontario Art Association
October 2001: Kentuckiana Artists Pastel Society
September 2001: San Gabriel Fine Arts Association
August 2001: Northern Arizona Watercolor Society

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