Get Out: Inaugural RH ArtFest Is Saturday

Celebrate Richmond Heights centennial this weekend at the city's inaugural ArtFest.

The 30-plus featured artists showing works Saturday include oil painter and muralist Julie Wiegand and acrylic painter Kathleen Barnes.

The juried art show and craft fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the public green space on Lindbergh Drive and South Big Bend Boulevard.

Read Clayton-Richmond Heights blogger Mark Cockson's post on the fair.

Newberry Furniture, which designs and creates hand-made kitchen tools, accessories and other household pieces from a variety of wood, also is a guest artist. 

ArtFest aims to bring different facets of the community together.

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild will provide live art demonstrations of caricatures, figure sculpture, polymer clay jewelry, drawing and mixed media collage.

The Maplewood Richmond Heights School District will sponsor a children’s art station. Integrating sustainability efforts and Richmond Heights’s dedication to its urban forest, children will make bird feeders from recycled materials.

The event also will include free pilates and yoga classes, live music by David Black and Todd Mosby, healthy cooking demonstrations by chefs from St. Mary’s Hospital with locally-grown produce from La Vista Farm, food by Uptown Café, wine tastings from Edg-Clif Farms & Vineyard and craft beer by Urban Chestnut Brewery.

Free parking is available at the Masonry Institute of St. Louis, 1429 S. Big Bend Blvd. 

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