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Arts & Entertainment

Kennedy Plaza Fills With Color — and Tunes

The Long Beach Public Library and the City of Long Beach hold 18th Annual Fine Arts Festival.

Once again in June, Kennedy Plaza got colorized. Some 50 artists, working in mediums from oils to color pencils and pens to digitized paintings and photograph merged together, displayed their work outside City Hall at the 18th annual Fine Arts Festival on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Public Library. This year's festival also featured a host of musical performances, including Stick-Tet, Country Music with Old & New with Country Line, Benoir & The Long Beach All-Stars and the Long Island Harmonica Club in Concert.

1st Place Winners:

Andrew Boynton- Pen/Ink Colored Pencil
Micholas Meola- Digital Montage
Ed Kennedy- Photography
Steven Klein- Acrylic Paintings
Marck Webster- Colored Pencil

There were also 5 Honorable Mentions:

Israel Rubinstein
Vladimir Sedov
Michael Colette
William Farran
Christina Kramer

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