Get the latest news delivered daily!

Get the latest news delivered daily!

Redlands Festival of Arts kicked off its return to live exhibition Saturday, May 28, after two years of coronavirus precautions.

Sierra Porras, 2, plays drums at the instrumental petting zoo during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park on Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Camille Weathers and Mia Altenbach take part in the sidewalk chalk art competition Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Artist Elaine Hughes talks to Greg Tracer on Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Stella Jacobs, 7, from Becky’s Violin Studio, performs Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Blake and Ivy Kearns look at the fountain Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Residents walk amongst the booths Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Colette Rackleff and Jason Raine plays with his niece, Lindsey Raine, 2, as music plays Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Grace Reid, Hsin Gilbert, Amy Liu, and Le Kun Wu admire the metal sculpture “Swinging Heart,” by Jackie and Charles Nipper from Arizona, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park on Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

The Plum Nelly duo perform Saturday, May 28, 2022, during the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Smiley Elementary School student Piper Tribitt, 10, participates in the sidewalk chalk art contest Saturday, May 28, 2022, at the Redlands Festival of Arts at Smiley Park. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

More than 100 artists were set to participate in the two-day live juried art event at Smiley Park in downtown Redlands over Memorial Day weekend.

Festivities continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 29, and include the Art in the Park exhibition sponsored by the Redlands Art Association, food trucks, a student artist competition, a kid’s fun art creative space, the Redlands Symphony Petting Zoo, free books from Redlands Sunrise Rotary, a high school student chalk art competition, and three musical stages including one at First Presbyterian Church of Redlands’ new park-let.

The festival was founded in 2013.

Get the latest news delivered daily!

We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.