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2024 Buda Arts Festival
& Plein Air Painting Competition
September 17
 - 21

Live, outdoor, plein air painting competitions, busking musicians, art demos, artisan markets, gallery exhibits, artist meet-ups, kids' activities, live theatre, and dance performances fill the week! There's something for everyone! While most of the festival is FREE, events on the Festival Schedule that require TICKETS are marked with a 🖌️.

 

The Buda Arts Festival, originally named the Buda Plein Air Festival, was created in 2020 by Inspired Minds Art Center to bring the community together outdoors, through art, in a mindful, healing, and celebratory way during a time of social restrictions, fear, and anxiety. Over the years, it has grown from a 1-day painting and music festival to a 5-day celebration of all-thing-arts! Check out the SCHEDULE.

2024 Buda Arts Festival Winners

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What does plein-air mean??

 

[ pleyn-air; French ple-ner ]

adjective

  • Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint “en plein air,” which is the French expression for “in the open air.” - www.artistsnetwork.com

2024 Plein Air Competition

1st Place

Gena Destri Keffer - “Last Flowers of the Season”

2nd Place
Arthur Deatly - “Morning in Buda”

3rd Place

Carlyle Urello - “Forest View”

Honorable Mentions

Kathy Hammond

Joy Bliss

Stephen Henry

2024 Quick Draw Winners

1st Place

Christopher Powell - “View of Buda”

2nd Place

Meg Morgan - “Golden Days”

3rd Place

Tiffany Shih- “Antique Mall”

Honorable Mention:

Emily Laughlin

Mari Boren

Kathy Hammond

 

2024 Festival Fine Art Show

People's Choice

Darius Miller - "Dolly"

 

Judge's Choice

Julie Howard - "Recovering"

 

Honorable Mention

Leslie Deil

Mary Jo Cadiz

Emily Laughlin