{"id":24489,"date":"2017-08-12T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24489"},"modified":"2017-08-11T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T00:23:51","slug":"art-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/art-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/oakrata.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians are basically artists. They are creative and know how think outside the box. They can turn an art festival into something extraordinary, appealing to such a broad spectrum of the people that even the couch potato gets of his or her duff and takes it to the streets to celebrate. Pictured is Oakland&#8217;s spectacular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oakland-art-soul.html\">Art + Soul<\/a> festival held in August (Aug.19-20, 2017). If you missed these great August art festivals &#8212; TEHACHAPI: Chalk on the Walk; GUALALA: Art in the Redwoods Festival; LOS GATOS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-gatos-art-fiesta.html\">Fiesta de Artes<\/a> and\u00a0 SAN DIEGO: ArtWalk @ Liberty Station &#8212; not to worry, there&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-art.html\">California August Art Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LAGUNA BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/laguna-beach-pageant-masters.html\">Festival of Arts Pageant of the Masters<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LAGUNA BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/laguna-beach-art-afair.html\"> Art A:Fair Art Festival <\/a><\/li>\n<li>LAGUNA BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/laguna-beach-sawdust-festival.html\"> Sawdust Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BURLINGAME: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/burlingame-art-festival.html\"> On the Avenue<\/a> Aug.19-20<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oakland-art-soul.html\">Art + Soul Festival <\/a>\u00a0Aug.19-20<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-art-deco-festival.html\"> Art Deco Festival<\/a> Aug.18-20<\/li>\n<li>MARTINEZ: Art in the Park Aug.20<\/li>\n<li>SCOTTS VALLEY: Art, Wine and Beer Festival Aug.19-20<\/li>\n<li>PESCADERO: Pescadero Arts &amp; Fun Festival Aug.19-20<\/li>\n<li>TAHOE CITY: Tahoe City Fine Arts &amp; Crafts Festival, Aug.18-20, and Aug.25-27<\/li>\n<li>REDWOOD CITY: Art on the Square Aug.25<\/li>\n<li>BODEGA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bodega-seafood.html\"> Bodega Seafood, Art and Wine Festival<\/a> Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>PALO ALTO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palo-alto-art-festival.html\"> Palo Alto Festival of the Arts<\/a> &amp; Italian Street Painting Festival Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>BRENTWOOD: Art, Wine &amp; Jazz Festival Aug.25-27<\/li>\n<li>SAND CITY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sand-city-west-end.html\"> West End Celebration<\/a> Aug.25-27<\/li>\n<li>BERKELEY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-chocolate-chalk-art.html\">Chocolate &amp; Chalk Art Festival<\/a> Aug.27<\/li>\n<li>POINT REYES: Point Reyes National Seashore Sand Sculpture Contest Aug.27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians are basically artists. They are creative and know how think outside the box. They can turn an art festival into something extraordinary, appealing to such a broad spectrum of the people that even the couch potato gets of his or her duff and takes it to the streets to celebrate. Pictured is Oakland&#8217;s spectacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}