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CARLSBAD: City caters to art lovers
By Daniel Ely - For The North County Times | ∞
Traci Tanaka, left, and Katie Fenton of San diego shop for art at the Mary Helmreich booth at the 10th annual Art in the Village on Sunday. (Photo by Waldo Nilo - Staff Photographer) 
People and their pets enjoy the event Sunday. (Photo by Waldo Nilo - Staff Photographer) CARLSBAD ---- With clay, paint, wood, metal and more, artists filled downtown Carlsbad with color and fun Sunday at the 10th annual Art in the Village, Artists and Artisans festival.
Despite being a yearly success and a favorite of artists and visitors, the festival changes every year to keep things fresh, said Robin Young, executive director of the Carlsbad Village Business Association.
And while some of the changes included new craft activities for kids, Young said the biggest change has been the festival's focus.
Originally an antiques show, the event has moved more toward arts and away from crafts to keep the event an art festival rather than a street fair.
"The whole point is that it's absolutely an art fair," Young said. "Our ultimate goal is to become one of the best art fairs in Southern California, or at least San Diego County."
While many artists exhibiting at the festival were returning favorites, Young said some new talent was scouted at other art fairs and invited to participate.
Even with new blood, she said, this year's festival was smaller than others by 30 vendors. The crowds though, seemed as big as ever.
"I do events all over Southern California, and this one is a good mixture," said artist and North County resident David Lozeau, who was selling his work at the festival for the second year. "It's full of artists . . . not just retailers and wholesalers."
With paintings and carvings, and T-shirts with images of skeletons, tiki idols and sea monsters, Lozeau said his art attracts people unfamiliar with his style.
"You get chuckles, laughs, even scowls. There's a lot of explaining what it is, since it isn't something they've normally seen here," he said.
Also on display was an exhibition of children's art from the Lynn Forbes School of Sculpture, which featured Forbes creating sculpture portraits of willing models and dispensing advice on technique as she worked.
Some talented students even took home prizes for their efforts. One of them was 5-year-old Nate Pocock, whose large sculpture of a face earned him an honorable mention ribbon, a coupon for a free sub sandwich, and a high-five from his father, Matt Pocock.
The Art in the Village festival returns to Carlsbad next year.
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