A Side Walk with the Art Festival by Elizabeth Bradley Bentley. The book celebrates two decades of the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival in Winter Park, Florida. Bentley documents the festival's history using newspaper articles, oral history interviews, personal experiences, scrapbooks, programs and minutes. Each chapter in Section One represents one year of the festival. Several photographs of prize winning displays are included. Section Two is an appendix of winners, judges, officers, committees, commission and associates.

Debuting in 1960, the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most prestigious outdoor art festivals. By 2018, after 60 years, the festival attracted more than 350,000 visitors a year. 225 artists are selected from over 1,000 applicants by a panel of three independent judges. Arts and crafts categories include clay, digital art, drawings and pastels, fiber, glass, graphics and printmaking, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media 2D, mixed media 3D, painting, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood. The festival incorporates hands-on activities for young children and students to encourage participation in and appreciation of the arts. ]]> A Side Walk with the Art Festival. Winter Park, Florida: Cody Publications, 1979.]]> A Side Walk with the Art Festival. Winter Park, Florida: Cody Publications, 1979.]]> Winter Park Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES.]]> Adobe Acrobat Reader]]> RICHES for educational purposes only.]]> Winter Park Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]> The Yearling, race relations in Winter Park, hurricanes, his father's trucking business, his service in the military, and the effects of the development of Walt Disney World on Central Florida.]]> Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.]]> 0:00:11 Migrating to Florida
0:01:16 Memories of Winter Park
0:02:15 Fish fry events
0:03:06 Educational history
0:04:49 Careers as an insurance agent and as an author
0:07:39 Wife and children
0:10:49 Rollins College
0:12:35 The Yearling
0:14:05 Race relations in Winter Park
0:18:36 Hurricanes in Central Florida
0:21:13 Father’s trucking business
0:27:24 Military service and college education
0:30:43 Walt Disney World
0:38:54 Closing remarks]]> Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.]]> Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.]]> Winter Park Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.]]> QuickTime.]]> Adobe Acrobat Reader]]> Museum of Seminole County History and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.]]>