33rd Carmel Art Festival
Building Carmel’s Artistic Legacy
May 15th - 17th 2026
33rd Carmel Art Festival
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
May 15-17, 2026
The 33rd Annual Carmel Art Festival will be held in Devendorf Park in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and will once again bring together artists and art lovers, visitors, and residents to celebrate Carmel’s artistic heritage and legacy. FREE public event, except GALA and Workshops.
NEW THIS YEAR: For the first time, we will be offering some fun demonstrations by our artists during the festival (free to the public) and serious workshops (for a fee set by the artists) prior to the festival on May 11 & 12. The public can sign up for these workshops prior to the festival right here on this website. Always wanted to try your hand at Plein Air painting? Or get some pointers? We will give you that opportunity.
And, of course, we will continue with our traditional Plein Air Competition amongst our juried artists whose paintings will be sold on a “buy now” basis starting on Friday, May 15 at 4PM. right after the Awards Ceremony.
The always popular 3-hour Quick Draw on Saturday, May 16 by our juried artists will have their paintings auctioned off right there on Mission Street starting at 11am between Ocean & 6th. Want to watch them paint between 8am and 11am? The public can get a list where they paint—many of them stay within the commercial district right around Devendorf Park.
New this year: On Sunday, May 17, artists will be able to sell one studio painting at the festival that they brought from home. It will be so interesting to see what they bring!
We will also be selling demonstration and workshop paintings plus other paintings they produced since May 13 that were not placed into the competition. This way, we will have new paintings up each day for the public to view and purchase right until the festival closes at 3 pm on Sunday.
Friday evening, May 15th from 6pm-9pm, join us at the Opening Gala right in Devendorf Park, a great way to mingle with the artists, listen to live music, and partake of food & wonderful wines poured into a commemorative wine glass to keep.
TICKETS AT THE DOOR $100
Warmest regards,
President, Carmel Gallery Alliance/Carmel Art Festival
Featured Artists This Year
Najeeb Abdulrahiman
Karen Adams
Rolando Barrero
Stacy Barter
Maria Boisvert
Brooke Borcherding
Wendy Brayton
Rich Brimer
Allen Brockbank
Denise Busony
Ken Christensen
Trina Craig
Arijit Dutta
Bryce Elischer
Linda Elling
Gilda Fahti
Catherine Fasciato
Danny Folkman
Wendy Franklin
Lorraine Goddard
Carole Gray-Weihman
Meisha Grichuhin
John Guernsey
Coraly Hanson
Laurie Hendricks
Sterling Hoffmann
Daryl Hosick
Rose Irelan
Scott Johnson
Sally Jordan
Paul Kratter
Laura Lindem
Kate Martin
Marie Massey
Lynn Mehta
Beena Menon
Kelley Mogilka
Gia Moody
Lee Munsell
Donald Neff
Stacey Nussbaum
Lilli-anne Price
Katrina Pura
Lana Rak
Erin Renier
David Savallano
Ann Schaefer
Julia Seelos
Olga Shiller
Gregory Stocks
Carol Tarzier
Olga Totieva
Joaquin Turner
Jeremy Vican
Tamara Vieira
Laura Wambsgans
Steve Weinberger
Robin Weiss
Jamie Wells
Mason Williams
Jeffrey Yang
Tonya Zenin
Abby Zhang
