The festival also featured the 2nd Annual Art Lovers Save Discount Program, which gave thousands of festival attendees a chance to get discounts at merchants and restaurants all over town by presenting their “Art Lovers Save” sticker. More than 45 Mill Valley Chamber Member businesses stepped up to offer discounts.
At the conclusion of the weekend, festival organizers handed out awards, as decided by a panel of judges: Jeffrey Levin, co-owner of the Poet and/the Bench jewelry shop and art gallery on Locust Avenue in Mill Valley; Susan Snyder, owner of the Caldwell Snyder Gallery in San Francisco; and Heidi Paul, owner of the Made shop in Stinson Beach. The honorees, pictured below, are (from left to right): Lissa Herschleb, mixed media (San Rafael); Sharon Payne Bolton, mixed media (Benicia); David Giulietti, jewelry (Berkeley); Bruce Mitchell, woodwork (Inverness); and Judith Lemmens, pottery (Mill Valley).