The 34th annual May Fair Arts Festival is a three-day arts festival held at Andrews Park in Norman, Oklahoma, on the first weekend in May.

A variety of art is sold by more than 80 artists from across the nation, while vendors provide taste-tempting treats. 

Musical and dance groups entertain the crowds on the Main Stage at the Amphitheatre, while entertainment for and by children is featured on the Children's Stage. 

At Adventures in Art, May Fair artists and local art teachers demonstrate their talents and provide creative hands-on learning experiences for children visiting the festival.

Rope Artist Greg Davis will direct children through the process of twisting their own length of rope.  The Make a Rope area is just one of five activities for children in the Children's Art Yard, which is open from 10 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday.  The cost is $5 to do all five creative selctions. 

In addition to the Make a Rope area, children visiting the Art Yard get to:
       paint a picture in The Art Spot,
       make a beaded bracelet in the Just Bead It! tent,
       create their own treasures and designs in the Creation Station, and
       learn a little about polymerization at the Make It, Take! Slime station.

Young people can create their very own tie dye t-shirt for a seperate $5 charge at Tie Dye World. 

Linda Tuma Robertson's work has been displayed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Kerr Museum, the Oklahoma Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma Art Center. Her paintings were chosen by Wilson Hurley to hang in the Art Annual IV. Since 1998, the artist has participated in the Gilcrease Museum's American Art in Miniature Show. Her work was also chosen for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks competition in 2001 and 2004, and several Oil Painters of America national shows.

Recently, the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund commissioned her to create a 5-foot-by-7-foot painting of Arcadia's round barn which will join another of her paintings already hanging in the Capitol.

The artist's style has been described as a combination of realism and impressionism. Her love and reverence for the land inspires her to record the countryside and the vanishing wilderness of this country. Linda comments, "My desire is to paint a landscape reflecting my love for nature. I want the viewer to feel my emotion and inspiration which led me to paint the scene."

Visit her website at www.ltr-art.com to see some of her beautiful artwork.

Assistance League of Norman is a non-profit philanthropic volunteer organization, dedicated to creating and funding service programs that enrich the lives of the Norman community.  Our major program is Operation School Bell, which provides new clothing and shoes to disadvantaged youth in the local public school systems.  Please watch this short video to learn more about us.