Tahoe Arts Project is hosting its 10th annual Art Festival July 9-10 at South Tahoe Middle School. Admission is free.

The festival will feature more than 40 local and visiting artists, food, children’s art projects, face painting, entertainment, raffle and auction prizes and fun for the entire family.

Denise Mancour was selected as the feature artist for the festival and her image “Dusk at Tahoe” will be available for sale on T-shirts. TAP will also be raffling off a framed print of the image.

New to the festival this year is Viridiana Chavez-Bautista from Oaxaca, Mexico. She will be showing and selling hand-woven wool rugs. Each of these rugs is handmade in Teotitlan Del Valle, a small Zapotec village famous for this remarkable handicraft and located about 15 miles south of Oaxaca.

Local entertainers will be performing and there will be raffle and auction prizes, including items donated by the Festival artists.

The festival is a fundraiser for Tahoe Arts Project, a nonprofit organization that brings professional performing arts to more than 5,000 K-12 students and the community of South Lake Tahoe. For more information call (530) 542.3632.