This weekend’s 42nd Palo Alto Festival of the Arts will turn the city’s University Avenue into an open-air gallery with 250 fine-arts booths plus chalk artists, a children’s Chalk-A-Lot area and — new this year — a DJ spin zone.

The event, hosted by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23-24. Admission is free.

Showing their creations at the festival will be West Coast artists working in sculpture, ceramics, glass, fiber, wood, metal, photography, leather, paint and mixed media.

Those whose medium is chalk will descend on Tasso Street for the Italian street painting expo, with the featured artist duo of Wayne Renshaw, a Santa Clara architect, and Cheryl Renshaw, a local landscape designer, demonstrating how they create trompe-

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