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Napa Lighted Art Festival In Full Swing Nightly: Photos

The 2022 Napa Lighted Art Festival, a free outdoor walkable experience, runs for eight weeks. Which of the sculptures is your favorite?

NAPA, CA — Napa's Lighted Art Festival is a walkable, free experience in downtown Napa along the Riverfront, First Street and at the Oxbow District.

The outdoor visual extravaganza features eight lighted art sculptures on display nightly — 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Friday -Sunday — for eight weeks through March 13.

At the downtown Veterans Park, adjacent to the Napa River, are five dome-shaped sculptures created by Lighforms that stand 10-feet-tall. The exhibit titled Hybycozo features color-changing LED lights that cast triangular, square and pentagonal shadows.

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Hybycozo at Napa Lighted Art Festival (Photo by Al Francis/Napasonomaphotos.com)

Another exhibit, Electric Dandelions by Liquid PXL, is along the Riverfront complex. It is made up of giant dandelions by day and morphs into fireworks that reflect the Napa River by night.

The Electric Dandelions are giant steel and acrylic sculptures that represent a dandelion flower during the day and come to life at night as an endless firework display as part of the 2022 Napa Lighted Art Festival. (Photo by Al Francis/Napasonomaphotos.com)

A popular display for children and adults alike is made up of giant swingsets suspended from clouds. The exhibit by Lindsay Glatz and Curious Form is appropriately titled Cloud Swing and is on exhibit at the CIA At Copia in the Oxbow District.

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Cloud Swing suspends seats from glowing cloud structures, in which color and light are created as people engage with the artwork and swing through the air. (Photo by Al Francis/Napasonomaphotos.com)

Read more here about the Napa Lighted Art Festival. See a map of the exhibits here.

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