Lakefront Festival of Arts starts Friday

June 17, 2013 at 1:37PM

MILWAUKEE — Work from more than 175 artists will be displayed and sold this weekend on Milwaukee's lakefront.

The Milwaukee Art Museum's Lakefront Festival of Arts starts Friday and runs through Sunday on the museum's grounds. It also features food, music, a silent auction, a sculpture and wine garden and children's activities.

More than 30,000 are expected to attend. It first started in 1963.

The museum's feature exhibition is "30 Americans," which is a collection of contemporary African American art.

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