Venice Art Walk

WHEN IN VENICE …

This weekend marks the 29th reoccurrence of the massive annual Venice Art Walk, featuring an architecture tour, a 400-piece silent auction and the personal studios of some 60 artists, many of them SoCal legends such as Laddie John Dill, Judy Stabile and Lee Waisler. This year, visual-effects company Digital Domain also offers three exhibits, and Jimmy’Z surf wear designer Jim Ganzer will show watercolors and sculptures. Trek Kelly proffers celebrity mash-ups (Abraham Lincoln’s head, meet P. Diddy’s body). All proceeds – and this juggernaut usually rakes in about half a million – benefit the Venice Family Clinic, which began providing free healthcare to Venice’s starving artists and others in 1970. (Pictured: detail of Ellwood T. Risk’s “Medusa”) Art and architecture tour, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.; $75. Studio tours and silent art auction, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun.; $50. All events begin at Westminster School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 392-9255, veniceartwalk.info