The Alys Foundation is happy to announce the winners of the 17th Annual Digital Graffiti Festival, which took place this past May 16-18, 2024 in Alys Beach, located along the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida.

Marieanne Khoury-Vogt, representing the firm Khoury Vogt Architects with husband and partner Erik Vogt, has been acknowledged by the Urban Guild as this year’s recipient of the Barranco Award.

Alys Beach Crafted was created to celebrate the collaboration of talents that come together to enrich the 30A experience.

VIE’s editor-in-chief Lisa Marie Burwell joined long-time friends, singer-songwriter/Broadway star Morgan James and Sinfonia Gulf Coast music and artistic director Demetrius Fuller, in the stunning Alys Beach home of Bryan and Tina Corr for a meet and greet on May 28. James and Fuller took center stage for a patriotic summer kick-off concert at the Alys Beach Amphitheater.

Dearest Reader, the VIE Team thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the intersection between past and future along with the announcement of the winners of this year's Digital Graffiti festival at Le Bon Ton, An Artistic Garden Affair in Alys Beach, Florida, on May 19, 2023. We donned our best Bridgerton-inspired frocks and partook in sips from Gulf Water Wines and Coastal Coffee Bar Co., savory and sweet treats from The Salty Butcher and On The Fly PCB, and the musical stylings of a string quartet and pianist by Top Hat Live, aka The Whistledowns.

Alys Beach Crafted was created to celebrate the collaboration of talents that come together to enrich the experience of life along the Scenic Highway 30A stretch of Florida’s Emerald Coast.

Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach is pleased to announce the appointment of John Colette as the festival’s new curator. Colette takes the reigns from his award-winning and highly regarded predecessor and colleague, Brett Phares, who curated the festival for 14 years from inception, a contemporary with whom Colette has long worked. To Colette’s mind, Digital Graffiti is a dynamic platform for art to reach people, an abundantly open experience with unlimited opportunities for perceiving art in a conjoining of ideas, creation, space, technology. The 15th Annual Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach festival, underwritten by The Alys Foundation, will be held May 13-14, 2022.

The CODAawards “celebrate the projects that most successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces,” honoring “the individuals and the teams whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us.” Digital Graffiti is a 2021 CODAawards Merit Award Winner in the institutional design category, selected from among 435 entries submitted from more than 26 countries.

Dance the night away with us from your own home as we host and simulcast the global DG + VIE Très Chic Dance Party with Vimeo on Saturday, May 15, 2021, from 7:00 until 8:00 p.m. CDT. Très Chic marks the fifth DG + VIE Awards Party, and we can't wait to celebrate with a worldwide audience of friends dancing along with us as we look toward the future and happier days ahead!

Quest Hospitality Concepts LLC is pleased to announce the debut of 30-A’s newest restaurant, The CITIZEN, a coastal tavern and restaurant located within the luxury seaside community of Alys Beach. The restaurant is slated to open on Friday, January 22, 2021.

While the beloved annual Digital Graffiti festival at Alys Beach has been rescheduled for October 2–3, 2020, the team at Alys Beach will honor the original dates of the event with a virtual celebration. #DGfromhome will be hosted on the Alys Beach Instagram and Facebook pages and on 30A.com during the week of May 11– 17.

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