The honorary chair of the seventh annual Thousand Oaks Arts Festival will be professional artist Scott Medlock, known as one of America’s foremost sports artists.

The festival, which celebrates the visual and performing arts, will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat. and Sun., Sept. 11 and 12 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and the Mary and Richard Carpenter Plaza Park, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., and The Lakes shopping center next door.

The festival will feature more than 60 local visual arts exhibitors, live performances, art demonstrations and children’s interactive art exhibits.

Perhaps best know for his work depicting the game of golf, Medlock has intertwined many of the game’s most impressive moments with its biggest stars, including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gary Player, Fred Couples, Greg Norman, Chi Chi Rodriguez and Natalie Gulbis.

Medlock has been commissioned by the PGA tour to create artwork for the 2006 Ryder Cup and The Players Championship. Professional golf tournaments have also commissioned him to develop paintings.

Medlock compiled many of his golf images from the past 20 years, as well as paintings from other sports, in his book “Scott Medlock: Capturing the Moment.”

His past work includes abstract paintings, children’s book illustrations, magazine covers and paintings for major advertising campaigns.

He was commissioned as one of the official artists for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Medlock has created and sold out numerous limited edition reproductions.

Medlock graduated with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has received awards of excellence for his art from the New York Society of Illustrators, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, European Illustrators Society, Children’s Book Illustrator of the Year and American Bookseller.

He is a two-time winner of the Pick of the List award for outstanding illustration in a children’s book.

Both Medlock’s work and book will be on display at the festival.

For more on the artist, visit www.ScottMedlock.com.

Festival admission is free for the public. A few visual artist spaces are still available.

Artist prospectus and application are available by calling the festival’s visual arts chair Craig Morton at (818) 991-6158 or going to www.toartsfestival.com.