"We're really excited about expanding the festival and we have about 100 artists and chalk artists," she said.
There are 20 more artists in the festival and six of those are chalk artists, doubling the number of street painters at November's event, she added.
The chalk artists will be painting murals on the street interspersed between the artists' booths.
"We're getting better artists," Stewart added. "It's not arts and crafts. It's more fine art and artists who go to top-quality shows."
Burbank resident Andy Gersh will be showing and selling his glasswork at one of the booths.
The artist incorporates a range of brilliant colors into his fused-glass plates, bowls and jewelry.
"My works are contemporary modern designs," he said. "This is not grandmother's stained glass. But I also do stained-glass windows."
Gersh finds the colors the glass takes on fascinating, he said.
"It has a life of its own because there are different characteristics in the glass — textures and colors — and no two pieces of glass are ever the same."
He just started selling the jewelry on his website, www.andygersh.com, and at Retro Parc, a new store in Kenneth Village in Glendale.
Rodrigo Robles, owner Retro Parc, is awed by the shapes and colorations of Gersh's work.
"We're really excited about his products being in our store," Robles said. "We love the simplicity of the glass designs and they complement all of the men's fashions we feature at Retro Parc. I love the organic shapes and colorations he uses."
The Burbank Fine Arts Festival will also have twice the number of musical groups, Stewart said.
"We have a Peruvian group, a salsa trio and a banjo and fiddle group that strolls along the street," she said. "It adds to the fun and energy as people are walking through the street."
