June 19-21
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum
180 Exhibitors
Deadline: November 25
Join us for the Lakefront Festival of Art (LFOA) in our magnificent setting at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The award-winning, nationally-recognized festival takes place inside the museum's spectacular Santiago Calatrava-designed building, and on the adjoining outdoor museum grounds featuring state of the art Clearspan tents.
Patrons enjoy the festival rain or shine! LFOA features jury-selected work of 180 artists from across the country. The festival is a fundraiser for the 501(c) 3 non-profit Milwaukee Art Museum and is presented by Friends of Art, the museum's primary support group.
LFOA has an aggressive public relations campaign including targeted online and print publications, TV, radio and social media. In 2014 LFOA media coverage included 107 television/radio placements, 87 print/online placements, 2,163 Facebook friends and over 6,651,000 impressions. Last year's festival attendance had over 22,000 gated qualified visitors.
View a video clip of festival highlights, artist comments and patron remarks: www.youtube.com
A total of $10,000 in awards are presented each year!
The top TEN award-winning artists are each given $1,000; commemorative pieces of artwork designed by a fellow LFOA exhibiting artist, and are invited back to LFOA for the next year. ONE participating Sculpture Garden artist will receive a single $500 Award. Jurors also select Honorable Mention award winners, all of whom are automatically invited back to LFOA for the next year without jurying.
Artist's Benefits...
- Artist Breakfast
- Booth Sitters
- Electricity
- Guest Housing
- Museum Admission
- Program Image
- 24 Hour Security
- Drive up to your booth to load in/out
LFOA Special Features include...
Fiber Art Fashion Show
Located in the main food and beverage area, providing maximum exposure of the wearable's to festival attendees. A Milwaukee Fashionista MC's this well attended event. Fashions include spectacular unique fiber art and one-of-a-kind garments, coats, scarves, and other imaginative fiber wearables for day and evening created by LFOA artists.
Sculpture Garden
The Lakefront Festival of Art extends an invitation to artists who are interested in showcasing their work in a professionally designed and installed Sculpture Garden. The outside garden will showcase outdoor and large scale work allowing artists further representation. Previous years have included artists working in mediums of glass, ceramics, wood and mixed media.
Online Silent Auction
Featuring numerous works of art donated by talented LFOA exhibiting artists. Online bidding is open to the public, and available prior to festival weekend as well as throughout all three days of the festival. The auction offers all art lovers a chance to bid, from home or onsite regardless of attending. The silent auction provides the public with a highlight overview of the festival artists.
Interested in applying to the 2015 Lakefront Festival of Art? Here's the link:
www.Zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=3546
Learn more at:
www.lfoa.mam.org
Thank you for your interest in our festival, please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Best of luck to you in all your future artistic endeavors!
Krista Renfrew-Festival Director
Comments
You are so right, Geri. In addition to the Museum's YouTube video you might also like the one I made when I attended the show in June 2013. Click on the video tab up at the top and that will take you to it.
This show knows how to do things right. Vendors are separate from the artists, outside before you even enter the tent. Appropriate music is played throughout the show and the food is in a separate area outside the tent. Wonderful quality art and if there is buy/sell or production work, I don't recall seeing it and I have been going to this show for years.
Thank goodness for the tent, for some reason, this weekend usually has one really rainy day but it doesn't seem to affect the people attending.