May 16Marion, Iowa (Cedar Rapids)
City Square Park
1000 7th Avenue
Saturday 9 am - 5 pm
50 Artists
Deadline: December 17
Notification: January 27, 2020
Application fee: $25; Booth fee: $250
Marion is adjacent to Cedar Rapids in Eastern Iowa. The MAF draws a regional audience of 10,000, including patrons from the Iowa City-to-Cedar Falls I380 corridor. The festival is an outdoor event, held in a vintage uptown-type city square park, and seated within a State-designated Iowa Great Place, Main Street Iowa District, Iowa Cultural and Entertainment District, and ArtPlace America-funded spaces.
Marketing:
Two-thirds of our budget is spent on advertising, with most media outlets matching us dollar-for-dollar. Event is marketed throughout Eastern Iowa, including static/digital billboards; newspapers and arts tabloids; broadcast and cable television; radio; web advertising; and a full-color, 12-page festival program distributed to 41,000 area households (via the Cedar Rapids Gazette the Sunday prior to the event).
Our mission: To create an event through which you will thrive.
NO BANDS. NO BEER. JUST ART.
The Marion Arts Festival is about the art. Our show is one-day, intimate, and purposeful. We're volunteer-driven, kind of hokey and maybe more than a little mom-and-pop ... in good ways, mostly. Always, we do the show for you.
You're our whole point. Come, meet your pony...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlkyyt1ngXQ&t=5s
You're our whole point. Come, meet your pony...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlkyyt1ngXQ&t=5s
Testimonials:
- Check out this 2018 review on ArtFairInsiders.com: http://www.artfairinsiders.com/profiles/blogs/marion-arts-festival-has-it-pretty-much-figured-out
- Among Art Fair SourceBook's "Elite 25" for 2017!
- Consistently among Art Fair SourceBook's Top 50 shows!
(It rained - and rained, and rained - in 2018, the first time in 24 years, and then rained again in 2019, meaning those who were with us these two years were not able to enjoy the full-on appreciation of our audience. How you all do it, we don't know. What we do know is that we're lucky you do it at all.)
Contact: mafdirector@marioncc.org
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