July 11-14 
State College, Pennsylvania
Downtown State College & Penn State Campus
300 exhibitors
Deadline: January 25
Why should you apply to this festival? Here is what its director, Rick Bryant, has to say:
- We're always ranked in the Top Ten in the Sunshine Artist Magazine rankings (#2 last time around!)
- We bring roughly 100,000 people to State College over five days in July (the first day of our Festival is Children's Day, and our artists set up at the end of the day, so that they are there four days)
- The festival is in its 47th year and is on Penn State campus and the streets of the Borough of State College. Actually, we were founded by the State College Chamber of Commerce and Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture as a "town/gown" event.
- Penn State alumni return for "Arts Festival Alumni Weekend," a time to renew old college ties, attend special programs, and, of course, the arts festival. Some folks-those who are nostalgic for life before air conditioning-even opt to stay in dorms! Artists can do that too.
- We hand out over $17,000 in prizes. The top prize is $2,500
- Our festival features the outdoor show, an indoor gallery exhibition, a celebration of Italian Street Painting, performing arts on several indoor stages and four outdoor stages, and a full day of activities for children
- And if you're up for it, there's a 10k/5k run bright and early Sunday morning with over 500 entrants
- Notification is March 18
- Booth fee is $480 for 10x10, $960 for 10x20
For more info: www.arts-festival.com/sidewalk_sale.php
Apply: www.Zapplication.org
Rick Bryant: email rbryant@arts-festival.com
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Comments
I don't want to look at your web site. I want to see your jury images ZAPP size on my computer.
Larry Berman
www.juNxtaposition.com
thanks i will...haha..and they are awful !
Give me a call later today and let me see your jury images and booth picture.
Larry Berman
oh ..and peoples choice deadline was december (i seem to miss it every year....)
thanks Larry..(haha..and i KNOW you are a 'burgh artist..we have to meet one of these days....
i have been doing shows for years, but more country type shows...i do major shows like the country living magazine fairs, but also, street fairs as they work well for me..
(it amazes me)..haha..but i have applied and do not get into shadyside arts festival (not classy enough for howard) nor the fair in the park..which i would LOVE to do.....and funny..i just right now looked up info (again) for 3 rivers.....just not sure about it..i have heard nightmares about set up and tear down....although it always kills me not to do a local show ! (side note - i sell jewelry which is always difficult to jury in with.)
thanks...
Another Pittsburgh artist.
Long's Park and State College are the two top shows in PA, but there are many other to choose from. People's Choice was started by an crafter who couldn't jury into State College and it became a viable alternative for PA residents. It's more of a grandfathered show. If you get it, it's easier to do the show the following year than it is for new artists to get in.
There are three Pittsburgh shows worth applying to. Three Rivers (ask for a space in the plaza), Fair in the Park at Mellon Park is run by the craftsmen guild, and Howard Alan's Shadyside show. Guild members are jury exempt for Fair in the Park but the remaining spaces are up for jury each year.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
thanks !!! (when i meant not fine..i mean like in 'fine' art as opposed to a craft/art show/street fair...)
Maybe someone else can help out better here, Jeanne, but I believe there is one in nearby Bellefonte or Boalsburg. It has been talked about here, or somewhere in my deep art fair memory which doesn't seem accessible at the moment.
connie, (or anyone)
do you know of any less 'fine' show that runs at the same time, in the same area ...(like a piggy-back show?)