June 17-19
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Presented by the Milwaukee Art Museum
175 Artists
Deadline: November 24
For over fifty years, the Lakefront Festival of Art has been bringing art to life on Milwaukee's lakefront. This three-day fund-raising event has evolved from a gathering of a handful of artists in 1963 to a vibrant, exciting, and wide-ranging festival. The Festival attracts close to 30,000 attendees and more than 170 jury-selected artists from across the nation. Named one of the top twenty-five art festivals in the country, the Lakefront Festival of Art is a fine art showcase on the shores of Lake Michigan.
The festival takes place inside the museum's spectacular Santiago Calatrava-designed building, as well as on the adjoining outdoor museum grounds featuring our state of the art Clearspan tents. Enjoy the festival rain or shine indoors AND outdoors! (Indoor booth availability limited, based on first come, first serve). This is the Museum's largest special event and is highly visible, with setup and parking close by.
Marketing:
Our Festival of Art has an aggressive public relations campaign including targeted online and print publications, TV, radio and social media vehicles within the Southeastern Wisconsin markets as well as regional publications, broadcasts and bloggers. In 2015 marketing and media coverage accounted for a total of 17.3 million impressions with social media posts reaching 2,524 LFOA Facebook friends, 6,466 Milwaukee Art Museum Instagram followers and 44,611 Twitter followers. The LFOA website saw 91,679 page views, with 21,811 unique users.
Awards:
A total of $10,500 in awards will be presented. Ten awards of $1,000 each to be given where excellence is determined by the jurors. Awards will be determined based on the artist's entire presentation. The top ten award-winning artists are automatically invited back to LFOA for the following year without jurying and will receive a commemorative piece of artwork specifically designed for them by a fellow LFOA exhibiting artist.
Jurors will also select Honorable Mention award winners, all of whom are automatically invited back to LFOA for the next year without jurying.
And here's a video visit to the show:
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