September 16 & 17
Park Forest, Illinois
Presented by the Tall Grass Arts Assn.
90 Artists
Deadline: May 5
Application fee: $35; Booth fee: $175
This is an outdoor fair held in the village green of downtown Park Forest (just about 45 minutes south of Chicago) and along Main Street in downtown. It is the second oldest, continually juried fair in Chicagoland.
You will never participate in a more artist-friendly show including:
Assistance is provided in unloading and loading- free bottles of water and coverage for bathroom breaks all day, breakfast on Saturday and a gorgeous home-cooked, sit-down dinner on Saturday evening.
- Overnight storage space is provided as well as overnight police security service Saturday night for tents.
- There are awards at the show, purchase prizes, and a fund-raiser they hold every year subsidizes the entry fee, keeping it low.
Marketing:
The fair is marketed on WBEZ and WFMT with paid ads. Public service announcements are sent to the other regional radio stations but no placement is guaranteed. The Southtown, a regional paper owned by the Chicago Tribune, always does a feature story in its arts section. Paid ads in the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, etc.
Learn more & apply: http://www.tallgrassarts.org
Contact: Janet Muchnik, jmuchnik@sbcglobal.net, 708-439-2424
Comments
The site is good now. Visit: http://www.tallgrassarts.org
The Tall Grass website is, indeed, down at this moment. VistaPrint, our carrier, is also down. Hopefully the situation will be corrected shortly. Meanwhile, if you email me (jmuchnik@sbcglobal.net), I will send you the application. So sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks for that alert, Mark. I'll email her also.
It looks like their website is offline at the moment. I am going to try to e-mail Janet Muchnik and let her know.