May 30 & 31
Urbanna, Virginia
Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival
Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival
Hewick Plantation (17th century)
Coastal Virginia's Middle Peninsula
Presented by Gloucester Arts on Main
Deadline: January 30
Deadline: January 30
100 Juried Exhibitors
Arts in the Middle is a new name but not a new experience. Led by Gloucester Arts on Main, a popular non-profit arts center in Gloucester Court House, VA, our seasoned team of producers and exhibitors have received state and local funds to renew and expand Art on the Half Shell, the popular festival that drew large crowds until 2012 to our lovely county in Virginia's river country near the Chesapeake Bay. The new venue is a day (or week-end) in the country for visitors from Norfolk/Williamsburg VA, north to Washington, DC and west to Charlottesville, VA. We are actively promoting the show in the surrounding urban areas (Richmond, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Northern Virginia and DC.) The date was strategically set for the week-end after Memorial Day when folks are ready to get to the "rivah."
Urbanna is a very popular destination for tourists up and down the east coast. For two days in the fall thousands fill the streets of this charming harbor village for Urbanna's Oyster Fest. Arts in the Middle is positioned to draw similar crowds to the area for an early summer celebration of the arts.
The actual site on the edge of town, Hewick Plantation is the perfect festival setting with a backdrop of beautiful 17th century buildings, expansive landscaped lawns, and grand old trees shading the long plantation entrance that becomes the exhibit area pathway.
For the artists we offer ~
- Artist hospitality: volunteer support, coffee & pastries, cold water
- Free parking - on premise for artists
- Tent side load /unload
- Grand tent with music & local foods
- Ribbons & cash prizes - qualified judges
- Purchase awards
- Over-night security
- Overnight hotel rooms, campground, and cabin rentals nearby
After the show on Saturday Pearl, the trolley, will ferry artists to the awards ceremony and celebration honoring our artists at "Lansdowne" (17th C) historic home in the heart of the village. Relax with live music, drinks, and light fare or stroll along historic streets, shop, dine or visit the town harbor.The festival is the featured event for the nationally rated #1 camp resort, Bethpage Camp Resort, that hosts hundreds visitors each week-end. Most of our artists will be from the east coast, but all are welcome! In an area of much to see and do, you may be tempted to make this a "working vacation" in Coastal Virginia. We will be happy to help you.
For more information:
Ginny Sawkins, 804-815-4639; artists@artsinthemiddle.com
2015 Application available through zapplication.org
Click here for print copy of 2015 application
Arts in the Middle is supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and funded by the County of Middlesex & Town of Urbanna,& the Art on the Half-Shell Foundation. Hewick Plantation generously supports the show. Local businesses and other friends of the arts donate time and funding to this effort as well.
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