May 19
Marion, Iowa (Adjacent to Cedar Rapids)
Presented By: Marion Arts Festival
50 Artists
Deadline: January 9
Application Fee: $25 Booth Fee: $250
Greetings from the 26th annual Marion Arts Festival, in Marion, Iowa! (Adjacent to Cedar Rapids, in East Central Iowa). Among Art Fair SourceBook's Top 25 events in the nation for 2017! (#18 fine craft! #20 fine art!) An AFSB "Elite 100" show eight years running! Among ArtFairCalendar.com's Top 50 "America's Best Art Fairs" and Top 6 "America's Smaller Art Fairs" 2015/2014/2013!
The Marion Arts Festival presents 50 nationally sourced artists, offering both fine art and fine craft to an audience of 10,000. Marion is a "vintage uptown" type community, and a part of the Cedar Rapids metro area.
- Our show is regional, one-day, intimate and purposeful, with the mission to be an event through which you will thrive.
- (Here, we're obligated to insert that we're volunteer-driven, admittedly hokey and maybe a more than a little mom-and-pop).
- There are no bands, there is no beer...our festival is about the art (we do, however, cop to falafel).
- Our exhibitors enjoy a sincere welcome and an easy-to-do show.
Visit www.marionartsfestival.com to view our 2017 artist lineup - you'll find 50 of your most respected artist pals.
Expect Extensive event marketing throughout Eastern Iowa, including static/digital billboards, newspapers and arts tabloids, broadcast and cable television, radio, Facebook promotions and other web advertising, and full-color, 16-page festival program distributed to 80,000 area households (via the Cedar Rapids Gazette the Sunday prior to the event).
From Art Fair SourceBook artist reports:
"Fantastically run, major fine artists, wonderful extra art related events. No music. No beer. It's awesome."
"This is a gem of a show in an unlikely place. The show works hard to make this a worthy arts festival and ensures that each artist is "one-of-a-kind" within the fifty-artist event. The show generated record sales for me, and my one-day sales here topped my previous single-day sales record by a very wide margin. All in all, this is an easy and profitable show to do."
"My best show of the year! A niche market that never disappoints."More Information: www.marionartsfestival.com
Contact: Deb Bailey, mafdirector@marioncc.org (319) 377-6316
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