- Website: culturalfestivals.com
- Avg. Sales: $8177 (AFSB)
- Jury Images: 4 Images of work plus one booth image
- Viewed: simultaneously with images horizontally across the screen (booth image is last image in the row)
- Jurors: The jury is made up of arts professionals, peer jurors, and local buyer/collector (all paid), a total of 5 jurors.
- Scoring: yes, no, maybe
- Jury/Application Fee: $40 non refundable
- Booth Fee: $625 and $725
- Cash Awards: Up to $20,000
- Booth Space: 10'x10' with 2' buffer all around
- Electric: 500 watts provided free, no generators
- Produced by: Cultural Festivals 501(c) 3 Non-profit corp.
- Artist Presence: Required
- Reproductions: Not allowed
- No. of Applicants in 2014: 1329
- No. of Exhibitors from Jury Pool: 145
- No. of Exhibitors Exempt from Jury: 36
- Security: 24-Hour
- Parking: Free/Reserved
In addition to the amazing visual art exhibition, the festival features live performing arts ensembles on three stages, the Creative Castle featuring educational art projects for children, street performers and fifteen of St. Louis' most delectable restaurants.
Apply: www.Zapplication.org
For more information contact:
Cindy Lerick
President & Executive Director, Cultural Festivals
phone: 314-863-4485; CulturalFestivals.com
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Comments
I think I have photos and/or a report from that, Barrie. I was talking to Larry Humphrey who is a big guy with a big hefty booth, but after a little too much creaking and blowing I moved indoors nearby.
Amazingly, the first year my husband and I visited Ann Arbor to see about being part of this business we were on S. University near the intersection with E. University and a big storm came up and blew several booths to bits, and he said, "let's give this business a try." Go figure.
They did have high winds at St. Louis in either 2012 or 2013, I was there (photos and a story on here somewhere, actually, John Leben wrote a report on it, you can find it on the site). The problem in cities is the wind tunnels and the wind rushing in between the buildings. John got hit with that on opening night and they closed the show and wouldn't let anyone (not even the artists) back in for quite a while. They have a good emergency plan in place.
The following year there was a presentation at the Zapp conference on weather scenarios with someone from NOAA even. A lot of good information was given to the show directors present.
I'm not batting a thousand today. I've already deleted a post about this, and now I've found that Saint Louis is on city streets, not grass. So their crisis plan doesn't include mulch, most likely!
I wonder what their CRISIS PLAN is like at this show since it's considered as one of the best, if not arguably THE BEST show in the country. After what happened to the artists on grass in Gasparilla last weekend, will all shows on grass who don't already have a plan in order get one in order? Will they consider other possible crises and implement a plan for them as well? St. Louis can get some awful weather, fer sher.
You probably remember the mid-day tornado in Original Ann Arbor 2007, don't you Connie? They had a plan in place for such an incident and we moved to the basement of one of the adjacent buildings. I think it was Student Union or something like that, right by our booth.
I've never applied to Saint Louis since we've decided to swear off of HOT shows. I don't know. We'll have to see about it. It just sounds so good, I'd like to be a part of it. C'est la vie.