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July 26-28
Chelsea, Michigan
Downtown
Deadline: April 28

After a successful debut in 2011, the 36th Annual Sounds & Sights Festival in historic and culturally savvy Chelsea, Michigan is seeking artists and fine craftsmen and women for its Art Market.  This three-day festival, which attracts over 10,000 guests to downtown Chelsea, runs July 26th -28th.

The Festival Art Market committee is once again looking for a unique combination of artists to display and sell their work, as well as artists that wish to demonstrate their art or craft to festival guests during the weekend. The Art Market will be open Friday and Saturday, July 27th and 28th, from 12pm - 8pm.  Based on the success of the 2011 Art Market, there will be an expanded footprint for 2012.

Additional highlights of the festival include live music across several stages, a food court, a KidZone, a classic car show, a juried Sculpture Walk, in-store events at downtown retail locations and more.

Chelsea is an affluent community, full of people who work in Ann Arbor and Detroit. It also has developed a reputation across the state and the Midwest as an arts community visited by the Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts who stated "in order for the arts to have  susceptibility in a community, there has to be a history, a strong  private sector that is committed to the arts, and a political structure  that gets it. That is what has happened in Chelsea."