Iowa (6)

12345504089?profile=RESIZE_400xJune 28, 29, & 30, 2024
Des Moines, Iowa
Western Gateway Park
Friday & Saturday 11am-10pm, & Sunday 11am-5pm
195 Artists
Deadline: January 15, 2024

Application fee: $40/Booth fee: $535

The Des Moines Arts Festival® is one of the world’s most respected juried art festivals hosting 195 of the nation’s top artists on June 28-30, 2024 in a beautiful urban street setting surrounding the 4.4 acre John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park and the Krause Gateway Center designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

15-time winner of the coveted Grand Pinnacle Award from the International Festivals and Events Association, the outdoor festival celebrating arts and culture attracts more than 200,000 people each year to its downtown location in Iowa’s capital city and largest metropolitan area. The Festival is a show dedicated to the highest standards of excellence that works diligently to maintain a progressive environment for artists and their clients.

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The Festival is a non-profit organization with any proceeds earned going to support the advancement and advocacy of working professional and emerging artists, the continuation of the Festival, and keeping artist fees low.

12345504688?profile=RESIZE_400x"This is one of the best-run shows anywhere in the country. They think of everything."

"Artists whisper fervently of the shining unicorn of a show that is Des Moines”

"I left with empty walls and a full wallet”

 

 

Impact Lives Through the Arts

 For more info: https://www.desmoinesartsfestival.org/
Contact: Stephen King sking@desmoinesartsfestival.org

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Call for Artists: Des Moines Arts Festival

12344482497?profile=RESIZE_400xJune 28, 29, & 30, 2024
Des Moines, Iowa

Western Gateway Park
Friday & Saturday 11am-10pm, & Sunday 11am-5pm
195 Artists
Deadline: January 15, 2024

Application fee: $40/Booth fee: $535

The Des Moines Arts Festival® is one of the world’s most respected juried art festivals hosting 195 of the nation’s top artists on June 28-30, 2024 in a beautiful urban street setting surrounding the 4.4 acre John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park and the Krause Gateway Center designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
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15-time winner of the coveted Grand Pinnacle Award from the International Festivals and Events Association, the outdoor festival celebrating arts and culture attracts more than 200,000 people each year to its downtown location in Iowa’s capital city and largest metropolitan area. The Festival is a show dedicated to the highest standards of excellence that works diligently to maintain a progressive environment for artists and their clients.

12344484099?profile=RESIZE_400xThe Festival is a non-profit organization with any proceeds earned going to support the advancement and advocacy of working professional and emerging artists, the continuation of the Festival, and keeping artist fees low.

"This is one of the best-run shows anywhere in the country. They think of everything."

"Artists whisper fervently of the shining unicorn of a show that is Des Moines.”

"I left with empty walls and a full wallet.”

 


Impact Lives Through the Arts

 For more info: https://www.desmoinesartsfestival.org/
Contact: Stephen King sking@desmoinesartsfestival.org

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Call for Artists: Marion Arts Festival 2024

12343874484?profile=RESIZE_400xMay 18, 2024
Marion, Iowa

7th Avenue Festival Street
1000 7th Avenue
Saturday 9am-5pm
50 Artists
Deadline: February 23, 2024

Application fee: $30/Booth fee: $250

Greetings from the 32nd Annual Marion Arts Festival in Marion, Iowa! (Adjacent to Cedar Rapids, in East Central Iowa.) The MAF presents 50 artists, offering fine art and fine craft to an audience of 10,000.

Last year, Marion Arts Festival moved the festival from in the park, to our newly renovated and beautiful festival street just outside of the park so you can now load directly into your booth location!
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Marion is a "vintage uptown" community and part of the Cedar Rapids metro area, in the heart of a State-designated Cultural and Entertainment District. The festival is the only event of its kind and quality in Eastern Iowa!

Our show is one-day, intimate, and purposeful, with the mission to be an event through which you can thrive. We are an established yearly staple for many community members. Thank you for making the art! It's our privilege to gather an audience.

12343875461?profile=RESIZE_400xDirect load in to your booth site, artist lunch provided, Emerging Artist program has been expanded, more local food vendors, extended live music (at a conversational & comfortable volume), and more live art projects to engage the community.

 

For more information: https://marionartsfestival.com/

Contact: Lexi Matthews mafdirector@marioncc.org

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Call for Artists: Marion Arts Festival

10893653891?profile=RESIZE_400xMay 20, 2023
Marion, Iowa
Uptown Marion Festival Street
Saturday 9am-5pm
50 Artists
Deadline: January 10, 2023
 
Application Fee: $25 Booth fee: $250
 
Greetings from the 31st Annual Marion Arts Festival in Marion, Iowa! (Adjacent to Cedar Rapids, in East Central Iowa.) The MAF presents 50 artists, offering fine art and fine craft to an audience of 10,000.
 
Consistently named among Art Fair SourceBook's Top 50 Events! We returned to the turf in 2022 with great success! Our community awaits you!
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10893655294?profile=RESIZE_400xOur show is one-day, intimate, and purposeful, with the mission to be an event through which you can thrive. (Here, we're obligated to insert that we're volunteer-driven, kind of hokey, and maybe more than a little mom-and-pop, in good ways, mostly.)
 
Thank you for making the art! It's our privilege to gather an audience!
 
 
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Art Elves - Looking for artists

Hi Everyone!

For those stuck in the great white north of Wisconsin (and cannot get to Florida) my partner and I decided to open a season gallery for the holidays in downtown Minneapolis. This will be open only from Black Friday to January 4.

If you are interested below are the details or you can go to http://vintagepainter.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/art-elves-looking-for-artists/. There are only 10 spots. There are also pictures of the site at that link. 

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The Art Elves – where Santa goes for fine art – is looking for regional Wisconsin, Iowan, and Minnesota artists to participate in a seasonal artists show at the Gaviidae Commons in the heart of downtown Minneapolis.

We have secured 1,400 square feet on the street level of the Gaviidae Commons IIand are situated between the Italian restaurant D’Amico & Sons, the retailer Talbots and Neiman Marcus, the coffee shop Caribou Coffee, theWestin Hotel Minneapolis and the RBC Plaza.

All of these businesses open up into the atrium.

The Target Holidazzle Parade passes the store every Thursday through Sunday until December 18 bringing in additional foot traffic and interest.

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The store will be open from Black Friday (November 23) through January 4, 2013 (Yes. I know. 2013 already?!) and through a lottery system every artist will rotate through the storefront windows and have access to the street window. 

We have space for ten artists. Each artist will have approximately 100 square feet depending on the type of art and how it needs to be displayed. Although the store has excellent track lighting and display space you may need to provide your own booth panels, displays and lighting.

You must provide your own insurance.

Let’s get the money questions out of the way: $800.00 Participation Fee + 10% commission + 3% for credit card transactions.  Art Elves will collect and pay all applicable sales taxes.

Did I mention that is a total of six weekends and five weeks over the holidays in downtown Minneapolis? On the parade route? In a high-end, high traffic location? Alongside other heavily promoted retailers? Over the holidays?

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With fresh coffee nearby? And you don’t even have to work in the store unless you want too.

Participating artists will be mailed a check on Monday, December 17 for sales registered between November 23 to Friday December 14 and on Friday, January 11 for all sales registered between Saturday, December 15 and Friday, January, 4th. Checks will include a statement reflecting all sales.

All credit card transactions in the store will be taken via a Square.

Artists are responsible for delivering, setting up, replenishing inventory and picking-up their own work during strict hours.

Artists may opt into sales and promotional opportunities that may include Groupon,Living SocialGoogle Offers, Facebook promotions, Google+ promotions, Linkedin promotions, SMS text marketing and in-store promotions.

More details to follow.

The space is limited to ten artists and is first come, first served and until the spaces are filled. To the best of our ability we will not have competing artists.

Did I mention? This is first come.

Call or email Chrissy Mount (Kapp) or Sean Kinney for details. Chrissy@vintagepainter.com or Sean@vintagepainter.com or visit www.vintagepainter.com.

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Store View.

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ArtSplash: Labor Day Weekend in Sioux City, Iowa

After enjoying this site for several months, yet still wishing there were reviews on the shows I was interested in doing, I have finally decided to get my butt in gear and write my own reviews, no matter how flawed or incomplete they may be. This is my first, but I intend to work my way backward through the year to give my impressions for other shows.

ArtSplash is produced by the Sioux City (Iowa) Art Center and is held in Larsen Park, right on the Missouri River. Set up starts on Friday morning (not super early) and continues through the day. This year the set-up was challenging and exhausting due to the steady high winds (and usual gusts). The spaces on the east end of the show were all on pavement, with a HUGE storage area behind each booth. I'm not sure about the west end booths; they may have been on grass, but they had great open views of The Missouri! Artist parking was great; nearly next to our booths on a grassy hillside.

The show was open on Friday evening for only three hours: 5pm to 8pm. Usually, I would consider this to be a complete waste of time, but in this case it was not. The Friday "Preview" is for adults only (cash bar is available) and the entry fee was $40 in advance, $50 at the gate. There were a shocking number of people who paid these prices to gain entry to the art fair! It helps that there was good music scheduled for later (til 10 pm) on the entertainment stage. ArtSplash has a purchase patron program, and nearly all my sales on Friday were to these patrons. Overall, I did $600 in sales in three hours, which made me quite hopeful for the rest of the weekend. On Saturday morning I spoke to four other artists who were quite pleased with their sales on Friday. Some of them pointed out that last year (2009) the traffic and sales on Friday were abysmal. I am not sure what changed.

Saturday itself saw beautiful weather and large crowds (all paying $5 admission), and sales, for me at least, were steady throughout the day. My neighbors on either side (glass and silkscreen prints) were also fairly busy. The artist dinner and open bar on Saturday night was not sponsored by the Art Center, as you might think, but by one local couple. Think about the implications of that. The couple chose to spotlight some of their favorite local eateries, so there was a buffet line with food from three different places. It was a nice way to support the artists (free food!) and local businesses at the same time. The awards were well chosen, plentiful (I think about 20 artists got something) and generous (the smallest checks were for $250).

Sunday was nearly a repeat of Saturday, and I must admit that I was surprised by the number of people I saw in my booth who had been there on Saturday and even on Friday as well. Admission paid every day. At this point I should mention that the attention paid to the artists during the day was quite good. There were a TON of volunteers who were always stopping in to see if anything was needed. A cart went by several times a day with snacks, fruit, and bottles of water. Tear down was quite easy and my truck was close enough in the lot that I didn't bother moving it to load up. When leaving the park, a volunteer was there at the barricade handing out a bag full of more snacks and water for the road. I loved that final touch of kindness!!

Overall, this was a great show for me (sales about $4500), and I have to thank the jury at Arts, Beats, and Eats for not letting me in, because I ended up at a great show much closer to home.

Hey Nels! How'd I do on my first review?
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