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The Last Call: September deadlines

Posted by Meg Mettler on August 26, 2026 at 6:00am

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Application Deadline Alert!

Last Call:
September

List your show here!

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Deadline: August 30, 2026
62nd Annual Art Harvest
Dunedin, Florida
November 7 & 8, 2026
APPLY NOW

Deadline: August 31, 2026
Sugar Land Arts & Music Fest
Sugar Land, Texas
November 6, 7, & 8, 2026
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Deadline: September 1, 2026
Magic City Art Connection
Birmingham, Alabama
April 23, 24, & 25, 2027
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Deadline: September 4, 2026
Palm Springs Art Festival
Palm Springs, California
November 21 & 22, 2026
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Deadline:September 7, 2026
57th Annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts
Tampa, Florida
March 6 & 7, 2027
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Deadline: September 11, 2026
Coconut Grove Arts Festival - 63rd
Miami, Florida
February 13, 14, & 15, 2027
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Deadline: September 16, 2026
4th Annual Mercato Art Celebration
Naples, Florida
January 23 & 24, 2027
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Deadline: September 18, 2026
Desert Art Festival
Rancho Mirage, California
November 27, 28, & 29, 2026
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Deadline: September 18, 2026
26th Annual ArtFest Fort Myers
Fort Myers, Florida
February 5, 6, & 7, 2027
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Deadline: September 23, 2026
The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival
Winter Park, Florida
March 19, 20, & 21, 2027
APPLY NOW
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A New Website for Us...www.CallsforArtists.com

Posted by Connie Mettler on October 28, 2010 at 8:55pm
So here we go again. Back in 2004 my son Scott said "build a website, Mom. Everyone is online, or is going to be there." So, ArtFairCalendar.com was born. We (my husband Norm Darwish and I) started gathering email addresses at all of our art fairs, instead of mailing addresses. We started this website to list the juried art fairs around the country so patrons could find the good shows and the site could help bring them to the art fairs. There was no intention of this becoming a business. We wanted to enable our artist friends to continue to earn their living at the nation's art fairs.

Fast forward: 2010 - ArtFairCalendar.com is the #1 Google-rated site for "art fairs", most of the time, but always in the top three. Who would have known? Thousands visit the site daily. Nearly 19,000 people subscribe to the newsletters. The site has become an excellent vehicle for people looking for art fairs. Even artists use it!

In 2008 Scott said that social networking was the next big thing and I'd better have a site to serve all the artist subscribers to the newsletter. People were meeting in communities online and artists were a community who would like to be in touch with each other outside of the art fairs. So along came ArtFairInsiders.com. Yep, it gets good Google ratings also and we are thrilled with its growth. Thanks, guys! Who knew this would work?

Last month we launched site #3: www.CallsforArtists.com. We are building it into a site where artists can quickly find deadlines for art fairs at a glance. It is also, of course, another place where art fairs can get some notice from you. Please take a look and let us know how it looks to you. We'd really appreciate it if you would encourage art fair organizers that you know to join us there also.

How are we doing here? What do you think of the new site? What should we do next?


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