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April 30 & May 1
Elmhurst, Illinois
on the grounds of the Elmhurst Art Museum
Presented by: RGL Marketing for the Arts, Inc.
125 Artists
Deadline: February 1
Application Fee: $25 -- Booth Fee: $360
This acclaimed arts festival focuses on contemporary, urban, and one of a kind art designs. Over 125 artists sell their art which includes jewelry, fiber, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, sculpture, wood, painting, paper, and illustrations. Art in the Park has a Kid's Court, Food/Gourmet Food Vendor area, and Acoustic Music.
Art in the Park is located on the grounds of the Elmhurst Art Museum, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, and the landmark Wilder Mansion. Elmhurst College is located across the street and downtown Elmhurst is one block away with trendy restaurants, coffee shops, and boutiques.
Art in the Park is considered a cultural arts destination with over 10,000 people attending annually. Elmhurst is an art loving community and is a very affluent area with new homes ranging from $800,000-$3million.
Contact: Roz Long, roz@rglmarketingforthearts.com
Phone: (630)712-6541
Hello all!
With apologies to Bob Hope, I want to thank all of the artists who have submitted reviews (their memories) of the shows they have participated in. I have learned, and continue to learn a lot from these reviews. As an art festival producer, it helps to have a broader idea what the artists like and don’t like. Not that we can always do these items, but it does help to know what is desired (and not desired as well!) and have a goal. For well over 6 years I have been part of another festival producer in Southern CA. Now I am spreading my wings, and ‘flying’ to Northern California and Nevada starting a new company called CWB Events. As of this moment, I only have three events on the schedule, but plan on adding more very soon. Reading all of the reviews was a real education, and now I have the opportunity to put it into practice. I am always open to new (and old) ideas and suggestion, as learning is a way of life for me! The goal was and is to have quality art and high caliber artists. I plan on continuing with that goal as CWB Events, while expanding as I can. Again, I thank you for the time it takes to submit your reviews, and I look forward to reading many more!
Thanks
Curtis Beck
July 14-17
State College, Pennsylvania
Downtown State College & Penn State Campus
305 Artists
Deadline: January 22
Application Fee: $35
Booth Fees: $550 10'x10'; $1,200 10'x20'
Why should you apply to this festival? Here is what its director, Rick Bryant, says:
Our festival, known to artists as 'the Penn State Show', and the Penn Staters as the 'Arts Fest', is new in its 50th year on the University Park campus of Penn State and the streets of downtown State College, PA. We were founded by the State College Chamber of Commerce and Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and we're still very much a 'town/grown' event--it's a big festival in a small town.
We bring roughly 125,000 people to State College over five days of our event in July. That's not a number we make up, we do an audience survey each year administered by a facility member at Lock Haven University.
Going to the Arts Festival is a rite of passage for Penn Staters. Students don't miss it and Alumni return for "Arts Festival Alumni Weekend," a program of the Penn State Alumni Association, the largest dues paying alumni association in the world over 170,000 members strong. Arts Festival Alumni Weekend is a time to renew old college ties, attend special programs, and of course, shop at the "Arts Fest".
Alumni proudly wearing blue pins sporting their year of graduation are often an artist's best customer. Some alums even opt to stay in dorms! (Artists can do that too!)
- We're consistently ranked in the Top Ten in the Sunshine Artist magazine rankings (#1 last time around!)
- We hand out over $17,500 in prizes. The top prize is $2,700; our second prize is $1,500. We hand out over 20 prize, and 50 people will be invited back as jury-exempt artists in 2016 based on on-site jury scores.
- We provide lots of amenities including one of the best artists' receptions on the circuit
- In the 2015 survey by ArtFairCalendar.com art fair patrons chose us as one of the nation's Best Art Fairs that they love to attend.
The event also includes a full day of activities for children, performances by international, national, and regional acts on three outdoor states and at four indoor venues, a book festival, and a celebration of Italian Street Painting. And, if you're up for it, there's a 5k/10k/10 mile run bright and early Sunday morning with over 500 entrants.
Learn more: www.arts-festival.com
Hi,
Nice piece in the Banner.
“Bonita Springs National Art Festival brings thousands to Riverside Park”
Barry or Ehren artfest@artsbonita.org
Tel: (239) 495-8989
Bonita Springs National Art Festival web site:
http://www.artcenterbonita.org/artfest/
I'm a digital artist and the work I create is an odd size. Pictures are either horizontally formatted or vertically formatted, but they are all around twice as wide as the are tall, or twice as tall as they are wide. So, when I size them down to 1920 pixels on the longest size, there is lots of black space. I'm considering showing cropped sections of these paintings for Zapp for my applications. I can crop some of them so they look pretty good in a square format. But when a juror looks at the booth shot, they will see the actual pictures in the booth, not the cropped ones I use for the jury. The cropped pictures will definitely have more impact, but is it kosher to show cropped images? Anybody out there have an opinion on this?
May 21 & 22
Indianapolis, Indiana
Presented by: Indianapolis Art Center
225 Artists
Deadline: January 24
Application Fee: $35; Booth Fees: $370
"One artist, one at a time." This is the core principle of the Broad Ripple Art Fair. We value fine art and fine craft by individual artists or collaborative teams who both create the work personally and sell it directly to the retail customer, and we ask all of our participating artists to share this value.
The Broad Ripple Art Fair is a gated event ($13 presale and $15 day of) that serves as the Indianapolis Art Center's largest fundraiser of the year. It is held on the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center and its 9-acre ArtsPark, plus the adjacent North Side Optimists Opti-Park.
- Second day pass-back for patrons, gated fair average of over 15,000 attendees
- Heavy item pick up service
- Staff and volunteer supported load-in and load-out
- Over 400 volunteers
Apply: www.zapplication.org
Learn more: www.indplsartcenter.org/braf
Contact: Kyle Herrington, kyleh@indpisartcenter.org, (317)255-2464
Here's a little inspiration during these dark winter days, or for when you are wondering why you are doing what you are doing, from Casey Sheppard's, Case of the Nomads.
I’m currently working on a project that I need help promoting. I thought you might enjoy what I’m doing. On July 1st 2015 I left Los Angeles, CA on a year long road trip to connect communities: bike and art. I’ve traveled over 15,00 miles, visited over 20 universities, art centers and clubs along with camping all over the US and I have meet fellow adventures like Roz Savage and Kenton Cool. I’ve attached my website for more details.
I’m busy planning and getting ready to head to the desert to kick off the second half of Case of the Nomads. There is a lot in the works for this year: workshops, lectures, artist visits, trunk shows, mountain bike coach training and much much more.
I’ve also launched a fundraiser event that is for this week only. I've found that fundraising is an essential part of this journey and thanks to others support this trip has been possible. This current fundraiser isn't about supporting a nomadic lifestyle but to support others willing to dare to dream then make it happen. When you help out you become part of this grand adventure and as an added bonus, you receive a gift from the road in return. Gifts include drawings, watercolors, framed photo prints and jewelry all created by me while traveling. There will also be an online thank you to all contributors at the end of the fundraiser that will appear on my website, newsletter and social media. I hope you are able to take part in this event which ends on January 13th at 3pm CST.
Click link to see gifts, donate and please pass along to others:I also think you’ll dig this, it's a little slide show of the past year of my last months in Los Angeles, the built of Jones…Full of Grace and the communities, places and moments from Case of the Nomads that has forever shaped me into the perfect mess of a loving human being, I’m grateful for every moment and I’m looking forward to the next 9 months on the road!!! Please post to Facebook and make sure to tag your friends, I think you may know some peeps in the video!!!
Here's a fast video, so you can follow Casey on here trip: https://vimeo.com/150934409
I want to be Casey when I grow up!
Three or four years ago, I began showing a few experimental images as part of the mix in my art fair booth. They were kind of fantasy oriented with surrealistic imagery and a bit of humor. They were mixed in with an assortment of landscapes and nautical images inspired by my location on Lake Michigan. I thought that if I showed a lot of different things and subject matter in my booth I could appeal to a bigger audience. I had some mild success with this mix of subjects, but began to notice that the fantasy stuff was outselling the landscapes.
I remembered reading Connie's advice about focusing on a narrow subject so as not to confuse my audience. I wondered if that advice really applied to me. I didn't want to lose all those customers who bought my landscapes and other assorted subjects. But finally, after I had enough of the funky images to show, I took the plunge and eliminated all but my fantasy, surrealistic stuff. You know what happened? My sales almost doubled. I continued to develop this series of images, and I'm having the time of my life. People love this stuff.
Locally, here in Saugatuck, Michigan, people are used to seeing my beach stairs paintings and local landscapes. I've been showing the funky stuff, that I call the "Urban Punk" series in local galleries, but this series has been selling much better at art fairs. Hopefully that will change now because I'm opening a one-man show of the Urban Punk Series at the Holland Area Arts Council on Friday, January 15 with a reception from 6-8pm. Its open to the public and all are invited. Its a show of all the work I've been doing over the last three years... work that I'm also showing in my art fair booth.
I've still got a pretty healthy inventory of the more conventional imagery that I used to show at art fairs. I went through a lot of angst and soul-searching before putting this stuff into storage and focusing on the Urban Punk images. Its never too late to try something new and to mix up the pot a little. Here's where you can see the Urban Punk Series on my website: http://lebenart.com/pages/urban-punk
July 9 & 10
St. Joseph, Michigan
on the Bluff overlooking Lake Michigan
Presented by: Krasl Art Center
200 Artists
Deadline: January 21
Application Fee: $35; Booth Fees: $300/$375
With an estimated 50,000 attendees, the Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff is one of the most prestigious and well-attended outdoor events in Southwest Michigan. As a source of pride for the community-as well as volunteers and artists from around the country, the Krasl Art Fair provides our guests with tremendous exposure to high quality art.
The art fair is consistently ranked as one of the top art fairs in the country and has been in the top 20 art fairs in Sunshine Artist Magazine for 4 years running and in ranks in the Top Ten of ArtFairCalendar.com's Best Art Fairs. This established art fair attracts fine art and fine craft artists from all over the US and Canada.
Extensive media promotion is made to target buyers of art. Traditional media, magazine, newspaper, radio and tv, is utilized along with social media.
What the artists say:
- "Thank you once again for a wonderful art fair! You really care about the artists and are so well organized." Mary K
- "I sold more this year than I have sold in the last 36 years of going to art fairs...fantastic!" Randy M.
Apply: www.zapplication.org
Learn more: www.krasl.org
Contact: Breeze Ettl, bettl@krasl.org, (269)983-0271
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Find even more art fairs for 2016: www.CallsforArtists.com
Just wanted to Thank Lynn Wettach, of Holiday Art Shows, for my space at the Jan 1/2 show in St Augustine. I won a space with her through Art Fair Insiders, and I gotta tell you, I would love to work with her again!
LARGE spaces, plenty of back space, quad set-ups, so everyone had corner space. Super easy set-up and break down. Friendly staff, nice coffee and breakfast for the artists.
Lynn made sure to stop by each artist to say hello and make sure things were good.
I say , give this show a try, lots of fine art at this show , with really good advertising.
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Just curious as to what Artist mostly do during the show off season? A lot of people go to Florida for shows, some just take a break and/or work on their Art, others try to dig deep for small local shows or venues like Home shows or Flower Shows, or get a temp job? Since I'm tired of watching my bank account dip this time of year Im considering a new strategy. I mostly take a few weeks off, work on updating new product, applying to shows and doing my taxes. How about you?
After 5 joint replacements since March 2014 - yes 2 hips, 2 knees, rt reverse shoulder -- and knowing that I am on avoidance for left shoulder surgery -- and am now having epidurals for my back -- we have decided to do a few shows this year. Has anyone done the Pittsburgh Arts and Craft Shows, Nassau Shows, and Gilmore Shows? What are thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
April 1-3
St. Louis, Missouri
40th Annual Spring Art Fair at Queeny Park
Queeny Park in West St. Louis County
presented by the Greater St. Louis Art Association
Fri. 5pm-9pm; Sat. 10am-6pm; Sun. 11am-4pm
130 artists
Deadline: January 15
For more than thirty-eight years the Greater St. Louis Art Association has been providing opportunities for the public to see and purchase original works of fine art and fine craft directly from the artists who create them.
Every year we produce two juried art shows (Spring and Labor Day Weekend). Artists in all media are encouraged to apply. These shows feature juried local, regional and national artists' original work. From the pool of artists applying, about 130 artists from all over the US and Canada are invited to exhibit. These artists are selected by a professional jury process in eleven distinct media categories.
Both shows are presented in the indoor, air-conditioned setting of the Greensfelder Recreation Complex at Queeny Park in west St. Louis County.
Food and refreshments are available on site, parking for the public and artists is free. Live music playing during wine tasting and peak attendance. During Sunday afternoon, an interactive children's art education program encourages families with youngsters to meet and talk with artists and learn about their work.
Noteworthy:
- Our 40th Annual Spring Art fair
- Limited to approximately 130 artists
- An air-conditioned indoor art fair, no worry about the weather, tents or security
- Jury/Booth fees ($25/$200); free electricity
- Cash awards totaling $4,500
- Booth sitters, 24-hour security. Rest easy knowing your booth is locked up safely at night.
- Excellent marketing campaign, expanded to television, newspaper, magazine and radio advertising, internet and e-mail promotion
- Promotional postcards, business cards and coupons provided free to exhibiting artists
- Live music throughout the art fair
- Wine tasting Friday & Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoon
Important dates:
- Artist's entry deadline: January 15
- January 24 Late Deadline for Artists Applications ($25 late fee applies)
- January 26 Artwork has been juried
- January 30 Artist notification via e-mail. Acceptance letter will soon follow.
- No booth fees will be refunded after March 3
- April 10 Booth set up starting at 9am, must be finished by 4pm
Learn more & apply: www.artfairatqueenypark.com/
You may also contact: Vic Barr, GSLAA President
(314)997-1181 vicbarr@sbcglobal.net
Artsy Shark needs 48 artists to feature and promote
in the coming months.
Are you interested?
This is a competitive, juried process.
Deadline is midnight EST, January 11, 2016.
Apply: http://www.artsyshark.com/become-a-featured-artist/
May 21
Marion, Iowa (Cedar Rapids)
50 Artists
Deadline: January 19
Application Fee: $25; Booth Fee: $225
ONE DAY.
FIFTY ARTISTS.
TEN THOUSAND ADMIRERS.
AN ALARMINGLY SMALL CITY BLOCK.
Greetings from the Marion Arts Festival, in Marion, Iowa! (East Central Iowa). Named by ArtFairCalendar.com as among "America's Best Art Fairs" in 2013 and 2014, the MAF presents 50 artists, offering both fine art and fine craft to an audience of 10,000.
THERE ARE NO BANDS, THERE IS NO BEER.
THE MAF IS ABOUT THE ART.
Marion is a "vintage uptown" type of community, and a part of the Cedar Rapids metro area. Our show is 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, kind of hokey and maybe more than a little mom-and-pop ... in good ways, mostly.) No beer, no bands -- just art.(However, we do cop to good falafel.)
New this year:
The 2016 Marion Arts Festival is NOT the same weekend as Belleville, Illinois' Art on the Square!
They follow the moon! We follow the calendar!
This year, the twain do not meet!
Marketing:
We work year around, writing grants and securing business and media sponsors, ultimately spending over 2/3 of our budget on getting your customers to the park. Television, cable, newspapers, radio (public and commercial), web advertising, posters, billboards (static and digital), social media, features in state-wide arts tabloids, online event calendars, and a 12-page festival program distributed to 80,000 eastern Iowa households, as a special section of the Sunday-before-the-festival Cedar Rapids Gazette.
What "they" say about us:
"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" ... 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."
Thank you for your interest, and for the work you do ... we count ourselves lucky that you're out there. Please don't hesitate to contact us for information and encouragement!
Website: www.marionartsfestival.com
Contact: Deb Bailey, mafdirector@marloncc.org
 Ann Arbor, Michigan
NEW! Days of the week: Thursday - Sunday
Thursday, July 21 - Sunday, July 24
CELEBRATING 57 YEARS OF ORIGINALITY
Application Deadline: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016.
Hours: Thurs.-Sat. 10am-9pm, Sun. Noon-6pm
200 Exhibitors
Deadline: January 13
Application Fee: $35 (till Dec. 31) $40 (after Jan.1)
Booth Fee: $650 single (Electricity and corners for an additional $100The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair is the original of a collective of four concurrent fairs that transform central Ann Arbor into a massive outdoor art gallery each July. Established in 1960 and still true to its mission of increasing public knowledge and appreciation for contemporary fine arts and fine crafts, the Original Ann Arbor Art Fair presents consistently high quality, all original work. Located on the streets surrounding the historic Burton Carillon Tower and the tree-lined central campus of he University of Michigan, the Street Art Fair, the Original, offers a serene atmosphere that does not include sidewalk sales or merchandise vendors. The Street Art Fair is known for attracting collectors, corporate buyers, and gallery representatives. Highlights:
 Website: www.artfair.org
Email: production@artfair.org
Phone: (734)994-5260
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