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Best Art Fairs in America

Please Note: Due to the pandemic, the rankings and awards above are based on surveys from 2019.

We look forward to relaunching the Best Art Fairs Awards soon!

Jacki Bils

Hi Lisa, Thanks for your votes for the Tempe Art Festival and the Boulder City Art in the Park. Unfortunately, to get them onto our Best Art Fair lists you have to vote for them on our Best Art Shows survey. I am not sure when it is coming out again. If you get our emails from Art Fair Calendar we send out several emails asking people to vote for their favorite shows. If you don't get our emails yet, sign up so that you will get them.

Lisa

What about the Tempe Art Festival!! Maybe the best I’ve ever been to!! Boulder City Art in the Park is also great.

Liz Gilley

Logan Summerfest Arts Faire. Located in downtown Logan, Utah. Great support from the community and out of the area. Just over 170 juried vendors, entertainment all day, food everywhere, including a short walk across the street to little restaurants. The bus system is free, it makes it so easy for patrons to come and go, plus there is a lot of parking near by. Vendors are well taken care of, they are even given breaks from their booths to go eat and relax in a air conditioned hospitality room twice daily by the hosts. While setting up there are free services for very large wheeled carts, hand carts, ramps, etc., and assistance to help you, especially if you are alone or had to park a bit away. The show is family friendly and there are several free art activities for kids to do under the canopy. Logan is a city of trees and that makes it very nice for vendors and shoppers because the shade they provide keeps everybody cool in June. Very unique and creative artists show here. You'll find a wide range of prices. Overall a successful event for everyone!

Kathy R

Art by the Falls in Chagrin Falls, Ohio is always a great show in June.

Jacki Bils

Thank you, Jessy, for your comment. You can make your voice heard this fall during our Best Art Fairs in America survey. Sign up for our newsletters so that you receive our survey so that you can vote for this show. Thanks, Jacki

Jessy Jet

Under the Oaks Fine Arts & Crafts Show in Vero Beach, Florida is top notch with over 200 artists juried in nationwide!

Jacki Bils

Hello Jamie, My guess is that there probably is an art fair that would enjoy having some volunteer music at their show. However, I would have no way of knowing which shows would like that. You will need to contact each show to find out if they are interested or not. Good luck

Jamie Roth

Hello,

I am the band director at Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale. I would love the opportunity to have a group of my students perform jazz at any of the Art Fair's in our area this next school year. Is this something that is possible?

Jamie

Jacki Bils

Hello Charlotte, Are familiar with our yearly Best Art Fairs survey? Every Fall we allow people like you to vote for your favorite art shows. The shows that make our Best Art Shows list are ones that were submitted to us by people like you. Those shows are tallied up at the end of our survey and the shows with the most votes make our list. Have you ever gotten one of our emails announcing that we are looking for people to vote for their favorite art shows? If not, sign up for our emails. You can find a place to do that on nearly every page of our website. Then, in the Fall look for the survey announcement in our emails. We hope you will take part in our survey next Fall.

Jacki Bils

Hello Sue, I saw your comment about how to list your show on the Art Fair Calendar.

To get your art show listed on our Art Fair Calendar go to the home page of Art Fair Calendar. Scroll down the home page and look for Advertise your Art Fair in the narrow column on the left side of the page. On that page you will find a spot to click on that says Advertise your Art Fair. Click on that.

https://www.artfaircalendar.com/art_fair/advertise-with-us.html

Thanks for contacting us.

Jacki Bils

Hello Becky, Are familiar with our yearly Best Art Fairs survey? Every Fall we allow people like you to vote for your favorite art shows. The shows that make our Best Art Shows list are ones that were submitted to us by people like you. Those shows are tallied up at the end of our survey and the shows with the most votes make our list. Have you ever gotten one of our emails announcing that we are looking for people to vote for their favorite art shows? If not, sign up for our emails. You can find a place to do that on nearly every page of our website. Then, in the Fall look for the survey announcement in our emails. We hope you will take part in our survey next Fall.

Becky

The Sausalito Art Festival is fabulous and I was very surprised that it wasn't on any of your lists of the top shows. I've also been to a show or two that did make your list and I argue that the Sausalito Art Festival is at least as good if not better.

Sue Pajakowski

We would like to have our 2019 Old Town Art Fair information posted on your website's calendar. Please send me contact information and any forms to be completed. Thank you, Sue Pajakowski
Promotions Committee Co-Chair

Charlotte Heart

We are from the Orlando-ish FL area and always love the Winter Park Art Fest, that always has great atmosphere, great shopping areas and several cozy restaraunts right around all the art tents and concerts in the midst and so glad it keeps making your list! But we also think that the Mt. Dora FL Arts & Crafts show is one of thee best with the beautiful lake and dock area, where everyone always gets the best pics, with the old-school railroad nearby where everyone loves to watch the train go by and get pics as well. ;) The grounds are huge and the show seems to get bigger and better every yr. There is an onsite bathroom bldg that is always kept clean and a friendly welcoming band as you enter the whole area, including a back-end band near the nastalgic classic yellow house with white trim by the lake. We hope to see this one in your top group sometime as well. ;) Thank you for all your time and efforts in making this site for all the art lovers!

Tracy Kirkman

Waterford Fair, 18,000 visitors over the first full weekend of October. Over 140 American artisans demonstrate their art and have treasures for sale. There are also another 85 local artisans juried in to the "Old Mill Shop". These artisans are not required to demonstrate their art or craft. 2019 will be the 75th year for this event!

Joel Petersen

Bellevue Arts Fair in Bellevue Washington? Over 300,000 attend this juried fair every year. 72 years running!

Jacki Bils

Thank you Rose for suggesting the show in the Village of Waterford. We appreciate that. It sounds like a lovely setting and a great little show to attend.

Rose M Meyer

In the small town category I would include the lovely folk art and Americana
works seen at the beautiful village of Waterford ,VA the first week in
October. The setting is an authentic colonial village and the artisans present
Amazing works. Please mention it sometime

Connie Mettler

The shows in the survey were chosen by a nomination survey, that we send out every other year, asking art fair patrons to nominate the shows that they think should be on the survey. This year you can write it in, and ask your fans to write it in also. Next year it will be on the survey. Thanks for letting us know about it.

Connie Mettler

Hi Ed and Judie, never, never would we leave the Milwaukee Lakefront show off of this survey. Please look again and I'm guessing how you will vote. Thanks for being such a fan of these events.

Sandra Lassen

I just got the survey for the Top Art Shows and find that our show is not listed. A perennial favorite of visitors to central Oregon, the Sunriver Art Fair is a juried fair that has become a fixture in the event schedule in Central Oregon. How do we get it covered in your survey?

Jacki Bils

Hello Ed & Judie, It is funny that you happen to ask this question right now. We are just beginning to announce our 4th Best Art Fair survey. The survey emails are just going out to everyone on our email list. Every show that makes it to our Best Art Show list was voted for. The list is completely made up of shows that were nominated by art patrons and art show enthusiasts. We have nothing to do with the results except for publishing them. Do you know of a show that should be on our list? Take our survey and nominate your favorite shows.

Ed Seidman

Connie

What happened to the Milwaukee Show? It is one of the tops in the Midwest.

Ed&Judie

Jacki Bils

Thank you Claudia for your vote of confidence in the Tennessee Craft Fairs. By any chance did you send in your vote? That is one way to get your favorite shows on the list. Voting takes place in the fall. Send up for our emails so you will get a chance to vote.

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