It’s time to mark your calendar for March 15, 16, 17, 2024 when The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival returns for its 65th year.
Plan to join us as creativity fills Park Avenue and Central Park showcasing 216 fine artists and 3 emerging artist, along with delicious food, hands-on activities for the kids the schools’ art exhibit and music at the concert stage. On March 15th the traditional Friday Night Concert returns to the festival. A rousing salute to Jimmy Buffet will begin at 5:30 pm by the tribute band The Landsharks, followed by the jazzy sounds of the headliner, Michael Andrew and Swingerhead starting at 7:30 pm. It’s the Big One, the Original. The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival has brought art and the community together since 1960.
The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most prestigious outdoor art festivals. The festival debuted in March 1960 as a community project to bring local artists and art lovers together. It’s produced by an all-volunteer board and draws up to 250,000 visitors each year. More than 1000 artists from around the world applied for this year’s event. An independent panel of three judges select the artists that will exhibit their works. The festival consistently ranks among the top juried fine-art festivals in the country. National accolades include #3 in Art Fair SourceBook’s 2020 festival rankings and #6 in Sunshine Artist’s Top 200 from 2010-2020, a 10-year ranking of the nation’s most profitable art shows. In ArtFairCalendar’s list of Best Art Fairs we rank #6 in America and #1 in the South.
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The festival features a wide variety of fine arts and crafts in the following categories: clay, digital art, drawings and pastels, fiber, glass, graphics and printmaking, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media-2D, mixed media-3D, painting, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood as well as an Emerging Artists category.