Here are the first 25 winners - congratulations to them!
Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Winter Park, FL - March 21-23, 2014
Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL - June 14-15, 2014
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original, Ann Arbor, MI - July 16-19, 2014
Des Moines Arts Festival, Des Moines, IA - June 27-29, 2014
Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Miami, FL - February 15-17, 2014
La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta, CA - March 6-9, 2014
One of a Kind Show and Sale, Chicago, IL - December 5-8, 2013
Krasl Art Fair, St. Joseph, MI - July 12-14, 2014
American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL - August 22-24, 2014
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO - July 4-6, 2014
Port Clinton Art Festival, Highland Park, IL - August 23 & 24, 2014
Sausalito Arts Festival, Sausalito, CA - August 30 - Sept. 1, 2014
Mount Dora Art Festival, Mount Dora, FL - Feb. 1 & 2, 2014
Columbus Arts Festival, Columbus, OH - June 6-8, 2014
Summer Art Fair (The Guild), Ann Arbor, MI - July 16-19, 2014
57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, IL - June 7 & 8, 2014
State Street Area Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI - July 16-19, 2014
Park Forest Art Fair, Park Forest, IL - September 20 & 21
Bayou City Art Festival (Memorial Park), Houston, TX - March 21-23, 2014
Gold Coast Art Fair, Chicago, IL - June 28 & 29, 2014
Brookside Art Annual, Kansas City, MO - May 2-4, 2014
Naples National Art Festival (Feb), Naples, FL - Feb. 22 & 23, 2014
Art Fair on the Square, Madison, WI - July 12 & 13, 2014
St. James Court Art Show, Louisville, KY - October 3-5, 2014
Riverwalk Art Fair, Naperville, IL - Sept. 13 & 14, 2014
Find more of the winners at this link: http://www.artfaircalendar.com/art_fair/best-art-fairs.html
The purpose of this survey is to have a solid list of "best art fairs" that patrons can refer to when they are traveling or looking for a great place to buy art. Consequently, we have deliberately not put numbers in front of each one.
The results are a resource for people to use and it is listed on our website, ArtFairCalendar.com, whose purpose is to alert interested parties to the best shows all over the country and bring them to the shows to see your work. They're all terrific shows.
We had a wonderful response to our long survey (22 questions). It was apparent by the participation and the enthusiasm of the people telling us why they thought a show was the "best" that art fairs are alive and well in America and that as long as you keep creating compelling work they will be there to see it.
Learn more details about the survey at this podcast: WINNERS! America's Best Art Fair Survey
This has been a big project for us and I specifically want to thank all of those who helped. Lisa Fritsch at the Rosen Group who shared the American Style magazine survey to get me started. To the artists who helped me build the survey: Ginny Herzog, Larry Oliverson, Michael Hamilton, Kathrine-Allen Coleman and Daryl Thetford. Also thanks to Allan Teger whose previous experience as a psychology professor helped me streamline the survey.
Thanks to Carolyn Edlund at ArtsyShark.com for sharing the story on her popular blog and to Leah Charney and Christina Villa at Zapplication.org for getting the survey info out to the shows.
I know several show directors also "got out the vote" by sharing the links and posting on Facebook. Thank you for expanding our reach. Most of all thanks to all the patron voters. Your love for art and the nation's art fairs was apparent in your responses. Thanks for all your great tips on "how to make shows even better."
We have lots of information to share with show directors, artists and the public coming up, fascinating conclusions to be drawn from the 1000's of responses we received.
Do you have a favorite art fair that you think should be on the list?
