Call for Entries: 55th Annual Park Forest Art Fair

Application Deadline: July 23

Dates: September 18 and September 19
Location: Downtown Park Forest, Illinois

Presented by the Tall Grass Arts Association
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
100 artists

The Park Forest Art Fair is an outdoor fair held in the streets of Downtown Park Forest. Known as an artist-friendly (especially emerging artist-friendly) show because of its amenities for artists and reasonable registration fee, the fair features:

• $3,000 in cash awards and purchase prizes

• a complimentary breakfast on Saturday morning and a dinner party for the artists on Saturday evening after the close of the fair

• Overnight security on Saturday night, which includes conveniently located, locked storage space

• booth sitters are available as needed over the weekend

The fair is promoted in the regional press(magazines and newspapers), social networking sites and advertised on WFMT and WBBM radio. Musical entertainment is provided all day, both days, as well as a variety of food vendors. There are many activities especially for children such as an art contest, tie dying, story times and illustrating the story, painting murals, etc.

The Park Forest Art Fair is the second oldest juried fair in the Chicagoland area. It is a fine art fair that showcases artists who work in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, photography, jewelry, woodworking, stained and blown glass and fiber arts. Over the years, artists have participated who travel from as far away as Canada and California. While one jurying has already been held for the 2010 fair, a second, special jurying has been opened for subscribers to this website.

Application can be downloaded [here]