2009 Ohio Arts Festivals and Competitions Directory

Ohio Arts Festivals and Competitions

The 2009 Festivals Directory is now online!

The complete unabridged version of the Festivals and Competitions Directory is now online.

Festivals around our state encourage artists and craftspeople to share their creativity with hundreds of thousands of Ohioans and visitors from out of state. While the arts and crafts enrich our lives, the people who purchase those works enhance our economy. Everyone is invited to use the Ohio Arts Council's Ohio Arts Festivals and Competitions Directory to find new opportunities in the arts and crafts of Ohio.

Creative Ohioans looking for places to display and sell their work—from traditional crafts to arts on the cutting edge—will find them listed in this directory. Anyone seeking works of art and crafts of lasting value as gifts or for their own pleasure also will find these listings helpful.

The Ohio Arts Council publishes this directory and distributes it in partnership with the Ohio Arts and Crafts Guild and Ohio Designer Craftsmen.

We hope you will refer frequently to the Ohio Arts Festivals and Competitions Directory as you explore the multitude of opportunities to share the arts and crafts created in Ohio—the artistic heart of our nation.

Search is easiest and will return the most relevant records if limited to specific parameters. Entering no search parameters will return all records.

How This Directory Is Compiled

The Ohio Arts Council sends questionnaires to the promoters of arts festivals and competitions in Ohio, seeking information about their events. Information provided by the promoters is arranged by date and location in sections headed Shows, Mall Shows and Exhibitions, followed by alphabetical indexes of Shows by Name, Shows by City, Exhibitions by Sponsor and Exhibitions by Name.

Events are classified as juried, nonjuried, invitational or juried invitational, according to information supplied by the promoters.

Events are classified as:

Juried - A neutral panel or juror reviews each applicant's work or slides and makes final selection decisions.

Nonjuried - All applicants are accepted until all spaces are filled, first-come first-served.

Invitational - Promoters or their staff select exhibitors from applications or by direct invitations.

Juried Invitational - All applicants, past and present, are reviewed by a neutral panel or juror, then the panel or juror makes recommendations to the promoter or chairperson who makes final selection decisions.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Listings in the Ohio Arts Festivals and Competitions Directory have been compiled based on information supplied by proprietors and promoters of the individual festivals and competitions. The Ohio Arts Council cannot be responsible for the accuracy of that information.

Artists and craftspeople should be aware that a listing in this directory does not constitute an endorsement of any particular festival or competition or its promoter or proprietor. Artists and craftspeople are advised to conduct their own inquiries about any event that interests them.

This directory is copyright 2009 by the Ohio Arts Council, an agency of the State of Ohio. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without prior permission from the Ohio Arts Council.

This is not a listing of all Ohio arts festivals. Travelers may discover other worthwhile Ohio arts destinations and festivals by calling 1-800-BUCKEYE or by contacting local convention and visitor?s bureaus around the state.

To find your way to the places listed in Festivals Directory, you may use the Official State Highway Map. To obtain a free map contact the Office of Communications, Ohio Department of Transportation, 25 South Front Street, Columbus, OH 43216; phone 614/466-7170.

Organizations or promoters who wish to list arts festivals or competitions in the 2010 Directory should contact:
Jaclyn Reynolds
Ohio Arts Council
727 E. Main Street
Columbus, OH 43205
614.995.4125

The Ohio Arts Council (OAC) will place several programs on a funding hiatus during the FY2010/2011 biennium and reduce one program to a single deadline. The International Partnership and Capacity Building programs will be on hiatus for FY2010, Arts Innovation and International Partnership for FY2011 and the Arts Access program will accept applications only at the March 1, 2010 deadline.