Emerging Artist Program
The Downtown Festival & Arts Show’s Emerging Artist Program aims to create a pipeline for new talent to access and participate in the juried art show portion of the Downtown Festival & Art Show, Gainesville’s largest street festival and north central Florida’s largest celebration of fine art. Artists who have never shown their work at the Downtown Festival & Art Show before may apply to participate. Selection for the program prioritizes creating an intentional space to welcome and celebrate under-resourced and early-career artists.
Selected 2024 Emerging Artists will receive:
To apply, each Emerging Artist must submit three images of their artwork and one image of a grouping of their art (or a booth shot) via Zapplication. Applicants in the Emerging Artist category can email the festival director at tzoule@cityofgainesville.org to receive a coupon before submitting their application that reduces their application fee by half from from $36 to $18. Deadline: May 31, 2024 |
We owe a debt of thanks to the generous community sponsors who helped us launch this program in 2022: Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA) & Gallery, Sequential Artist Workshop (SAW), a private donor, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.