Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival is relocating back to the Savannah River this year! The award-winning Festival will be located on the Augusta Common, Reynolds Street and by the River on September 19 – 21st this year. The festival is presented by the Greater Augusta Arts Council, City of Augusta and Powered by Amazon.

Music will be a big focus again this year at the festival with a great lineup of performers all weekend. Saturday evening the Global Stage will feature Leon and the Peoples, an award-winning Reggae Soul band from NYC, led by internationally acclaimed performer, singer-songwriter, movie & TV actor Leon Robinson.

The festival will feature over 150 juried Fine Arts and Crafts artists with artists coming from all over the United States. The global food village is famous for its authentic taste of global cuisine and will tempt food lovers with 19 authentic cuisine booths.  Food booths include China, Greece, Germany, India, Ireland, South Sudan, Sudan, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Lebanon, Trinidad, Philippines, Latin America, Jamaica, Turkey and Samoa.

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.

The Ocala Arts Festival is a signature event on Ocala's busy cultural calendar that draws over 30,000 visitors - both local residents and art-buying tourists - to Ocala's engaging downtown. Fine Arts For Ocala is sure to makie this festival a successful weekend for artists by committing to invite at least 150 artists and promising to promote the festival heavily throughout Central Florida.

The Guild of the Museum of Arts and Sciences originated and presents this prestigious festival every year which is totally organized and operated by volunteers and benefits the Museum of Arts and Sciences.
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The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is a juried art show. Each year, we receive more than 600 applications for the festival. Each applicant is required to submit images of their work with their application. Qualified jurors are shown each artist’s images anonymously, and collectively choose more than 200 artists who will be invited to exhibit their work. Best of Show, Awards of Distinction, Awards of Excellence, Awards of Honor, and Awards of Merit winners from the previous year’s festival are exempt from the jurying process.

The artists compete for a total of $25,000 in prize money in categories including ceramics, drawing, fiber/leather, glass, jewelry, mixed media, oil/acrylic, photography, printmaking/graphics, sculpture, watercolor, and wood.

The annual Downtown Festival & Art Show helps make Gainesville a great place to live, work, and play, by transforming the streets of historic downtown Gainesville into a weekend-long celebration of art and creativity complete with 200+ artists, live music, performing arts, and delicious culinary art experiences. Presented by the City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, the festival celebrates its 44th anniversary in 2025. 

The Downtown Festival & Art Show was established for and by Gainesville-based artists in 1981 and expanded over the decades to cover several city blocks at the heart of historic downtown. City events coordinator, Linda Piper is credited with the expansion of the festival in the 1990s-2000s. Since 1996, the Downtown Festival & Art Show has ranked among the top festivals in the nation. 

​The Downtown Festival & Art Show festival has consistently been ranked among the 200 Best shows by Sunshine Artist, a publication that evaluates art and craft festivals across the nation! Join us Saturday, November 15th, and Sunday, November 16th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to meet the exhibiting artists, enjoy live music, and sample international cuisine. 

Celebrating its 32nd year, The Fall Festival of the Arts-DeLand, presented in cooperation with the Museum of Art - DeLand and MainStreet DeLand Association, is an exciting, juried fine art show. The main street of the historic preservation district of downtown DeLand provides a charming backdrop for this annual festival which is dedicated to those who create as well as those who appreciate and collect art.
 We are an inclusive artist-focused Festival. We extend a warm and heartfelt welcome back to repeat artists and an invitation to new, first time, and culturally diverse exhibiting artists.
Over $60,000 available in Judges' awards (including $4,000 Best of Show) and  Patron/Collector purchase awards. Fine art exhibits presented by our juried artists, great music, and youth activities draw a crowd of more than 55,000 patrons over the two day festival.

Thanksgiving weekend art show and festival located in beautiful downtown Cocoa Beach Minutemen Causeway area. Two-day event, free and open to public.  Up to $20,000 in prize money. The 50+ year tradition begins Thanksiving morning with a Turkey Trot which is a 5K run/walk through Cocoa Beach residential neighborhoods.