Participation is determined by a 3-5-person blind jury in that jurors will not see the artist’s name. The jurors will only see the artist ID, price, three required images, booth image, and artist statement. Your name or business should not appear in your application images. Jurors often use the booth image to finalize acceptance scoring, so use a booth shot that shows high-quality displays of current work. Note: If selected to participate in the Festival, Image #1 will typically be used to represent your art in the printed Festival Magazine.

Jurors are keenly interested in the processes and techniques used to make your work, so please describe in detail. This statement is often critical in determining originality and the hand-crafted nature of the presented work. We allow 500 characters in the application Artist Process Statement for this purpose.

Jurors evaluate work based on originality, concepts, execution, and consistency of style & presentation. Jurors also consider artist pricing for suitability to achieve success at this event with a positive selling experience, which generally includes artists whose works fall between the range of $250-$2,500.

Categories are outlined and developed as a tool to organize works into logical, related groups for judging competitions. The Festival reserves the right to add media categories or change an artist category.