47th ANNUAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Hours:
Friday, July 12: 3-8 PM
Saturday, July 13: 10 AM-8 PM
Sunday, July 14: 11 AM-5 PM
47th Annual Cain Park Arts Festival
July 12-14, 2024
Cleveland Heights, OH
For over four decades, the award-winning Cain Park Arts Festival brings the work of hundreds of artists from across the country to Northeast Ohio. This free, three-day juried arts festival showcases artists whose mediums include wood, clay, glass, painting, jewelry, photography, sculpture, and more. Attendees can also enjoy live entertainment, an interactive mural painting for children of all ages, and a variety of food trucks and concessions.
Voted 2022 Best Arts Event in Cleveland by Cleveland Scene Magazine, the Cain Park Arts Festival has been consistently ranked among the top festivals in the country by the national professional artist magazine, Sunshine Artist.
The 2023 Cain Park Arts Festival is in part curated by Northeast Ohio award-winning artist, George Kozmon. His work is represented in prestigious public and private collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, (Cleveland, OH), the Akron Art Museum (Akron OH), Hyatt Regency (Cologne, Germany), IBM (Armonk, NY), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH), Astor Residence Hotel (London, England), and the Progressive Collection, (Cleveland OH).
The Cain Park Arts Festival takes place in a municipally owned and operated park in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. A diverse, progressive, vital suburb of Cleveland with nearly 50,000 residents, Cleveland Heights promotes an environment rich in the arts. Minutes from University Circle, Cleveland's cultural center, Cleveland Heights is a city of exceptional natural and architectural beauty where many artists and artisans call home.
No pets, bicycles, rollerblades or skateboards are admitted. No courtesy vehicles will be in operation during the Arts Festival.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
ZAPPLICATION NOW OPEN!
- painting
- drawing and prints
- photography
- clay
- sculpture
- glass
- fiber and leather
- jewelry
- wood
The jury panel consists of three visual arts professionals with evaluating experience. Jury choices are based exclusively on artistic merit as represented on the images submitted. No geographical, organizational or political criteria are employed in making selections. Every applicant, except the 2022 prizewinners, undergoes the same anonymous, critical evaluation by our jury.
Jury Exemption
2023 Arts Festival award winners are automatically accepted to the 2024 Festival. However, they still must comply with all other requirements, fees and deadlines.
Artist Perks
- A panel of professional artist judges will award cash prizes
- Judges' Selection and Director's Choice certificates will be awarded to approximately 20 additional artists and a special "Artist-to-Artist" award will be selected by a vote of participating artists.
- Cain Park takes no percentage of artist sales
- All winners are automatically accepted to the 2025 Arts Festival
- Three-day access to show director
- Drive to your booth to unload
- Energetic staff helpers who assist with set-up and take-down
- Booth sitting
- Food pick-up
- Personalized booth sign
- Friday lunch, complimentary snacks and beverages
Those applying in more than one art category must fill out a separate application and pay another set of application fees.
Inadmissible work
- Buy-sell art, imported art, workshop art or mass-produced items
- Traditional craft items
- Work produced from dies, casts or molds
- Decorations on commercially produced products