47th ANNUAL ARTS FESTIVAL
CALL FOR ARTISTS
ZAPPLICATION NOW OPEN!
EVENT INFORMATION
The Cain Park Arts Festival is a juried fine arts and fine crafts event featuring the work of artists across the country, directed by George Kozmon. This three-day outdoor event, held rain or shine, takes place in a municipally owned and operated park in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Supplemental to the art exhibits, restaurant-quality food concessions and entertainment are set up away from the artist exhibit areas. The Festival is comprised of approximately 55% two-dimensional art, which includes painting, watercolors, hand-pulled prints and photography. The other 45% includes fine crafts in all categories. Signed and numbered digital or mechanical prints can be in one display bin in the artist's booth. Approximately 25 of the artists in the Festival are award winners from the previous year who were automatically accepted into the next year's show. 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. Application fee is $40 and the booth fee for accepted artists is $450.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Accepted Categories
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
- 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
RULES/REGULATIONS
Accepted artists must attend in person and remain throughout all three days.
Those applying in more than one art category must fill out a separate application and pay another set of application fees.
Inadmissible work
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