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Stevens Point Area Festival of the Arts 2025
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REQUIREMENTS:
Accepted Application Types:
Artist

Images: 5 (a booth shot is required)


Application Amount:
You can submit up to 4 applications for this show.

Emerging Artists:
This application does not accept applications from emerging artists.
Time Remaining:
The application deadline has passed.
Dates & Deadlines

  • Open Date


  • Application Deadline


  • Purchase Deadline


  • Event Start


  • Event End


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EVENT INFORMATION

The Stevens Point Area Festival of the Arts (FoA) will celebrate our 51st year on Sunday, April 6, 2025 from 10am-4pm at our indoor location: Artist & Fare and O'so Brewing Company in Plover, WI - a sister city to Stevens Point, in the heart of Wisconsin. This is our fourth year at the new venue. The FoA exhibits 48 fine art and fine craft artists.The event is free to the public, has ample parking, free kid's art zone, and an art raffle to support local art education grants. 

This show is run by working artists and art loving volunteers who value a thriving artist community. The FoA council works hard to encourage art awareness, support working artists, and contribute to local art education. Join us for this one day event to help kick off the 2025 Spring art fair season!
 

RULES/REGULATIONS

All artwork must be original and produced by the exhibiting artist or collaborative artists.

All artwork must be for sale and must be properly identified.
 
Reproduction Print Policy:
Reproduction prints that are numbered, signed, and in limited runs of 250 are allowed to be for sale the festival. Reproduction Prints must be clearly labeled and not take up more than 25% of artist’s display. The FoA council prefers reproduction prints to remain in bins.
 
Artist Attendance is mandatory. Artists may not tear down and leave their booth early during the festival. This would result in not being invited back into the festival in future years.
 
Cancellation and No-Show Policy:
Failure to give advanced notice in the inability to attend may result in disqualification from future festivals.
 
Be Nice Policy:
Artists must follow load-in and load-out procedures as well as general festival rules and participation. Artists are expected to treat the FoA Council, volunteers, Artist & Fare staff, Artist & Fare businesses, other artists, and guests with respect and kindness. Artists who mistreat others will not be invited back to future festivals.
 
Taxes: Sales tax in Portage County is 5.5%. State of Wisconsin law requires all FoA exhibitors to pay all applicable WI Sales tax directly to the State of Wisconsin. For more information go to https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/home.aspx

The FoA Council reserves the right to change festival rules without prior notice.

BOOTH INFORMATION

Booth Fee: $130
The FoA charges a booth fee of $130 that must be paid in full by Saturday, March 1, 2025 by credit card or PayPal through ZAPP. No booth refunds. 
 
Booth Size: Many booths are the standard 10'x10'. A few are 6'x15' are require a flexible display. 

Additional Booth Fees. 
  • An additional $30 for electricity is paid through ZAPP by March 1, 2025.
  • No corner booths. 
  • No double booths. 
Floor Protection: All artists using a heavy display system or loading system must take proper precaution to protect the floors at Artist & Fare. 

Tidy Booth: We ask that artists keep all packaging materially neatly stowed away in their booth. There will be an artist storage area located in the back of building to keep additional packaging, extra bins, and backup work.

REFUND POLICY

Cancellation Deadline: Saturday, March 1, 2025. Booth fee refund of $130 minus $25 processing fee.
No refunds after Saturday, March 1, 2025.  

JURY DETAILS

Average number of applications submitted each year:
130
Average number of artists selected from the jury to participate in the event:
38
Average number of exempt from jury artists who are invited to participate in the event:
10
How returning artists are selected:
Received an award
Selected by show director or board
Vendors that are excluded/ineligible:
Art Only. No food vendors.
How images are viewed by jurors:
Computer monitor
Within a medium category, applications are sorted and viewed by:
Random Order
Jurors score applications using the following scale:
1 - 5
Comments for Scoring System.
excludes 3
Number of jurors scoring applications:
10
The show organizes the jurors for a:
Single jury panel that scores applications for all medium categories
Jurors score
Separately from various locations
Am I allowed to observe the jury process?
Jury process is closed