It's Time for You to Enter!
Now that we've chosen the artists who will be in the 2018 Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition this summer, it's time to open the entries to the Festival's other exhibitions and competitions. We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting entries for the Images 2018 Juried Gallery Exhibition, the Children & Youth Sidewalk Sale, and the 2018 Arts Festival Banner Competition.
Send Us Your Images
Images, our gallery exhibition of fine art, hangs in Schlow Centre Region Library in the month of July. Artists from throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are eligible to enter the Images 2018 Exhibition in a variety of two-dimensional media.

This year's juror will be Erin Coe, the new Director of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.


Entry deadline is May 4.
Calling Kids Age 8 - 18
The Children and Youth Sidewalk Sale is one of the signature events of the Arts Festival. Festival directors have come from across the country to State College just to check it out.

In this junior version of the Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition, young artists sell a wide variety of art and crafts, ranging from friendship bracelets to greeting cards to jewelry to wooden cutting boards. The range of creative products the kids sell is quite remarkable, and their budding entrepreneurship is just as noteworthy.



Application deadline is June 22.
Make It a Banner Year
Stitch your heart out and submit your creation to this year's Arts Festival banner competition. Enter and you could win cash prizes. Enter and you will proudly point to your banner flying high above Allen Street for all to see.

Prizes are available in three categories: Professional for individuals or groups who work as fiber artists, General for individuals or groups who are not working in the field of fiber arts, and Youth for all individuals and groups under 18 years of age.


Entry deadline is June 22.
PO Box 1023
State College, PA 16804
(814) 237-3682
July 11 - 15, 2018
Downtown State College and the
University Park Campus of Penn State
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