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 2024 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 - NOW CLOSED

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
  • painting
  • drawing and prints
  • photography
  • clay
  • sculpture
  • glass
  • fiber and leather
  • jewelry
  • wood
Jury Process
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
  • 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
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