Arts Alive 22nd Annual Juried Fine Arts and Craft Festival

This annual Fine Arts Celebration Brings Quality National, Regional and Local arts to Florence, Alabama.

Arts Alive attracts hundreds of art and craft lovers from a three-state region and beyond. Wilson Park in downtown Florence is packed with people for two days as they stroll, meet the artists, and purchase. Arts Alive is a family event, and families flock to the Park to participate!

Arts Alive, a juried show, is open to artists and craftspeople. Exhibitors in the past have been varied and have included painters, sculptors, furniture and jewelry craftspeople, stained glass artists, textile and fabric artists and much, much more!

Arts Alive is a juried gallery exhibition at the Kennedy- Douglass Center for the Arts in Florence, Alabama, and includes artist booths in adjoining Wilson Park. Artists from around the country come to sell their wares.

Judges

W. Lowell Baker is Professor of Ceramics at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He came to the Tuscaloosa campus in 1991 as Chairman of the Department of Art. In 1999 he stepped down from the chair and went back into the classroom teaching Ceramics. Baker has taught workshops across the United States as well as in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Japan, Cuba and Singapore. His work is collected internationally.

Miriam Rogers Fowler is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. Retired as Curator of the Department of Education and Public Programs at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Ms. Fowler has an undergraduate degree in Art History and a Masters in Public History from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previously, she was director of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center where she directed a history museum, art galleries and performing arts stage. For six years she was Manager of Alabama Artist Gallery, a state gallery under the auspices of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Gallery Awards:

First Place $1,000.00
Second Place $500.00
Third Place $300.00
Barbara Long Botanical Award $300.00
Mhairi & Dan Frank Award $300.00
Hannah Lemaster Watercolor Award $250.00
Barry E. Broach Ceramic Award $250.00
Mary Eliza Southall Moore Award $250.00
Stan Larkin Folk Award $250.00
Betty Hairston Award $100.00
Five merit awards of $100.00 each

Park Exhibitor Awards:

First Place $1,000.00
Second Place $500.00
Third Place $300.00
Best Display $100.00
Five merit awards of $100.00 each.

Cost To Enter:

Gallery: $30
Park: $100
There is a 25% commission on sales in the gallery, and no commission on park exhibitor sales.

Arts Alive Gala

Arts Alive Gala will be held Saturday, May 17 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A ticket to the reception will be sent to you if you state on the entry form that you will attend. Selected patrons of the arts are also invited to meet the artists.