FESTIVAL UPDATES

Application deadline extended to April 8!

Welcome to the Salem Arts Festival website!  We are happy to announce that the 2013 application is now available!  Whether you are an artist or would like to volunteer, we hope to hear from you soon!  Please direct any questions to Laura at salemartsfestival@gmail.com.

Thank you,

The Salem Arts Festival Committee

For three days each summer, this free festival transforms downtown Salem into an opportunity for the arts community to showcase their talents.  Now in its fifth year, the festival boasts attendance numbers in the thousands.  It celebrates all the arts: painting, photography, sculpture, dance, music, writing, film, new media, performance, theatre, poetry, culinary, etc. in a free city-wide arts festival.

The Salem Arts Festival is organized by Salem Main Streets and a collaboration of Salem organizations which provide support and jurors for the festival, including the Salem Arts Association, salem state university center for the creative and performing arts , the Peabody Essex Museum and salem collective of artists and musicians.

We are currently looking for  volunteers to help with the organizing of the 2013 festival.  If you are interested contact Laura Potter at Salem Main Streets, at salemartsfestival@gmail.com or (978)744-0004 x15.

Thank you,

The Salem Arts Festival Committee

***Special Thanks to Lucas Custer for his design of the festival logo.***

The Salem Arts Festival is a project of the Salem Main Streets Initiative – funded in part by the City of Salem, Kimberley Driscoll, Mayor and the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.  The Salem Main Street Initiative is a preservation-based, volunteer driven strategy for commercial district revitalization.  The Initiative is modeled on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Main Street Program.  Main Streets works because it involves all interested stakeholders in the downtown and provides a comprehensive strategy of work, tailored to local needs and opportunities of the community.

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