On March 12th and 13th the City of Gulf Breeze & Gulf Breeze Arts, Inc Presents Celebrates the Arts 2011, the 17th Annual Fine Arts Festival. The festival will take place from 9AM to 5PM on both Saturday and Sunday in the parking lot of Gulf Breeze High School in downtown Gulf Breeze on Highway 98. Celebrates the Arts is a juried fine arts and crafts festival that brings quality national, regional, and local artists to beautiful Gulf Breeze, Florida. Celebrates the Arts is a two-day family event, free to the public with over 115 artists.

Applications were accepted in the following categories:

Painting - Oil, Acrylic Ceramics
Watercolor Photography
Jewelry Mixed Media
Fiber and Leather Glass
Sculpture - Relief or 3-dimensional form Ceramics
Graphics - Etching, Serigraph, Woodcut, Drawing, Pastel, Digital, etc.  

Applications have been reviewed and we have selected the participants for the festival. We have a great selection of artists with a wide variety of types of art including all the diciplines above. We even have an artist who makes beautiful hollow wooden surfboards.

 

Click here to see a list of artists who will be attending the 2011 festival.  Artists Attending

 

If you are a visiting artist or just want to come to Gulf Breeze to attend the festival, clicking on the link below will take you to a page listing local hotel accommodations who are giving special rates for the festival. There are others in the area but only those listed offered to give us special rates.

 

 

For Local Hotel Accommodations Click Here 

 

 

Click the link below to get access to festival maps in .pdf format.


Click here for maps 


Food Vendors Interested in Participating in the Festival can download an Application by Clicking the Link Below. The Vendor Fee is $200 for the Two-Day Event.

 Food Vendor Application

 

 

Click the link below to display the rules and application in .pdf format. The application deadline was November 15 and no further applications are being accepted for the 2011 festival.


For Complete Rules With an Application Form Click Here