Sarasota Winter Fine Art Festival January 2026

Join us for the 13th Annual Sarasota Winter Fine Art Festival! It will be held at DJ Hamel Park in beautiful downtown Sarasota. This boutique fine art event features under 100 juried artists and welcomes an engaged, art-loving audience that supports a wide variety of mediums. Patrons are inquisitive, inspired, and purchase all art mediums. The Sarasota Winter Fine Art Festival remains a strong and growing fine art festival that has steady crowds from start to finish each year providing strong sales.

The festival runs Friday, January 2, 2026 (check-in and setup: 12 pm - 6 pm), Saturday, January 3, 2026 (setup continues 6 am - 8 am; show hours: 10am- 5pm), and Sunday, January 4, 2026 (show hours: 10am - 5 pm). Application deadline is November 3, 2025, with notification on November 5, 2025. Booth fee payment is due December 3, 2025. Application fee is $30, single booth fee is $495, double booth fee is $990, with an additional $100 for corner booths. All booth fee payments are made directly to Paragon, not through Zapplication.

Artist services include overnight security Friday and Saturday evening, Friday afternoon setup, overnight RV parking Friday and Saturday evening, and easy load-in and load-out. All work must be original handcrafted work created by the artist present at the event. Artists must be present for the entire duration of the festival. Media categories include ceramics, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass, graphic & printmaking, jewelry, metalwork, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture, and wood. Sales tax in Sarasota is currently 7.00%.