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1.  The Bella Vista Arts & Crafts Festival is sponsored by The Village Art Club, Inc., a non-profit organization located in Bella Vista dedicated to promoting the visual arts in the Northwest Arkansas area.

 

2.  The Festival is the fund-raising arm of the VAC, and profits go to running the Club, providing four-year Art Scholarships to local high school graduates, maintaining the Wishing Spring Gallery and Gallery West, as well as underwriting classes and workshops for the public at The Studio.

 

3.  This year, 2007, is the 39th year for the Festival. We will be in the same location where we have been for the past 10 years. Festival grounds are located on Highway 279 at Rogers Road, about a quarter mile south of the Highway 340 stop sign, in Bella Vista.

 

4.  We appreciate Cooper Communities for allowing us to use the property for the Festival.

 

5.  The Festival is a three-day event. Why only three days?

a. Well, the Festival is totally put together and run by volunteers, who really like to have most everything completed by Sunday.

 

b. And many of our Exhibitors and vendors have regular day jobs and like to be able to travel on Sunday to get back home in order to go to work on Monday.

 

c. Three days is about the max shopping time for the more than 100,000 visitors who come to the Northwest Arkansas area for Fall Festival weekend.

6.  The Festival has booth space for more than 300 exhibitors, and we are usually full each year.

 

7.  Prospective exhibitors and food vendors may e-mail or call the office and request an application to be sent, along with our List of Rules.

 

8.  Each and every exhibitor goes through a thorough jury process. Four jury members must all approve the materials being proposed for admission. However, the Exhibitor Chair and Director make the final decision. Priority placement is given to the prior year’s exhibitors.  The staff feels that only a certain number of each type of item for sale should be allowed in order for all exhibitors and vendors to have a chance at good sales

 

9.  Exhibitors may download the Application and List of Rules from this website and submit along with other required materials.

 

 

 

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