Racine Starving Artist Fair

The Racine Art Guild’s Starving Artist Fair is the place to be between 9am and 4pm Sunday August 3, 2025. In its fourth year at historic DeKoven Center (Wisconsin Avenue at 21st Street/Caron Butler Drive), the fair is expanding to welcome more artists, food and beverage vendors and music. The Fair is the largest juried art fair in the tri-county area with 135 booths, featuring a broad array of visual art: painting (acrylic, oil, digital, watercolor, and digital), mixed media, glass, ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, metal, yard art, fiber, photography, and wood. We are excited to welcome many new artists to the Fair, as well as enjoy the art of long-time friends who have joined us for decades. Most are from the region with 35% coming from Racine county, 58% from Wisconsin communities outside the county, and 7% from Illinois, giving our visitors a fresh look at today’s art. Please also consider shopping at our Racine Art Guild Art Shop (a new name for a great shopping experience) featuring the art of extremely talented Guild member artists. Parking and Shuttle Service: There is plenty of parking in the neighborhoods surrounding DeKoven. But for those who value gate service, two shuttles will be available taking visitors to and from their parking spots: A neighborhood shuttle will be making a loop in a radius of several blocks of DeKoven Center. Wave it down. A second option is to park in the SE corner of Gateway Technical College’s lakefront lot (Pershing and 11th). This shuttle will be running every 15 minutes. Please see the Starving Artist Fair Facebook page /racineSAF for event and shuttle information Benefits Scholarships: Proceeds from the Starving Artist Fair go to support four significant scholarships to art students residing in Racine County and attending a regional college. In addition to the booth fees, the Guild raises money at the fair through raffle ticket sales featuring excellent art executed by Racine Art Guild members. The Silent Auction offers donated art by our Fair’s participating artists and also contributes significantly to the scholarship fund. Artists participating in the Fair are eligible to win one of several awards: Best of Show, Second, and Third Place and the Marj Lacock Award of Excellence, which is made possible by the family and friends of the late artist. As visitors stroll the grounds, they can also enjoy Kids Korner free art activities, a great selection of food & beverages, and fine music. KIDS KORNER Those with children will want to stop by Kids Korner on the west side of the Fair for free art activities. Each year Guild member volunteers design several quickly completed art projects to generate kids’ creativity and make a great afternoon even better. FOOD & BEVERAGE: Two food courts--one on each side of the Fair Cowboy Kettle Corn Booth R-5 along Wisconsin Ave. Northwest Food Court Nutman – Packaged snacks ZS Table – Teriyaki /steak rice bowls, egg rolls, crab Rangoon, specialty drinks Pastry 4 U –Pop tarts, scones, cookies, brownies Buckets Pub 2nd Round -BBQ wings Southeast Food Court Cut Stone Food – Pizza Fire Truck All About Tacos-Gourmet tacos Hawgs Dogs -ALL toppings Tito’s Ice Cream – Wrapped ice cream treats DeKoven Center tent-wine, beer, specialty drinks MUSIC Performances will be held on two sides of the DeKoven property as well as daylong wood flute music performed by Vibhaus Kendzia-Booth B-33. East Side Music Tent Moon Child Duo– 10:00 am – 11:30 am Flutissimo Flute Ensemble – 11:30am – 1:00 pm Nolan Boerner/Cellist – 1:15 – 3:15 pm West Side Music Tent Harmonious Triad - 10:30-11:30am Cello, Guitar, Fiddle Oscar Mercadillo – Noon to 1:30 Indie, Folk, Jazz, Funk Wutt’s Up Singer Guitarist – 2 – 3 pm The Racine Art Guild is grateful to its sponsors: Visit Racine County, Mt. Pleasant Tourism Council, Johnson Financial, Educators Credit Union, City of Racine Tavern League, Festival Foods, and Uline.

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