Experience Lowell Arts Market - Lowell Folk Festival applications are now open!
The Experience Lowell Arts Market features Lowell-practicing artists, makers, and cultural organizations so visitors and Lowell residents can experience everything that Lowell’s arts and culture community has to offer.
Mosaic Lowell produces Experience Lowell twice a year: during the City of Lowell’s Annual WinterFest (February) and the Lowell Folks Folk Festival (July). Each marketplace has its own criteria, based on a number of event-specific logistics. We encourage you to thoroughly review each opportunity before applying. Both the WinterFest and Folk Festival markets are juried. Sign-up on our email list here to be notified of upcoming market opportunities.
Lowell Folk Festival applications are now open – deadline is 11:59 p.m. May 1, 2024. Please read through the details below, or click here to download a paper copy.
LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL
Located in the Enterprise Bank parking lot at 222 Merrimack Street, this event will feature Lowell artists, makers, and organizations so that festival attendees and Lowell residents can experience everything that Lowell’s arts and culture community has to offer. This event is produced by Mosaic Lowell, in collaboration with the Lowell Folk Festival.
The Lowell Folk Festival welcomes over 100,000 visitors during the weekend and is the longest-running, and second-largest, free folk festival in the United States. It is made up of three days of traditional music, dance, craft demonstrations, street parades, dance parties, and ethnic foods. All of this is presented on six outdoor stages throughout the city.
Interested vendors should thoroughly review all of the event details and requirements below, prior to submitting an application. To download a copy of these, click here.
Date and Time for Experience Lowell:
- Saturday July 27th, 12pm – 7:30pm
- Sunday July 28th, 12pm – 6pm
*end times subject to change based on festival schedule
