Craft Fairs
Our 48th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair returns to the Great Lawn in Nashville’s iconic Centennial Park!
Join us by the Parthenon for this FREE, family-friendly event.
Fair Dates:
October 9, 10 & 11, 2026
FALL FAIR APPLICATIONS
The 48th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair 2026, open free to the public Oct. 9, 10, & 11, 2026 outdoors in the heart of Nashville at beautiful Centennial Park, adjacent to the iconic Parthenon. The show is ranked in the top 25 of premier craft art fairs in the country. Attracting approximately 45,000 visitors annually, an opportunity for artists to directly meet and engage patrons, collectors, and the public. This juried art show presents traditional and contemporary fine craft, handmade by ~200 individual artists. Open to artists who reside in the United States.
CALL FOR ARTISTS: 48th Annual FALL Tennessee Craft, October 9, 10 & 11, 2026
Centennial Park, Nashville
Exhibiting Artist Application is OPEN:
https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=13948
with submission deadline July 15, 2026.
Join the Nashville tradition of celebrating and supporting American handmade craft at this premier event on the lawn in Centennial Park. Shop one-of-a-kind, finely crafted artwork directly from the juried, award-winning artists. A unique feature of Tennessee Craft Fairs requires artists to be on-site. While shopping, you’ll meet the artists, learn what inspires them, and how they take raw materials like clay, wood, metal, and glass and transform them into fine craft.
In addition to the array of high-quality crafts, visitors enjoy fun hands-on activities in our Kids’ Tent, food from area vendors, and demonstrations from artisans aimed to educate as they create pieces in front of your eyes.
Tennessee Craft is a nonprofit organization that champions the local fine craft movement by supporting growth and creative expression for all artists, building a platform for high-quality craftsmanship, and reinforcing the importance of fine craft for the entire community. Donate to Tennessee Craft and keep the fair free and accessible to everyone in our community!
If you have further questions, please contact our Fair Director
SPONSOR THE FAIR
Would you like to promote your business to 100,000 annual visitors at our Craft Fairs?
Contact Kim Waag for more information. Sponsorships to support the Craft Fair, keeping it FREE to the public and accessible, are appreciated. Sponsorships are also available that include a booth space to market your organization or company and network onsite at the event.
FOOD VENDOR APPLICATIONS
Are you a food vendor who is interested in participating in our upcoming Spring and Fall Fairs?
If so Fill out this interest form.
VOLUNTEERS
Looking for a rewarding in-person volunteer activity? The Tennessee Craft Fair offers a productive, fun and easy volunteer opportunity for individuals or groups. Volunteers help artists with booth sitting, deliver water & snacks, and assist with various activities across the Great Lawn of Centennial Park in Nashville. Shifts are four hours long, and you can do morning or afternoon or evenings! Tennessee Craft provides recorded virtual training through our website to get ready at your convenience. On-site, we offer water, snacks, and free t-shirts for volunteers. Best of all, this team-building opportunity occurs in one of the finest settings around- autumn in the park!
EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM
Previously Named Emerging Makers Tent (EMT)
A new program, Emerging Artist Program (EAP), will launch at our upcoming 2026 48th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair, October 9-11, 2026, at Centennial Park.
Mentor and Emerging Artist Applications
Open to Apply in Mid-July 2026
An exclusive opportunity for current Tennessee Craft members who are 18+ years of age and reside in Tennessee or are studying at Tennessee institutions.
EAP is a similar fair opportunity to past fairs’ EMT, where juried emerging artists learn from and alongside mentor artists, receive resources and knowledge through this now heightened, curriculum-based program, and sell their art in a group tent. Emerging artists will build the skills they need to take the next step toward exhibiting as individual artists with their own booths at a future Tennessee Craft fair. EAP artists no longer exhibit in chapter sections. EAP exhibiting artists will perform all fair exhibition responsibilities required of individual exhibiting artists in this group, in a 3-day mentorship environment.
If you have further questions, please contact our Fair Director
See who participated in our previous fairs:
2026 55th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2025 47th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2025 54th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2024 46th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2024 53rd Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2023 45th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2023 52nd Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2022 44th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2022 51st Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2021 43rd Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2021 50th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2020 42nd Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair—CANCELLED due to COVID-19
2020 49th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair—CANCELLED due to COVID-19
2019 41st Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2019 48th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2018 40th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2018 47th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2017 39th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2017 46th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
2016 38th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair
2016 45th Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair
