See you May 3-4, 2025 at Cottonwood Park!
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The Freckled Army takes on Cottonwood
Mixed Media artist Elissa Brown has been selected as the featured artist for the Spring Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson on May 3-4.
Locate your Favorite Artist
View the full gallery of exhibiting artists for the Spring 2025 show.
Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2025
Calling all artists! Cottonwood Art Festival is now accepting applications for the Fall 2025 show. Applications are available online through Zapplication. The deadline to apply is May 6, 2025.
Volunteer at Cottonwood
Join the Cottonwood family as a volunteer! Cottonwood’s interactive children’s area, ArtStop, needs your help staffing activities, organizing materials and helping our pint-size Picasso’s create their masterpieces. Be prepared to laugh and have fun, as ArtStop is a memorable experience for kids of all ages.
2025 Emerging Artist Selected
View the ten High school students selected to participate in the 2025 Emerging Artist Program and select your favorite one in the People’s Choice Award! Each artist will display their work in the Forrest and Virginia Green Mezzanine Gallery at the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts and participate in Cottonwood.
BLOG & NEWS
DALLAS OBSERVER 2024 READER’S CHOICE BEST ART FESTIVAL IN THE LONE STAR METROPOLIS
The 28th Best of Dallas winners have been announced and the 2024 Dallas Observer Reader's Choice Award for Best Art Festival goes to Cottonwood Art Festival! Richardson has been proudly hosting the semi-annual event since 1969 and it remains free to the public, while...
FALL ARTISTS, CHALK THE WALK, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND KIDS ARTSTOP
Cottonwood Art Festival is October 5-6 at Richardson Park and is a weekend full of live music, craft beer and wine, hands-on crafts in the ArtStop kids area, food court, and almost 200 artists from around the world. The Fall featured artist is mixed media artist Jay...
JAY LONG ANNOUNCED AS FEATURED ARTIST FOR OCT. 5-6
Mixed-media artist Jay Long is inspired by music and literature to create layers of wonder and emotion in contemporary oil paintings. Jay Long, from Austin, TX, has been selected as the Fall featured artist for Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson, to be held Oct....
