See you Oct 4-5, 2025 at Cottonwood Park!
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FEATURED ARTIST
EXHIBITING ARTIST
CHILDREN’S ARTSTOP
The Freckled Army takes on Cottonwood
Mixed Media artist Elissa Brown was 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 artists who exhibited at the Spring show!
2025 Emerging Artist Selected
View the ten High school students who were selected to participate in the 2025 Emerging Artist Program. Each artist displayed their work in the Forrest and Virginia Green Mezzanine Gallery at the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts during the month of April and exhibited at Cottonwood in the Spring.
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.
BLOG & NEWS
THE FOUR WINDS REUNITE AT COTTONWOOD ART FESTIVAL
We are Army wives who met in a Bible study ten years ago at a SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) a NATO base in Belgium. We called ourselves “The Four Winds.” We laughed, we cried and we shopped together. The highlight was a road trip to buy Polish pottery. Last year “The Four Winds” had a wonderful reunion in Miami and vowed to get together every year.
JURORS SELECT 240 ARTISTS REPRESENTING 14 CATEGORIES
First come first serve and lottery systems are known methods for assigning booths, but Cottonwood Art Festival is a juried show with good reason. What is a juried show and how is it different from other art festivals? Juried competitions, have since the dawn of digital, afforded artists around the world opportunities to compete for inclusion in prestigious shows such as Cottonwood Art Festival.
FREE CONCERTS AT COTTONWOOD ART FESTIVAL
D Magazine music contributor Alex Macon wrote an article on March 30, 2016 titled “How To See A Dozen Free Concerts In Dallas This Spring.” The mention gives a shout-out to us because we offer the public free admission, free parking, and live music all weekend.
