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STATE COLLEGE -- Applications are open for the 2024 Children & Youth Sidewalk Sale and Banner Exhibition and Competition.
The 58th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts will be held July 10-14.
The Children & Youth Day Sidewalk Sale is sponsored by Penn State Federal Credit Union, and the event is a fun way for boys and girls to develop both their artistic and entrepreneurial potential.
Artists aged 8 through 18 who live in, or have relatives in the following counties -- Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Union -- sre eligible to participate.
Children and Youth Sidewalk Sale rules prohibit the sale of work made from kits, offensive and defensive weapons, the sale of services like face painting or hair braiding and the use of trademarked characters or products, like the Nittany Lion and Minecraft, in artist's work, and the sale of food. All work must be original. A complete listing of the rules can be found in the application.
The 2024 preferred application method is a digital google form which is linked on the website: https://arts-festival.com/children-and-youth.
The application deadline is Friday, June 14.
Applications may also be printed and mailed (postmarked by June 14) or hand-delivered to the Festival office until 5 p.m. on June 14. Late applications will not be accepted.
The Banner Exhibition and Competition is one of the signature events of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
The Festival is proud to display past and present banners annually. The banners normally hang over the Festival route.
The 2024 banner competition application deadline is Friday, June 14.
For more information about the festival or how to participate, visit https://arts-festival.com/.