Watermark Art Festival 2025

The 57th Annual Watermark Art Festival will be held July 19 (Saturday 10 to 5pm) and 20 (Sunday 10 to 4pm) in Bemidji MN. With over 100 vendors, food and music, this juried fine art and craft festival has been a summer highlight for Northern Minnesotan residents and tourists since 1967. Vendors sell a wide variety of items including hand-crafted wood items, ceramics, apparel, jewelry, photography, metalworking, greeting cards, homemade preserves, soaps, stained glass, original paintings, garden art and more!

The two-day festival draws thousands of visitors to Downtown Bemidji. The festival area has been expanded to include the Watermark Art Center grounds as well as the historic tree-lined Library Park across the street.

Every year, many new artists join the festival. In addition to artist demonstrations, there will be three stages, entertainment, music and food. Watermark Art Center will also be open for visitors to the galleries and gift shop.

If you have an interest in being a vendor/artist, please visit our festival page and download an application: watermarkartcenter.org/our-programs/festival/

The event would not be possible without our Event Partner Paul Bunyan Communications and the many repeat sponsors & friends of the Festival.

You may also like the following events from Watermark Art Center:

• Next month, 14th June, 07:00 pm, Story SLAM "Into the Woods" in Blue Springs
• Next month, 26th June, 11:00 am, Writers Workshop with Sean Hill in Bemidji

Also check out other Arts events in Bemidji, Festivals in Bemidji, Fine Arts events in Bemidji.