Columbus Arts Festival

The Columbus Arts Festival, presented by the American Electric Power Foundation, returns in 2025 to the downtown riverfront. The Arts Festival kicks off summer with more than 250 professional, juried visual artists; multiple performing art stages; hands-on activities; live demonstrations; scores of food vendors including food trucks, boozy slushies and craft brews.

A complete listing of artists, performances and other activities will be updated at http://www.columbusartsfestival.org

As always, the festival is free and family friendly.

Additional sponsors and community partners include Bank of America, Bath and Body Works, Battelle, Bell Tree Productions, CAS (a division of American Chemical Society), Compton Construction, Columbus Crew, COSI, Downtown Columbus, Edwards Communities, Encova, G&J Pepsi, Go Brewing, Graeter’s, High Bank Distillery, Holiday Inn Downtown, Hotel LeVeque, Huntington, IGS Energy, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, OSA Technology Partners, Paul-Henri and Erika Bourguignon Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Nationwide Insurance, Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center, Rhinegeist, Shadowbox Live, Sheetz, South Wind Motel, Sonesta, Toyota, Vintage Wine The Westin Hotel, White Castle, Whole World Lemonade and ZenGenius. Media sponsors include ABC6/FOX28, Columbus Radio Group, Dispatch Media Group, Lamar Outdoor, Ohio Magazine, Orange Barrel Media, Urban One Columbus, WCBE and WOSU Public Media.

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