Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2026
11am-5pm
Live Music: Sat 1-10pm, Sun 12-5pm
(Looking for info on the Home & Garden Tour? Click here!)
A special thanks to our key sponsors:
Music & Performance Lineup
Music will take place on a stage at the corner of Union and W. Wayne. Here is the lineup:
Saturday
1:00pm – Fort Wayne Ballet Student Company
2:30pm – Jam’n Toast
4:00pm – Tajmaholics
5:30pm – SUN.DYLE
7:30pm – Unlikely Alibi
Sunday
12:00pm – Fort Wayne Dance Collective
1:30pm – Jess Thrower
3:00pm – West Central Quartet
Art Spaces
For the fifth year in a row, a selection of resident artists will open their home, yard, studio, or business for the public to view and buy art. You can visit them from 11am-5pm both Saturday and Sunday.
- 02 Gallery
- Kreative Framing
- Fort Wayne Artist’s Guild
- William Lupkin Designs
- Diane Groenert Art
- Cool Stuff by Buff
- Jake Art & Becky Johnson
- Susan Suraci
Art Exhibitors
You can visit artists booths on W. Wayne Street between Rockhill and Jackson from 11am-5pm both Saturday and Sunday. Here are the artists who will be selling art this year:
- Aarons Artistry
- Abstract Artist D Young
- Andrea Bojrab Fine Art
- Art by Stevie
- Austin_Beale
- Black Swamp Woodworking
- BYJON Leatherworks
- Cat People Press
- Elly Bead
- Fixed Fire Pottery
- Garden Art by Tom
- Gearhead Custom Co.
- Greycat Studios
- Inman Wood Artists
- Inspired Moments
- Jake Art
- Jill Kaufman Jewelry
- Justmere Dream Pottery
- Pelka Ceramics
- Kerstin Glaess Art
- Lady of the Clover
- Lauren Steffen
- Lighthearted Candle Company
- Linden Tree Pottery
- Lori’s Artistic Expressions
- Mary Lou Morgan Painting
- Mokryeon Space
- Moving Art. In Time Wind Chimes
- Nellebird.Designs
- Raymond’s Art Studio
- Rick Barton Painting
- Rose Jewelry
- Soul Dirt Stitchery
- Urban Knitters
- Wagdog Studio
- Walk Through Fire Pottery
- Wilder Roads Photography
- Y.V.Made Pottery
Food Trucks
- WTFish
- Chau Time
- Wicked Wraps
- Fairfax Coffee & Records
- Who Cut the Cheese
- Smoking Js
Saturday Evening
- Spicy Bird
- Another One Bites the Crust
Sunday
- Bravas
- Smoking Jas
- Who Cut the Cheese
- Wicked Wraps
- Fairfax Coffee
- WTFish
- D’s Lemon Squeeze
This is the 2025 event map. Future events will vary.
Parking
See the map above. Parking is marked with a green circle. Please reserve street parking in West Central for residents and utilize one of the parking options below.
- Swinney Park tennis courts off W. Jefferson (conveniently located near a ticket booth and trolley stop!) – 1424 W. Jefferson (this location may fill up, so please have a Plan B from the options below)
- Public lot at Van Buren and Wilt – 713 Wilt Street
- Lutheran Hospital lot off Broadway, between Wayne and Washington – 618 W. Washington
- Lutheran Hospital lot on Main Street between Jackson and Union (just 2 blocks from ArtsFest, please park on the west side of the lot near the Main Street bridge) – 924 W. Main Street
Paid Parking:
- Electric Works garage on the corner of Broadway and Wilt (free for the first 2 hours) – 1540 Van Buren
- Bike Corral – 926 W. Berry (Just 1 block from the ArtsFest stage and Home Tour ticket booth.) Bring your own lock.
Bonus Stops
- Swinney Homestead
- Sharon’s Victorian House of Gifts
