Plan Your Visit
Over 100 Artists will attend along with food vendors; local beer and wine; live music; author’s table; kids activities and more!
Second Annual
Kennett Arts Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 10:00am to 4:00pm
Sunday, September 22, 2024 – 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Outdoors, rain or shine, at 600 South Broad Street, Kennett Square, PA 19348
Free parking available at Kennett High School (across the street)
Festival Admission: $5
Children under 12 are free
Kennett Arts Festival
Family Programs
Adult Activities Table:
- QWERTY CLUB PRESENTS: Come type on vintage manual typewriters! Write a letter, a poem, a story, a grocery list, a love note… in style!
- MAKE A ZINE! WHAT’S A ZINE? Zines are little self-created booklets that give you creative freedom to say what you want, how you want… all within a single 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper! Magic!
- ERASURE CREATION: Using old books you are invited to find new life in old text. By blacking out, circling, cutting away, coloring, collaging you can create something fresh and new from something tired and old.
- CALMING COLORING: Take some time out from the excitement to quietly color on some lovely coloring sheets to calm your mind and create some beauty.
Community Partners Activities
- AHHAH: Display of the traveling art exhibit from Justice Restored project, give away children’s books, sign up families for Chester County Imagination Library, and children can color and write in the I Love (Hearts) and I Am (Hands) cut out sheets.
- CENTERED CLAY STUDIO: Demonstration of clay wheel, opportunity to hand build clay pumpkins ($15).
- DELAWARE ART MUSEUM: Margaret Winslow will demonstrate wool spinning for all ages.
- GARAGE COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER: Button/pin-making activity and showcasing the Garage student’s artwork.
- KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: decorate reusable bags
- KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: contribute to our community weaving work of art, symbolizing the strength and unity of our shared experiences.
- MIGHTY WRITERS: Craft with marigolds – a seasonal tradition of using marigold flowers.
Kennett Arts Festival
Live Music
Saturday, September 21, 2024
11:00am – 12:45pm Lauren Mendelsohn
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Strays & Misfits
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm Evan Sternbach
Sunday, September 22, 2024
1:00 pm – 3:15 pm Lily Enos
Parking
Free Festival Parking
100 South Street
Kennett Square, PA 19348
FAQ
Tickets are – $5/day for adults and FREE to children under 12.
Tickets can be purchased at the gate on the day of the event.
No. The Kennett Arts Festival will be a rain or shine event! This decision is based on feedback we have received from many traveling artists who have a very tight schedule. Besides, a little rain never hurt anybody!
**Please note that festival management has the right to cancel the event due to catastrophic weather including hurricanes, tropical storms, high winds and flooding. Keep in mind we want all visitors to be safe and all artist and their art possessions to stay free from being damaged.
You get a day of art, music, food and fun! That’s right – your $5 will get you an attractive hand stamp, which can be used to come and go all day.
No, the Kennett Arts Festival loves our furry friends but we ask that they stay home. Thank you for your understanding.
September 21
10:00am to 4:00pm
September 22
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Free parking is available at the Kennett High School parking lot – 100 E South St, Kennett Square, PA 19348
You’ll find food in a couple places on the festival grounds. This way, you’re never far from a refueling station.
The Kennett Arts Festival is an equal opportunity to all art lovers – even if the beloved art is finger paintings and play-dough. In fact, there’s a special tent just for kids where they can get their faces painted, do crafts, and be otherwise distracted while mom or dad goes shopping.
No. Don’t even think about it.
Of course not! The Kennett Arts Festival is the perfect place to find gifts as unique as your loved ones.