Georgia has one of the densest craft fair calendars in the Southeast. Atlanta alone runs a major arts festival nearly every weekend from April through October. Then you have the North Georgia mountain festivals, the coastal Savannah and Brunswick circuit, the small-town fall festivals in places like Plains and Ellijay, and the Macon Cherry Blossom megaweek. For a vendor based in or near Georgia, the question is not whether there are events to apply to. The question is which ones are actually worth a Saturday.
This is a working list of the 30 Georgia events we get asked about most often. For each one, we have included the booth fee where we can verify it, the application deadline if it has been published, and a one-line note about what the event is actually like for a vendor. If you want the full map view with all 290+ Georgia events we track, open the map filtered to Georgia.
Atlanta metro
Atlanta is where most of the volume is. These are juried, attendance is high, and the vendor competition is real.
1. Atlanta Dogwood Festival (Piedmont Park, mid-April)
One of the oldest arts festivals in the Southeast, three days in Piedmont Park, roughly 250 juried artists and crafters plus a food court. Apply through the festival's website months in advance. Strong attendance because it lines up with peak dogwood bloom and brings out everyone in midtown.
2. Inman Park Festival (late April)
A neighborhood festival in one of Atlanta's most walkable historic districts. Juried art market, tour of homes, street parade. Around 150 vendors. The crowd skews creative, well-off, and ready to buy. Apply early; the wait list builds fast.
3. Piedmont Park Arts Festival (August)
250+ artist booths in the largest park in Atlanta. High attendance because it is free and central. Booth fee is mid-range for the metro. The August heat is real, so plan for shade and water.
4. Atlanta Arts Festival (Brookhaven, September)
The Brookhaven version of an arts-in-the-park show. Juried, mid-size, easier to break into for newer vendors than Dogwood or Piedmont. Good entry-level booth for the Atlanta circuit.
5. Decatur Arts Festival (Memorial Day weekend)
One of the most beloved arts festivals in the Atlanta metro. Three days on the Decatur Square. Strong food and beverage program brings the crowd, the art and craft booths benefit. Apply through their site by January or February.
6. Decatur Book Festival vendor area (Labor Day weekend)
Massive literary festival with a maker and craft booth area. Niche fit if your work has a book, paper, or literary angle. The crowd is bookish and buys, which makes this a sleeper-hit event for the right product.
7. Roswell Arts Festival (April)
A juried fine art and craft show in the Roswell historic district. Smaller than Dogwood but draws a North Fulton crowd with real spending power. Good for higher-priced art and home decor.
8. East Atlanta Strut (October)
Quirky, music-forward neighborhood festival with a vendor row. Crowd skews younger and more affordable. Good place to move stickers, pins, prints, candles, and other lower-price-point goods.
9. Sandy Springs Festival (mid-September)
A two-day festival at Heritage Green. Around 150 vendors. North-of-Atlanta crowd with higher discretionary spend. Good for fine craft and home goods.
10. Castleberry Hill Art Stroll (monthly Friday)
Not a single festival, a recurring monthly gallery stroll in a downtown Atlanta arts district. Lower booth fees and easier entry; good for newer vendors looking to build a customer base in the city.
11. Atlanta Pride (October, Piedmont Park)
Largest Pride festival in the Southeast. 100+ vendor booths. The crowd is huge and buying. Booth fees scale by vendor type (non-profit, local for-profit, regular). Apply early; the deadline is firm.
12. Atlanta Greek Festival (September)
Annual three-day Greek Orthodox cultural festival at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation. Outside vendors are limited but the food and crowd are reliable. Smaller commitment, strong return per square foot if accepted.
13. Atlanta Holiday markets (November through December)
Multiple holiday markets pop up across the metro in the lead-up to Christmas. The Christkindl-style markets at Atlantic Station and the smaller maker markets at venues like Westside Provisions sell well if you have a holiday-ready inventory.
North Georgia mountains
The mountain festivals draw vendors from across the Southeast. The fall festivals especially can be a vendor's best earning weekend of the year.
14. Helen Oktoberfest (September into October, multi-weekend)
Bavarian-themed mountain town, multi-weekend festival, very high foot traffic. Booth fees are on the higher end but justified by the crowd. Apply through the Greater Helen Area Chamber of Commerce; spots fill quickly.
15. Dahlonega Gold Rush Days (third weekend of October)
The biggest fall festival in North Georgia. 200+ vendors, two days, draws from Atlanta and Tennessee. Apply through the Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber.
16. Bear on the Square Mountain Festival (April, Dahlonega)
Spring counterpart to Gold Rush. Bluegrass, mountain crafts, more music-forward than craft-fair-forward. Good for folk art, leather, wood, pottery.
17. Ellijay Apple Festival (October weekends)
Two weekends of festival at the Ellijay Lions Club Fairgrounds. Apple-focused so food, cider, and apple-adjacent products move best. Craft booths sell solidly but the food trucks dominate.
18. Blue Ridge Arts in the Park (June + October)
Juried arts in downtown Blue Ridge. Smaller than the Dahlonega festivals but the town has become a serious mountain weekend destination with money.
19. Blairsville Sorghum Festival (October weekends)
Two weekends of festival at Meeks Park. Strong agricultural and mountain craft focus. Cash-buying crowd. Less competitive than Dahlonega Gold Rush.
Macon and Middle Georgia
20. Macon Cherry Blossom Festival (mid to late March, 10 days)
One of the largest festivals in Georgia by overall attendance. The marketplace portion is massive and the booth real estate is competitive. Apply by January for spring. The cherry-blossom timing pulls in serious tourist traffic.
21. Macon International Festival (October)
Cultural and food festival in downtown Macon. Vendor booths are limited but the international/cultural-goods category does especially well.
22. Forsyth Forsythia Festival (March)
One of the earliest spring festivals in the state. Small-town crowd, lower booth fees, great for testing a new product before peak season.
23. Perry National Fair (October)
Georgia National Fair in Perry. The commercial exhibit and craft sections are large. Pricing is on the higher end because of the 10-day run and the captive crowd, but the math works for the right inventory.
Augusta and East Georgia
24. Arts in the Heart of Augusta (mid-September, three days)
The flagship arts festival of the CSRA. Juried, well-organized, draws from South Carolina too. Booth fees mid-range, application is competitive.
25. Westobou Festival vendor area (September)
Augusta's contemporary arts festival. Music, visual art, performance. Vendor village is small but the crowd is the right kind of buyer for design-forward work.
Savannah and Coastal Georgia
26. Savannah St Patrick's Day Festival (March 17 weekend)
One of the largest St Patrick's Day celebrations in the country. The vendor row on River Street and the squares draws hundreds of thousands of attendees. The crowd is in party mode, so lower-price-point goods sell better than fine art.
27. Telfair Art Fair (October, Telfair Square Savannah)
The most prestigious art fair in Savannah. Juried by the Telfair Museums. High bar for entry, smaller booth count, premium pricing supported by the crowd.
28. Brunswick Stewbilee (October, Brunswick)
Brunswick stew cook-off plus craft and food vendors. Coastal small-town crowd, friendly entry-level event.
South Georgia
29. Plains Peanut Festival (late September)
Held in Jimmy Carter's hometown. Single-day festival with parade and vendor area. Niche but the press coverage and small-town goodwill make it a unique resume builder.
30. Vidalia Onion Festival (late April)
The Vidalia onion harvest festival. Crowd is large, regional, and food-focused. Craft booths do solidly. Apply through the Vidalia Onion Committee.
How to actually use this list
Three things to do before you apply to any of these:
- Read the vendor reviews on VendorsMap. Every event has a Reviews section now. Vendors who actually sold there tell you what the booth assignment was like, whether the organizer communicated, and whether the crowd actually bought. See how vendor reviews work.
- Check the deadline. The big juried events (Dogwood, Decatur, Inman, Cherry Blossom, Arts in the Heart) close applications 3 to 6 months ahead. The smaller mountain festivals are more rolling.
- Look at the map, not the list. Plot the events you are considering against where you live. A booth in Helen is a four-hour round trip from Atlanta. A booth in Decatur is half an hour. The math changes.
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