For a look at some of last years Art Festival, click here.

This year Howard Alan Events will be producing the event, the 41st Annual Key Biscayne Art Festival, and it is a juried show, which means each participating artist is hand selected from hundreds of applicants to ensure a first-class festival with only the highest quality, original artwork. 

All exhibiting artists will be required to be at the festival the entire weekend. 
For a full list of participating artists, click here.

This gives you the unique opportunity to meet the creators of the art on display; commission a specific piece; ask questions about techniques; learn the sources of their inspirations; and purchase fine works of art at affordable prices. 

All of the work on display is available for purchase, and with prices ranging from $15 earrings to $50 prints to $20,000 sculptures, there is something for everyone.
Each and every year, the Key Biscayne Art Festival is one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the Island.
It is one of those events that binds the community and is where a person can see those that he or she has not seen since, well, last years Art Festival.  Speaking of last years Art Festival, click here to have a look.
Over the past now 41 years that the Key Biscayne Art Festival has been going on, it has adapted in product in relation to the ever changing face of Key Biscayne.  Back in the 1970's, it was nearly completely local artists showing off and selling their art to their next door neighbor in many cases.  It was one watercolor booth after another and watercolor art of the Key Biscayne lighthouse were a dime a dozen.  Maybe not that cheap, but close to it.   Most of the art back then was not really judged on how any one piece of art or artist fared against the world community of Art as a whole, but rather it was judged to be best of show as if there was no other Art in the world except for what was on display at the Key Biscayne Art Festival.
It used to be held in the middle of the Island.  Very close to where the current Village Green is.  Word spread into Coconut Grove (where the REAL artist were) and it was not too long before the Key Biscayne Art Festival had many of the artists who were touring the country doing one Art Show after the next.  Many of the artists slept in their vans along side of the the road.  It was a more casual time, but the time was short lived as word got out, more and more vans appeared, then Motor homes and then that was not allowed at all. 
This ruling (or enforcement of a current ruling) was rumored to be the end of the Key Biscayne Art Festival.  Most of the older artists who could actually sell something were dying off or moving off of Key Biscayne, and it was thought that if out of State artists could not spend the night like a gypsy on the side of the road, nobody would show up.  There were a couple, perhaps a few lean years.
The Key Biscayne Art Festival was then scheduled to coincide with the Coconut Grove Art Festival by being held one week in advance of the Coconut Grove Art Festival.  The thinking was that artists who were headed down this way may consider adding a week to their stay and participate in the Key Biscayne Art Festival prior to the Coconut grove Art Festival.
It worked....

Stalls that were practically being given away to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the local newspaper, and others were now being filled and reserved in advance, paid for in real cash, by artists who had real art.
Since this time, the quality of Art and artists participating has risen to the class of first class...World class.
Just like the Island itself. 
We look forward to seeing you there!