2025 Holiday Festival Waitlist
The Holiday Festival of the Arts is a five-week-long indoor arts festival featuring 100 artisans from our region. Aside from vendors selling their wares, the festival boasts live music and workshops for children on the weekends. The booths are unstaffed, with central checkout, meaning we stay the long hours for you.
Do note, this is a highly competitive juried festival. Allied Arts strives to choose a varied selection of new and returning exhibitors in a wide range of media and price points. Participants from last year are not automatically accepted again this year.
Our Holiday Festival applications for the year are closed. However, we do maintain a waitlist in case availability opens up. If you’d like to be on our waitlist, please read all of the guidelines provided, and complete the form below.
We use online forms to help us reduce errors and save time for our staff, however – We want everyone to be able to apply! So, if this form gives you any trouble, if you need help completing it, or if you need an alternate method of submission, please contact us directly –
- EMAIL us at holidayfestival@alliedarts.org,
- CALL us at (360) 676-8548 during our open hours Tues-Sat 11am-4pm
- VISIT us at 1213 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham WA 98225 during our open hours Tues-Sat 11am-4pm
Alternatively, you may download a PDF version of the form, fill it out manually and –
- Mail packets to:
Allied Arts of Whatcom County
attn: Holiday Festival
PO Box 2584
Bellingham, WA 98227 - Drop off packets at: The Allied Arts of Whatcom County offices, located at 1213 Cornwall Avenue, in Downtown Bellingham. We are open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 4pm.
- Please include a self addressed stamped envelope if you would like your photographs or CDs returned. If you are accepted to participate, your portfolio will not be returned until after the festival.
PLEASE NOTE:
We will only contact you if we are able to offer you a booth in the festival, submission to this form is not a guarantee of entry.
Guidelines for Vendor Booths
- **NEW INFO** Due to licencing laws and limits we cannot accept CBD, THC, or marijuana products.
- You must have a current Business Membership with Allied Arts. Membership is why we don’t have jury fees.
- All work must be hand-made by the artist applying: no work from kits, commercial plans, mass produced, factory made or assembled items are permitted. The artist must have direct, hands on involvement over the creative and production processes. Print reproductions are allowed.
- Artists may not exhibit the work of other artists.
- All work displayed must be of the quality submitted for jurying. Allied Arts reserves the right to require removal of items that are not of the quality and/or category approved through the jury process.
- Artists may only display work in the categories in which they are accepted.
- Soap, bath and body, and food vendors must submit ingredient lists for their products.
- All vendors must supply their own tables and display furniture.
- Power is available, but you need to supply your own 3-prong extension cord and power strip with fuse.
- You are welcome to use locked cases – we will keep the keys with the staff, who will unlock cases for customers. An effort will be made to place booths with higher value items closer to the register area.
- Work must be merchandised within the allotted booth space in a creative and artistic manner. If you have questions, please reach out.
- Inventory must be maintained at a reasonable level throughout the duration of the show. Allied Arts of Whatcom County reserves the right to refuse future participation to any artist not maintaining their inventory.
- 30% commission will be taken from vendors at the Holiday Festival.
- All vendors are required to work a number of security shifts, based on the number of booths they have. Each shift is 3 hours long. A single booth requires 3 shifts, and a double booth requires 6 shifts. If you do not complete all of your shifts, the commission taken from your sales will increase to 50% AND / OR your participation in future festivals will be jeopardized.
- Allied Arts of Whatcom County reserves the right to make any necessary alteration to a booth to attain the highest level of presentation.
2025 Holiday Festival Timeline
Festival Dates:
November 21 – December 24, 2025
Set up:
Wednesday and Thursday
November 19 & 20 times TBA
Festival Hours:
November 21 – December 24
Seven Days a Week, 10am – 6pm, until Dec. 24th when we close at 3pm
Closed Thanksgiving Day
Take-down and Clean up:
December 24, 26 & 27, times TBA
Booth Fees and Commission Rates
Booth Fee: $195 until June 30th | $205 July 1st and after
Size: 3’ x 6’ single | 3 x 12 double
NOTE: double booths are not guaranteed and are assigned by availability. You may request to be considered for a double booth.
Application Guidelines
To be considered for the 2024 Holiday Festival your application must include:
- 4 – 10 current images (taken within the last 2 years), either high-quality photographs or digital (at least 300dpi) in jpg format. If you have participated in other festivals, please include at least one picture of your display. Note: If accepted, images may be used for publicity.
- We may not be familiar with your work, so quality photos of your works and booth set-ups if you have them are highly encouraged.
- An image list with descriptions of each piece. (Include size, medium, price and year produced)
- A brief description of your technique and/or artist’s statement.
- Soap, bath and body, and food vendors must include ingredient lists for your products.