Arts A’Fair

Arts A’Fair

Arts A’Fair strives to showcase the best of the vibrant performing arts community throughout the state of Minnesota and aims to present a wide and exemplary range of genres, cultures, ages and expertise. Arts organizations and individual performing artists are selected each year to entertain fair guests in pop-up showcases throughout the fairgrounds.

We are currently accepting proposals to participate in the 2022 Arts A’Fair project from Minnesotan performing arts organizations and individual performing artists. Please download the 2022 Request for Proposals for more information. Submission deadline is April 15, 2022.

Past Arts A’Fair participants include:

• Ballet Minnesota
• Black Storytellers Alliance
• Bucket Brigade Theater
• CAAM Chinese Dance Theater
• Captain Willy DeWitt – Comedy Stunt Show
• Carly Wicks
• Children’s Theatre Company
• Chicks on Sticks
• COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company
• Dreamland Arts
• Duniya Drum & Dance
• Green T Productions
• HUGE Improv Theater
• Ifrah Mansour
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
• Interact Theater Company
• James Sewell Ballet
• Little Coyote Puppet Theater + Pinwheel Arts and Movement Studio
• Live Action Set
• Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
• Mexica Yolotl
• Minnesota Centennial Showboat
• Minnesota History Theatre
• Mixed Precipitation
• Mu Performing Arts
• Open Eye Figure Theatre
• Rubber Chicken Theater
• Sod House Theater
• Stages Theatre Company
• Street Sweeper Cirkus
• Summerset Theatre
• TaikoArts Midwest
• Theater for the Thirsty
• Theatre Elision
• Theatre of Fools
• Theatre Unbound
• TigerLion Arts
• Twin Cities Trapeze Center
• Voice of Culture Drum & Dance
• Yellow Apple Circus
• Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
• Zorongo Flamenco Dance

For further information, please email artsafair@mnstatefair.org or call 651-288-4395.