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.

Request for Proposals: We are currently accepting proposals from Minnesota performing artists and performing arts organizations who would like to share their work with 2023 Minnesota State Fair audiences in short pop-up performances as part of the Arts A’Fair program. Opportunities to connect with audience members are included in conjunction with pop-up performances.

Please download the 2023 Request for Proposals and visit the Arts A’Fair FAQ page for more information. Submission deadline is Friday, April 14, 2023.

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

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 Theatre
• Rubber Chicken Theater
• Rhythmically Speaking
• Shakespeare & Company
• Skylark Opera Theatre
• Sod House Theater
• Stages Theatre Company
• Street Sweeper Cirkus
• Students of the Ragamala Training Center
• Summerset Theatre
• TaikoArts Midwest
• The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
• 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 Theatre