Holiday Artist Market

2026

Artist Application


Enjoy the holidays at The Arts Center and showcase your creativity at one of our largest annual community events! Set up your vendor table for two festive days as we welcome more than a thousand community members through our doors. This is your chance to share your handcrafted artwork, connect with new audiences, and be part of a celebration that supports both artists and the arts in our region.

More than a holiday shopping event, the Holiday Artist Market is an opportunity to bring regional artists and the community together while supporting the mission of The Arts Center: to uplift artists, foster creativity, and make the arts accessible to everyone in our community.

For artists, the market provides an opportunity to showcase original work, connect with new audiences, make sales, and participate in a professionally promoted community event. For shoppers, it is a chance to discover one-of-a-kind artwork and give meaningful gifts while directly supporting regional artists and the Arts Center's year-round programs, exhibitions, performances, classes, and workshops.

Artist Participation
Application Due on October 15, 2026

Arts Center Membership is required. Participating artists must be in good standing as current Arts Center membership. Membership supports the Arts Center's year-round mission and programs and includes participation in the Holiday Artist Market at the established 25% commission rate on sales. Membership must be active at time of application, and throughout the event. Membership is $50 auto renew option for Artists!

Artist Participation Fee: $25. A non-refundable $25 participation fee is required upon acceptance and confirms your space in the market. This fee helps support the costs of producing and administering the event, including event promotion, space, sales administration, checkout services, and event supplies.

What the Arts Center Provides

The Arts Center handles the centralized checkout process for all market purchases. Each artist is provided with a designated sales receipt book, and the Arts Center collects customer payments, tracks sales, maintains transaction records, and provides artists with a final sales statement following the market. This is a huge benefit to the artist.

The Arts Center also provides event promotion and advertising, a professionally organized sales environment, customer protective packaging materials, and the community audience that makes the Holiday Artist Market a successful shopping experience.

Artist Guidelines

  • One table per participating artist. 

  • Only original, hand-created artwork made by the participating artist will be accepted. This is an artist market, not a general craft or resale market.

  • Eligible work may include pottery, baskets, jewelry, woodworking, fused or stained glass, printmaking, textiles, felted art, handmade quilts and blankets, sewn artwork, framed and unframed artwork, professionally printed cards, and prints or reproductions of the artist's original work.

  • Commercially manufactured goods, resale items, or work created by someone other than the applying artist are not eligible.

  • The artist or a designated representative must be present at the table during the market.

  • Artists are responsible for creating an attractive and functional display, clearly pricing their work, and providing accurate inventory and sales information.

  • A completed W-9 is required before artist payment can be issued.

  • Artists are responsible for setting up and removing their own displays and merchandise.

  • The 25% commission applies to all sales processed through the Holiday Artist Market. 

  • Artist sales will be reconciled following the event, and payment will be issued according to the Arts Center's established artist payment process.

Artist/Community Hospitality- the Arts Center will have a beautiful holiday cookie/beverage table for everyone. If artists want to take a break during the event, space will be available in our Green Room. Artists can ask a friend to man their table if they want to enjoy a local restaurant nearby.  

Important Dates
Thursday, December 3, Artist Setup
10:00 a.m. to Noon and 1 pm to 3 pm Artist Setup

Friday, December 4, Market is open to the community
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Saturday, December 5, Market Open to the Community
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Questions? Email arts@randolpharts.org or call 304-637-2355.

Being part of the Artist Market means being part of something larger than an individual exhibition or sales event. The Art Center provides artists with a nonprofit platform for exhibiting, selling, building visibility, connecting with the community, and participating in an active local arts ecosystem. Your membership and participation help sustain the organization that creates these opportunities, while our commission structure allows artists to retain 75% of every sale. (significantly more than the 50% commission commonly retained by private galleries.) The Art Center's goal is not simply to sell artwork; it is to create a sustainable environment in which artists can be seen, supported, connected, and given meaningful opportunities to grow. When you participate, you are not simply paying to be in an event. You are becoming part of the ecosystem that makes these opportunities possible.

The mission of the Arts Center is to enrich our community with inspiring arts programs that foster creativity, learning, and expression for all.