Artisphere has been successfully connecting artists and buyers for over two decades. Our festival has become a staple in the local, regional, and national arts community as ‘must do show’ and our adjudication process is one of the most highly regarded in the industry.
VISUAL ARTISTS
Applications for the 2025 festival are now closed.
135-150 artists will be selected to attend the festival. Each artist is given a 12’x12’ booth to showcase their artwork, with double booths available for purchase.
Requirements:
- Artwork must be original, handcrafted, and produced by the artist in the last 4 years
- Submit an Artist Statement explaining the process and materials used
- Submit 4 images showing your range of work
- Submit 1 booth photo showing how your work will be displayed
Booth Details:
- 12’x12’ with 10’x10’ of display space
- Standard Booth: $500
- Corner Booth $600
- Double Booth: $1000
- Electricity: $90
Applications
Each artist must apply for at least one medium category. Artists can apply in multiple mediums by submitting separate applications for each.
Process:
- Submit an application with required photos through Zapplication.
- Register and create an artist profile
- Visit ZAPP Help Center for Image Preparation Tips
- A Jury Review Panel blind juries each application (learn more about our jury process)
- Final artist selections are made based on jury results
- Artists must sign and return the Artist Acceptance of Festival Participation and Booth Fees
Medium Categories:
- Ceramics
- Digital Art
- Drawing
- Fiber
- Furniture
- Glass
- Jewelry/Precious Metals
- Jewelry/Semi-Precious Metals
- Metal Works
- Mixed Media 2D
- Mixed Media 3D
- Painting: Oil/Acrylic
- Painting: Watercolors
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Wood
Artisphere’s Emerging Festival Artist Scholarship Program
This program is open to South Carolina artists who have developed a solid body of work, completed within the past two years, but who are not currently earning a living as a festival exhibitor.
Selected artists will participate in the Festival, attend an exhibition workshop, and receive:
- Booth space
- Use of display screens during the festival
Requirements:
Scholarship applicants undergo the same jury selection process as all visual artist applicants and submit an application with required photos through Zapplication.
- Register and create an artist profile in Zapplication
- Follow instructions to apply to Artisphere as an Emerging Festival Artist
Meet the 2025 Jury Review Panel
Each year, we carefully select a panel of Visual Arts professionals and a representative from the Artisphere Board of Directors to jury visual artist applications. All scores are combined and averaged to determine accepted and waitlisted artists by medium category. Artistic Excellence scores are based on:
- Artistic merit (vision, creativity, originality of work, cohesiveness, and consistency)
- Technical competence (strength of composition, color, design, and technical aspects)
- Booth presentation
ARTIST OF THE UPSTATE EXHIBIT
The Artists of the Upstate Exhibit is a juried exhibition that’s open to artists 18+ living in Upstate South Carolina (Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, Greenwood, Laurens, Cherokee, Union, Abbeville counties). This exhibit recognizes the outstanding quality and diversity of work being generated by those living in the Upstate region. The accepted artists will be featured on the Artisphere website and shared on Artisphere’s social media channels. Cash prizes will be awarded to four award winners.
Enid Williams will jury the 18th installment of the Artists of the Upstate Exhibition in 2025. Enid Williams received her M.F.A. in painting from Kent State University in 1996 and her B.A. in studio art from the University of Toledo in 1992. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2011, two Metropolitan Arts Council Grants in 2007 and 2011, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 2002, the Columbus Museum of Art Purchase Award in 2000, the Hall Memorial Award of Painting, Ohio Art League, 2000, and the Carnegie Museum of Art and Associate Artists of Pittsburgh Milone Painting Award in 1997. In addition, her work is included in the Columbus Museum of Art, OH, the Morris Museum of Augusta, GA, the Johnson Collection of Spartanburg, SC, the Contemporary Carolina Collection at the Medical University of SC, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH.
Applications are now open! The deadline to apply is April 4th, 2025!
