Vendor Application Deadline

 Over the past five years, I’ve participated as a vendor at a wide range of community events and festivals. Through these experiences, I’ve learned what makes an event truly supportive and successful for vendors — thoughtful organization, clear communication, intentional space planning, and a welcoming environment that honors your work. I’ve also seen what doesn’t work, and I’m committed to designing a festival that avoids those pitfalls.

The Starbelly Sacred Arts Festival is built with vendors in mind. Whether you’re a fine arts creator, a wellness practitioner, or a small business, this event offers a platform to share your work with an engaged, supportive audience. 

Starbelly School of Dance and its performance company, the Starbelly Dancers, bring decades of experience producing shows locally, nationally, and internationally. With a professional marketing team, established audience, and a history of community engagement, we are equipped to help vendors reach the right people and make their participation meaningful, profitable, and enjoyable.

 We are dedicated to creating an event where vendors, artists, and creatives feel supported, seen, and connected to the community. The Starbelly Sacred Arts Festival is designed with your success in mind, drawing on over five years of insights from past events to maximize exposure, sales opportunities, and engagement.

Key Benefits for Vendors:

• Curated, juried market: Each vendor is carefully selected to ensure high-quality offerings, with limited similar-item vendors to maintain a unique and diverse marketplace.
• Vendor cap: A maximum of 98 vendors will be accepted for the festival, and this cap will not increase in future years, ensuring exclusivity and optimal visibility for all participants.
• Exposure to a targeted, engaged audience of artists, performers, and community members interested in fine arts, crafts, wellness, and creative services.
• Promotion & marketing support: Your logo and business name on festival marketing materials, social media, and our website.
• Festival entertainment throughout booth hours, including dance groups, live music, comedians, and other dynamic demonstrations to attract attendees to your booth.
• Optional participation in additional festival features: Depending on tier, potential inclusion in performer showcases, workshops, and curated vendor spaces.
  
  

We strive to create an environment where vendors not only sell and showcase their work but also connect with the community, gain exposure, and feel supported by an experienced team committed to creativity, inclusion, and celebration.

 The Starbelly Sacred Arts Festival is a thoughtfully curated market rooted in our core values: Collaboration, Creativity, Celebration, Community, and Belonging.

We especially value vendors who offer:

• Handmade, original, and heart-led creations
• Self-expressive art that celebrates creativity
• Work rooted in healing, storytelling, and community-building
• Sacred, meaningful, or intentional offerings
• Women-owned and women-identifying businesses

This approach helps us create a thoughtful, supportive marketplace that honors artists, makers, and the creative spirit of the festival.

Examples of offerings we tend to favor include:

• Original fine art and handmade crafts
• Prints of original artwork
• Published books featuring an artist’s own writing and/or artwork
• Handmade clothing and wearable art
• Healing arts and community-focused offerings
• Crystals (limited and juried)

Examples of offerings that are less likely to be a fit:

• AI-generated art
• MLM
• Dealer or agent-based sales
• Commercially produced or mass-market goods
• Flea-market or swap-meet style items

• Applications open January 15, 2026, with a deadline of March 15th, 2026.
• Decisions will be communicated by April 2nd, 2026, and payments are due by April 15th, 2026 to secure your spot.
• A curated, juried market will be in place with a cap of 99 total arts vendors, which will not increase in future years. Similar item vendors will be limited.
  • Submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance.

• Arts/Service Vendors: $300 (single booth) / $500 Double Booth
• Community resource and Nonprofit Booth (no sales): $150 (single booth)
• Food Vendors: $350
• 110V electricity: $50 per plug (up to 2 plugs)
• 220V electricity: $220 per plug (30 or 50 amp)

 (PAYMENT REQUIRED UPON APPROVAL) 

Festival Hours: Saturday 10 AM – 8 PM | Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM

Setup: Friday, June 12th, 2026, from 1-8PM, (all booths must be manned for the entire festival).