Sugar Creek Arts Festival

The 40th Annual Sugar Creek Arts Festival will take place in Uptown Normal on Saturday, September 30th, from 9 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, October 1st, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm.
Sugar Creek Arts Festival is nationally recognized for its excellence and is a juried event that showcases fine art and fine crafts from local, regional, and national artists. Professional artists external to the MCAC serve as paid jurors. This outdoor festival is hosted in the beautiful streets of Uptown Normal. There is ample parking for both artists and patrons nearby.
The festival was first held in Normal. What started as sixteen artists selling from the trunks of their cars in 1983 has now been ranked as one of the nation′s top 100 arts festivals and draws upwards of 20,000 attendees yearly.