We are excited to announce a new poster contest for the 2012 Fest! Winners will receive a $200 cash prize and complimentary admission into the 2012 festival and will have their poster displayed on Fest materials to possibly include the Bucktown Arts Fest website, 2012 festival materials (posters, t-shirts, hangtags, postcards, program), collateral, press releases [...]

We hope to provide answers to every artist’s question. We want you to feel prepared and ready to have a great weekend! Here are a few answers for you. And we will add more as we get asked.   Who runs the Bucktown Arts Fest? The fest has no staff – and is run solely [...]

Bucktown Arts Fest and Friends of Holstein Park, two nonprofits serving the neighborhood, want to help provide programming that appeals to our community at Holstein Park.     History of the Park In 1854, real estate speculators Sherman, Clark, and Westmore reserved two acres of their subdivision as Holstein Park to enhance the area and its property [...]

The Orange Walls Mural Project, an initiative spearheaded by the WPB Arts Committee, empowered six locals artists to engage the Wicker Park and Bucktown communities located on the near northwest side of Chicago with eye-catching murals in public spaces. WPB is excited to support and celebrate this creative energy by promoting the arts and granting [...]

From Holstein Happenings by Friends of Holstein Park and Updates from 32nd Ward Alderman Scott Waguepack Yum! Bucktown Apple Pie Contest Wrap-Up Let’s have a round of applause for the 2500 neighbors and friends who turned out this year for our 7th annual Bucktown Apple Pie Contest, the 142 amateur and 16 professional bakers who entered, the dozens of [...]