Art Fair Off the Square

Summer brings not one but two huge gatherings of visual artists to downtown Madison. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art offers Art Fair on the Square, featuring more than 400 juried artists from around the U.S., three performance stages, a kids' activity area, and much more ringing the state Capitol. The Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople presents Art Fair Off the Square, with about 140 artists from Wisconsin. Both fairs run 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. More info below and updates at mmoca.org and artcraftwis.org.

media release: The 43rd annual Art Fair Off the Square will be located on the 200 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and on Olin Terrace Walkway leading up to the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Madison, Wisconsin Saturday, July 8 (9-6) and Sunday, July 9 (10-5)

Presented by the Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople, Inc.

WAAC is thrilled to have Karen Faller as our featured artist for the 2023 Art Fair Off the Square!

Karen Faller is an artist from Canada who moved to Madison, Wisconsin, a little under 20 years ago. Originally trained as a biologist and doing art as a hobby (painting, printmaking, and photography), she started creating art more professionally in 2016. Nature continues to influence her art, and the themes of nature, past travels, change, and impermanence weave throughout her work. For the past five years, Karen has been working almost exclusively with encaustic, a more than 2000-year-old technique of painting using melted beeswax, resin, and pigments.