Mandarin Art Festival

The Mandarin Art Festival has been an Easter weekend tradition in the community for 56+ years. It is the longest running festival of its kind in northeast Florida with a stellar reputation as a Fine Art and Fine Craft Festival. As an almost all volunteer event the festival is grateful to the hundreds of volunteers, business partners and patrons that have supported the show over the decades. What started as a small one day event in 1968 to showcase the amazing talent of local artists like Memphis Woods, Charlie Brown and others has become a 2 day event that artists look forward to each year, many of whom have exhibited for decades alongside new artists applying each year. The Childrens Art Show component has fostered the budding talent of many hundreds of students thru the years. Other show activities include a Green Market for locally produced consumables, a very selective food court, and fundraising activities sponsored by the Mandarin Community Club, host and founding organization, which are vital to the continued prosperity of the Festival and the Community Club.