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2023 Hotel Discounts for Artists

Be sure to book your room as early as possible to secure a room. In addition to GGAF, the Blue Angel’s Homecoming and the SEC Women’s Soccer Tournament will be held in Pensacola the weekend of November 3 – 5, 2023.

Permit Required for Oversize Tents

If you have requested a double booth space, the fire department requires a permit for tents exceeding 10" x 10". How to apply…

About the Festival

The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is a juried art show. Each year, we receive more than 600 applications for the festival. Applications open in March each year.

Each applicant is required to submit three images of their work and one image of their display area along with their application. Qualified jurors are shown each artist’s work simultaneously and anonymously, and collectively choose more than 200 artists who will be invited to exhibit their work.

The festival consistently receives high marks in publications such as Sunshine Artist, which ranked the GGAF #9 of the best 100 fine art and design shows for 2022.

Best of Show, Awards of Distinction, Awards of Excellence, Awards of Honor, Awards of Merit, and Judges Award winners from the previous year’s festival are exempt from the jurying process for the following year.

A total of $25,000 in prize money is awarded.

• Best of Show: $3,000
• 5 Awards of Distinction: $1,400 each
• 5 Awards of Excellence: $1,200 each
• 5 Awards of Honor: $800 each
• 5 Awards of Merit: $600 each
• 5 Judges Awards: $400 each