Our 40th Annual Festival of textures, tastes, shapes, and sounds with 160 craftsmen from 39 states offering a multitude of original American handcrafts. Come and join us at Centennial Park in Nashville, Tn. for beautiful handmade crafts, good food, great music, and even a children's art booth! Free admission.

Our next festival will be Father's Day weekend - June 18th, 19th & 20th, 2010. We hope to see you there!

The festival, sponsored by Metro Parks, benefits Gilda’s Club through support from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition.

American Artisan Festival in the Park... The best handcrafts in the Nation, right at your fingertips.

To Apply for the Festival:

Artists interested in applying for the show can apply online at zapplication.org after Feb. 5th, 2010.

We are very excited to be adapting this online application process this year which will help both Nancy and all the artists stay in touch and up to date on all festival news.

The Fair Dates will be Friday, June 18 - Sunday June 20, 2010.

Food Vendor Info

Participation fee- $500

Eligibility: we are only looking for food vendors for our main food tent at this time. Popcorn, lemonade , smoothies and fudge are filled.

Details: All food vendors will be set up inside one of our beautiful white tents, no personal food trailers are allowed. There will be space behind to park your vehicles for storage. The space is ten feet on the front and twenty feet deep. We encourage you to decorate the front of your tent with your signs. Electricity, water and netting are provided but you will need to bring your own extension cords. Food vendors are not permitted to sell cold drinks of any kind. These sales are handled in the American Artisan drink booth. Set up can start on Thursday the 17th.

APPLICATION: We are accepting applications at zapplication.org. If you are a food vendor that has participated in our show you still need to go through zapplication. If you have any questions please email us at americanartisanfestival@gmail.com

Thank you, and we look forward to another wonderful festival.

Gallery Closed - March 31, 2020

(NASHVILLE, TENN.) - February 24, 2009 - The American Artisan, award-winning gallery often heralded as one of Nashville's best retailers, will close its doors March 31, 2009.

"I've been very fortunate to have made so many great friends over the years with people who have come into The American Artisan," said Nancy Saturn who founded the gallery 38 years ago and has been a long-time member of the Metro Arts Commission. "I've also been passionate about finding the best American artists and craftsmen so that Artisan shoppers could be exposed to the finest in style and taste. I couldn't have asked for a more fulfilling career, but indeed it is time for me to retire."

Nancy will continue to run The American Artisan Festival, the craft fair companion to the store and one of Nashville's most enduring annual community events. The 40th annual American Artisan Festival will be held Father's Day weekend, June 18-20, 2010 at Centennial Park.

Saturn is a long time member of the Metro Arts Commission of Nashville and a winner of the Watkins College Arts Awareness Award. A breast cancer survivor, she now serves on the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center board of overseers, and has been awarded the YMCA's Women of Achievement Award, The American Cancer Society Woman of the Year Award and the Frances William Preston Award for Breast Cancer Awareness. Nancy is also committed to the Women's Breast Cancer Coalition and was a founding board member of Gilda's Club Nashville which brings social and emotional support to anyone affected by cancer.

If you would like to keep up with how Nancy is doing, please visit her CaringBridge website http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nancysaturn. When you are there be sure to leave her a message, she loves to hear from friends near and far!