60th annual Red Wing Arts Fall Festival
Saturday, Oct 10 | 10-5 pm
Sunday, Oct 11 | 10-4 pm
Downtown Red Wing, MN
Take in fall color at its peak in beautiful downtown Red Wing!
Visit, shop, play, dine and enjoy a day of fine art.
Our annual event happens the second weekend of October.
Our juried two-day fine arts festival is one of Red Wing Arts’ core programming events, designed to feature and celebrate 120-plus regional artists in the heart of Red Wing. Festival attendees can expect a variety of high-caliber original works of art for purchase, as well as other opportunities to be inspired, whether it’s listening to concerts in the bandshell, creating something beautiful, or eating delicious food.
Artists • Food • Music
2026 Fall Festival Map + Artist Listings
Each year we invite approximately 120 artists working in ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, wood and more to participate. The July 1 deadline to apply for our 2026 event has passed. Our waitlist is created from artists who applied by the July 1 deadline and went through the jury process; we do not add to this waitlist. To be notified when applications open in January for our 2027 festival, please email festival@redwingarts.org. *Culinary Arts - The Aug 10, 2026 application deadline has passed to participate at as a food vendor. *RWA extends invitations to emerging and underrepresented artists. Please submit inquiries to: festival@redwingarts.org
Congratulations to the 2026 Award Winning Artists!
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
Melissa Bossenbroek, Melissa Helene Fine Arts - Larry Veeder Best of Show
Elizabeth Derby, Little Dipper Art - Second Place
Robert Hale, Creations by Hand - Third Place
Gina Nicole Johnson, Sublime Paintings - Kids Choice
Introducing the 2026 Fall Festival Judges,
Meng Elizabeth Tang & Steven Sorman!
Meng Elizabeth Tang is a media artist, curator, filmmaker, and art professor whose work moves between digital media, the moving image, photography, and philosophy. She holds a BFA in Filmmaking, an MA in Digital Media from New York University, and an MFA in Experimental and Media Arts from the University of Minnesota, where she teaches art and film.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kobe Biennale, the Shanghai Biennale, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Minnesota Monthly named her an "Artist to Watch," and Rain Taxi has run an extended feature on her work. She served as Dean of the Shelton School of Media and Performance in Singapore before returning to Minnesota in 2025. She is Vice President of the International Association of Female Artists.
Steven Sorman was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1948. Internationally known as a painter and printmaker, Sorman earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University of Minnesota in 1971. Sorman lives and works in Red Wing, Minnesota. He is best known for his multimedia, complex paintings, drawings and prints. Sorman is a master at orchestrating theme, line, layer, media, and color into challenging images that demand a rhythm of eye movement throughout his artwork.
Among museums internationally that include his work in their collections are the Stedkijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Commissions include the Springhill Foundation, Prudential Insurance, IBM, Honeywell and Hyatt Regency. Sorman won the Bush Foundation Artist's Fellowship in 1979, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Merit World Print III Award in 1980, the Rockefeller Foundation American Center Artist in Residence in Paris in 1982 and the 2nd Bhrat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints Merit Award in 1991.
Numerous one-artist exhibitions have featured Sorman's work in galleries in Singapore, Sweden and the United States. His work has been exhibited in numerous invitationals. “I just try to make things I haven't seen before.”
Thank you to the 2026 Red Wing Arts Fall Festival Sponsors!
Volunteer @ Fall Festival
Gather your friends, family, coworkers & sign up for a shift!
