Returning booth holders from 2025 have until June 1st at 5pm to submit your application and reserve your booth preference.
M-F 9 am to 5 pm
EVENTS
Returning booth holders from 2025 have until June 1st at 5pm to submit your application and reserve your booth preference.
The Annual Blueberry Arts Festival presented by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council began in 1975 and has been growing ever since. The Blueberry Arts Festival is always the first weekend of August, with over 12,000 community members and summer visitors attending. A few of the community’s favorite activities of the 3-day Festival include the Pet and Doll Parade, the Slug Weigh-In and Race, live music, the Blueberry Arts Festival Art Exhibit, the Best Blueberry Dish Contest, Fun Runs, the Blueberry Pie-Eating contest, the Great Blueberry Ball Roll, PLUS over 160 artist and vendor booths. The Blueberry Arts Festival wraps up Sunday with the Handmade Human Powered Blueberry Boat Race which includes a grueling almost 100-foot race course filled with tide changes, rapids, bananas, probably a dead salmon or two, eye patches, sinking boats, definitely a curious harbor seal, drama, and fun!!! The final activity of the weekend is the Annual Richard Brautigan, Dick Whittaker, Lillian Ference, and Phoebe Newman Memorial Trout Fishing in America Poetry Slam! Come see art, make art, admire an artist, be inspired by art, maybe give an artist a thank you hug, eat good food, and appreciate the community of Ketchikan for all its quirky gloriousness.
