Brookings Summer Arts Festival Committee

Brookings Summer Arts Festival Committee is the volunteer organizer behind the Brookings Summer Arts Festival in Brookings, South Dakota. The organizer describes the festival as South Dakota’s premier juried art festival, held in Pioneer Park and produced by a committee of roughly 30 to 40 members who plan the weekend program each year.

According to the organizer’s site, the event regularly draws nearly 75,000 attendees and features more than 175 artists from across the nation, alongside food, entertainment, children’s activities, antiques, artisan goods, and living-history programming. The committee operates as a community-based nonprofit-style volunteer group rather than a commercial tradeshow producer, but it runs the festival with a structured committee, chair roles, booth categories, and year-to-year application cycles.

Public-facing materials show active exhibitor recruitment, juried booth review, and dedicated contacts for art, food, entertainment, antiques, and other participation categories. The organizer’s value proposition is a long-running, high-attendance, family-oriented arts marketplace that gives makers, food vendors, performers, and community partners a visible regional platform in eastern South Dakota.