The 58th Annual Pembroke Arts Festival will take place this year on the weekend of August 9th and 10th at the new Pembroke Community Center, 128 Center St, Pembroke MA. Submissions will be online and should not show a frame with the submitted image. 

Up to TWO ARTWORKS per child may be entered.  They can be Fine Art, Photography, or a combination.  Parents please enter Your Name and Email to submit your child's work, but be sure to enter the Young Artist's Full Name in the separate field indicated, after the title for each artwork. Please note that entries are limited to two per student but you'll now be able to enter several children under one email. (Teen artists with their own email addresses can enter under their own name, but be sure to put your name in the Additional Notes field as the artist also.)

Artwork will be received at the Community Center on two dates- Thursday July 31st from 6-8:00 pm and Saturday August 2nd from 9-11:30 am.  Works must be framed (or otherwise with finished edges) and WIRED when dropped off (NO Tape). Size is limited to 18x24".  Young Artists artwork may be entered at drop-off if not previously entered via Smarter Entry, but will NOT be displayed on our website unless entered online. 

Categories are based on Student's Grade completed, and works should have been done within that year up to the present.

Artists must make arrangements to pick up displayed artwork between 4-5:30 on Sunday 8/10, as there are no storage facilities available.  The PAF Committee will not be able to receive mailed entries.

Artworks, including those entered online and at drop off, will be juried for prizes.  Winners will be notified and receive an invitation to the Young Artists Awards Ceremony, to be held Friday evening 8/8/24 from 6-7:00.  All are welcome to attend!

We hope you will attend the Arts Festival to enjoy the Juried and Young Artist Exhibits, Artisans Craft Fair, Kids Crafts table, accomplished Artists in Action, and continous live music and dance performances, including a Free Saturday evening concert from 6-8:00!

Please visit pembrokeartsfestival.org for more information.

The 58th Annual Pembroke Arts Festival's Juried Exhibit is open to all artists 16 and older, though two awards are specifically for Pembroke residents.  We will offer the same categories as in previous years, with cash prizes of $150 for 1st place; $100 for 2nd place; $50 for 3rd place; $100 for Pembroke Artist and $100 for Pembroke Photographer. There is also a $500 prize for Best in Show.  The Memorial Awards of $100 include the Delores Quill Memorial Award for Current Events in Art; Dave Litchfield Memorial Award for Design; Brooks Kelly Memorial Award for Acrylic or Oil Painting; Carol M. Sullivan Award for Watercolor Landscape; James "Tiny" Brown Memorial Award for Innovation in Art; Jack Pattison Award for Fine Craftsmanship; Norm Pulaski Award for Excellence in Photography; Mary Ellen Celli Award for Community Spirit; Bill & Ann Zoino Award for Spirit of the Renaissance; and the Veterans Memorial Award.

Please submit your images without visible matting or framing. All selected works will be displayed in an online gallery on our website, pembrokeartsfestival.org. Framing of artwork is not required to enter, but framing of selected works will be the responsibility of those artists whose works are accepted. Awards will be juried after accepted art is dropped off on 7/31 or 8/2. PAF cannot accept mailed art. Works will be exhibited at the Opening Reception on Friday August 8th, and during the weekend of August 9th thru 10th. Indicate a sale price for your work, bearing in mind PAF takes a 30% commission. If not for sale put NFS.  Works MUST be picked up on Sunday, August 10th from 4-5:30. See pembrokeartsfestival.org for further details, including Jurors.