The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a free, bi-annual juried fine art and arts and crafts festival that is, as of May 2025, held at the Hill Country Galleria.
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The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a free, bi-annual juried fine art and arts and crafts festival that is, as of May 2025, held at the Hill Country Galleria.
01 · What it is
Craft
Hand-shaped material work — wood, clay, metal, stone, fibre, or ceremonial objects.
02 · Where & name
United States of America
Placed on record in United States of America.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
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Chapter Takeaways
HistoryThis downtown Austin festival was originally dreamed up, produced, funded and had event insurance secured by entrepreneur Marcy Fletcher and artist Michael Wolverton.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Pecan Street Festival in plain words?
The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a free, bi-annual juried fine art and arts and crafts festival that is, as of May 2025, held at the Hill Country Galleria.
Where is Pecan Street Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Pecan Street Festival in United States of America.
What is the current condition of Pecan Street Festival today?
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Cite as: "Pecan Street Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pecan-street-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a free, bi-annual juried fine art and arts and crafts festival that is, as of May 2025, held at the Hill Country Galleria.
The festival was first held in Fall 1978. The festival includes juried original artists and artisans featuring painting, sculpture, wood, glass, jewelry, pottery, mosaics, candles, original clothing, etc.; five stages of live music, dance and performing arts; vendors; children's carnival, petting zoo, and art classes. 1
History
This downtown Austin festival was originally dreamed up, produced, funded and had event insurance secured by entrepreneur Marcy Fletcher and artist Michael Wolverton. It was a juried show that required artists and craftsmen to have actually produced the work they sold. The management was later handed over to French Smith III, and was later taken over through legal action by the Old Pecan Street Association in 1997. Roadstar Productions, Smith's company, continued to produce it for eight more years. In the fall of 2006, the Old Pecan Street Association selected Special Events Management to run the festival.
In 2025 the Pecan Street Festival moved to the Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave, Texas with the following justification given: 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pecan Street Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Pecan Street Festival is recorded in open cultural data. The structured record cited below does not describe the practice, and this entry has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2