Volunteer!

Volunteer sign-up for the 2025 Edmonds Arts Festival will open April 1st!

Volunteers fill a myriad of jobs during the Festival, including checking in the juried art, helping sell art during the Festival, staffing the information booth, delivering food to the artists, checking in volunteers, and more. You can sign up to volunteer in areas that are interesting to you. Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older or 16/17 with a parent or adult sibling supervising.


Department Descriptions

  • Help with the physical setup of the Festival. Supervise a booth when the artist needs a break. Help with the breakdown of the field after the Festival. Please bring your cellphone.

  • Assist artists and directors in booth set up and/or pack up and clean up tasks.

    Please note that the need for volunteers on Thursday requires lifting heavy boxes, bending, setting up tents and moving furniture and will be strenuous.

  • Sell Festival branded items. Collect cash and checks, process credit card payment using the iPad Square, and use the cash register.

  • On Saturday, June 13, prior to the Festival, volunteers will help check in artwork. On Wednesday, June 17, and during the Festival (June 19–21), volunteers will serve as cashiers or cashier’s assistants in one of the three galleries inside the Frances Anderson Center. Cashiers will sell artwork using an iPad, and cashier’s assistants will assist purchasers and record sales in the sales book. During the final shift on Sunday, June 21, and after the Festival on Monday, June 22, volunteers will help check out unsold artwork.

  • Cut fruit and vegetables to go into snack/lunch boxes. Help deliver the boxes to the artists in their booths. Help with coffee, water, and lemonade refills in dispensers.

  • Answer general questions and give directions to our Festival visitors. Hand out the Festival map/program. Some volunteers will serve as booth relief to give artists a short break.

  • Oversee craft station. Assist and inspire young artists create fun craft projects that they can take home. All supplies and instructions provided.

  • Assist Performing Arts Directors.


  • Help hang or breakdown the Student Art Exhibit; host a Gallery room.

  • Work in the volunteer tent on the Frances Anderson Center field. Check off the names of volunteers as they arrive for their shifts. Give out volunteer shirts, maps, and name tags. Direct volunteers to their work assignment.