Volunteer for the Festival!
Volunteers wanted! We’re looking to fill volunteer slots for the 2024 Festival.
Volunteer sign-up for the 2024 Edmonds Arts Festival is now open!
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.
To Volunteer
When you select from the list below, you are taken to that volunteer list on our online app, SignUpGenius:
- Click Sign Up under the Volunteer description to access that SignUpGenius list.
- In SignUpGenius, click the Sign Up button next to the time slot that you wish to fill.
- Scroll to the bottom of the SignUpGenius page and click Submit and Sign Up. Your volunteer registration will not be completed unless you click Submit and Sign Up.
- If you have a SignUpGenius account, enter your account information and proceed to sign up.
- If you don’t have an account, complete the information under I do not have a SignUpGenius account (including Additional Info).
Artist Booths
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.
Edmonds Plaza
Assist artists and directors in booth set up and/or pack up and clean up tasks.
Festival Store
Sell Festival logo-wear. Collect cash and checks, process credit card payment using the iPad Square, and use the cash register.
Gallery Art
Check in the art in preparation for the installation of the gallery art. Some volunteers will work as hosts when people arrive in the gallery art area. Collect cash, checks, and process electronic payments on the iPad for art sales.
Hospitality
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.
Information Booth
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.
Kids Create!
Oversee craft station. Assist and inspire young artists create fun craft projects that they can take home. All supplies and instructions provided.
Marketing and Communications
Are you savvy on social media? Share your photos and videos with ours! Attend the Festival and take photos and/or video, and share some of them on your own social media with the hashtags #edmondsartsfestival and #eaf2024.
No sign-up needed!
Parking and Transportation
Assist artists and vendors with parking at Edmonds College. Oversee parking in proper lots at Edmonds College/Assist accessiblity with vans.
Sign Up for Parking and Transportation
Performing Arts
Assist Performing Arts Directors.
Student Art
Help hang or breakdown the Student Art Exhibit; host a Gallery room.
Sign Up for Student Art Exhibit
Volunteer Check-in
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.
Sign Up for Volunteer Check-in
Throughout the Year
If you’re interested in participating as a committee member or want to find out about future directorship opportunities, please Contact Us. We’d be happy to discuss the possibilities with you.