4 Bridges Arts Festival

Name: 4 Bridges Arts Festival
Address: 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, 37405, US
Telephone: +14232654282
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.6

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The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) produces the 4 Bridges Arts Festival™, a nationally-ranked f Applications open September 1, 2021.
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The 2022 4 Bridges Arts Festival will take place In April 2022! The festival is held at First Horizon Pavilion in downtown Chattanooga. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children under 18.

12/17/2025

Several local food vendors got an email today inviting them to vend at 4BAF this spring, and pay for their vendor space via CashApp. THIS WASN’T FROM US! Please know, if you’re interested in applying to vend food at 4BAF, there is an application available for that. Email [email protected] to be directed toward the real application process if interested!

11/19/2025

Introducing the jurors for the 2026 4 Bridges Arts Festival!
🎨 Raquel Mullins - Director/Curator at Wavelength Space
🎨 Lauren Nye - Associate Curator at the Hunter Museum for American Art
🎨 Elizabeth Ruffner - Owner of Ruffner Art Advisory, Certified Appraiser

Artists: the jury is reviewing applications right now, and notifications will go out on Friday afternoon!

06/04/2025

Now at the AVA gallery: we hung a retrospective of all our 4BAF posters from the last 25 years in our back hallway, with plenty of room to add more. We love the memories that each poster brings! Come visit us on Chattanooga’s north shore and reminisce.

04/15/2025

It takes a village to make a festival—and what an incredible one we have. 💛

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who made 4 Bridges Arts Festival 2025 unforgettable:
 ✨ Our amazing volunteers!
 🎶 The entertainers who kept the vibes coming! 🎭
 🏆 Our dedicated judges, tasked with the impossible!
 🍴 The food & beverage trucks who kept us fueled.
 🎨 The artists—first-timers and long-timers alike!
 🤝 Our generous patrons and sponsors, whose support keeps Chattanooga’s arts scene thriving.
 👋 The Friends of the Festival crew — we couldn’t do it without you.
 🫶 Our board members (past & present) who support us every step of the way.
 🏛️ And the First Horizon Pavilion for being our festival home.

You helped bring this celebration of art, connection, and community to life. We’re endlessly grateful.

04/15/2025

The announcement so many of you have been waiting for! Our inaugural People’s Choice Award winner was woodworker Nicholas Barnes, whose incredible wood cloisonné technique blew so many away.

The results of the voting for this award excited us, as well over half of the artists in the show got at least one vote. We’ll bring this award back so you all can keep showing us what you like!

04/13/2025

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our awards for our 2025 show. We’ve heard many very kind comments this year about the overall excellence of the show and the high quality of all the artists. This is a testament to the hard work of the jurors in selecting artists from our application pool, and meant that their work of going through the show and evaluating everyone’s work was very difficult. We’re so thankful to our panel of jurors - Isaac Duncan, Elizabeth Carriger, and Carley McGee. With no further ado:
Lisa Brock Best In Show - Phillip Harris (oil/acrylic painting)
2nd place - 2D - Robert Flowers (watercolor painting)
2nd place - 3D - Christopher Buonomo (sculpture)
3rd place - 2D - Michel Delgado (mixed media)
3rd place - 3D - Cory O’Rourke (metal)
Honorable Mention - 2D - Jeffrey Pender (drawing)
Honorable Mention - 3D - Donald Reed (ceramics)
Juror’s Choice - Greta McCall (oil/acrylic painting), Carl Johnson (fiber/leather), Anna Myers (sculpture)
Bobby Stone Best Emerging Artist - Nat Stepney (oil/acrylic painting)
Chuck Gavin Best Local Artist - Sam Viscomi (wood)

Congratulations to all the winners! Come visit us Sunday, April 13 for the final day of the festival! We’ll be open 10am - 5pm at First Horizon Pavilion

04/11/2025

As we prepare to open the festival tonight for our VIP Preview Party, we want to take a moment to thank all the wonderful patrons whose donations make our event run so well. We literally couldn't put the show on without these contributions. Thank you so much for your support!

04/11/2025

As we prepare to open the festival tonight for our VIP Preview Party, we want to take a moment to thank all the wonderful corporate and award sponsors whose donations of money, products, and labor make our event run so well. We literally couldn't put the show on without these contributions. Thank you so much for your support!

04/08/2025

Introducing Jeffrey Mead! 🎉 4 Bridges Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome back wood artist Jeffrey Mead from Acworth, GA, for his second year—and our 25th-anniversary show!

🔹 Artist Statement: Almost exclusively working with Oak, from which I salvage from fallen trees. To create hand-turned vessels, most of which are surface treated using reactionary based techniques. My work often highlights the distress, and/or “defects” within the material.

✨ Discover Mead’s work—alongside 140+ outstanding artists—at 4 Bridges Arts Festival, April 12-13 at First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga. We can’t wait to see you there!

04/08/2025

4 Bridges Arts Festival is pleased to introduce wood artist Richard Dwyer from Gray, TN! This is his first year showing at 4 Bridges, and we're delighted to welcome him for our 25th anniversary show!

🔹 Artist statement: My work begins with a tree that is on the ground. I harvest sections of logs and using a chain saw prepare them into blanks that I can turn on a lathe. On some of my pieces, using power carvers, i add legs to some bowls or urns.

Discover Dwyer’s work—alongside 140 outstanding artists—at 4 Bridges Arts Festival, April 12-13 at First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎨🌟

04/08/2025

Introducing Nicholas Barnes! 🎉 4 Bridges Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome back wood artist Nicholas Barnes from Woolwine, VA, for his second year—and our 25th-anniversary show!

🔹 Artist Statement: I create a woodturning and then inlay metal-wrapped woods and other natural materials into that form. I call my technique Wood Cloisonné. I concern myself with color, shape, and edge in order to combine my vision with natural materials. Through the inlay I am able to achieve a look that neither nature, nor I, could create on their own.

✨ Discover Barnes’s work—alongside 140+ outstanding artists—at 4 Bridges Arts Festival, April 12-13 at First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga. We can’t wait to see you there!

04/08/2025

4 Bridges Arts Festival is pleased to introduce wood artist Kim LaRue from Mount Washington, KY! This is her first year showing at 4 Bridges, and we're delighted to welcome her for our 25th anniversary show!

🔹 Artist statement: We hand create one-of-a-kind Cutting and Charcuterie Boards with domestic woods from our home state of Kentucky and exotics from around the World.. We cut, plane, sand, and water pop each piece 3-4 times depending on design. Each board then receives a 24 hour bath of Food-Grade Mineral Oil, and finished with our formulated Wax Conditioner to create unique functional art pieces. With care, these boards can be passed down by generations. No two boards are ever created the same.

Discover LaRue’s work—alongside 140 outstanding artists—at 4 Bridges Arts Festival, April 12-13 at First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎨🌟

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30 Frazier Avenue
Chattanooga, TN
37405

Telephone

+14232654282

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