Celebrating all kinds of art
from southcentral Kentucky and beyond.

Bowling Green, Kentucky, is more than fast cars and caves—it’s a hub for creativity! Every spring, the White Squirrel Arts Fest brings the community together with an unforgettable celebration of local talent, food, and the arts.

The 4th Annual White Squirrel Arts Fest takes place Saturday, April 25, 2026, in the historic Shake Rag district of Bowling Green. This must-see spring event features arts vendors, food trucks, live music, and unique performances that highlight the city’s creative spirit.

Festival highlights include a fashion show at White Squirrel Brewery, a Theatrical Reading at Fountain Square Players, and the always-popular evening Poetry Slam at Shake Rag Bar & Lounge. With local food vendors, craft spirits, community groups, and one-of-a-kind artists, this arts festival has something for everyone.

Celebrate Bowling Green’s quirky, creative side and make the White Squirrel Arts Fest your can’t-miss spring event in BGKY!

Interested in participating? Click here to find out more!

What is Art?

Here’s what some past and current Fest members have to say:

• Kelsey Tullis— Art is how we express our inner-most selves. It is how we exude joy, sorrow, grief, passion. It is how we survive.
• Dan Modlin—Art is any combination of words, musical notes, colors, sounds, or images that cause us to pause and appreciate life.
• Teresa Christmas—Art is a rare arrangement (of words, sounds, movements, shapes…) that strives to transform human experience (intense bliss, inconceivable anguish) into Beauty.
• Ronn Kistler—Art is a person or group of peoples’ conscious attempt to convey to others their experience and, by so doing, infect them with a greater awareness of life.
• Bobbie Falin—Art is a result of purposeful creative action that stirs an emotional response, positive or negative, in the observer.
• Glenda Hepp—Art is a joining of the head, the heart and the spirit.
• Carol Noel—Art is the result of unforeseen inspiration sparked by human imagination and enriched by Divine talent.
• Marissa Butler—Art is like breath. Without it, my words would be too narrow to speak, and I would cease to exist.
• David Ciochetty— Art is a personal expression of emotion meant to be shared with others.
• Denise Zielinski—Art is communication that touches one’s soul.
• Amy Disparte—Art is individual creative expression powered by the divine energy current that connects all mankind.
• Linda Seagle—Art is what quickens the heart with its lines, moves the soul with its color and stimulates the brain with its essence. We learn to think by observing the beauty found in every form of art.
• Allison Mefford—Art is when you stop to look and forget you were in a hurry; hear and are taken through time; experience and have the urge to seek that feeling again.
• Willie Huston—Art is the derivative of life’s secrets, handed down, and the vulnerable whispers holding doors, to the future, open.
• Gerry Brown—Art is what draws my heart and mind together to strike a spark.
• Elaine Walker—Art is born of imagination and creativity and has the power to lift the spirits and stimulate the brain.

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