Art Festival Backs Out as Cherry Blossom Event | News

The Mulberry Street Art Festival will still happen this spring, but it will not be an official Cherry Blossom Festival event.

Cherry Blossom Festival CEO Karen Lambert says the Middle Georgia Art Association, which puts on the annual art festival, has decided not to be a sanctioned event this year.

She says sanctioned events are featured on the official festival schedule. To be a sanctioned event, the organization must pay a $250 fee and give the Cherry Blossom Festival 10% of the gross income from the event.

Lambert did not have numbers available for what that income was last year.

The two-day art festival will still take place on March 24 and 25, which is the second weekend of the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Lambert says she is telling anyone who calls in reference to the art festival, to contact the Middle Georgia Art Association.

She says the only difference festival-goers will not notice will be not seeing the art festival listed in the Cherry Blossom brochure and schedule.