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Tempe Festival of the Arts

Tempe, AZ · Arts & Culture

When

December 4–6, 2026

Where

Mill Avenue District · Tempe · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

This juried arts fair has filled downtown Tempe's Mill Avenue twice a year, fall and spring, for more than fifty years. The December edition draws over 350 artists from around the country alongside live entertainment and food vendors.

The history within reach

• Tempe Festival of the Artssame spot

  This juried arts fair has filled downtown Tempe's Mill Avenue twice a year, fall and spring, for more than fifty years.

• Long Wong's and the Tempe sound0.1 mi

  A small wings joint on Mill Avenue became the centre of a jangly guitar scene that peaked in the early 1990s.

• Tempe city hall is an upside down pyramid that shades itself0.1 mi

  Michael Goodwin, Kemper Goodwin and Rolf Osland designed a city hall that gets wider as it rises, so every floor throws shade on the one below it.

• Harrington-Birchett House, a brick cottage the government made a bird sanctuary0.3 mi

  The Goodwin brothers, who ran a brickworks in Tempe, put up this single storey Victorian cottage on the J.W.

• Amtrak reroutes the Sunset Limited and the Valley loses its train0.3 mi

  The Sunset Limited and the Texas Eagle both called at the Tempe depot until June 1996, when Amtrak shifted the route south through Maricopa.