Providing an event for gathering the fiber community, educating about the fiber arts, and a marketplace for all things fiber related. The Fiber Arts Festival is a relaxed, informal day that everyone in the family can enjoy.
August 2nd & 3rd, 2025, FREE admission
Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 10 to 3
Veterans Memorial Arena, West Fargo is our new location
The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot, past West Fargo High School. Parking is free and you can park anywhere in the lot. The parking lot is a shared lot for the High School and the Veteran’s Arena.
Directions to Veteran’s Arena:
From Interstate 94
Take the exit for 9th St E/Veteran’s Boulevard and head North on 9th St. You will pass 13th Avenue S where there are a lot of shops, a bank, and a grocery store. A couple blocks past 13th Ave, turn right into the parking lot for West Fargo High School and the Veteran’s Memorial Arena. You will not be able to see the arena before taking the turn, only the High School. The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot.
From Main Avenue
Turn South on 9th St E. You will pass the police station/City Hall on the right and a block after that you should see West Fargo High School/Veteran’s Arena ahead on your left. You can turn onto 7th Ave E at the light and enter the parking lot from there or you can continue about half a block on 9th St and turn left directly into the parking lot. The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot, feel free to park anywhere in the lot.
Story of the Fiber Arts Festival
It’s our 16th Year
The Fiber Arts Festival was born at Bonanzaville in 2008. The director wanted a special activity for a summer weekend, and Kim Baird and Virginia Dambach immediately started planning a festival to celebrate sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, and everything else that can be done with fiber, yarn and fabric.
The Festival has always been about FUN. We bring together all kinds of fiber people from the region to celebrate our crafts, learn from each other, and enjoy the camaraderie of other fiber people that can be hard to find in our wide open region. Vendors were an important part of the Festival since the beginning, especially as it was more difficult at that time to find local sources for some of the more specialized tools and materials for fiber arts.
Free demonstrations and hands-on activities are a strong focus of the Festival. We want to learn from each other, give artists a space to share our knowledge, and recruit new friends to our crafting community. Classes on special topics were offered for a fee.
In 2011, the Festival moved to Rheault Farm in Fargo, under the auspices of the Fargo Park District. Many activities took place outdoors, and amazingly, the weather was good for all 7 years we were there!
2018 brought us back to West Fargo to a new venue, the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. For the first time, everything fit under one roof, including the restrooms. One air-conditioned roof, which is much appreciated.
Because of the pandemic, no Festival was held in 2020. Everyone was so happy to resume in 2021 that even a power outage on Sunday morning couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm. Luckily, crews repaired the lines within an hour.
2024 marked the 15th Fiber Arts Festival. We had an amazing 1000 people attend! As always, we operate on volunteer power. Without our volunteers, this would not even be a yarn sale. So many people who are passionate about their craft have been delighted to pass it on. Seeing familiar faces, friends new and old, and those who are just discovering the Festival is the highlight of our summers. Observing young people, especially, discover the joys of making things with their hands shows us that our most important goal, having fun with fiber, is being achieved.
Thanks for attending! the Festival couldn’t happen without you.
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Fiber Arts Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
About
Providing an event for gathering the fiber community, educating about the fiber arts, and a marketplace for all things fiber related. The Fiber Arts Festival is a relaxed, informal day that everyone in the family can enjoy.
August 2nd & 3rd, 2025, FREE admission
Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 10 to 3
Veterans Memorial Arena, West Fargo is our new location
The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot, past West Fargo High School. Parking is free and you can park anywhere in the lot. The parking lot is a shared lot for the High School and the Veteran’s Arena.
Directions to Veteran’s Arena:
From Interstate 94
Take the exit for 9th St E/Veteran’s Boulevard and head North on 9th St. You will pass 13th Avenue S where there are a lot of shops, a bank, and a grocery store. A couple blocks past 13th Ave, turn right into the parking lot for West Fargo High School and the Veteran’s Memorial Arena. You will not be able to see the arena before taking the turn, only the High School. The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot.
From Main Avenue
Turn South on 9th St E. You will pass the police station/City Hall on the right and a block after that you should see West Fargo High School/Veteran’s Arena ahead on your left. You can turn onto 7th Ave E at the light and enter the parking lot from there or you can continue about half a block on 9th St and turn left directly into the parking lot. The entrance to the Arena is towards the East end of the parking lot, feel free to park anywhere in the lot.
Story of the Fiber Arts Festival
It’s our 16th Year
The Fiber Arts Festival was born at Bonanzaville in 2008. The director wanted a special activity for a summer weekend, and Kim Baird and Virginia Dambach immediately started planning a festival to celebrate sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, and everything else that can be done with fiber, yarn and fabric.
The Festival has always been about FUN. We bring together all kinds of fiber people from the region to celebrate our crafts, learn from each other, and enjoy the camaraderie of other fiber people that can be hard to find in our wide open region. Vendors were an important part of the Festival since the beginning, especially as it was more difficult at that time to find local sources for some of the more specialized tools and materials for fiber arts.
Free demonstrations and hands-on activities are a strong focus of the Festival. We want to learn from each other, give artists a space to share our knowledge, and recruit new friends to our crafting community. Classes on special topics were offered for a fee.
In 2011, the Festival moved to Rheault Farm in Fargo, under the auspices of the Fargo Park District. Many activities took place outdoors, and amazingly, the weather was good for all 7 years we were there!
2018 brought us back to West Fargo to a new venue, the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. For the first time, everything fit under one roof, including the restrooms. One air-conditioned roof, which is much appreciated.
Because of the pandemic, no Festival was held in 2020. Everyone was so happy to resume in 2021 that even a power outage on Sunday morning couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm. Luckily, crews repaired the lines within an hour.
2024 marked the 15th Fiber Arts Festival. We had an amazing 1000 people attend! As always, we operate on volunteer power. Without our volunteers, this would not even be a yarn sale. So many people who are passionate about their craft have been delighted to pass it on. Seeing familiar faces, friends new and old, and those who are just discovering the Festival is the highlight of our summers. Observing young people, especially, discover the joys of making things with their hands shows us that our most important goal, having fun with fiber, is being achieved.
Thanks for attending! the Festival couldn’t happen without you.
Fiber Arts Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation