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Annual arts festival returns to downtown Fort Worth this weekend. Meet 4 featured artists

April 7,2025

See full Fort Worth Report article by David Moreno here.

Downtown Fort Worth will be flooded with live music and visual artists when the annual Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival returns April 10-13. 

The 38th iteration of the Main Street festival, which is free to attend, stretches across 18 blocks of its namesake street between the Fort Worth Convention Center and the Tarrant County Courthouse. 

As the largest arts festival in Texas, the event features 219 exhibiting artists selected by a jury from a nationwide pool of nearly 1,000 applications. Over 15 artistic disciplines will be showcased, including glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and woodwork. 

The festival also features over 50 musical acts across two stages, local culinary offerings and family-friendly activities. 

The Fort Worth Art Fair will be held in nearby Sundance Square Plaza during the same time period. Developed by Sundance Square owners Sasha and Ed Bass in 2022 following a dispute over the number of local artists included in the Main Street festival, the four-day free event features over 60 local artists under art gallery tents in the downtown district. 

If you go:

What: Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival

When: 

10 a.m.-10 p.m. April 10

10 a.m.-11 p.m. April 11-12

10 a.m.-8 p.m. April 13

Where: The festival stretches along Main Street from the Fort Worth Convention Center to the Tarrant County Courthouse.

Admission: Free. Parking is limited downtown, but you can check for available spaces here. Before heading out be sure to also check street closures. For public transit options, click here.

More than 25 of the artists exhibiting this year at Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival come from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Here are four Tarrant County artists who will have their works up for sale during the festival. 

Joey Brock

Booth: 346

Joey Brock is a contemporary artist who has had his artwork exhibited nationally at venues including the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University and NorthPark Center in Dallas. (Courtesy photo | Joey Brock)

Joey Brock is a contemporary, mixed-media artist based in Euless. This is his first year exhibiting at Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival. Brock describes his work as a blend of photography, textile art and contemporary craft. He takes portraits of diverse people and then reworks them with a layer of hand-stitched embroidery. 

“I want to do work that really focuses on celebrating humanity,” he told the Report. “I don’t consider myself a photographer, but I use the medium to capture the imagery and work from there. I like the narrative that portraits bring to the work.” 

Brock plans to showcase various sizes and price points of his limited edition prints, including some from his new Texas series. 

Christine Cox

Booth: 344

Christine Cox is a Fort Worth artist that blends multiple disciplines to create her own unique style of work. (Courtesy photo | Christine Cox)

Christine Cox is a fine art photographer based in Fort Worth. The 2025 event also marks her debut at Main Street.

Cox blends traditional fine art paintings, graphics and 3D imagery to create surreal artworks that invite viewers into dreamlike landscapes. Her artworks typically explore themes of space, afterlife and otherworldly events. She is excited to represent an “alternative genre of art” at the festival. 

“These images are meant to invite the viewer to return again and again to uncover new clues, new depth and new meanings, but these images can never be fully resolved,” she said via email. 

Cox plans to exhibit over 25 unique pieces of her work at the festival. 

Anne Cubbage

Booth: 509

Anne Cubbage primarily deconstructs books to create her works of art. She has been dedicated to book carving since 2009. (Courtesy photo | Anne Cubbage)

Anne Cubbage, a mixed-media artist based in Arlington, first exhibited at the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival in 2011. Her specialty is book carving, which consists of cutting book pages with an X-Acto knife to deconstruct the images and unveil the artwork along the way. She was inspired to pursue the art form after cutting up her dictionary on a whim. 

“I go page by page, I don’t plan anything,” she told the Report. “It’s kind of cerebral for me. I collage things back in with all of my favorite words. It just expanded from there.” 

Cubbage plans to exhibit over 50 pieces of her artwork at the festival.

Amy Davis

Booth: 621

Amy Davis stands next to her jewelry during the 2024 Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival. (Courtesy photo | Amy Davis)

Amy Davis is a jewelry designer based in Fort Worth’s Cultural District. She was named the “Best of Show Emerging” winner at the 2024 Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival. 

Natural stones and unusual textures are at the heart of most of her handmade jewelry, Davis explained. Her work was inspired by her childhood, where she was exposed to the beauty of nature and craftwork. 

“I travel around the country to find unique stones and objects that I can incorporate into my work,” she said. “I blend silver, gold, brass and copper to create bespoke, heirloom pieces. I strive to offer unique designs that can be worn for everyday and also those out-of-the-ordinary statement pieces.” 

David Moreno is the arts and culture reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at david.moreno@fortworthreport.org or @davidmreports.

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Locations Mentioned: Fort Worth Convention Center, Sundance Square Plaza, Tarrant County Courthouse