The City of South Portland's Art in the Park is an annual event dating back to 1980. Held on the second Saturday in August in Mill Creek Park, the show features original art and photography by up to 170 artists. Admission is free to the public. The show opens at 9:00 a.m. and closes at 4:00 p.m.
Student Exhibit
9am-3:30pm | FREE
Art in the Park is proud to showcase art by students in South Portland schools. The students' work will be on exhibit from 9:00 AM until 3:30 PM in the Student Tent across from the Judges' Tent
Every year, the Committee chooses student art works to use in promotional materials for the show: posters that are distributed throughout the community, the show T-shirt, the cover of the program, and ads in the Portland Press Herald.
In lieu of individual awards for elementary and middle school students, Art in the Park gives a $50 Class Award to each art teacher to supplement class supplies.
South Portland Public School will also be collecting new art supplies!
Scholarship
Every year Art in the Park gives a $1000.00 scholarship to a student graduating from South Portland High School who is going on to study art in college. Arthur Hahn, for whom the scholarship is named, was one of the founders of Art in the Park and a well-known promoter of the arts in the Greater Portland area.
Kids in the Park 10am-2pm - FREE
For kids there will be story reading with South Portland Library, bracelet making with Portland Museum of Art, crafts with South Portland Park Rangers, face painting, balloon twists and more with Party Palooga.
Food Court
11am-3pm | Sales through food trucks
2023 food vendors included:
Eighty Eight Donuts (available in the morning for coffee!)
Totally Awesome Vegan Food Truck
Mainely Burgers
Bamboo Bistro
Meet on the Street
Little Ipoh
Mainely Hotdogs
Open from 11am - 3pm, the food court features good things to eat ranging from sandwiches and hamburgers to ethnic cuisine to frozen treats. Located in the Broadway/Ocean Street area of the park near Kids in the Park, the food court offers tables and chairs for you to enjoy your meal, or you can relax on the grass under a tree and listen to musicians play in the gazebo.