2025 SUMMER ArtFest
August 23-24, 2025: 11 am- 5 pm
MillHouse and the Cotton Mill Partners, Ltd. invite you to our 12th juried indoor Art Festival, held in the Cotton Mill event facility on Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24, 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm.
Spend your weekend with us at this year's SUMMER INDOOR ArtFest. You can shop with fine artists, jewelers, potters, woodworkers, photographers, fiber artists, and more showcased against the gorgeous century-old architecture of the Cotton Mill facility, built in 1910. Make sure you explore artists in the Grand Hallway, Event venue, and Atrium Hallway outside our MillHouse suites.
During the festival, you'll enjoy coffee, tea, pastries, sandwiches, and snacks for sale at White Box Roastery. Wine and beer will be available for purchase.
You can park in Cotton Mill Lot A & B. You can also park across the street. It's a short walk. Multiple ADA parking spaces are located in Lot A. One ADA space is located in Lot B.
ARTISTS: Applications are OPEN.
STAY for the WEEKEND. Book your hotel NOW.
Festival Hosts
MillHouse Foundation partners with the Cotton Mill Partners to offer art festivals to showcase local and regional talent, and to bring art patrons to historic McKinney to shop, eat, and enjoy our marvelous city. Sister nonprofits, MillHouse Foundation and MillHouse McKinney, operate out of the Cotton Mill to lift up micro-business women in creative fields. The McKinney Cotton Mill is a century-old property that has played a vital role in the McKinney community.
Funding and in-kind support for our art festivals: Cotton Mill Partners, McKinney Arts Commission, Visit McKinney, McKinney Community Development Corporation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Modernism Sponsor - HEB Helping Here.
Music at Summer ArtFest
The Retrofits Band
Come enjoy the Retrofits perform on Sunday from noon-3 pm in the Atrium Hallway.
Food & Drink Providers
Funding and In-kind Support Provided by
ARTFEST Sponsor Opportunities
All Tax-Deductible DONATIONS support MillHouse Foundation festival operations.
SPONSOR LEVELS: Famous Artists
$5000 Georgia O'Keeffe Modernism
$2500 Mary Cassatt Impressionism
$1000 Hilma of Klint Abstraction
$500 Cindy Sherman Self-Portraiture
July 12th 10 am-4 pm
LOCAL ARTISANS offer jewelry, candles, chocolate, fiber art, abstracts, photography, paper designs, textiles, woodcraft, up-cycled decor, ceramics, leather artwork, and more. Our neighbor, White Box Roastery, offers coffee, tea, pastries, and snacks to enjoy while you shop.