Join our creative community! As the leading voice in contemporary craft & design for over 20 years, Renegade’s reputation for high quality, well-curated, and inspiring events is seen and felt by artists and shoppers alike. IYKYK, and if you don’t, come find out! Read on for more information about participating.
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From artists to foodies, experiences to installations ~ creativity in all its forms is welcomed and celebrated at Renegade. Events are juried, curated, and produced in-house by our team of seven, making for an approachable and thoughtful participation experience from application to event.
With an annual attendance of over 245k and even larger online following, Renegade’s enthusiastic shoppers are eager to see your work! Connect with digital fans in real life, make forever customers, pick up wholesale contacts, see how new products land, and network with fellow artists. Renegade is so much more than the weekend itself: it’s a community and a movement.
Renegade offers an answer for conscious consumerism, sustainability, and an accessible creative economy. We aim for low-impact, thoughtful events that are successful for artists in many ways: from business growth to gaining repeat customers and fans. Annually, over $7m is spent at events, creating waves in the creative economy and beyond.
If you know, you know – & if you don’t, come find out! Since our first ever Wicker Park Fair in 2003, Chicago has become the heart of our grassroots community with inspiring small businesses that travel from far and wide to participate, and the most enthusiastic, cool, and supportive shoppers that show up to shop small.
We host events throughout the year and around the city ~ Find us in Andersonville, Logan Square, Wicker Park. and West Loop.
Renegade hosted its first marketplace in San Francisco in 2008 and has grown to be the home to some of our largest and most-celebrated Fairs! San Francisco Fairs are always joyous and bustling events, with local and national creative participants and an amazing community of supporters and shoppers.
With views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the occasional seal, Renegade San Francisco gathers bayside at the airy Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion. We host three Fairs annually – in the spring, summer, and fall/winter – all lively and bright celebrations of creativity showcasing hundreds of artists, great food and drinks, creative installations, and more.
In 2005, Renegade spread its wings and hosted its first event outside of Chicago at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park, and was welcomed to the city with open arms. Since then, we’ve hosted events both in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and are always blown away at the community and creativity.
We host four annual events in New York City ~ two in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan (all events are indoors). Join us for memorable and inspirational weekends!
Renegade has been hosting events in Seattle since 2015, and has been steadily growing its grassroots community there ever since. The Seattle Fairs are vibrant and bright celebrations of creativity, with both national and local creative participants bringing their very best for our enthusiastic shoppers.
We host two Seattle Fairs per year: one in spring/summer and one in the fall/winter, both held indoors at the light-filled Hangar 30 in Magnuson Park. Renegade Seattle is buzzing with creativity and inspiration ~ we hope to see you there!
Renegade hosted its first Los Angeles Fair in 2010, and has been hosting sunny, lively events around the city ever since. Curated with established and up-and-coming artists, every LA event has a unique roster that leaves shoppers with a feeling of discovery and inspiration (and usually a good dose of vitamin D! 🌞).
We host Fairs on both sides of the city: one at Los Angeles State Historic Park in DTLA, and one at Santa Monica Airport. Join us for open-air celebrations of creativity!
Our events come in all different shapes and sizes, so please check out the guide below to get a feel for which Fairs are the best fit for your business. The only upfront cost is a nonrefundable $35 application fee per event due upon submitting your application. This amount is applied to your booth fee if accepted. Please note booth sizes vary from fair-to-fair.
@ Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $400
10’x10′ Full Booth – $800
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1600
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 275+
@ Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $400
10’x10′ Full Booth – $800
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1600
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 275+
@ Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $400
10’x10′ Full Booth – $800
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1600
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 275+
In Andersonville on Clark St. between Foster + Edgewater
Outdoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $375
10’x10′ Full Booth – $750
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 200+
In Logan Square on N Kedzie Blvd. between W Fullerton Ave. + W Palmer Square
Outdoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $375
10’x10′ Full Booth – $750
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 250+
In Wicker Park on Division St. between Damen + Ashland
Outdoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $425
10’x10′ Full Booth – $850
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1700
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 350+
@ Morgan Manufacturing
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
3’x6′ Shared Booth – $375
6’x6′ Full Booth – $750
6’x12′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Artist Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 220+
@ Metropolitan Pavilion
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
3’x6′ Shared Booth – $375
6’x6′ Full Booth – $750
6’x12′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Average Number of Participants: 200+
@ ZeroSpace
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
4’x8′ Shared Booth – $375
8’x8′ Full Booth – $750
8’×16′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 175+
@ ZeroSpace
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
4’x8′ Shared Booth – $375
8’x8′ Full Booth – $750
8’x16′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 175+
@ Metropolitan Pavilion
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
3’x6′ Shared Booth – $375
6’x6′ Full Booth – $750
6’x12′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Average Number of Participants: 200+
@ Los Angeles State Historic Park
Outdoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $365
10’x10′ Full Booth – $725
10’x20′ Double Booth – $1450
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 250+
@ Santa Monica Airport
Outdoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
5’x10′ Shared Booth – $365
10’x10′ Full Booth – $725
10×20′ Double Booth – $1450
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 250+
@ Hangar 30 in Magnuson Park
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
4’x8′ Shared Booth – $375
8’x8′ Full Booth – $750
8×16′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 180+
@ Hangar 30 in Magnuson Park
Indoors
Booth Sizes + Prices:
4’x8′ Shared Booth – $375
8’x8′ Full Booth – $750
8×16′ Double Booth – $1500
Food Truck – 15% of Gross Sales w/ $200 minimum
Experiential Truck or Trailer – Fee determined by footprint
Average Number of Participants: 180+
Renegade events range in size from 50 to 400 artists, with each event having its own unique venue, character, aesthetic, audience, and attendance. Your work will connect differently at each event, so please consider the below questions below when applying:
See the Booth Sizes and Pricing menu above to see more information about the size and scope of each event.
Artists
The heart of our Fairs! Sell your work to shoppers, meet new customers, present your work to wholesale buyers, get your small bizz in front of our online following, and be a part of our wonderful creative community.
Food + Drink Purveyors
Small batch, quality ingredients, and beautiful presentation: Renegade food vendors appeal to shoppers and vendors looking for great snacks and/or delicious gifts.
All vendors selling packaged edible goods, including drinks, should choose the ‘Pre-Packaged’ option in the participation application. If you’d like prepare and serve food onsite, please select the ‘Concessions’ option in our participation application.
Experiential Artists
If you’d like to offer your experiential services at a Fair, please apply through our Participation Application, and choose the Artist category. Examples of experiential services include workshops, specialty photography, intuitive readings, portrait drawings, vintage collectors, and anything in between!
Want to feature your furniture at a Fair, and reach new clients and customers? Or install an impactful, beautiful art installation that will be seen and experienced at our Fairs? We’d love to work with you, please reach out!
Nonprofit Organizations
We love to work with nonprofit organizations that align with our mission, vision, and values! Get in touch if your business is a registered nonprofit interested in participating at Renegade.
See the full breakdown of booth sizes + prices for each event here.
FULL BOOTH
Our standard booth size and recommended option for each Fair.
SHARED BOOTH
For vendors with small products, limited inventory, and who can sell from a smaller footprint, we offer a Shared Booth option.
DOUBLE BOOTH
Double Booths are equal to two Full Booths side-by-side.
TRUCKS, TRAILERS, CARTS
We love to work with food trucks, pop-up-shop trailers, and other specialty carts and vehicles to add unique pop-ups to the Fair.
For vendors with small products, limited inventory, and who can sell from a shared footprint, we offer a Shared Booth option.
Applications for our 2025 spring/summer season will open in mid-to-late January.
Notifications of acceptance, waitlist, or declined will be emailed for each event on the following dates:
Process
Once your application is successfully received, you will receive a receipt for your application fee(s) in your email inbox.
Each Fair is juried independently. We make our final jurying decisions after the application deadline and notify all applicants on the notification date.
If you don’t receive a notification email from us on the dates listed above, please check your spam folder.
Feel free to contact us with any questions during the application process!
Each application is juried by our art + design team. Each application is reviewed carefully and thoughtfully to align with our vision for beautiful, cohesive, and intentionally-curated Fairs.
Applications are juried according to the jury criteria listed below, event aesthetics, variety of product categories, diversity of both upcoming and established artists, and the size of the event.
QUALITY
You use high quality materials and techniques to make your work durable, sustainable, and market-ready.
ORIGINALITY
Your work, branding, and packaging are thoughtful, intentional, and unquestionably by your own design.
PRODUCTION
Your work is designed and/or handmade by you, and materials are sourced in an ethical and sustainable way. If you outsource your work in any way, please describe your supply chain, including your relationship with the makers in your application.
The timing of when you submit your application does not affect your grade; we jury all applications once the application window closes.
Depending on the size of the event space, we are able to accommodate more or less artists, which may (or may not) determine your application result. Please see the Booth Sizes + Prices grid to see how large each event is comparatively.
Whether you are accepted or not, or waitlisted, you will receive an email on the notification date listed above. If you didn’t receive an email from us, please check your spam folder. If you applied for a Grant, you will receive news a few days after notifications are released.
Renegade offers artists and creative small businesses an opportunity to connect with engaged and enthusiastic shoppers. There are many additional benefits that come along with joining our events! Here’s what we have to offer:
In the event you must cancel your participation:
If you cancel before or on the cancellation deadline, we will not charge the booth fee. If you cancel your participation after the cancellation deadline, we can not offer a refund.
Cancellation Deadlines:
Once accepted to the Fair, we offer furniture rentals and other amenities that vary per event. Rentals often include tables in a variety of sizes, clothing racks, chairs, canopies for outdoor events, wifi, and electric if available. Rental orders can be placed through the Participation Kit upon acceptance.
All vendors selling consumable, ingestible, food or beverages may need to submit additional materials to participate in our events. Requirements vary per city and venue, and are all outlined in our Food + Beverage Participation Kit.
For upcoming fairs in San Francisco and Los Angeles, please be prepared to upload the following document to your application:
San Francisco
Temporary Food Event (TFE) Vendor Application
Los Angeles
Temporary Food Facility (TFF) Vendor Application
It is legal to sell CBD products as long as the oil is sourced from industrial hemp and the THC content is below 0.3%. Additionally, you must also comply with any regulations that are specific to the city and state where the event is being held.
Due to federal regulations, consumable CBD products with over .3% THC cannot be sold (or marketed, including verbal marketing) at any of our events.
Our Renegade Craft Diversity + Equity Growth Grant aims to create access for emerging artists, makers, and small businesses in our creative community.
Our online Shop is a curated collection of artist made and designed goods, and we’re always looking to include more beautiful items and objects in our store! Please email us if you’re interested in being a part of it, we look forward to hearing from you.
