Craft Fairs & Farmers Markets in Fairbanks, Alaska

Held in Fairbanks each October, Cozy Collective Artisan Market is a free, juried artisan market created by vendors for vendors. Expect 50+ makers selling handmade and small-batch goods in a community-centered setting. The market includes Cozy Corners — a Book Nook, Letter Lounge, and Puzzle Parlor — designed to create intentional shopping experiences that celebrate local creatives.

Fairbanks Fiber Festival is a fiber-arts festival in Fairbanks held each October, featuring a craft and food vendor marketplace. Food vendors are actively being recruited for 2026; interested artisans and non-food vendors should reach out to get on the contact list for 2027 applications.

Held in mid-November at the Carlson Center, Fairbanks Holiday Marketplace draws over 7,100 visitors across three days to shop handmade soaps, beaded jewelry, artwork, and gifts from 180+ vendors. The event marks the start of the holiday shopping season in Fairbanks and pulls both local and statewide businesses and artists. Booth space sells out quickly — early registration is encouraged. Pipe & drape and a 110 electrical outlet are included with booth rental.

Held in downtown Fairbanks during Golden Days, this street fair at Golden Heart Plaza brings together vendors selling goods, services, food, and information alongside food trucks and live music and dance performances. Setup begins early morning on the day of the event.

Held in Fairbanks on Small Business Saturday, the Handmade Holiday Market brings Interior Alaskan artists, artisans, and makers together at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park. Vendors must create original, handcrafted work—no kits, mass-produced goods, copies, or AI-generated items. The event doubles as a fundraiser for Fairbanks Arts Association and features live music, free train rides, Pioneer Park's tree lighting, and a charitable gift exchange. Family-friendly and inclusive.

The 45th Midnight Sun Festival in downtown Fairbanks runs from June noon to midnight, celebrating summer solstice with more than 30,000 attendees under 24-hour daylight. Live performances throughout the day and food + shopping booths offering locally made goods line downtown's streets. Booth types include food, retail, political campaign, and information, drawing a free event crowd looking to discover Alaska-made crafts and local vendors.

In Fairbanks's South Cushman neighborhood, at 24th Ave & Rickert Street, Southside Market is a friendly, community-focused farmer's market launching in 2015 offering local vegetables, eggs, bread, meat & other farm-based goods from farmers, bakers & food makers. This is a farm & food-focused market — vendors may sell fresh food & farm products such as vegetables, herbs, meat, eggs, honey, bread, fresh-cut flowers and other products made using locally grown/raised ingredients. No crafts, made to order/prepared foods or products made without locally grown/raised ingredients. The market runs rain or shine from June through the end of September, but vendors do not have to attend every week. All vendors must have an Alaska State Business License, as well as a Fairbanks City Business License for selling within the city limits.

Tanana Valley Farmers Market is Fairbanks' anchor farmers market, running Wednesday and Saturday throughout the summer. All vendors must be Alaska-based producers — farmers growing produce, herbs, flowers, or nursery crops; processors making fresh foods like meat, fish, or baked goods; or crafters handmaking their own goods. The vendor roster is deep and diverse: produce, bedding plants, native handicrafts, jewelry, pottery, artwork, wildflower honey, specialty jams and jellies, hot foods, and baked goods. Strong established crowd and year-round reputation.

Founded in 1924, Tanana Valley State Fair is Alaska's oldest fair and Fairbanks's largest annual event, drawing thousands of visitors over ten days each late summer. Hundreds of vendors sell crafts, food, and general merchandise alongside livestock shows, horse shows, art exhibits, games, rides, and two stages of free daily entertainment. Vendors can compete for a theme-award ribbon and 50% off their 2027 booth fee. Returning vendors must apply by January 31st to maintain their space.