{"id":205505,"date":"2026-03-25T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205505\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:15:31","slug":"the-51st-mainsail-art-festival-returns-to-vinoy-park-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205505\/","title":{"rendered":"The 51st Mainsail Art Festival returns to Vinoy Park this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Attendance is expected to top 100,000 over the two-day event, which consistently ranks among the largest outdoor festivals in St. Pete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 2025, Sunshine Artist Magazine included Mainsail among the top fine art shows in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Beyond the artist booths, the festival features a full lineup of live music, a food court and beer garden, and a range of family-friendly programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersburg.jl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Junior League of St. Petersburg<\/a> will host its Kids Create craft tent, offering five free make and take crafts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainsailart.org\/young-at-art-student-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Young at Art Student Exhibition<\/a> will highlight work from Pinellas County students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Artists will compete for $60,000 in total prize money, including a $10,000 Best of Show award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attendance is expected to top 100,000 over the two-day event, which consistently ranks among the largest outdoor festivals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-205505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}