Artrageous kids art festival
A Family-Friendly, Free Day Full Of Art
2025 Artrageous Kids Art Festival
The 36th Annual Artrageous Kids Art Festival will be held at Dowdy Park in Nags Head from 10am to 2pm on Saturday, May 10, 2025.
Artrageous is a free, family-friendly event that includes art activities, live music, dance performances, an artisan market, and food vendors.
We are seeking volunteers to help with various tasks at Artrageous. This event isn't possible without amazing volunteers, like you! The volunteer duties are broken into shifts. Please sign up on the button below.
2025 Entertainment
Hailing all the way from West Africa, the Saakumu Dance Troupe will headline the stage at Artrageous giving the audience the opportunity to experience traditional and contemporary Ghanaian dance and music.
Students from Hatteras Island Community Strings, Mustang Music Outreach Program, and Atlantic Dance will be performing throughout the day.
There will also be improv theatre by Donna Roark’s Shadow Players with Drama Mama and roving artists including actors from The Lost Colony, local musician Al Bailey playing the didgeridoo, and a performer from Imagine Circus, which is based out of Raleigh, N.C.
Artrageous was started in 1989. The annual, free community event brings families together to paint, sculpt, dance, sing and be creative.
Artrageous features artists, musicians, crafters, dancers, writers, photographers and other creative people who dedicate their time and energy to the event each year.
Proceeds from Artrageous benefit Dare Arts' cultural arts programming and the Artrageous Youth Scholarship Fund, which awards awards a scholarship to a Dare County high school senior intending to study fine art or the performing arts in college.
Click here to watch the video for Artrageous 2017, which was also the Grand Opening of Dowdy Park.
About Artrageous
2025 Sponsors
Artrageous is presented by PNC Bank.
This project is sponsored by the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Thank you to the Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series and Hotel Manteo for sponsoring Artrageous.