MillHouse Indoor Winter ArtFest

Start: Saturday, February 22, 2025 11:00AM
End: Sunday, February 23, 2025 5:00PM

MillHouse and the Cotton Mill Partners, Ltd. invite you to attend our twelfth juried indoor Art Festival, held in the Cotton Mill event facility at 610 Elm Street, Suite 1000, McKinney, Texas 75069. Escape the wind and cold at the Winter indoor juried art festival at the McKinney Cotton Mill. Explore juried art by local artisans showcased against the grandeur of century-old architecture. Enjoy coffee and snacks at the White Box Roastery as well as a wine bar. More than 70 artists, jewelers, potters, and artisans will offer original fine art pieces including Joshua Weiss, Rita Vicari, Lisa Temple, Gail Delger, Dana Brock, Dennis Casey, Kate Robbins, Paige Pauley, Joyce Harlow, and John Lightle. After visiting the festival, drive a mile to downtown McKinney and visit our quaint historic square filled with boutique shops, restaurants, and nightlife. Make a weekend of it and spend the night in the Grand Hotel on the Square. 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. MillHouse Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(6) charitable and educational organization to promote female artists and entrepreneurs through access to creative and educational activities, and access to shared resources; in order to create social, creative, and economic impact in the community. Learn more about MillHouse Foundation at https://millhousefoundation.org. The McKinney Cotton Mill is a century-old historic structure, currently home to a thriving Wedding and Event Venue and many businesses, including MillHouse McKinney, Glaze Ceramics Studio, and Tupps Brewery. The Cotton Mill, built in 1910, played an important role in the intersection of agriculture and industrialization in the early 1900’s. When Texas embarked on a twenty-year cotton mill campaign to expand the market for locally-grown cotton, McKinney leaders built the Cotton Mill to keep Texas’ top agricultural product within the state for processing. In the 1960’s, McKinney’s Cotton Mill (producing Texas Textile Fabrics) was the largest denim manufacturer in the world until 1969. The Cotton Mill Partners, Ltd. purchased the property in 1996 and have been actively renovating the property into mixed-use development. The Cotton Mill now houses office tenants working in various industries such as art, photography, and pottery studios; millinery design; telemarketing; finance; wedding and event planning; and more. The Cotton Mill is continuously evolving and has plenty of space for more. Learn more about the McKinney Cotton Mill at https://mckinneycottonmill.com.