The Deep Ellum Arts Festival Is Done for Good, and Many Artists Aren't Sad About It

One of the longest-running events in Deep Ellum won't be back this year, but not everyone is mourning the loss.

Deep Ellum Arts Festival founder and executive producer Stephen Millard announced on Monday that the annual arts gathering would not be returning next year, after 28 years.

The yearly nonprofit festival showcased vendor booths for local and out-of-town artists, and stages with dozens of music shows. The arts vendors paid to display their art in booths, and musical acts were unpaid. Steve Wick of the Dallas electronic music medium Hologram Dagger, who played the Deep Ellum Arts Festival with other groups like Folium and Never.Our.Land, has only one word to describe the news about the festival's demise:"Happy."

"In my opinion, he wasn't a man of his word," says artist and musician Izk Davies."He would promise certain things and on the day of would change his mind. He would minimize and shrink the local areas year after year, make it more difficult for us to set up and complain about the volume of our sounds and stages. My band [Blunt Force] was banned from performing.

"It's like the equivalent of taking the State Fair of Texas across America and expecting everyone to be excited about it," Davies says."Deep Ellum is already artistic and cultured. We have amazing food, amazing music, amazing artists and murals. It doesn't make sense that locals don't get to participate."

"I would believe it's doable but I also believe it should be produced with business owners within Deep Ellum and maybe even sponsored by the city," Garcia says."Almost like a rebranding in a sense."

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