The Community Arts & Funk Festival (CAFF) celebrates 15 years of promoting arts advocacy through visual and performing arts awareness, education, entrepreneurship, and collector development. We are excited to announce our 15th-anniversary festival, scheduled for Sunday, August 16th, 2025, at the Marcus Performing Arts Center's Peck Pavilion grounds.  For this 15 year celebration we are excited to feature veteran R&B/Soul band ‘SWITCH’, known for their classic hit songs ‘They’ll Never Be’ and ‘I Wanna be Closer’, as our headlining performers hosted by Milwaukee’s beloved radio and T.V. personality Andrea Williams on the Peck Pavilion stage. 

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In 2010 Brad Anthony Bernard, visual artist, arts advocate, and educator produced the first annual Community Arts & Funk Festival which brought together a culturally diverse group of established and performing visual artists.  Nationally recognized folk artist Della Wells, a Milwaukee resident, was the ‘Best in Show’ Award winner in 2010.  Another well-established Milwaukee artist Michael Nolte of Vanguard Sculpture Services Limited was the First-place winner.  We as the event organizers are committed to garnering increased support for the judged art competition to award the exhibiting artistic talents and provide honorariums to our dedicated art judges.  A generous donation provided by (POTENTIAL SPONSOR) will help to support a multimedia arts experience that combines education, awareness, and entertainment for families and friends of all ages to enjoy together as well as prize awards and production of the Community Arts & Funk Festival.  A percentage of all net proceeds will be donated to a youth-serving arts organization, program, or club in Milwaukee. 

Thank you for considering your sponsorship.