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What is a Cultural District? Find out at
the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs webpages.
Located in Southeast Iowa, Fairfield is the county seat in the geographical center of Jefferson County.
With 10,000 residents, Fairfield has a unique blend of manufacturing and service business diversity that spans over a century of solid growth, and is a major entrepreneurial base for many small businesses and manufacturers. The new Convention Center opened in December 2007.
It is also the home of Maharishi University of Management.
Art and Culture in Fairfield
Fairfield's Art Walk Board sponsors Fairfield's 1st Fridays Art Walk on the first Friday of every month. It was named the Iowa Tourism Event of the Year in October of 2005 by the Iowa Tourism Office and the Travel Federation of America. See the 1st Fridays Art Walk website.
The Art Walk was begun by The ArtLife Society as a non-profit organization that supports innovative ideas that encourage living life as a work of art. The ArtLife society provides creative opportunities for community, both supporting existing programs and lauching new ones, while Fairfield's Art Walk Board now manages the 1st Fridays Art Walk.
Many events take place on the town Square - municipal band concerts, Live on The Square Summer Concert Series, Kiwanis Kid's Day & Parade, the Annual Vintage Power Wagon Rally, Classic Car Shows, and much more.
The Fairfield Cultural District Assets
Hundreds of working artists and many art galleries in Fairfield contribute to cultural and economic development. An example of regional and state recognition for Fairfield's robust art scene is the 1st Friday's Art Walk, which draws approximately 2000 participants each month and growing.
Want to know more about the creativity and innovation that pervades Fairfield? See Beth Dalbey's "Unapologetic Fairfield" article in the Aug Sept Oct 06 issue of the Des Moines Social Magazine, and an article from the March/April 2006 issue of Iowan Magazine. (Both articles require Adobe Reader).
Nearly 20 dance studios provide lessons and performances in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, katak, belly dancing, ballroom, Latin, Duncan, swing, lyrical, contra, and many more. We are in constant motion.
A variety of restaurants offer fare for everyone's palette from organic, to ethnic international, to home style. Wood fire cooked pizzas, Indian curries, French pastries, carrot juice, Italian sodas, and café lattes conspire to keep us in the Cultural District.
For more than six months each year we are provided with a twice-weekly Farmers' Market rich with live music, face painting, games, pony rides, cooked food, flowers, herbs, plants, and an abundance of produce.
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This billboard was on Highway 1, at the north entrance to Fairfield.