Three days, one hundred and fifty plus artists, and countless reasons to attend the 2026 Southwest Arts Festival®.

The Southwest Arts Festival® returns to beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio on January 23rd through January 25th, 2026. The acclaimed art festival features a variety of traditional, contemporary, and abstract fine works of art, jewelry and quality crafts.

This once a year art festival takes place at the Empire Polo Club – an international destination renowned for its natural beauty, featuring natural landscape and sweeping mountain ranges. This year’s festival will feature live music, with pottery, glass and fine art painting scheduled to be on display.