The MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth's most honored event, hosts tens of thousands of people annually during the four-day visual arts, entertainment and cultural event. MAIN ST. showcases a nationally recognized fine art and fine craft juried art fair, live concerts, performance artists and street performers on the streets of downtown Fort Worth-stretching nine blocks on Main Street from the Tarrant County Courthouse to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The prominence of Fort Worth's Old West history is evident on nearly every corner of the city. However, Fort Worth has grown by leaps and bounds in the area of arts and culture. And for the past 18 years, MAIN ST. has acted as one gateway to Fort Worth's cultural growth. Historically, "where the west began," MAIN ST. now escorts Fort Worth in thriving culture by welcoming and bringing together people from all sides of life-the cowboys and the artistic mavens. The streets of downtown are filled with fascinating sights and sounds as more than 500 fine artists, dancers, performance artists, musicians, exhibitors and food vendors take part in the four-day celebration. Two hundred juried artists line the historic red bricks of Main Street weaving a diverse blend of texture and shape down the "magnificent mile" of visual art booths, performance stages and intriguing characters to create an explosion of color against the turn-of-the-century buildings and modern skyscrapers of downtown Fort Worth.