VA Highlands Festival Juried Antiques Market & Vintage Show
July 25 - August 3, 2025

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

*Show closes at 4:00 PM on Sunday, 8/3

DAILY ADMISSION $7

SHOW PASS $25 (includes ten day show pass)

THREE DAY PASS $20

Continued for 2025!

FREE LECTURES — Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1, 2pm (new programming coming soon)

Located in the air-conditioned Grand Hall at the SWVA Higher Ed Center.

Discover those special, hard-to-find items at the Juried Antiques Market & Vintage Show! For many attendees, this is the focal point of the annual Summer Festival.

This highly-acclaimed Juried Antiques and Vintage Show is produced annually during the Virginia Highlands Festival in Historic Abingdon, Virginia.

The Grand Hall at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center is filled to the brim with antique and vintage booths displaying formal and primitive furniture, high–end collectibles, jewelry, porcelain, china, rugs, vintage clothing, linens, paintings, pottery, and more! Antique lovers spend hours browsing through the booths to secure their next favorite treasure or acquisition.

Dealers are constantly restocking, so be sure to visit more than once. Make a weekend of it and also shop the Abingdon Antiques Trail!

Free Lecture Series, July 28 - August 1,2025: 2pm

lPlease note — this list is programming for 2024. New topics & presenters coming soon!

Monday, July 29, 2pm

How to integrate Antiques into a modern décor. Take a curator tour of the show with decorator Carolyn Thomas, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission. Limited to 20

Tuesday, July 30, 2pm

The origin and masters of hand-crafted Kentucky antique cherry furniture with Joyce Williams and Hoot & Nana Antiques, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Wednesday, July 31, 2pm

What does a Rose, a European, and a Mine all have in common? They are all names of antique cuts of diamonds. See examples of each cutting style and learn the history and folklore of this dazzling gemstone with Standee Schnall and P&S Antiques, SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Thursday, August 1, 2pm

Everything you wanted to know about Sterling but was afraid to ask! A brief history of Sterling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Focusing on American silver flatware. One free, verbal appraisal per patron at the end of the lecture with J.R. Angivine, Angivine’s Fine Silver, Inc., SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Friday, August 2, 2pm

What Do I Do with This Old Thing? Refinish, repurpose, or preserve with Joel Harte, Joel Harte Furniture maker Inc., SVHEC Room 106. Free with admission.

Antiques Discovery Day

Sunday, August 3, 1-5pm

Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center

$10 for one item, $25 for three items

Have you ever wondered what your grandmother’s favorite porcelain vase is worth? Your Uncle Fred’s Civil War memorabilia? That oil painting that you bought at a thrift shop that seems an original and is signed? A basket that was supposed to have been traded to your third-great-grandfather by a Cherokee Indian? On and on. Many people have inherited or purchased items that they would love to have identified and informally appraised.

The Virginia Highlands Festival, in conjunction with the William King Museum of Art, will conduct an Antiques Discovery Day at which a panel of regional antiques experts will try to identify your family “treasures” and give you an informal appraisal of their worth.

The event will be held on Sunday, August 3, from 1-5pm at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon.

The cost for the identification and appraisal of one item is $10, or three items for $25. Tickets will be available at the door. However, if you wish to reserve a time slot, you can buy tickets online at vahighlandsfestival.org for 1:00pm , 2:00pm, 3:00pm and 4:00pm times.

Please do not bring firearms. If you want a piece of furniture identified or appraised, take several cell phone photographs of the piece from all angles, and bring your phone to the event.

The appraisers will be John Case and his associates from Case Auctions of Knoxville,Tennessee, as well as his brother David and mother Mary Jo Case of Anchor Antiques from Kingsport, Tennessee.

Betsy White, the Executive Director of the William King Museum of Art will be at the event to document Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee furniture, textiles, and decorative arts for the museum’s Cultural Heritage Project archive.

Reservation Link coming soon