ArtsFest will return for its 35th year, with the 2017 festival on Sweetheart Circle at Georgia Southern University open from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday April 22. This is the second year that Statesboro-Bulloch Parks and Recreation has hosted ArtsFest, having picked it up after the university’s art department announced early last year it would no longer serve as host. After getting a late start planning last year’s event, Parks & Recreation still has not put ArtsFest in its operating budget, instead relying on sponsors.