Affordable Art Fair Boston is set to return to the SoWa Power Station in the city's South End from October 22 to 25, 2026, a year after making its debut in the Massachusetts capital. The fair's trademark is accessibility: thousands of original contemporary works priced for first-time buyers, a principle the Affordable Art Fair brand has carried since launching in London in 1999 and expanding to cities including New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Sydney. This year's Boston edition will gather 58 galleries and artist collectives, showing work by more than 400 living artists from 45 countries. Around a fifth of the participants come from across New England, giving the fair a regional accent alongside its international roster. Fair director Erin Schuppert said the enthusiasm of the debut edition had energized the team for a return, pointing to Boston's rising profile in the national arts scene. The programme has grown since last year. Boston's Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture is organizing Material Dialogue, a show of three-dimensional work connected to the city's public art commissions and its City Hall Galleries programme. ShowUP, a Boston nonprofit that supports historically underrepresented artists, is curating Immovable Feast, an exhibition exploring how food and shared meals act as sites of cultural exchange. The fair's schedule includes a First Look opening on Thursday evening, a Friday-night social called Art After Dark, and family programming on Sunday with children's activities and early trick-or-treating on the fair floor. Buyers can also have purchased works professionally wrapped on site through a partnership with a moving and storage company. The additions underline the fair's pitch that collecting art can be fun and approachable for newcomers as well as seasoned collectors.