The Dogwood Arts Festival Scrapbooks includes scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings, promotional materials, and administrative documents that date 1962-2005, with the bulk of the material dating 1980-1998.

Series I: News Clippings and Other Publications, 1962-1964 May 1, undated -- This series consists of loose newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, administrative documents, and other materials not collected in scrapbooks, dating between 1962-1964. Early Dogwood Arts committee members collected many of the papers included in this series, which document the committee planning the second, third and fourth festivals.

Series II: Photographs, 1995-2003 -- This series includes photographs taken at air shows, fundraiser dinners, parades and other events occurring between 1995 and 2003. Photographs of note include images depicting Navy and Air Force air shows featuring the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels, as well as photos for 2002's "Bearfoot in the City" dinner and auction, which sold artist-decorated fiberglass bears that had previously adorned downtown Knoxville.

Series III: Scrapbooks, 1962-2005 -- The bulk of the collection contains scrapbooks holding newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, fliers, and other promotional materials. Dogwood Arts collected these scrapbooks between 1962 and 2005, with the majority of the collection dating between 1980 and 1998. The earliest scrapbook records the second annual Dogwood Arts Festival. Another scrapbook highlights the first and only time the festival hosted a Hollywood-like movie premiere, for the movie A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) at the Capri Theater in West Knoxville.