Call to Artists - Evergreen Fine Arts Festival

Evergreen Fine Arts Festival

   

Call to Artists

WHAT:  Fine Art and Fine Craft Festival
WHERE: Heritage Grove Park, Evergreen, Colorado  

WHEN: August 25 - 26, 2012

           10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days   

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 100 artists in 12 categories

  

*Surveyed artists  reported average sales of $4000

  

*Promotion includes:  Extensive newpaper advertising with ads in both the local papers and the Denver Post online; TV and radio; posters and postcards featuring last year's Best of Show images; large banners hung two weeks prior to event, directional signage during the weekend, three ads in Southwest Art with accepted artist participation available in August issue

  

*Monetary awards of at least $2800 for Best of Show in 2 D and 3D plus first, second and third with automatic acceptance into the 2013 festival

  

*Booth fees are $335 single and $670 double,  there are 50 guaranteed corners for an additional $50

  

*Artist amenities include a very popular catered dinner for the artist plus one guest on Saturday night, booth sitters, water delivered to your booth, night time security, early set-up on Friday, special artist parking including free RV parking, advanced booth assignment notification

The Evergreen Fine Arts Festival is held in a tree-covered, historic park in the foothills west of Denver.  For almost fifty years, it has been a festival run by artists for artists.   The sponsoring, non-profit Evergreen Artists Association provides the mountain communities with cultural events, a cooperative up-scale gallery, classes for artists and youth scholarships.  The history of high quality that has been exhibited at this festival continues to draw buyers from both the immediate communities and the metro-Denver area.  Most spaces are shaded at least part of the day although there are some in the sun.  The layout of the park has been altered to eliminate difficult spaces to access via dolly and to improve the flow of traffic.  Space requests are honored as much as possible.

Apply through zapplication.org using three image slides and one booth slide

Deadline to apply:  February 29, 2012 for the early bird discounted Jury fee of $25;

                            April 15, 2012 deadline: Jury fee $30 

Notification:            May 15, 2012

Booth fee due:       June 15, 2012

Information at:       www.evergreenfineartsfestival.com 

For questions: contact Beth Erlund, Director,
email:  beth.erlund@gmail.com 

phone: 303.618.9834

Call to Artists - Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market

 Virginia Beach
Spring Craft Market 

   

  
Call to Artists

WHAT:  26th Annual Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market

WHERE: Virginia Beach Convention Center, Virginia Beach's premier indoor
             state-of-the-art venue.
 
WHEN: Friday,Saturday and Sunday
           March 16 - 18, 2012

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO February 24, 2012! 

 

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 150 carefully juried artists from across the USA.

*Easy load-in, load-out with porter assistance.

*Close, convenient free parking.

*Hospitality lounge.

*Comprehensive exhibitor guide.

*Draped indoor show.

*Free show directory listing and free website/listing/link to your website.

*Unlimited discount promotional postcards and flyers.

*Choice of Thursday afternoon or Friday morning setup.

*Strong community support.

*Aggressive advertising and promotion: newspaper, radio, direct mail, social media and cable TV.

*High public atttendance.

*Special Heritage Celebration area with live craft demonstrations to promote American handmade crafts and guilds.

*Reduced hotel rates and pet-friendly hotels.   

Celebrating their 26th Anniversary, The Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market is a popular hot spot during the chilly months of March at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.  Held over the same weekend as the nationally recognized Yuengling Shamrock Marathon which brings in over 50,000 out of towners, it has become a popular place for runner's families to gather and shop.  Expect great crowds, top- shelf advertising and a dedicated and faithful group of shoppers that enjoy learning about and buying fine American-made crafts.

 

For artist's prospectus and application click  HERE 

  

You may also contact:

Denise Wynn, Show Director

757-417-7771, or email:

info@emgshows.com

www.emgshows.com  

Call to Artists - 4th Annual Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival 5th Annual Dublin Art Fair

Grand Scheme Promotions, LLC
presents

Two Columbus, Ohio, Area Shows

   

 

4th Annual Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival  5th Annual Dublin Art Fair  

Call to Artists

WHAT:  Two unique, fine art and craft events with extended venue appeal

WHERE: Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival

             Great Lawn, Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio

             Dublin Art Fair

             Front Lawn of Sells Middle & Indian Run Elementary Schools near

             Downtown, Historic Dublin, Ohio

WHEN:   Granville Show:  Saturday & Sunday, June 9-10, 2012

             Dublin Show:      Friday Evening & Saturday, July 6-7, 2012

NOTEWORTHY:

• Two separately juried events.  Artists may apply to one or both shows.  Multiple show discount applies to artists participating in both events.

• Desirable artist participation sought for both shows is 100

• Jury/booth Fees:

            Granville:            ($10/$150)

            Dublin:                ($10/$125)

            (If applying to both shows, only ONE jury fee is necessary.  Artists are

            limited to not more than two media for consideration in shows.)

• Artist amenities include:  convenient, free parking; overnight security; booth sitters; complimentary Saturday mini-breakfast/coffee; and bottled water. 

• Event marketing includes:  full-color, direct mail postcard to 20,000+ select homes and past event visitors; magazine; newspaper; Facebook; full-color posters and more reaching more than 100,000 homes.

• Wine festival tickets sold more than doubled in 2011 as compared to tickets sold for the inaugural event in 2010. 

Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival

Licking County's largest juried art festival located on the Great Lawn of the Bryn Du Mansion in historic Granville.  This unique show features a hands-on art project tent for all ages hosted by the Granville Studio of Visual Arts, live entertainment, refreshments, and Sunday polo match. Art Affair activities are FREE both days. Saturday's show features Granville Rotary Club's Wine Festival from 1-5 p.m. offering international wine tasting, food sampling and Belgian Beer Garden.  Wine Festival and Belgian Beer Garden  require ticket purchase and represent the Rotary Club's largest yearly fundraiser.  Wine Festival participants are permitted to peruse and shop artist booths with wine glass in hand.  New for 2012 are Featured Artist Demonstrations/Seminars sponsored by  The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology on Sunday.   Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival is presented by Grand Scheme Promotions LLC and the Granville Rotary Club.

                                         

Dublin Art Fair

Located on the front  lawn of Sells Middle School and Indian Run Elementary School off of the US 33-SR 161-Bridge Street exit in Dublin, Ohio.  This highly visible show benefits from a significant volume of drive-by  traffic in the desirable historic district of Dublin.  New dates this year coincide with the Arthritis Foundation Classic Car Show & Cruise-In (www.arthritisautoshow.com) held less than 1 mile from show site.  Free trolley rides between the Art Show and Car Show will increase attendance significantly.  Fine art, live entertainment,  fine food and an art project activity tent for all ages make this art fair a popular one.  Show site for 2012 will expand allowing more space between/around individual artist booth spaces.   The Dublin Art Fair is presented by the Dublin  Area Art League and Grand Scheme Promotions LLC.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:     

Deadline:
March 31, 2012 for BOTH shows

Notification:
April 15, 2012, via email

For more details on these events visit:

www.granvilleartaffair.com

www.dublinartfair.org   

Apply on line at:

www.grandschemepromotions.com

Email inquiries to:

grandscheme@roadrunner.com

You may also contact by telephone:
(614)579-5743   

Rashid Johnson - Message to Our Folks

Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks April 14 - August 5, 2012

This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, the first major solo exhibition for Johnson, who is a preeminent artist in the post-media generation. A former Chicagoan and alumni of the MCA's UBS 12 x 12 exhibition series, Johnson explores the complexities and contradictions of black identity, rooted in his individual experience, through photographs, sculptures, videos, installations, and paintings. On view April 14 to August 5, 2012, this exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator, and includes thirteen years of Johnson's work with an emphasis on major works from the last five years. Throughout his work, Johnson evokes shared cultural memories by referencing creative and intellectual black figures whose impact has transcended black communities. The exhibition fosters a dialogue by inviting viewers' free associations with familiar figures -- such as W.E.B. DuBois, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, and Public Enemy -- and everyday objects that appear in the work, including plants, mirrors, rugs, record albums, CB radios, shea butter, and books. The title of the exhibition is based on a 1969 album by the avant-garde group Art Ensemble of Chicago, who performed with a variety of found percussive objects and spanned musical styles to radically redefine the rules of jazz. The conceptually loaded and visually compelling works also allude to alchemy and transformation through different media that hold their own significance and symbolism. He prefers to create a sense of wonder in the unknown rather than present a concrete understanding of his art. The exhibition also presents examples from ongoing bodies of Johnson's work such as Cosmic Slops, abstract paintings made with melted black soap and wax; The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club, portraits of members of a fictional black bourgeois secret society; recent "shelf sculptures" featuring found objects, such as The Shuttle (2010) and Triple Consciousness (2009); and early photographs of homeless men made using the nineteenth-century Vandyke brown printing process. Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977 and currently lives in New York. He has a BFA in photography from Columbia College and attended graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is in the collections of the MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work has been featured in major group exhibitions including 30 Americans: The Rubell Collection (2008); Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self at the International Center of Photography (2003); and Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001); and in 2011 was featured in the International Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale. He is one of the nominees for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize in 2012.

Catalogue A 96-page, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue provides new scholarship on the social, cultural, and artistic significance of Johnson's work. It includes an excerpt from Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle, and essays by the exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, University of Chicago PhD candidate Ian Bourland, and cultural critic and writer Touré. Rashid Johnson in Conversation with Julie Rodrigues Widholm Saturday, April 14, 2012, 10:30 am, Free with suggested museum admission Artist Rashid Johnson and Julie Rodrigues Widholm have a conversation in the gallery about Rashid's work and ideas. Curator Tour Tuesday, April 24, 2012, noon Tour of the exhibition led by Julie Rodrigues Widholm.