Call to Artists - 7th Annual Suncoast Arts Fest

7th Annual Suncoast Arts Fest

Call to Artists

Booth Spaces Still Available!

WHAT:     Juried Fine Artists and Fine Craftsmen Outdoor Event

WHERE:  The Shops at Wiregrass, Wesley Chapel, FL        

WHEN:    Jan 21 - 22, 2012
              Saturday:10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sunday:11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

           

NOTEWORTHY:

• 95,000 visitors over last Jan. 2011 event weekend! 
• Juried fine artists and fine craftsmen outdoor event
• Limited to 135 artists
• Accepted artists will be promoted on www.SuncoastArtsFest.com for one year, and we get many calls asking about SAF artists after the event as well!
• Each artist receives a QR code able to be downloaded by a smart phone. If you are busy, visitors can snap a picture of your QR code and get in touch with you via your website, email address or Facebook page URL!
• Free parking for artists
• Friday, 1/20 eve. setup from 10:30pm-midnight, then after 4am Sat. 1/21
• Electric available, but please request!
• Drive up load-in and load out
• $5000 in prize monies + $100 Booth award!
• Booth sitting
• 10' x 10' spaces with 4' space between tents
• Fees: $30 application fee; $165 booth fee
• Local hoteliers listed on our site, providing discount for overnight stay

The Suncoast Arts Fest benefits "Arts for Kids! in Pasco County"

SAF is a family oriented cultural event. Artwork exhibited must be appropriate for viewers of all ages. The SAF committee has the sole exclusive and final authority to determine if any work is not acceptable for display.

  

To maintain the integrity of the show as a fine art and fine craft show, all works must be original, executed by the applying artist, created by hand and not mass produced. "Buy/Sell" or embellishments on commercial items are absolutely prohibited.  

  

Each artist is required to provide a standard white 10'x10' artist's tent. Spaces of approximately 12'x12' will be provided for each tent. All spaces are on streets and tents must be secured by weights only as wind can be an issue - no tent stakes are allowed. Tent canopies may extend out, but presented artwork must be within or hanging from the tent.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 14, 2012 

For more information and to apply:

 

www.suncoastartsfest.com

Contact Information:

email:    info@suncoastartsfest.com

Phone:   (727) 534-3445 or (727)247-6182  

               

Fax:       (866) 250-6155

Mail to: Suncoast Arts Fest; P.O. Box 609; New Port Richey, Fl. 34656

Call to Artists - 57th Talbot Street Art Fair

57th Talbot Street Art Fair

 
Call to Artists

WHAT:  Fine Art and Fine Craft Event

WHERE: Indianapolis, IN

WHEN:   June 9-10, 2012      

             Saturday, 10-6   Sunday 10-5      

           

NOTEWORTHY:

*Ranked among the nations top festivals every year.

*Limited to 270 artists in juried fine art and fine craft
*Application and Entry fees, $25/$295.  A few larger spaces available at extra cost.

*Over 50,000 in attendance

*Merit and Purchase Awards

  

*Friday set-up, drive to space for load in and load out.

  

*24 hour security

*Artist and RV parking

*Reduced hotel rates

The fair, sponsored by Talbot Street Art Fair, Inc. a non-profit organization, is held along Talbott Street between 16th and 20th Streets (North-South) and between Pennsylvania and Delaware Streets (East-West) in the historic Herron-Morton neighborhood on the near-northside of Indianapolis.

  

Talbot Street Art Fair is the oldest, juried show in Central Indiana and remains free to the public.

All of the fair's focus is on the artists.  We do not have commercial booths or performing musicians.  The fair has a dedicated following of patrons who show up rain or shine.  We do extensive local and regional advertising that includes billboards, newspapers, magazines, online ads and radio and television interviews.  Our purpose is an organized fair that runs smoothly and brings buying customers to our artists for successful sales.   

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:  January 23, 2012

Notification:  March 15, 2012

Website:  www.talbotstreet.org

Email:  talbotstreetartfair@hotmail.com

Phone:  317-745-6479
 

The Trilogy of the Moderns

"Braving the New World" - Mary Martin Gallery

“BRAVING THE NEW WORLD”

AT MARY MARTIN GALLERY 

 

According to Randall LaGro, intuitive painter and printmaker, our world is definitely in a time of change and transition. LaGro speaks pertinently to the situation in his show, “Braving the New World”, which will be the featured show in April at the Mary Martin Gallery.

Opening reception will be held on the evening of April the 6^st from 5 pm to 8 pm.

 

Honoring the latent strengths and beauties of our human nature and the mystery which surrounds our lives is the theme. “This show is about the quiet glories of the human potential, our fellowship with creation and the conviction that we are bound to all of history and humanity”, states LaGro.

 

Using his signature artistic style, “Intuitive Poetic Realism and Abstraction”, LaGro combines elements of the conscious and the subconscious with the goal to encourage the viewer take on the subject and images as their own, finding their own story and wonderment.

Paintings, "Mystic Journey", "The child shall lead" and " Last of a species" are “poetic invitations to our primordial nature”; according to LaGro: “we are beings on a journey and what shall be the result is the ultimate question”. 

A graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, LaGro has been living in Taos, New Mexico for more than eighteen years where he paints in the historic Joseph H. Sharp studio.

As well as being nationally acclaimed for his paintings, LaGro is recognized for his special technique that has raised the standard of monotype processing, a widely misunderstood medium. Technically a print in that it involves the transfer of image, monotypes however are one of a kind, singular pieces of artwork, not multiples prints. Several of LaGro’s monochromatic monotypes are part of the show.

LaGro’s symbolic and narrative paintings and monotypes are meant to be reflective and reminders of our human journey and our potential to be fully realized. “I feel a sense of urgency. However, rather than a shout, a rant or some kind of clever art speak, I'm relying on the recognition of the human voice. I paint the paintings intuitively; and I don't like to expound too much on my thoughts, but as an example of my fascination with the power of art” states LaGro.

Randall LaGro is represented in Charleston by the Mary Martin Gallery, 103 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401.  Call 843-723-0303 for more information.

Call to Artists - The Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fairs

Quail Hollow Events

presents:

THE WOODSTOCK-NEW PALTZ ART & CRAFTS FAIRS

 

MEMORIAL & LABOR DAY WEEKENDS

Call to Artists

WHAT:  Fine Art and Fine Craft Fairs

WHERE: Ulster County Fairgrounds,New Paltz, NY       

WHEN:  Memorial Day Weekend   May 26, 27, 28, 2012                

            Labor Day Weekend     September 1,2,3, 2012

            HOURS: Saturday and Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm; Monday 10 am - 4 pm 

   

NOTEWORTHY:

*31st Bi-Annual Event under the magnificent landscape of the Shawangunk Mountains.

  

*Approximately 250 exhibitors form across the country.

  

*Application fee: $10 per fair

  

*Booth fees:  $355-$565    Tent or outdoor spaces  (Check website for booth sizes)

  

*Electric available in tents & buildings

  

*Estimated Attendance: 13-20,000

   

*Artists' amenities include: on site camping & motor home hookups with septic & electric. Complimentary Sunday Dinner; dedicated artists parking; easy loading and unloading to booth space. Help is available for setting up and breaking down.

  

*Friday all day set-up-drive up to booth location

  

*Separate Tent for handcrafted furniture, architectural crafts, demonstrations.

*Separate building for specialty food & healthcare products

 

The Hudson Valley's premier art & crafts fairs take place every Memorial and Labor Day weekend at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz NY.

Since our first show in 1981, the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair has attracted the finest artists and craftspeople from across the United States, and has become "a destination" for the discerning collector of quality art and fine crafts.

The shows contain a separate tent for demonstrations, furniture, architectural crafts.  Artists choosing to exhibit in this venue are given oversize spaces for display & demo.  A separate building is dedicated to Handcrafted Specialty Foods & Healthcare products

Extensive marketing campaign includes the entire Hudson Valley and New York metropolitan area.   Advertising tools include a wide variety of internet site optimization strategies, direct e mail contacts to visitors, creative print, radio, TV,  rack card & post card distributions

A wide variety of "on site" prepared ethnic foods have nurtured a following all their own.

31 years of the best and always getting better!

  

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS 

Deadline: January 15, 2012

Notification: February 1, 2012

CONTACT INFO

For more details, visit:

www.quailhollow.com 

Applications can be generated online-go to exhibitor info

Regular mail applications-call Scott at 845-246-3414

Application by slides, cd's or e mailed images

Email inquiries to:

scottr@quailhollow.com 

You may also contact:

Scott Rubinstein

845-246-3414

Call to Artists - East Lansing Art Festival 2012

East Lansing Art Festival 2012    

Call to Artists

WHAT:  Juried Fine Art and Fine Craft Event

WHERE: Downtown Streets of East Lansing, MI

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday
           May 19 - 20, 2012
           Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
           Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

NOTEWORTHY:

*Nationally ranked - 60th in the nation by Sunshine Artist magazine's "200 Best."

*Limited to 200 - 220 participating artists.

*Helpful and friendly, well-seasoned staff and volunteers.

*Easy load-in and load-out.

*Knowledgeable and dedicated art patrons. 

*Parking near festival site, included in cost of booth fee.

*Boothsitting.

*10' x 10' booth spaces ($300) and 10' x 20' double booths ($600) available. Corners are available on a limited first-paid-first-served basis for an additional fee of $50.

*Non-profit event produced by the East Lansing Art Festival Board of Directors under the auspices of the East Lansing Arts Commission/City of East Lansing.

 

Established in 1964, the East Lansing Art Festival is held every Spring on the weekend prior to the Memorial Day weekend and is a festive kickoff of the art fair season. The popular Festival attracts an estimated 60,000 attendees from across the region. In addition to the 200-220 juried exhibitors, emerging artists are also invited to participate through a competitive selection process.

 

East Lansing is a charming University town with a wide variety of shops, restaurants, galleries and the beautiful Michigan State University campus across the street. ELAF attracts well-educated visitors, unaffected by the economic downturn in the State including professional people from State government and the University. Festival programming includes well-planned entertainment, and arts activities that enhance the art rather than distract from it. Affiliation with regional media and statewide Public TV and radio stations guarantees the festival is well promoted - bringing the right people to you.

 

From the director, Corinn VanWyck:

"Our artist surveys show that artists experience great sales at our festival - many, many artists reported that they had their best sales in quite a while at our show and were very happy to kick off the festival season in East Lansing! We have an informed and enthusiastic community of collectors here and they really welcome and appreciate the artists."

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR MAY FESTIVAL:

 

Deadline:  January 31, 2012 on www.zapplication.org 

 

For more details, visit: www.elartfest.com 

 

Email inquiries to:

info@elartfest.com

Call to Artists - Decatur Arts Festival

Decatur Arts Festival

Call to Artists

 

What: 24^th Decatur Arts Festival

  

Where:Old Courthouse Square Area in Downtown Decatur, Georgia

  

When:  Saturday and Sunday

           May 26 & 27, 2012

           Saturday -  10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

           Sunday - 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.  

NOTEWORTHY:

*24th Annual Arts Festival

*Limited to approximately 160 artists .

*65,000 attendance (police estimate).

   

*Jury/Booth Fees: Jury fee of $30. The booth fee is $275 for a 10' x 10' booth space, $325 for a corner booth, $625 for a double space. Double booth spaces are limited.

*Demographics of attendees: Majority ages between 21 and 65, 65% reporting an annual household income of over $75,000 and 67% of attendees were returning visitors to the festival with many visitors who have attended all 22 years!

*Booth sitters and 24-hour security provided by City of Decatur police.

*Excellent marketing campaign--including radio, magazine, newspaper, extensive email promotion.  

   

*Strong community support.  

   

*Volunteer helpers for load-in and load-out.

*Complimentary continental breakfast for artists; complimentary bottled water for artists throughout festival.  

   

*Live music throughout arts festival.  

    

Located 5 miles from downtown Atlanta, the Decatur Arts Festival is the longest running arts event in Decatur, Georgia. The Decatur Arts Festival has been named a Top 20 Event by the Southeast Tourism Society since 2004 and has received many awards from the International Festival and Events and Georgia Festival and Events Association.

The Decatur Arts Festival features juried local, regional and national artists' original work.  Artists are selected by a professional jury process. The festival features continuous entertainment and performing arts, food vendors, a Fine Arts Exhibition, the ArtWalk, Literary Arts, Comedy Stage, New Dance and a Children's Festival are also part of the festival activities.

   

Important Dates:

Artist application deadline: January 20, 2012 onwww.zapplication.org

Notification date: February 15, 2012

 

Booth Fee Due: March 31, 2012

For more information, please visit:

www.decaturartsfestival.com