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PROCESS How to apply Categories Application form Jury System Mail to: Deadline, March 15 Application, Rules & Regulations.pdf SELECTION PROCESS EXHIBITION INFORMATION MEMBERSHIP AWARDS |
Rules
and Regulations for Vendors 2008 Theme: Magic in the Air Application Deadline: March 15, 2008 in this office.
To apply, complete and return the signed application form (front & back) formatted compact discs of images of your work as specified (see below), and a check or money order for the non-refundable $25 (U.S.) application fee to the ACWC by the March 15, 2008 in-office deadline. .pdf, Appplication, Rules and Regulations DEADLINE: Receipt in the A.C.W.C. office by March 15, 2008— NOT a postmark deadline. Mail to: ACWC, P.O. Box 249, Perry, NY 14530-0249 Attn: LACS Choose the category which most closely describes your work. Category descriptions represent a sampling of the things included in the categories. • Decorative Painting: Traditional tole painted objects; painted “found” objects, floor cloths, fabric or clothing items; stenciled or faux painted objects; painted wood cut outs, lawn ornaments, figurines or other hand-made wood items whose primary interest is in its painted treatment; painted slate or other natural materials. • Fibre Arts & Leather: Basketry; quilts; knit or crocheted items; tatting or other needlework; handmade paper items; items sewn or otherwise pieced together from fabric or other natural materials such as leather or wool, including garments, handbags, accessories, etc.; weaving and tapestry; felted items including garments, accessories, or sculptures, etc. • Floral Design: Bouquets, wreaths, garlands, or other arrangements or decorative objects incorporating dried, pressed or silk florals. • Woodworking: Furniture, carved sculpture, wooden vessels, intarsia or other pieces whose primary medium is wood. Artists whose wood products hold interest primarily in being painted should consider applying in the decorative painting category. • Jewelry • Metal: Furniture, sculpture, lawn ornaments, wall hangings; any metalwork other than jewelry. • Painting/Drawing/Graphics: Pencil, pastel, pen and ink, ink wash, acrylic, oil, collage, hand-pulled prints, mixed media, or other works on two dimensional surfaces such as canvas or paper. • Photography • Pottery/Ceramics: Sculptures, vessels or other items made from clay (No commercial molds). • Glass: Molded, slumped, fused, blown or stained glass items other than jewelry. Painted glass items, unless handmade by exhibitor, should be entered into the Decorative Painting category. • Toys/Dolls • Misc./Mixed Media or Other: This category includes objects
which incorporate more than one medium, such as assemblage. It also
includes items which can not be placed comfortably in any other category.
As well, it includes applicants who have more than one primary medium and
wish to apply in a more general category (please state which is your
primary product in your application statement, and include samples of all
with your images). New Jury System As of 2006, vendors who jury into the show (in the first round) for
three (3) years consecutively, will be admitted without jurying, for the
following three years. Application and application fee are still required
each year. Stringent monitoring for quality of product will be enforced
during each show. SELECTION PROCESS LACS is a juried show and vendors are selected entirely on the basis of images of their work (see “Application Process” and “Preparing Your Images”, below). Jurors are professional artists and artisans, practicing and retired, as well as collegiate faculty and proprietors of art galleries and craft shops. Your images should represent your work in the most professional and artistic way possible. You are encouraged to include a brief description of your work and/or your technique in the space provided on the back of the application form. Acceptance is based on the quality of work as shown in your pictures, regardless of previous participation in the show. (Only prize winners from the previous year are exempt from jurying.) Jurors will use a point system to evaluate the work on craftsmanship, creativity (according to category), and appropriateness (to the LAC Show). PREPARING YOUR IMAGES: Include five jpeg images saved on a compact disc (size: 300dpi preferred for each image). Three of these images must represent the work you will offer for sale, one illustrates your booth display, and one the artist at work in his or her studio or work space. Applications without these specified images will not be considered. Please be sure the product images you send for jurying represent the products you will be selling in your booth. Label each image cd with your full name. Images on cd will not be corrected or altered for quality. Please be sure of the quality of your images before sending. Do not send photographic prints or samples of your work. Image CDs will not be returned.
Notification letters will be mailed by April 16, 2008. Fees: Fees are listed below and due from exhibitors by June 15, 2008 (postmark deadline). Fees are nonrefundable, except in emergency situations, as determined by the Show Director. Any exhibitor fee check returned for insufficient funds must be replaced by a money order or cashier’s check for the original amount plus a $30.00 (U.S.) returned-check fee. There is no Wait List. If spaces become available prior to the show, ACWC staff will use the jury’s scores to identify appropriate exhibitors and contact them individually about their interest and availability. Space assignments · Notification letters will be mailed by April 16, 2008. Space assignments will be made after the exhibitor fees have been paid, and will be announced by the end of August, 2008. Exhibitors may request a space or section assignment, but receipt of the request by ACWC does not increase or decrease the likelihood that an exhibitor will be assigned that space. Decisions by the ACWC regarding space assignments are final.
Spaces and PARKING REGULATIONS
As sponsors of the Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show, the Arts Council
for Wyoming County, and also the Genesee Region of New York Office of
State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, are not responsible
for injury or damage to persons or property at the Letchworth Arts &
Crafts Show. Further, any injury or damage to persons or property caused
by items for sale or display at the Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show is
the sole responsibility of the exhibitor. Property owners, agents,
merchants, and craft show producers shall be held blameless from any
liability thereof. The Arts Council for Wyoming County reserves the right
to accept or reject any application at its discretion. ACWC Membership Vendors accepted into the Letchworth Arts and Crafts Show automatically become members of the ACWC upon payment of space fees. In addition to supporting the arts in Wyoming County, as a member you receive our bimonthly newsletter, ArtsNews with a calendar of events and information about exhibits, grants, and educational opportunities for artists and artisans.
In addition to the above benefits, members at the Director's Circle level and above will receive two complimentary admissions to one event of their choice per year. Sponsored by the Arts Council For Wyoming County (ACWC) Po Box 249, Perry, NY 14530; info@artswyco.org; (585) 237-3517
Each craft exhibitor may present one item to be submitted for judging at the show. Artwork and crafts in 12 categories plus an additional “themed” category (2008 theme – “Magic in the Air”) will be considered by the judges, whose decisions are final. A Best of Show award winner will be chosen from among category winners. Category winners in the 2008 show will receive $100 cash prize, a certificate, and waiver of the jury requirement for the 2009 show. Best of Show winner will receive an additional $100, certificate and ribbon. Only arts and crafts vendors are eligible for judging. Specialty vendors, such as food vendors, music/entertainment vendors, and vendors of items such as soaps, oils, perfumes, etc. are not eligible for judging.
2007 Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show & Sale: Arts Council for Wyoming County and Letchworth State Park officials were happy to witness perfectly pleasant weather conditions on opening day of the 33rd Annual Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show & Sale, Saturday, October 11, as an estimated 65,000 visitors came to view the crafts of over 300 venders. The event, sponsored by the Arts Council for Wyoming County, continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the Highbanks recreation area at Letchworth State Park. The show features a variety of fine arts and crafts, from painting, to woodworking, to music and apparel. Visit www.artswyco.org for detailed information.
Other category award winners receive $100 each, plus automatic acceptance and a waiver of booth fees for the 2008 show. These category winners are: Drawing/Painting/Graphics: Chris Held, a student at SUNY Geneseo, for his woodblock print of an arched bridge. Chris was also the Arts Council's first "Rising Star" scholarship winner. The scholarship recognizes excellence and achievement in a young artist, and provides a free booth space in the Letchworth Arts and Crafts Show and Sale. 2007 is the inaugural year for this scholarship program. Held's work can be viewed at space J-12. Decorative Painting: Judy Laubacker of Lockport, Judy's Country Collection (booth G - 34 ), for a framed floral painting. Fiber Arts/Leather: Susan Swanson of Perry (booth J - 9 ) for a large blue felted bag with a decorative fish and water pictoral design. Floral Design: Dorothy Julius of Lancaster, Along Garden's Path (booth K - 22 ), for a pressed floral picture of hot air balloons over a landscape. Glass: Alex Andreani of Rushville, Andreani Glass (booth C - 17), for a sculpted, multi-colored and layered blown glass vase. Jewelry: Bonnie Hedden of Bath, Bonnie Hedden Designs (booth G - 19 ), for a silver necklace, shaped into an eloborate abstract design. Metalworking: Theodore West of Varysburg, TA Designs (booth G - 30 ), for a floor lamp, crafted as a large "bouquet" of flowers, with each flower having a light bulb fixture as its center. Other/Miscellaneous/Mixed Media: Rose-Ann Martin of Kenmore, Martin Calligraphics (booth B - 15), for a framed calligraphic piece. Photography: Jeffrey Sprague of Rochester, Jeffrey Sprague Photography (booth G - 24 ), for a color photo of boat at dock. Pottery/Ceramics: Judy Rohrbaugh of Silver Lake, Ohio, Rohrbaugh Fine Stoneware (booth J - 31 ), for a clay pot with imprinted, multi-colored design. Toys & Dolls: E. Sharon Benesch of Holland Patent, Benesch Creative Enterprise (booth H – 22, 23), for a wooden tanker truck. Woodworking: William Forsythe of Dansville, Forsythe Woodworking (booth H - 27 28), for a Mission style oak bench.
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