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Call for Artists: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Posted by Connie Mettler on January 9, 2014 at 2:41pm
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State College, Pennsylvania
Downtown State College & Penn State Campus
305 exhibitors
Deadline: January 24

Why should you apply to this festival?  Here is what its director, Rick Bryant, has to say:

Our festival, known to artists as "the Penn State show", and to Penn Staters as the "Arts Fest", is now in its 48th year on the University Park campus of Penn State and the streets of downtown State College, PA.  We were founded by the State College Chamber of Commerce and Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and we're still very much a "town/gown" event.

We bring roughly 100,000 people to State College over five days of our event in July. That's not a number we make up; we do an audience survey each year administered by a faculty member at Lock Haven University.

Going to the Arts Festival is a rite of passage for Penn Staters. Students don't miss it and Alumni return for "Arts Festival Alumni Weekend," a program of the Penn State Alumni Association, the largest dues paying alumni association in the world.  Arts Festival Alumni Weekend is a time to renew old college ties, attend special programs, and, of course, shop at the "Arts Fest". Some alums even opt to stay in dorms!  (Artists can do that too!)
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Some other things to consider:
  • We're consistently ranked in the Top Ten in the Sunshine Artist magazine rankings (#1 last time around!)
  • We hand out over $17,000 in prizes. The top prize is $2,500; our second prize is $1,750.
  • We provide lots of amenities including one of the best artists' receptions on the circuit. 
  • In a recent survey by ArtFairCalendar.com art fair patrons chose us as one of the nation's Best Art Fairs that they love to attend. 1568.jpg 
The event also includes a full day of activities for children, great performances on indoor, a book festival, and a celebration of Italian Street Painting. And if you're up for it, there's a 5k/10k/10 mile run bright and early Sunday morning with over 500 entrants.

Notification is March 17 
Booth fee is $500 for 10x10, $1,000 for 10x20

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Find even more shows for 2014. Visit www.CallsforArtists.com where you'll find Zapp shows, JAS shows and more!
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Is this "America's Best Art Fair?"

Posted by Connie Mettler on September 28, 2013 at 5:17pm

Deadline: September 30, midnight -- your turn to tell us what is the Best Art Fair. 8869126276?profile=original

Our site ArtFairCalendar.com, whose mission it is to publicize art fairs and bring the public to attend and buy art work, is conducting its first annual survey of "America's Best Art Fairs." 

The goal: to publish this list and get it well publicized for the purpose of connecting those people who love to attend shows by sharing the information. 

Your opinion counts (you've attended a lot of them), show organizers opinions count (they attend lots of shows too and know the competition) and there is a great group of people who love the shows and will travel to find them, as well as bring their friends.

We've had a great response to the survey but we are in the last days -- please take the survey, share it on your FB pages, your business pages and send it out to your email lists. The more responses we receive the more accurate the results will be and it will help build attendance at the best shows, and lead to better crowds at the smaller events.

Please do it now. Click here: http://www.artfaircalendar.com/art_fair/best-art-fairs-survey.html

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Show of the Month: Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival

Posted by Connie Mettler on March 11, 2013 at 7:30am

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March 15-17
Winter Park, Florida
Friday, 9 AM-6 PM, Saturday, 9 AM-6 PM, Sunday, 9 AM-5 PM
225 Artists 
          
The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most prestigious juried outdoor art festivals, consistently rated among the top shows by Sunshine Artist and American Style magazines. Each year more than 350,000 visitors enjoy the show. 
 
This year about 1,100 artists from around the world appliedfor entry and an independent panel of judges selected 225 national and international artists to attend the show. The 

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National Endowment for the Arts, The White House, Congress and many others have lauded the Festival for promoting art and art education in Central Florida. 
 
Visitors will not only have the opportunity to view and purchase the work of some of the nation's most talented artists, the event is held in the charming downtown of Winter Park, with its cafes and shops, a perfect place to spend a winter day in Florida. 
 
The all volunteer board works year round to insure a successful event that this year includes over $100,000 in patron purchase awards and award money.

New this year:
  • a $5000 "Art of Philanthropy" Purchase Award from the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation
  • last year's "emerging artist", Iris Ledesma, has been selected as a juried artist for this year's festival
  • a complimentary bike valet service that is being offered for the first time.  This service should provide some parking relief.  It is on Morse Boulevard immediately west of the Train Station 
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