#tourdearts2016
Cyber
Arts 509
Presents
the 1st annual
2016
Tour De Arts
Soiree
on Oct 20th, Studios open 21
and 22
Summary
of the Event:
Tour
De Arts is a self-guided Artist studio tour
centered in the Tri Cities and surrounding areas of Washington State. Its primary focus is to promote and sell
local artists works. Its secondary focus is to educate the public about the
advantage of purchasing artists work.
October 20th
; 6pm to 9pm all artists are required to participate in an opening Invitational
gala event at Tucannon Winery 40504 Demoss Rd, Benton City, WA 99320. Each Artist will have a place to show their
art and to talk with invited guests about future sales. Each Artist can add
their patrons to the invitation list.
Tour de Arts will send out the invitations to this event. Artist shall be set up by 5:30pm and parked
in the overflow parking area.
In addition to the art, we will have music,
wine and light hor de%u2019ouves and wood fired pizza. Wine and Pizza will be no-host and provided
by Tucannon Winery.
October 21 and 22,
your studio (this could be a collaborative studio with more than one artist)
will be open to the public from 10 am to 6pm. Each studio should provide a
light snack and refreshments, and a Draw Box. Each artist will provide each visitor with an
entry form to win $100.00 towards a purchase of the winning studio or artist
art. The 100 dollars will be provided by
tour de Arts to the winning artist upon the receipt of a sale.
Each ticket must have the following
information
Studio name
Artist Name
Patrons name
Patrons address
Patrons
contact
At the
end of the studio tour, one ticket from each studio/artist will be drawn from
their studio tour box. These will be put
in the final draw box and the winner will be selected. It will be up to the winning artist to
contact the Patron and give them the good news.
Application
and Requirements
1.
Must be a member of cyber arts
509
All artists must be
a member of 509 to participate. If you
are currently not on Cyber Arts 509 membership please enclose $12.00
2.
Application Fee
$50 dollars* fee to
participate in the tour. We are
budgeting $2000 dollars for the event to cover postage, food, maps, etc. We hope to get 40 artists to participate, if
we have less, then all participating artists will be required to split the
difference. If we get more artists, then
we will have seed money for the next tour.
3.
Artist should apply by filling out the
attached form and submitting one representational photo of their work to Pam
Sharp 89417 summit View Drive, Kennewick Wa 99338. Please enclose your payment
made out to Cyber Arts 509. The artwork
that you supply will be used in the brochure/map and any advertising.
4.
Deadline
for Submitting is August 20th .
5. we are accepting the following
art disciplines into the tour. All art
must be made by the artist and represented by the artist.
Painting/
Drawing: Works created using wet
and dry media including chalk, charcoal, pastels, pencil, wax crayon, etc. or
from the fluid medium of inks, washes and paints applied by hand are to be
entered in this category. Signed Limited Edition prints of original works are
permitted.
Glass
Fused and Slumped: All fused and slumped glass
works are accepted into this category. No machine-made or mass produced work is
permitted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must
be signed.
Glass Hand-blown. :
All hand blown glass items are to be entered into this category. No
machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same
design are displayed each piece must be signed
Glass Stained: All
handmade stained glass works are to be entered into this category. No
machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same
design are displayed each piece must be signed
Metal
work:All
non-sculptural handmade works are to be entered into this category. No
machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same
design are displayed each piece must be signed
Paper: All handmade works of paper art or craft are to be entered into
this category. No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple
pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must be signed.
Photography: All photographic works including
digital are to be entered into this category. No machine-made or mass produced
work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each
piece must be signed and be a limited edition.
Sculpture: All sculptural works of
art are to be entered in this category. No machine-made or mass produced work
is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each piece
must be signed
Recycled art: Items that use more that 50%
recycled material. All pieces must be signed by the artist.
Jewelry Fine: Handmade jewelry using
precious metals; gem quality stones and or a high degree of design are accepted
into this category. No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If
multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must be signed, no
other jewelry will be accepted.
Ceramics: No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple
pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must be signed.
Raku: All
original raku work is accepted in this category. No machine-made or mass
produced work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed
each piece must be signed.
Clay Other: This
category includes any original work made from clay.
Wood and wood
carving: Must be handmade, no
mass produced or machine made is permitted.
Other, art
not covered above, but still handmade.
With no mass produced or machine made items permitted. Multiple pieces
of the same design must be signed.
6. Artist must participate in the
opening gala event
7.
Each Artist shall determine the best fit for style. This will give patrons an easy road map for
selection.
1.Photo or hyper realism
2.
Contemporary Realism
3.
Impression
4.
Surrealism
5.
Whimsical
6.
Abstract
7.
functional
8.
decorative
9.
Expressionism
10.
Fantasy
11.
other
Tour
De Arts 2016 Application Form
Cyber
Arts 509, 2016 Tour De Arts, studio tour.
Artist
Name___________________________________________________
Artist Address________________________________________________
Artist
email___________________________________________________
Artist Web
Page_______________________________________________
Art
Medium___________________________________________________
Art Style______________________________________________________
Location of
Studio_____________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Member of 509
Yes___
No___ $12.00
Tour De Arts
$50.00
Total due _______
Please
submit form, patron list and payment(made
out to Cyber Arts 509) to :
Pam Sharp
89417 summit view Drive
Kennewick, Wa
99338