Festive Art Trail 2012

Festive Art Trail 2012

Date: December 1st & 2nd

Time: 12pm – 7pm

This year we are going to launch the Festive Art Trail. The trail will be a platform for exhibiting art and crafts for sale. A fantastic opportunity to buy unique festive gifts for friends and family.

Deadlines

Registration Opens …………………………………………………………… 14th August 2012

Registration Closes (Venue, Artist & Information Deadline) … 30th September 2012

Fees

Open House ………………………….. £25

Open House Additional Artist … £2.50 each

Local Business ………………………. £50

Community Venue ………………… £40

Please send payment by cheque to Worthing Open Houses, 75 Bulkington Avenue, Worthing, BN14 7HZ or visit our BACS PAYMENT page for electronic banking.

Registration Process

  1. Send us an email to register your venue.
  2. Submit all venue information, artist information and images for our promotional materials and website as per instructions below.
  3. Pay your venue registration fee and for any additional artists if applicable.

PLEASE NOTE: Your registration will not be accepted until all three steps have been completed and within the deadlines defined on this page. Once registered, we will create your venue page and individual artist pages on our website.

Once all venues have registered we will create our promotional materials and email a proof to you for checking and approval. Once you have approved your final page we will add it to the brochure ready for printing. Unfortunately we can not make any changes after the set final deadlines have passed.

Registration Requirements.

Artists

Images

  • We need three images from each artist. We will resize them for the website.
  • Size of the images: ‘Jpeg’ images to be 6cm (709 pixels )on their longest edge and to be at 300dpi resolution.
  • Please could you email them to your venue organiser who will forward them to us.

Text

  • List of what you produce, eg “Paintings and prints ” or “ Bags and hats”. Please restrict this to four words maximum.
  • Preferred contact details, eg your phone number, your email or preferably, if you have one, your website. You can also include any blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.
  • You may submit a longer description of your work for the website.
  • Please could you email them to your venue organiser who will forward them to us.

Venues

Venue holders are responsible for paying the fees in full. It will make our work much easier if venue owners collate the information for all their exhibitors and send it on to us (you can do some of the nagging and chasing for us!)

Images

  • You need to nominate a venue organiser who understands the file sizes, so that they can help any participants that don’t.
  • Send us three pictures from each of your exhibitors. Images should be named, ie. johnsmith22acaciaavenue-01.jpeg

Text

  • We need a short description of your venue eg “This popular house on the seafront will once again show a high quality mix of contemporary art and craft”
  • Contact  telephone number for venue
  • Any special instructions eg “follow signs to rear of building”
  • Wheelchair access? Refreshments? Garden? Toilet Facilities?
  • The descriptions of the work of each of your artists for their web page
  • It would help if all the text was on one Word/Pages document.

Hints for good images

  • Photograph objects such as ceramics against a plain black or white background.
  • Photograph paintings in soft daylight without glass or scan drawings.

Fee Information

PLEASE NOTE: It is at the venues discretion whether they divide the fee between artists and/or charge a commission on sales.

Open House Fee

The fee includes up to two listed artists. You get a house listing in our publication, a house listing on the website and an artists page on the website with three images. Your fee also goes towards all the extra work we put into organising, marketing, etc.

Local Business Fee

The fee is a flat rate. Included in this, you will receive weblinks to your business website or social media pages from our website. You will also receive the same listings as an open house.

Community Organisation Fee

The fee is a flat rate. Included in this, you will receive weblinks to your organisations website or social media pages from our website. You will also receive the same listings as an open house.