SHERWOOD ART WEEK 2012
Saturday 16th June – Sunday 24th June
What is Sherwood Art
Week?
SAW is a week of art
events and exhibitions located in and around the heart of Sherwood. We aim to
celebrate the creativity of people in Sherwood and encourage a sense of
community by providing opportunities to showcase local artists’ work and give
people a chance to make their own art.
Features
of the Art Week include Art in shop windows, the Open Air Craft Fair, Open
Studios, Exhibitions, Workshops & Demonstrations, Talks & Film, Music
and opportunities for involvement by local children.
The event is keenly
supported by local businesses, residents and the Neighbourhood Management Team
for Sherwood & Mapperley and is organised entirely by volunteers who are
artists and local supporters. Each organisation and business involved provides
space for SAW events free of charge. Contributions from local businesses,
Artist fees and grants help to fund the event.
Organisation
Sherwood
Art Week is entirely organised and run by volunteers.
There
is a core group which meets fortnightly and sub groups meeting on a regular
basis to organise Art in the Shops, the Art Marquee, Exhibitions, the Craft
Fair and Community Art.
If you
are interested in getting involved in any way, from organising activities to
publicity, from helping to set up events and exhibitions to fund raising please
contact us at interest@sherwoodartweek.co.uk
or call Anita on 0115 844
7181.
Call for Artists
Please submit the Statement of Interest Form (download links below).
Forms can be collected at the meeting on Saturday 4th February or from The Place
or send a large SAE (with correct postage) to The Place Activity Centre, 2a
Melrose Street, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 2JP.
Please copy the form if you are planning to do more than one activity.
Applications for the Craft Fair will be a separate process, details to follow soon.
Statement
of Interest
Submit
the Form with images of the type of work you do that you might show at this
event (by post or online) and the £15 entry fee (by post only). Cheques payable to ‘Sherwood Art
Experience’.
You can
bring these with you to the Artists’ involvement meeting on Saturday 4th
February at 1pm at The Place or send in by no later than Monday 20th
February 2012.
·
If
you are planning to do more than one activity please make a separate
application for each one.
·
You
must include images of your work with your Application Form.
·
Fees
are part of the revenue that pays for publicity and marketing, expenses and
technical costs, and entitles the artist to sell work without paying
commission.
Who can apply?
·
SAW
is a community event and priority will be given to artists local to the area,
but artists within the County will be considered.
· All entrants must live, or be professionally based,
in the local area (and not beyond the county boundary).
· All entrants must be 18 years and over.
Restrictions
1. Work must be set up by specified deadlines.
2. All work must be original and the property of the
artist entering the event.
3. The number of pieces of work you can show will
depend on your allocated space and the nature of your work. You will be
notified.
4. Work must be clearly labelled with title, medium,
name, price (or NFS), contact details.
5. Artists must be responsible for installing their
own work with support from the Technical Team.
6. Insurance for own artwork will be the
responsibility of the Artist.
7. Public Liability Insurance will be in place at each
venue for the duration of the Art Week.
8. Anything hazardous and a risk to safety will not be
accepted - the organisers reserve the right to make the final decision in the
event of dispute.
Art in the shops
· PLEASE DO
NOT CONTACT PROPRIETORS AT THIS TIME to avoid inundating them with enquiries
- you may write the name of your preferred shop on the statement of interest
form.
· Work must be set up no later than Friday 15th
June 2012
· All work must
remain in place from 9am Saturday 16th June to 6pm Sunday 24th June
Exhibitions
· All artists
showing work at one of the exhibitions will be required to invigilate for at
least one 3 hour session.
· Work must be set up no later than Thursday 21st
June 2012
·
All
work must remain in place from 9am Friday 22nd June to 6pm Sunday 24th June
·
The
Place Activity Centre will have separate arrangements with their members who
want to display their artwork or demonstrate their craft skills on their
premises. All artists who want to
exhibit in other venues in Sherwood or a shop window must provide the Statement
of Interest Form.
Workshops/Art
Marquee
· All workshop leaders must have their own public
liability insurance.
· All workshop leaders must comply with the Sherwood Art Week policies and procedures.
· All workshop leaders must comply with the Sherwood Art Week policies and procedures.
Download Application Form (PDF)
Download Application Form (word document)
