Artist Applications Now Available Through Zapplication
15 Aug 2005
by: David Doremus
Digital images of work can be submitted online only through October 31
FORT WORTH, Texas (August 15, 2005) – MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival, which is rated #8 among the nation’s art-and-craft fairs in two separate and widely consulted sets of rankings, announced today that it has begun officially accepting applications from artists who want to exhibit at its 2006 show, scheduled for April 20 – 23, 2006.
Categories of media to be considered for the 21st annual MAIN ST. include 2-D Mixed Media, 3-D Mixed Media, Ceramics, Digital, Drawing/Pastels, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Metalwork, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Wood.
The application deadline is October 31. A panel of jurors will then convene Nov. 11-12 to review all of the applications, and to select from among them the artists who will be invited to show their work at MAIN ST. The jury session will be held at the Blackstone Hotel/Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Fort Worth, and will be open to the public. Sessions will begin at 9:00 AM each day.
Continuing a popular practice instituted last year, MAIN ST. will allow members of the general public to sit in on the first day of the jury’s deliberations.
For the 2006 festival, all applications for exhibit space must be submitted online, using the ZAPPlication ™ process developed by MAIN ST. and 8 other major art-and-craft shows across the nation. Artists must establish an account at www.zapplication.org prior to submitting work for consideration.
Each artist applying to MAIN ST. is required to submit four digital images showing representative examples of his or her work. Also required is a digital image of the artist’s exhibit booth that shows how works of art would be displayed to festival-goers.
Supporting documentation should include an information sheet identifying and describing the images, as well as a completed ZAPPlication entry form and a $30 entry fee. Complete rules and instructions for applying to exhibit at MAIN ST. can be found on the festival’s Web site at www.MainStreetArtsFest.org.
The next MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival will take place April 20-23 along a nine-block, brick-paved section of historic Main Street from the old Tarrant County Courthouse to the Fort Worth Convention Center. Some 200 painters, sculptors, photographers and other artists and artisans will exhibit and sell their work to the accompaniment of performances by nearly 300 musicians and other entertainers.
About MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival
MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival, the biggest and best attended arts-and-entertainment festival in the Southwest, is produced by Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, the special-events unit of Downtown Fort Worth, Inc., and presented by Coors Light. Art Fair SourceBook and The Harris List, the two authoritative reference works on the nation’s art-festival scene, both rank MAIN ST. #8 among the hundreds of events they review each year. The Harris List also rates MAIN ST. as the best festival in Texas. The annual four-day celebration includes a juried fine art-and-craft fair, live concerts, performance artists and street performers, all arrayed along a nearly mile-long stretch of historic Main Street in downtown Fort Worth. For more information about MAIN ST., visit www.MainStreetArtsFest.org.