DUE 9/8: Call for entries, theme is "The Hobbit", from C.S. Lewis Festival

The C.S Lewis Festival
Crooked Tree Arts Center
Friday, November 5, 2010
2010 Juried Fine Arts Call For Entries
Entry deadline September 8, 2010

The Eighth Annual C. S. Lewis Festival Board of Directors invites artists to submit original works of art for the 4th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition

The award winning C. S. Lewis Festival is inviting artists to base their work on Tolkien’s book , The Hobbit. The theme for the 2010 Festival is Lewis and Tolkien: The story behind the phenomenon.

The Lewis Festival Juried Fine Art Exhibition features an opening night reception in honor of the winning artists. Entrants are encouraged to read The Hobbit, and then create a work of art inspired by some thought or idea from the book.

The 2010 C. S. Lewis Festival Juried Fine Art Exhibition is open to all residents of the United States over the age of 18. All media will be accepted. Please submit a digital image of your work via the Lewis Festival website at http://www.cslewisfestival.org/ by September 8, 2010. Visit http://www.c.s.lewisfestival.org/ for complete submission details. A non-refundable fee of $20.00 per artist is required for entry. All artists are responsible for delivery and pick-up of their work. Any work to be returned by mail must include packaging and shipping costs.

Artist Doug Melvin will serve as Juror of the exhibit. He holds a B.A. of Fine Arts from Indiana University and a M.A. in Art Education from Michigan State University. Melvin was an art instructor at North Central Michigan College from 1973 to 2005.

To contact the C.S. Lewis Festival, email director@cslewisfestival.org or 231-675-2126.

The Award winning C. S. Lewis Festival (one of only four organizations statewide to receive recognition at the first annual “Imagining Michigan” awards in May of 2004) and the award winning Crooked Tree Arts Center are teaming up to offer a unique opportunity for artists to have their work represented in the 2010 C. S. Lewis Juried Fine Art Exhibition at the lower level of the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, Michigan. The Lewis Festival Juried Fine Art Exhibition will feature an opening night reception where the awarded artists will be recognized.

CASH AWARDS:
First Place $ 250
Second Place $ 150
Third Place $ 100

Entry Procedure
· All media accepted. Please submit digital image of work via Lewis Festival website at www.cslewisfestival.org by September 8, 2010. No other forms of entry will be accepted.
· All work must be original and executed by the artist, no work is to be created with the use of copyrighted and/or published photographs.
· A non-refundable fee of $20.00 per artist is required for entry.
· Payment will be taken on the website during the entry process.
· Work must be submitted by artist. If artist is not present, a written release by the artist must accompany the artwork.
· Upon notification of acceptance into show, work (must match digital entry accepted) must be dropped off on Friday October 8th or shipped to Crooked Tree Arts Center, 461 East Mitchell Street, Petoskey, MI 49770 231.347.5731.
· All artists are responsible for delivery and pick-up of their work. Any work to be returned by mail must include packaging and shipping costs.

Entry Delivery of Accepted Work:
· Deadline for delivery of accepted work is Friday October 8, 2010, during regular hours. · Accepted work may NOT be removed until after the close of the show.
· Accepted work can be picked up between December 1, and December 15, 2010 at Crooked Tree Arts Center.
· Artists must complete entry form including medium or description of process and attach work label to the upper right hand corner of the back of each work.
· Works not picked up by December 15, 2010 become property of the C.S. Lewis Festival unless prior arrangement has been made with Anne McDevitt. The artist forfeits any claim to the work and the C. S. Lewis Festival cannot be held responsible for any method of disposal arising from forfeiture.

Shipped Work:
Artists are responsible for the delivery and pick-up of their work. Any work to be returned by mail must include packaging and shipping costs. All shipped work needing glass must be framed with Plexiglas. There is a handling cost of $40 per artist for shipped work. If the work is hand delivered and picked up at the end of the show this fee does not apply. Make checks payable to: the C. S. Lewis Festival., Inc.

Liability:
All reasonable care will be taken with artwork. However, C. S. Lewis Festival (CSLF) or volunteers will not be responsible for loss or damage to artwork. CSLF suggests that participants carry separate insurance. Permission is granted to CSLF for reproduction of artwork for catalog and/or advertising purposes. Entry into exhibition constitutes agreement with this understanding.

For More Information Please Contact: Anne McDevitt, Executive Director, C.S. Lewis Festival, Post Office Box 2026, Petoskey, MI 49770 director@cslewsfestival.org or 231.675.2126