GREENBELT LABOR DAY ART SHOWS
Information & Rules
Co-sponsored by the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Committee & the Greenbelt Association for the Visual Arts (GAVA)
The Labor Day Art Shows will take place in the Greenbelt Community Center as part of the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival. There are two shows: one for adults, and one for children and teens. This popular event gives Greenbelt artists of all ages and abilities the opportunity to acquaint the community with their work! If you have any questions, call Barbara Simon, Labor Day Art Shows Chair, (301)474-2192.
Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Art Shows 2008
Information & Rules
Co-sponsored by the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Committee
& the Greenbelt Association for the Visual Arts (GAVA)
The Labor Day Art Shows take place in the Greenbelt Community Center as part
of the
annual Greenbelt Labor Day Festival. There are 2 shows: one for adults,
& one for children
& teens. This is the 54th year of this popular event, which gives
Greenbelt artists of all ages
& abilities the opportunity to share their work with the community.
If you have any questions, call Barbara Simon at (301) 474-2192.
1) Children & teen participants must live or go to school in Greenbelt, or
have parents or grandparents who live, go to school or work in
Greenbelt.
2) Adult participants (19 years +) must live, work, or go to school in
Greenbelt, Beltsville,
Berwyn Heights, College Park, Glenn Dale, Lanham, New
Carrollton, Riverdale, or
Seabrook.
3) Art work must be submitted on Thursday, Aug. 28, from 5:00-7:00 PM, or on
Friday,
Aug. 29, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, or 5:00 to 7:00 PM at
the Community Center.
Registration forms are filled out at the time of
submission.
4) All art work must:
a) be completely original in design & conception.
b) never have been shown in previous Labor Day Festival Art
Shows.
c) be ready for display: adult two-dimensional works should
be framed with wires
attached for hook. Children &
teens’ 2-dimensional works should be mounted or
matted but need not be framed.
5) All adult participants become members of this year’s Greenbelt Labor
Day Festival
Art Shows Committee & are required to help with either
hanging the shows Friday,
August 29, after 7:00 PM, or by sitting one hour during the
shows. Be ready to sign
up when work is submitted.
6) The shows are open to the public Saturday, August 30, from 1:00-6:00 PM;
Sunday,
August 31, from 1:00-6:00 PM; & Monday, Sept. 1, from
12:00 noon to 1:00 PM,
& from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.
7) The Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Committee, GAVA, the City of Greenbelt,
& any of
their volunteers/staff, are not responsible for the shows.
Every effort will be made to
protect the shows during open hours, using volunteers to
sit as explained in instruction #5.
8) Entries will be judged by a professional artist, & awards are given in
each category for
adults, children & teens, depending on the discretion
of the judge. The Cipriano Awards
are given in both shows for works on the theme “Americans
at Work”. Awards are
presented on stage on Monday, Sept. 1, at 1:00 after the
parade.
9) Entries & awards must be retrieved from 4:00-6:00 PM on Monday, Sept.
1. The
Committee is not responsible for unclaimed art work.
Please do not pick up your work
before 4:00. Awards not picked up will be forfeited.
10)If you are interested in selling your work, please indicate this on your
registration form so
that we can give out your contact information.
11) Art work may be rejected for shows by Art Show organizers if not in
keeping with the spirit of the shows.