ART EXHIBITION

Greetings! This is a Call-to-Artists to participate in Artsfest 2007, the Bay Area’s Fourth Annual ‘Celebration of the Arts!’

What Is Artsfest?

Artfest is a true communal salute to the arts, showcasing over 100 curated, multi-genre presentations in venues across the Bay Area. Our goal for the celebration is to reflect the rich cultural diversity of the Bay Area’s population while developing new audiences for arts presenters.

To help us promote the festival and your participation, we've amassed well over $500,000 worth of donated advertising from our media partners – The Examiner, Bay Guardian, KGO-TV, Marin Magazine, ToDo Monthly, MUNI, BART and a number of others to be announced.

Your involvement, along with many other partners and organizations, will contribute to making Artsfest 2007 an unprecedented communal effort supporting the San Francisco Bay Area arts community.

Curatorial Statement

As part of Artsfest 2007, we are curating a series of visual art exhibitions for emerging and established artists from March through May, and we wish to represent the wide artistic, cultural and ethnic diversity of the Bay Area. To that end, we are seeking submissions in the following genres:

Your Artwork at Artsfest

Selected artists will be invited to participate at all or some of the following exhibitions:

• Artsfest Spectra Ball ‘07: March 31, Regency Center
• Mission Arts Weekend: May 11-13, Mission District
• Arsfest 2007 Arts Expo: May 19, Civic Center Plaza, exposition-style artwork displays
• Gallery One Exhibitions: two exhibitions in May, at this 5000 sq. ft. space in Embarcadero One.
• Art Beat Salon Series: exhibits at Gallery One, first Thursdays

Plus, artists will be given substantial visibility prior to and during Artsfest 2007 through our promotional avenues, including listings of artists, images and contact information on the Artsfest website, and the Artsfest 2007 Program Guide (50,000 copies) distributed throughout the Bay Area.

Submitting Artwork for Artsfest

To submit your artwork for consideration, please follow these instructions:

• Visit our website at www.artsfestsf.org, click on the Call-to-Artist link on the home page, and complete the online registration form by March 15th.
• If accepted into the exhibition, you will receive a letter by March 22th with further instructions along with a Participation Agreement.
• Participation in Artsfest 2007 requires that artists donate at least one piece for our silent auction. The artist sets the minimum bid, and receives 40% of the final sale price.

Call or email us with any questions you might have at 415-561-7802 or info@artsfestsf.org. And please, forward this onto any of your colleagues that you feel might be interested!

Creatively yours,

Brad Nye, Artsfest Executive Director
Will Chase, Artsfest Programming Director / Chief Curator