Whitewater’s Main St. Festival is a celebration of the arts, held downtown with streets closed off to traffic. This year’s events is set for Saturday, Sept. 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. the festival committee is looking for artists to get involved. Last year the festival drew in close to 300 visitors and more are expected this year.
Artists are needed to display their work at booths. Booths cost $25 for a 10 x 10 foot space. Any medium is accepted but photos of work are required in advance to maintain a good quality of art and crafts available for visitors and to eliminate too many booths of the same type of work.
Artists can also participate by being a Plein Air painter, where they set up a station and paint the local scenery. Plein Air painters are allowed to set up a small display of their work around their easel and hand out contact information. This is offered free for the artist unless they will be selling their work too, in which case it is the price of a booth.
Details and entry forms are online at wwmsfestival.blogspot.com
In conjunction with Main St. Festival, Studio 84 is seeking entries for an exhibit the studio will display in September. The Studio 84 art gallery will be open during the festival, so it is expected there will be a lot of visitors viewing the art.
Studio 84’s feature, JOIN THE HERD: a mooooving exhibit, will be all about art depicting cows. The entry fee is $10 per entry with a limit of four entries per person. The entries will ‘join the herd’ of cows from the Coburn Company Collection of paintings the company commissioned Studio 84’s artists to create for their new office.
The display in September will be the first public appearance of the Coburn cows. Details and entry forms are available at www.studio84inc.org.
The Whitewater Arts Alliance is also seeking submissions for their exhibit: Artrageous Birds. The entry fee is $35 for members and $45 for non-members for up to three pieces. Details can be found at www.whitewaterarts.org. The WAA exhibit will run Sept. 1 through Sept. 25 and will also be open during the Main St. Festival.
For more information about the festival visit wwmsfestival.blogspot.com – where entry forms for booths and Plein Air painters can also be located – or call Deborah Blackwell at (262) 473-9845.
