39th Annual Waterfront Art Festival
July 28 & 29, 2012 in Canandaigua, NY
2012 Artist Info
FINALLY ! The website hasn't been working right for a couple of weeks so I couldn't do the updates. So, the critical updates are complete now.....
NEW THIS YEAR:
Applications - The application and the jury image info form are pdf files that anyone with regular FREE adobe acrobat can open and type their info right in the form. Then save it and email it as a pdf file or print it and mail it to me. I'm excited because this will help me process applications easier. You wouldn't believe how fun some handwriting is to figure out - or maybe you do know ;-) So I hope you will use this new feature. I'll try to put a link to get Adobe Reader right on this page so it's super easy to get the FREE software if you don't have it on your comptuer.
Layout - I've been struggling the last couple of years to figure out the best way to lay out the K Section at the east end of the Festival. I can't say that I'm happy with any of the changes, except the basic idea of giving each space more "elbow" room. So, we'll see how full the Festival is this year. If it's pretty full, we may go back to the old layout of short rows that run north & south. If you're a returning artist and you have an opinion - share it. I ALWAYS welcome artist input - you're the ones trying to make a living at your art and I'd like to give you the best opportunity I can to be successful at the Waterfront.
Load-In - No huge changes there. We're limited by City policy and there's not a lot that can be changed. I know schlepping your equipment and product from the road or parking lot is difficult for older artists and those with physical challenges. It's not that far but it sure is harder than driving up to drop off your stuff and we'll never be able to do that in Kershaw Park. So, if I can work out the details to allow emerging artists to participate - I may waive their fees if they'll help the older & physically challenged artists do their schlep. The devil is in the details so if this is interesting to you - check back here in a few weeks for developments.
Load-In by appointment - When the City let us move load in earlier a few years ago - everyone wanted to get in first thing - probably because they didn't believe it would work. So I implemented Load-In by appointment and assigned each artist a time and space to load in to manage the insanity and space everyone out. Since then, requests for load in really early on Friday have tapered off to less than 1/3 of that first year. This year I will assign load in appointments only for artists who want to load in between 10 am & 2 pm on Friday. After 2 pm Friday and after 6 am on Saturday, you're welcome to arrive at will and take care of it. The parking lot near K section becomes the Food Court at 4 pm on Friday so every artist using the lot for load in will absolutely have to be out of the lot by 3:45.
Emerging Artists - I would like to offer new artists an opportunity to get their feet wet without the need to purchase all the equipment necessary. So - I'm going to check all the details out to see what size space I can offer and how it could work. If I am able to do this, I would define an emerging artist as someone who has been doing their art or craft for less than 2 years and who has never participated in a Festival as an individual artist. I would not put an age limit on it because there are many people who come to their artistic calling late in life. If you think you'd be interested, please check back in January or February. I think I'll need to have it worked out by late February to be practical for this year and I'll update the web with full info as soon as it's set.
Visitor Parking and Shuttle - I didn't offer it last year because all of the shuttle services wanted crazy money and there just hasn't been that much use to justify that expense. I would like to offer this but I need help to figure out a safe, legal and cost effective way to shuttle vistors between the Festival and the offsite lot on East Lake Road. If any of you have an idea - please drop me an email !
Rules & Info to read and understand.
Application form to fill out and email or mail.
Fill out and submit with your application.
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