2019 Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival May 4th (Rain date May 5th) Artist Vendor Application

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1 2019 Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival May 4th (Rain date May 5th) Artist Vendor Application From 10 am to 4 pm Carolina Beach Lake Lake Park Blvd Carolina Beach, NC Thank you for your interest in applying to the Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival. The Island Arts and Culture Alliance is pleased to present this year s festival. This year s Festival will be held around Carolina Beach Lake. The Festival has out-grown the downtown space and needed to have easier set-up and tear-down for our vendors. This festival is a celebration of the arts with a mission to provide, free to the public, the highest quality arts in many forms. The Festival s objective is to increase appreciation, support and sales of art by involving the public in the creative process through demonstrations, hands-on-programs and access to art in different media. The Festival has three themes Visual art, Performing art, and Culinary art and a main event that involves artists interacting with the public to create works of art. Every effort is being made to make this festival a top event in our region. Marketing and Promotions The Festival s multi-media advertising campaign markets the festival throughout the Southeast region in print ads, print and digital ads in regional radio & television ads. The Festival is also marketed through festival brochures, social media, digital advertising, the Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival website and Facebook pages. General Information To ensure high quality fine art and fine craft artists, this is a juried application process. In support of the Festival s objective, artists are encouraged to demonstrate their art for the enjoyment and the education of the festival attendees. Public participation in your creative process brings the public closer to you as an artist, to your craft and may encourage sales. Set up begins Saturday morning May 4th, starting at 7:00 am. In the event of severe weather, the committee has reserved Sunday May 5th as an alternative date. The discretion to postpone the event to the rain date is entirely in the hands of the organizing committee, and the call will be made on Friday May 3rd. If severe weather is forecasted for both May 4th and May 5th, the event will be cancelled and not rescheduled for the

2 year. Absolutely no refunds will be issued to vendors in the event that severe weather postpones, or cancels the event. By signing this application, you acknowledge that your booth fee is non-refundable. All vehicles must be removed from the Festival area by 9:30 am in preparation for opening the event. A site map with your booth s location along with detailed instructions will be ed to you a few days before the event. Vendors/Artists must check in before setting up. Application Fees and Deadlines Booth Fee: Artist Booths: $80 10x10 space Applications received after March 15 th must include a $25 late fee Application Deadline: Application must be received by March 15 th, All applications received after this date will be subjected to a late fee. DO NOT include the booth fee payment with your application. You will be asked to remit payment upon your acceptance. Application Process The Festival Team juries and selects vendors for this festival. Vendor applications will be juried. There are limited spaces based on medium to ensure a variety of artwork. Applicants are required to submit a website that showcases photos of their work. A Vendor Map with set-up and tear-down instructions will be provided via at least one week prior to the event. Media Categories Ceramics: Original clay work. No machine made or mass produced work is accepted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must be signed. Digital Art: Any original work for which the original image, or the manipulation of other source material, was executed by the artist using a computer. Traditional photographs taken with digital media should apply in the photography category. Drawing: Original work created using dry media including pen, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or chalk or from the fluid medium of inks and washes applied by pen or brush. Fiber: Original work of primarily fiber including soft sculpture, batik, or painted fabric intended to be wearable or decorative. No factory produced wearable items. Furniture: Decorative or functional furniture made by the artists. No factory produced items. Glass: Original work in which the primary material is glass. No mass production accepted. Jewelry: Original work primarily made from materials using precious and/or non-precious metals and other materials such as glass, ceramics, paper, fiber, wood, leather, polymer clay,

3 semi-precious stones, and the use of precious stones and enamels. No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is permitted. Original work primarily made from No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is permitted. Metalworks: Original functional or sculptural and non jewelry metal work. Painting (Oil/Acrylic): Original painted works made with oils or acrylics. Painting (Watercolor): Original painted works made with paint soluble in water. Photography: Includes all photographic prints made from the artist's original negative or digital image processing, which have been processed by the artist under his or her direct supervision. Photographers are required to disclose both their creative and printing processes. Printmaking: Prints hand pulled by artists from traditional methods, including etching, engraving, silkscreen, stone and plate lithography, linoleum block or woodcut, produced in signed and numbered limited editions from an original image created by the artist. Sculpture: Original non-functional, 3 dimensional work of any material. Wood: Original works in wood that are hand-tooled, turned, carved, or machine worked. Food: Acceptable culinary artist items are pre-packaged, handmade items such as cupcakes, pastas, spices, sauces, cookbooks, etc., and must be prepared by the artist. Other Crafts: This category includes handmade soap/body products. Requirements All fine art and fine crafts exhibited must be made by the artist(s). Vendors of prepared foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, sodas are not acceptable. Culinary artists are responsible for meeting health department requirements. Food Vendors selling edibles including breads, cheeses, dips, mixes, hand blended teas, herbs and hand roasted coffees, marshmallows, baked goods, pickles, jams, candies etc. must DISPLAY a current department of agriculture (for home producers), or department of public health ( commercial kitchen producers) INSPECTION CERTIFICATE for the production facility used, and also a license to prepare the foods sold as listed on the inspection / license. You may not sell foods not listed on the license. Food sellers /vendors, and those giving out samples of foods, must provide a copy of their facility inspection ( home kitchen or commercial kitchen ) and license issued by the Dept. of public health or Dept.of Agriculture to produce the foods they will be selling. Artists must be in attendance during the festival and are encouraged to demonstrate their artwork/craft at their booths. Artists must provide all display equipment including booth set up and chairs. Each canopy should be no larger than 10 X 10. Tents should be properly weighted and staked down. Due to beach breezes, extra weights may be needed. All participants are responsible for proper insurance and protection of their work and set up and should plan accordingly to prevent theft, damage or misuse at the Festival. The Town of Carolina Beach and the Island Arts and Culture Alliance will assume no responsibility for any damages to work or any person or persons participating in the event. Participants are responsible for the collection of 7% combined NC State and New Hanover County sales tax and payment thereof to the NC Department of Revenue. Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival is not responsible for the collection or payment of any sales tax.

4 Participants are responsible for maintaining and leaving their assigned area free of refuse and in otherwise good condition. While free parking cannot be guaranteed for vendors, there is ample parking in town lots close to the event that charge $8 for the day. We request 1 donated item for the Festival raffle. Festival attendees purchase tickets for donated items. The artist whose item receives the most tickets will win the People s Choice Award. Proceeds from the raffle go to support Island Arts and Culture Alliance s activities that include this festival. Displays are to remain intact until 4:00 pm on the day of the event. This is required for your safety and the safety of your patrons. Awards 1st Place in each of three categories: 2D, 3D and Artisan* $100 prize and Award People s Choice $25 (Vendor with most raffle ticket entries) Awards based on booth presentation, artwork, and interaction with the public. (*the Artisan category includes fine craft items such as soaps, candles, food items etc.) The judge will be unknown to the vendors and will not be a participating vendor. Contact In our efforts to help the ecology and to keep our costs down, most of our communications will be by . Please be sure to list your address on the application. Artist, Performer and Culinary Contract Applicant shall indemnify and hold harmless the Island Arts and Culture Alliance and Town of Carolina Beach, its agents and employees and assigns from and against all losses, costs, damages, expense and liability caused by an accident or other occurrence in bodily injury, including death, sickness and disease to any persons or damage or destruction to property, real or personal, arising directly or indirectly from operations, products or services rendered under this contract.

5 How to Apply Submit the enclosed completed application along with a website that has quality photos of your work. Your application will not be considered if you do not submit a link to photos. Payment A confirmation will be sent to you once your application has been accepted. Then we will send instructions for payment. Late Fee is $25 Mail Application to: Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival Tip Top Frames 1401 Lake Park blvd N. #20 Carolina Beach, NC Application & Festival Vendor Contact: Chris Higgins , chris@fishbonedesigns.us

6 DEADLINE March 15th Carolina Beach Street Arts Festival Artist Application Event date: May 4th, 2019 Circle One: Artist Culinary Performer Contact Name: Company/Studio Name: Address: Phone: Website: Facebook: Etsy: Instagram: Are you holding demonstrations at your booth? Yes or No

7 Fine Art /Fine Craft Category: Please circle all that applies Clay Painting Watercolor Painting Oil/Acrylic Glass Metal Wood Jewelry Beads Jewelry Metals Digital Art Fiber/Leather Photography Drawing/Graphics Mixed Media Furniture Food* Other Craft** *Food Describe **Other Describe Special needs for booth: Will you require electricity?: Booth Fee: Artist Booths: $80 10x10 space Late fee $25 If you are accepted, a confirmation letter will be sent to you with payment instructions after our jury review following the March 15 th deadline. Deadline: March 15 th, 2019 Participants are responsible for proper insurance and protection of work and set up and should plan accordingly to prevent theft, damage or misuse at the Festival. Island Arts and Culture Alliance and Town of Carolina Beach assume no responsibility for any damages to work or any person or persons participating in the event. Participants are responsible for the collection of 7% combined NC State and New Hanover County sales tax and payment thereof to the NC Department of Revenue. Island Arts and Culture Alliance is not responsible for the collection or payment of any sales tax. By signing, you agree to all conditions and terms laid out in this five page application and vendor contract. Name: Signature: Date: