General Information
The primary focus of this event is the juried exhibition and sale of gallery quality fine art. Wichita Festivals, Inc., is a non-profit, 501 (C) 3 organization whose goal is to provide high quality, signature events for the citizens of Wichita, Kansas. All proceeds from the show will be used to produce the 2011 event.

2010 Calendar of Important Dates

• January 15 – Application available at Zapplication.org
• March 1 – Deadline for submission of all applications, images and fees
• March 24 – Notification by e-mail via Zapplication and show Web site, www.autumnandart.com, of artists selected to show
• April 12 – Deadline to accept invitation to participate and remit booth fee.
• June 1 – Last day to cancel with refund
• September 17 – Set-up begins at 9 am

Artist Hospitality & Benefits

• Exclusive hospitality tent with lunch, snacks, soft drinks and water available throughout the weekend
• Reserved parking adjacent to venue; ability to drive vehicle to booth space for load-in and load-out.
• Sunday buffet breakfast with announcement of prize winners
• Listing in show brochure distributed to all attendees
• Booth sitters and energetic staff and volunteers to assist as needed in set-up, tear-down and artist relief
• Web site featuring one full-color image of artist work linked to artist web site, pending artist approval.
• Complimentary booth signage with name, hometown and booth number
• Artist packet of information with show-related information and dining/leisure activity information
• Discounted hotel rates for featured artists. Two hotels, one located adjacent to the show site and another, located approximately two (2) miles from the venue, will offer special discounted room rates to artists for the weekend. The rate at the Hilton Garden Inn, on Bradley Fair Parkway is $79 a night; Hampton Inn, Greenwich & K-96, $69 a night.

Sales
Artists accepted into the show retain all revenue resulting from the sale of their work with no commission on sales due the event organizer.

Application Process
Please follow all instructions carefully. Incomplete applications or those submitted without a jury fee will not be considered for inclusion. Applications must be received no later than 12:00 midnight, Central Standard Time, Monday, March 1, 2010. Do not apply if you are unable to be present throughout the published hours of the show. All work exhibited and sold must be original works of art.

Artists may apply in multiple categories. Individual applications, digital images and jury fees are required for each category. Each medium will be evaluated separately. If applying in more than one category, only the booth slide may be repeated. Artists may display work only in the media categories in which they are accepted. All work exhibited must be comparable to work shown in submitted images. Artists accepted to the show must exhibit two-dimensional work (photography, painting, watercolors, graphics, pastels, prints and drawings) appropriately framed. Unframed, matted works may be shown in a portfolio for customer browsing. Artists selected as a team may only exhibit the collaborative work for which they were accepted.

Application Fee
Each application must be accompanied by the $35 jury fee payable on-line through Zapplication. The jury fee is non-refundable. All applications must be submitted through Zapplication.org. Applications not submitted through this format will not be considered for inclusion.

Entry Rules
An artist must submit a total of five (5) images for each application. Four images must be of individual pieces of the artists work. The fifth image must be of a display of the artist’s work, showing overall continuity and presentation. The fifth image is mandatory. If a booth image per se is not available, submit an image taken of a grouping of works representative of the works to be exhibited at the show.

Artists may apply in multiple categories. Individual applications, slides and jury fees are required for each category. Each medium is evaluated separately. If you apply in more than one category, only the booth slide may be repeated. Artists may display work only in the media categories in which they are accepted. As part of the application process, artists must also submit a statement describing the technique, materials used and any other creative expression of their work, no more than 100 words please. Please avoid submitting booth images that show the artists name or a photo of the artist.

Jury Process
The jury process will be conducted by a professional panel of experienced arts industry professionals and will be based solely on the quality of work as illustrated by the images submitted. Identities of the artists will not be disclosed. The images submitted along with the Artist Statement will be the only criteria used in the selection process. The work presented must be for sale and should be professionally and creatively presented.

There will be no quotas for Autumn & Art. Artistic excellence and a well balanced show are the criteria for selection of exhibitors. Wichita Festivals, Inc. strongly supports the jury review process and decisions made by the panel, and will not, as a normal course of business, circumvent or alter their selections. However, WFI reserves the right to make specific changes and to determine the final composition of the show. The President/CEO has the final authority to make such adjustments as deemed necessary. A waiting list of artists in each media category will be selected to ensure a complete and balanced show. Wait-list artists will be contacted by telephone should an opening become available in their media category.

Jurors

Stephen Gleissner, Chief Curator, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Gleissner has been chief curator at the Wichita Art Museum since 2001. He received his PhD in Art History at Northwestern University, following post graduate studies at The Courtauld Institute, London. He was selected a Fulbright Dissertation and Paul Mellon Fellow, studying in London from 1991-1993. He has curated several exhibits at the Wichita Art Museum and has presented papers and been published in several national publications.

Reuben Saunders, President, Artworks, Wichita, KS
Reuben Saunders has owned and operated Artworks, a fine art gallery for regional artists and estate art in Wichita, KS since 1978. He specializes in art conservation and restoration for private and corporate collectors, fine art appraisals and corporate art design projects. His gallery primarily features work of Kansas and regional artists. He has mounted and curated over 180 individual & group exhibitions and frequently juries local & regional exhibits and competitions.

Larry Stephenson, Artist, Andover, KS
Stephenson is a five-time award winner at Watercolor USA exhibitions and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society. He served as a college art instructor at Northern Oklahoma College, 1988-1992, and as a freelance illustrator and designer in the stationery industry 1993-2000. Larry and his wife, Sheryl, established an art publishing company, Third Street Art Publishing, printing and distributing art posters worldwide. They sold the business to Sunrise Greeting Cards, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1996. Larry’s current work can be viewed at WWW.LSTEPHENSON.COM. He is represented in Wichita by Artworks.

Patricia McDonnell, Ph.D., Director, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
With a doctorate in art history from Brown University, McDonnell has worked in art museums for 30 years. She opened new museum facilities at Tacoma Art Museum (with architect Antoine Predock) and the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota (with architect Frank Gehry), and led curatorial programs to build increased audience. McDonnell is a widely published scholar, a specialist on painter Marsden Hartley, and curated over 80 exhibitions on a range of modern and contemporary art subjects.

Catherine L. Futter, Ph. D., Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Curator of Decorative Arts, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Futter came to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in March 2002. She earned her BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Duke University and MA and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University. Her dissertation was on the 19th century New York interior decorating and furniture-manufacturing firm of Herter Brothers. Although she is a generalist in the field of decorative arts, her specialization is American and European decorative arts from 1850 to the present. Dr. Futter is currently preparing an important international exhibition of decorative arts made for display at world’s fairs, 1851-1939.

Artist Awards
Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in prize money and an invitation to exhibit the following
year, jury-exempt, will be awarded on Sunday, September 19, at an artists breakfast hosted by
Wichita Festivals, Inc. Three jurors, who are not exhibitors, will serve as award judges. Artistic
excellence will be the criteria for selecting the award recipients.

Booth Space
Exhibitors will be set up on Bradley Fair Parkway which is bordered by a park-like setting, sidewalk and lake on one side and treed area on the other. Each artist will be provided an exhibition space measuring 10’ by 10’ with an additional one foot (1’) perimeter at the rear of the booth. Only one booth is available per artist. Only one artist’s work may be displayed in an assigned space. Artists accepted as a team producing a single product qualify as a single exhibitor.

Artists are to provide their own tent, racks and tables and all other required display equipment for use in an outdoor environment. Electricity will be provided at an additional charge as requested and is available on a limited basis. A 110 outlet will be provided for the weekend upon request, at a charge of $100. Ambient lighting will be provided for the Friday evening preview party. Generators are not permitted.

A limited number of corner booth spaces will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Security will be provided on a 24-hour basis. However, Wichita Festivals, Inc. is not responsible for damage which may occur due to weather conditions, theft or any other circumstances out of our control. Make sure you bring weights to secure your tent in case of strong winds or storms.

Booth Fees/Acceptance to Exhibit
Each artist selected by the jury has until midnight, Monday, April 12, 2010, to accept the invitation to participate and submit the booth fee required. Failure to meet this deadline may result in revocation of the invitation and selection of another artist from the waiting list. Date of receipt of complete applications will be noted. Those artists seeking a corner location will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis from the date the application is received. Double booths are available to artists who jury in two separate categories.

Regular booth fee: $450
Double booth fee: $800
Corner booth fee: $500

A full refund of the booth fee is available until June 1, 2010.

Media Categories
Ceramics – All original clay and porcelain work, other than jewelry, is accepted in this category. No machine-made or mass-produced work is permitted.

Digital Art – Includes any original work for which the original image, or the manipulation of other source material, was executed by the artist using a computer. Work must be printed on archival quality paper, be properly signed and numbered as a limited edition. Traditional photographs taken through a digital media should apply in the photography category.

Drawing – Works created using dry media including chalk, charcoal, pastels, pencil, wax crayon, etc. are to be entered in this category.

Fiber – All work crafted from fibers such as basketry, embroidery, weaving, leatherwork, tapestry and papermaking. No machine tooling, machine-screened patterns or other forms of mass production are permitted. No factory produced wearable items may be exhibited.

Glass – The expression of art through transparent or translucent objects made from blowing or fashioning glass.

Graphics and Printmaking – Printed works for which the artist’s hand manipulated the plates, stones or screens and which have been properly signed and numbered as a limited edition may be entered in this category. Printmakers are required to disclose both their creative and printmaking processes.

Jewelry – All jewelry, whether produced from metal, glass, clay, fiber, paper, plastic or other materials can be entered in this category. No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is allowed.

Metalworks – All non-sculptural, non-jewelry works crafted from metals.

Mixed Media - Two Dimensional – Includes work incorporating more than one type of physical material to produce; includes non-sculptural work as determined by the artist.

Mixed Media - Three Dimensional – Includes work incorporating more than one type of physical material to produce; includes non-sculptural work as determined by the artist.

Painting – Works created in oils, acrylics, watercolor, etc.

Photography – Photographic prints made from the artist’s original image, which have been processed by that artist, or under his or her direct supervision, are included in this category. Photographers are required to disclose both their creative and printing processes.

Sculpture – Three-dimensional original work done in any medium.

Wood – Original works in wood that are hand-tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved.

Rules of the Show
1. All art exhibited and offered for sale must be original art produced by the artist. Quality reproductions of two-dimensional originals, signed and numbered by the exhibiting artist are the only acceptable form of sales outside the original works. Artists must define “reproduction" or “limited edition" through their Artist Statement and each piece must be clearly and individually labeled as “reproduction." Reproductions must be in signed editions of no more than 750.
2. Any change in the body of work by the juried artist is not considered juried and may not be exhibited or sold.
3. Artists may only exhibit work they juried in the discipline in which they were accepted.
4. Ceramic works must be handmade by the artist.
5. All artists must be present during the show hours to exhibit.
6. A picture ID is required at artist check-in by all accepted artists.
7. No pets allowed per City Ordinance 6.04.055.
8. All booth decorations must be placed within the booth space.
9. “Sale” and/or “Discount” signs are strictly prohibited.
10. Exhibitors may not sell promotional items such as notecards, calendars, postcards, t-shirts, etc.
11. Artists are responsible for proper insurance and protection of work and setup. Wichita Festivals will not be responsible for damage to work or setup due to weather or unrelated incidents.
12. Artists are responsible for obtaining a transient merchant license from the City of Wichita prior to arriving at the show and have said license available for review as requested. Wichita Festivals will provide the license application to all accepted artists.
13. Artists are responsible for collecting and reporting all taxes due. If artist does not have a Kansas Sales Tax number a return will be provided on site.
14. All work submitted for jury must be for sale.