Arizona State Parks Plein-Air Treasures
Boyce Thompson Arboretum

January 5- 27th, 2008
 

If you were in the top three winners at one of the State Park Paint-outs please read this!

    Thank you for participating in the first year of the State Park Paint-outs. Congratulations for being in the top three winners!   The Winners Show will be held January 5 through January 27th , 2008 at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park Gallery. The reception will be held Saturday January 5th from 7:00pm – 8:30pm.
      We are asking for your help in making this show a complete success.  Enclosed are the instructions for getting your artwork to the show site. Please read them carefully before sending your work.  On January 5th, you are invited to come to the Arboretum for a day of painting and meeting with the other artists in the show.  There is a guided tour of the grounds at 1:00pm.
*    Be sure to bring with you plenty of business cards to hand out to the public.  You can drop off your painting at the gallery located at the entrance to the park. Cody DeLong will be there along with Mary Alice Daenzer to hang the show. You can paint all afternoon. There are several good restaurants in town, not fast but good.

*  To keep costs down we are asking participating artists to bring a finger food item for the opening. We will have coffee and tables set up for the food.
*   Link the Boyce Thompson website to your own website. It will have more details about the show and map info/cost to enter the park.

     The other way to make this show truly successful is for all of the participating artists to send out announcements to your mailing lists about the event. Email announcements are always good but the old fashioned snail mail invitation makes a bigger impact to your buyers.  This is the first of what will be an annual show to be presented by the State Parks and we need your help to get it off the ground.

     Please return the enclosed form right away to help us in preparing for the show.   Your paintings will further raise awareness of the  amazing beauty of our Arizona State Parks.

                     Thank you

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Arizona State Parks Plein- Air Treasures Show


Artists Instructions

Shipped work due: January 4th, 2008 to State Park office

Hand Delivery :to the Arboretum on  January 5th by 3:00pm

Reception:  January 5th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Paint Out at the Arboretum  All afternoon-   January 5th

End of show January 27th    Hand pickup of unsold work Jan. 27th

Include an artist bio, and business cards with delivered paintings. there will be a notebook to present all the artists bios for public viewing.
Presentation:  All accepted artwork must be ready to hang, suitably matted and professionally framed, wired firmly. NO saw toothed hangers. NO fast frames, sandwich frames. Plexiglass is preferred. State Parks is not responsible for the condition of shipped works.

 

Mail back the signature form by December 20th, 2007 along with two business cards.

Label the back of paintings CLEARLY with:

Artists name
Title
Medium
Dimensions
Price (no changing after hung)
Location painted/date painted

Award won

 

Delivery and Return of Accepted work:   Work may be hand-delivered on January 5th.  Plan to come up and paint during the day. Shipped entries must be prepaid and packed in sturdy, reusable cartons with reusable packing materials (do not use Styrofoam peanuts). If using wooden cartons, no nails.  Prepaid bar coded return shipping label MUST accompany the artwork. Obtaining an account with the shipper of your choice facilitates the return safe of your artwork. *Ship to arrive to the State Parks office no later than Jan. 3rd, 2008.

 

Ship to: Education Outreach Coordinator
Attn:   Mary Alice Daenzer  / Gallery Show

Research and Marketing
Arizona State Parks
1300 W. Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007

 

mdaenzer@azstateparks.gov
Phone (602) 542-7119
Fax (602) 542-4180
http://www.azstateparks.com

 

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Please mail this form back to Mary Alice Daenzer before December 20th 2007

 

Artist Name:_______________________________________

Title of Piece:_______________________________________
Medium:_____________________________________________

Price:_________________________________________

Location Painted:_________________________________________

Award level:________________________________________________

 

Your phone :  (this is for us, not the label) _______________________________

Are you delivering the painting yourself or shipping it?______________________

Do you plan to come up for the Paint-out and the Reception?__________________________________________

 

State Parks Arizona is not responsible for artwork in the gallery. The public has access to the gallery. The artist is responsible to drop-off the artwork on Jan. 5 at the Arboretum or to mail with a postage prepaid label for return to the State Parks office.no later than Jan. 3rd, 2008. Attn: Mary Alice Daenzer. The Boyce Thompson Arboretum will retain a 15 % commission on each sale. I have read the Conditions, and shipping instructions and I agree to comply.

Artists Signature___________________________Date_____________
 

Mail to:  (please include two business cards)

 

Education Outreach Coordinator
Attn:Mary Alice Daenzer   Gallery Show

Research and Marketing
Arizona State Parks
1300 W. Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007

mdaenzer@azstateparks.gov
Phone (602) 542-7119
Fax (602) 542-4180
http://www.azstateparks.com