ARToberFEST & Articulture artists & authors!
Greetings ARToberFEST & Articulture artists & authors!
In case you haven’t heard the news, ARToberFEST is back for the 2024 season. Launched back in 2017 as a small art and author show in the old Westfield Town Hall building with 12 participants, the show has grown and evolved over the years into an expansive outdoor art & cultural community experience along Elm Street in downtown Westfield.
ARToberFEST 2023 got rained out and evolved into Downtown Westfield WinterWalk, which we are repeating this year! ARToberFEST is back in 2024 with a much larger footprint and an eager audience – people ask about ARToberFEST all the time!
We want you back in Westfield! Many of you have already responded to our Call for Artists social media posts and Valley Art Newsletter publication. Thank you! To everyone else, please apply! We want you all to come to Westfield. Act quickly - in just under three weeks over 50 artists and authors have applied to participate! Here are some of the call details:
CALL FOR ARTISTS ~ CALL FOR ARTISTS ~ CALL FOR AUTHORS
ARToberFEST 2024!
Saturday September 28, 2024; 10am to 4pm
Rain Date: Saturday October 5, 2024; 10am to 4pm
In the heart of the city ~ Downtown Westfield
Future home of the Downtown Westfield Cultural District!
Our annual ARToberFEST outdoor art exhibition, a day long cultural experience in the heart of the downtown Westfield featuring local and regional artists, literature and live music + sidewalk chalk art, kid’s art, community art programming and much more, takes place on Saturday September 28, 2024 from 10am to 4pm in an outdoor, art walk format in a very unique, inviting and thriving urban setting.
Art Along Elm Street!
A production of ArtWorks of Westfield, Art Along Elm Street is part of our ongoing efforts to bring creators and community together in downtown Westfield to engage, inform, inspire, empower, educate, and entertain. New, emerging, experienced, and professional artists & authors are all invited to show and share your talent and creativity with the community. We aspire to provide platforms for gallery artists, fine artisans and authors to share your talent and creativity with the community (of course you can sell your work!), unencumbered by the heavy financial burdens of application fees, participation fees or sales commissions. We want you to thrive here!
We can accommodate up to 100 artists and authors outdoors in the proposed Downtown Westfield Cultural District along the west side of Elm Street from the Westfield Athenaeum heading north along Elm towards Arnold Street and the Westfield Gas & Electric; the Church Street Walkway and the new Elm Street Plaza.
ARToberFEST is a “Corridor of Culture” in a very active and dynamic downtown urban setting. The City of Westfield has submitted an application to the Massachusetts Cultural Council to become the state’s 56th cultural district. It could be official for ARToberFEST!
Accepted Media: painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, collage, photography, printmaking, digital art, fine handcrafted jewelry, functional art, wood, glass, metal, fiber, clay, and ceramics.
Display Space:
Up to 10’ x 10’ display space outdoors on the sidewalks of downtown Westfield. Actual display space sizes will vary greatly depending on the specific location along Elm Street given the very unique, metropolitan setting of a busy downtown shopping district. Details about space considerations are in the online application. BYO tent, tables, display panels, easels, chairs, etc. This is your space to showcase your work.
There is the possibility of indoor gallery space in some of the downtown shops and eateries. Details to follow.
ArtWorks Westfield membership
$35 ~ ArtWorks Westfield annual supporting membership payable upon acceptance in show; non-refundable. Annual membership not only supports the expansion of art and cultural experiences and opportunities in Westfield, it also allows you to participate in future juried exhibitions in 2024 for FREE upon acceptance. Membership also provides free admission other activities like critiques, workshops, supply swaps and the like.
Current Members can show their work for FREE upon juried acceptance into this exhibition.
How To Answer the Call:
Application Deadline: September 14, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: No later than September 17, 2024
ARTISTS: Follow this link to answer the call online
https://forms.gle/toZtTjEAXFNvTANe8
AUTHORS: Follow this link to answer the call online
https://forms.gle/UMLDKwA87xtACLhp8
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Visit our WEBSITE to apply
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Submit three digital images of your work by 9/14/2024 to info@artworkswestfield.com and include your Name, Email, Phone, Medium, Title of each image submission and a link to your work online.
If any of the links don’t work for you, please reach out. We are a bunch of artists and organizers, not necessarily technology expects, so sometimes we struggle with links!
The Arts Are Alive in Westfield. Be part of it all!
ARToberFEST is made possible in part by the generosity of our members, donors and supporters and a grant from the Westfield Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Westfield Bank, Aero Fastener, Peoples Bank, Kirby Productions and White Lion Brewing Co.
About ArtWorks of Westfield Inc.
ArtWorks of Westfield Inc., a local arts & cultural organization promoting the rich and talented artistic diversity of Westfield and the surrounding communities, is a tax exempt organization under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501 (c) (3). Donations and supporting membership are tax deductible to the extent allowed
by law.
Our mission is to create and promote the widest variety of Cultural Arts, Literary Arts, Musical Events, and Performing Arts for the Westfield Community and to collaborate with businesses and invested groups to develop and maintain venues for presentations and performances.
We aspire to bring together creators and community to engage, inform, inspire, empower, educate and entertain in the heart of downtown Westfield.