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A photograph by Mike Bailey of Madison, Wisconsin
Photography
by Mike Bailey


UPCOMING
EVENTS


July 10-11, 2010

31st Annual

Art Fair OFF
the Square

November 13-14, 2010

21st Annual
Winter Art Festival




 


Ceramics by Clayton and Michael Macone
Ceramics by Clayton
and Michael Macone


A watercolor painting by JoAnne Hauser Warren
A watercolor painting
by JoAnne Hauser Warren

Rotating Red Ball saying NEW
Going Digital
Beginning with 2010, WAAC will be requiring digital images for jury submissions. Stay tuned...it won’t be difficult!

Banner with photo of Geri Schrab and article title, Looking to the Future

Every year in our Art Fair Off the Square survey, someone makes a wonderful suggestion:“Why don’t we put a banner across Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, so people on the Square will be able to find our fair?”
As the photo below shows, we actually did that, beginning in 1982 and for a number of years after, when the fair expanded to the street.

A friend of graphic artist and then-WAAC president, Bob Giese, worked for Complete Channel TV—now Charter Communication— and he used their cherry picker to hang the banner. It was great! However, in about 1988 a banner hanging over State Street came down in the wind, bringing a street light with it. The light narrowly missed hitting and, most likely, killing a pedestrian. The Madison City Council outlawed street banners, so our banner was a victim as well.
A photo from 1984 showing the Art Fair Off the Square banner over the street
A photo from 1984 showing the Art Fair Off the Square banner over,what
was then, Monona Avenue, and is now, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Graphic- Birds on a line

Jury News
A slide showing Rest In Peace written on it
As exhibiting artists, we are all
familiar with the fact that event
juries have been slowly, but
consistently, moving away from
photographic slides to digital
images.
This change was brought about when Kodak announced in 2004 that they would cease production of slide projectors. WAAC has been monitoring this change and has been surveying members at our events the last few years to get a feel for how many artists are converting to digital images. In 2008 our survey showed that over 50% of members exhibiting at our events had converted to digital and were applying to fairs which required digital images.

This spring the WAAC Board established a sub-committee to look into the possibility of converting from slides to digital images for the jury process. Members of the committee include Mike Bailey (Board Representative and Committee Chair), Steve Siehr (Jury Chair), Beth Ann Hamilton (former Executive Director of WAAC), and Clarence Cameron (Webmaster). The sub-committee met and researched the subject of digital juries including Zapplication, Juried Art Services,
and the potential of producing the digital jury in-house. The committee reported their findings at the September Board Meeting and the decision was made to convert to a digital jury format for 2010 events.

WAAC applications for the 2010 Art Fair Off the Square and the Winter Art Festival will ask that you submit digital images for the jury process. The rule concerning rejurying every third year remains the same for artists who are currently exhibiting. Therefore, if it is your turn to re-jury next year we will ask that you send digital images instead of slides along with your completed application. Those artists who are not required to jury next year need do nothing at this time.

Our goals in converting to a digital jury include:

1. Retain as much from the current process as possible. The jurors will continue to work together as a group to view the images submitted. The process will still be anonymous and jury scoring will
remain the same.

2. Ensure that digital image quality is comparable to slides. Images will still be projected but using video projectors rather than slide projectors. Projection format will be 2 over 2 with the display (booth) image to the right of the work images.

3. Control escalating jury costs and unintended impacts to artists who wish to apply to WAAC events. Zapplication has become a default standard in the digital jury process with over 300 shows under contract. WAAC will use the same requirements as Zapp and accept images which have been formatted to Zapp specifications. However, to keep costs down WAAC will not contract with Zapp to process applications. Artists applying will continue to mail their applications directly to WAAC along with a CD that includes their 5 digital images.

4. Continue to provide public viewing of the jury images in the evening for members and others. (WAAC will suspend this viewing temporarily until all new process issues are resolved.)

5. Provide help to artists who have not yet converted to digital images. Any artist who needs their images scanned into a digital format in order to apply should send in their current slide set. For a
reasonable fee, WAAC will take your slides and convert them to digital for the 2010 jury year.

2010 WAAC Image Requirements

Image Specifications: (the same as images that have been prepared for Zapplication)

1. File Format: Save as Baseline Standard JPEG. Do not save as Progressive JPEG.
2. File Size: Should be approximately 2 MB.
3. Color Space: Save images in RGB color space, preferably sRGB.
4. Dimensions: 1920 pixels high by 1920 pixels wide.
5. Label/Name: LastName-booth.jpg, LastNameimage1. jpg, LastName-image2.jpg, etc
.
Your five images should be burned onto a compact disk (CD) and sent with your application. These specifications along with all other requirements can be found on the 2010 applications. For more information on jurying or on digital slide preparation, see www.artcraftwis.org/Resources.html.
DIGITAL WORKSHOP

Larry Sanders, well-known photographer for artists and their art, will be conducting a digital workshop, FREE to WAAC members. Other artists may attend for $35, which includes a one-year membership in WAAC.

DATE: Saturday, February 13, 2010
TIME: 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
(Participants may bring their own lunch or eat pizza during the 1:00 to 1:30 lunch break)
There will be a question and answer session from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

PLACE: Monona Public Library

1000 Nichols Road in Monona.  For directions go to Google Maps or call the library at 608-222-612

Please RSVP to WAAC
or telephone 608-204-9129 no later than February 1st

The workshop is free to all WAAC members. Non-members are welcome for a $35 fee, which will include a 1-year membership in WAAC.

Please RSVP so we can do seating arrangements and order enough pizza.  Don't forget notebook and pen.

Please feel free to call me if you have any further questions.

Hope to see you there!



Title: WAAC's Blog


WAAC
has a blog! Posted in this blog are events and other opportunities for Wisconsin artists that have come to the attention of our office. Our policy is to mention each of these items (at the WAAC Executive Director's discretion) once per year in the order in which they are received. Any follow-up inquiry should be directed to the event organizer, not to WAAC. Publication of these events and opportunities does not imply endorsement by Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople, Inc.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE BLOG
(to return here, there is a link at the top of the
green box on the right side of the blog page)


This, that, and the Other Thing...an opportunity to sell

Blown Glass by Sharon Fujimoto
Blown Glass
by Sharon Fujimoto


Acrylic painting on Clay Forms by Terry Habeger
Acrylic Painting on Clay Forms by Terry Habeger

Basketry by Sharon GoddardBasketry
by Sharon Goddard


Sculpture by Jean Stephany and Bill HicklinSculpture by
Jean Stephany
and Bill Hicklin

Papier maché Sculpture by Steve Wirtz
Papier maché Sculpture
by Steve Wirtz


A painting Michael O'Connell
A Painting by
Michael O'Connell


WAAC's Public Art Project, "Weather"

Beadwork by Patty Tiry

A soapstone sculpture by Clarence P. Cameron
A soapstone sculpture by Clarence P. Cameron


A watercolor by Don Nedobeck

A watercolor
by Don Nedobeck


Turned wood
by Michael Imes

Perfume Bottles by Colleen Ott

Blown Glass Perfume Bottles by Colleen Ott

High-fire Stoneware by Karen Bell
High-fire Stoneware
by Karen Bell

High-fire Stoneware by Bill and Leslie Genszler
Watercolor painting
by Carol Ann Parsons

High-fire Stoneware by Bill and Leslie Genszler
Hand-carved Wood Sculpture
by James Popp

A collage by Bonnie Elvidge
A collage by
Bonnie Elvidge

High-fire Stoneware by Bill and Leslie Genszler
High-fire Stoneware
by Bill and Leslie Genszler

Buy-Sell-Trade

Classified ads: Members may place art-related classified ads at no
charge: sizes up to 8 lines in the print version, up to 20 lines in the
online version plus a photo. Examples are: buy-sell-trade, art-related classes and art-related services offered by members. Ads will be formatted by editor.

Display ads:
(Four issues annually. These prices will include
publication in both the print issue and the online issue)
• Approximately 2” x 3”, one issue = $20, 4 issues = $70
• Approximately 3” x 4.5”, one issue = $30, 4 issues = $100
• Approximately half page, one issue = $50, 4 issues= $150


Call 608-204-9129 or e-mail waac@artcraftwis.org.

(Please let us know when your item(s) have been purchased or sold so we can keep this list up-to-date.)


Keep this newsletter coming! Pay your membership dues of $25 before you forget.

Exhibit Opportunities: For non-WAAC exhibit opportunities and other art-related events, see WAAC blog by scrolling back up this page and clicking on it OR CLICK HERE

For Sale: I had to buy 1,000 little zip-lock type plastic bags to get a price. I won't use this many in my life, so I am willing to sell some in packets of 100. They are 4" x 3" and are 4 mil. Check out at: http://www.uline.com/BL_212/Uline-4-Mil-White-Block-Reclosable-Bags then call or write Clarence at  

608-256-0444 or clarowl@charter.net

WANTED: Papier maché artist is interested in your old magazines about dogs or cats. Contact Steve for your personal showing

. 920 251 5563 or steve@cartuna.net

For Sale Graphic Display Covers 3X6 – Oxford Flame Resistant Fabric - Color Meringue – seven 3X6 and one 25 ½ X 6.  Used three times.  $250.00.  Call Jean Stephany at

608-356-2410 orjstephany@centurytel.net

DO YOU LIKE TO SCRAPBOOK? WAAC is in need of an historian. We started a scrapbook for the Art Fair Off the Square in 1982, and it only continued for a few years. We have material from that point forward, including the Winter Art Festival, that needs to be archived in a more suitable manner. All materials needed will be furnished. Interested? Contact::

Clarence Cameron
or 608-256-0444 from 11 a.m. to Midnight

Brochures, flyers, catalogs, postcards

Need literature designed?

Do your customers request catalogs and schedules? I have designed for Pleasant Company, Wisconsin Grocers Association, Job Centers and other companies. I can also assist you to prepare your files for a printer. Click here for some of my commercial work. Reasonable rates. Contact Lorraine Ortner-Blake at 608-742-0000 or e-mail me.

Photo of a used Creative Industries Potter's Wheel for sale

FOR SALE ....STILL!
Used Creative Industries Potter's Wheel in good condition. $500.00
Contact:
Mary Ann Olsen
1-608-845-7972
boops@chorus.net

New Art Gallery in Menomonee Falls: Looking for artists. Rent will run $60 to $150 per month with a minimum of 8 hours of gallery time. Call or e-mail for information.

Susan Corkum
purloinstudio@wi.rr.com
262-255-9090

Vampire batbrids flying
This ad space is as free as a bird for WAAC members

FREE: Scrap Glass (in every possible color and opacity) which we would gladly give to anyone who might want to use some in his/her own or teaching projects. Anyone can stop by the studio with a box and take some. Free to a good home. However, it is best to call first.

Our number is 262-966-7500
OR
email@krauskiartglass.com

We are about half way between Hartland and Hartford, halfway between Madison and Milwaukee. Bob and Mary Krauski

NEED HELP WITH YOUR ZAPPLICATION? Clarence would be glad to help get your images in the proper format and upload them and their descriptions to Zapplication.org. Drop a line to:clarowl@charter.net or call LATE rather than EARLY

608-256-0444

Picture Salon Giclee Printing Service

Writers, Poets, Cartoonists: We welcome your submissions to this newsletter! Call Lorraine at 608-742-0000 or e-mail me.


Estate Planning: WAAC is a 501(c)3 non-profit and, as such, your contributions are tax-deductible. Interested in naming WAAC in your estate? Setting up a WAAC endowment? Call our office to discuss options: 608-798-4814

An ad for Artist Gallery Services, LLC, Photography, Web and Print Production and Art Business Services


Photography by Michelle and Richard Benesh
Photography

by Michelle and Richard Benes
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A slip-carved stoneware platter by Jean Smaglik Wells
A slip-carved stoneware platter
by Jean Smaglik Wells


DATES: July 10 & 11, 2010, 31st Annual Art Fair Off the Square
November 13 & 14, 2010, 21st Annual Winter Art Festival

                  

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