Calling Artists for the Grand Avenue Trashy Sculpture Show
Attention all creative sculptors! The Grand Avenue Festival and the Grand Avenue Merchants Association (GAMA) are looking for artists to compete in the 2nd Annual Trashy Sculpture Show!
This is just one of the many events taking place during the day along the historic Lower Grand Avenue Corridor during the Grand Avenue Festival.
Entry fee is a measly $10 per piece and if your work sells, you get 70% of the profit, while 30% will go to benefit GAMA. The basic idea for this show is to find objects, trash, and other discarded material that can be sculpted into something unique and interesting. Call it adaptive reuse. For many years Grand Avenue was discarded by the city and looked like a place where garbage went to die, but over the years creative minds have found creative ways to use the funky brick buildings to bring life and culture to Downtown Phoenix.
They are not looking for “fine art” in this competition. They want whimsical and fun.
Work will be shown on Saturday, September 25 at Bragg’s Pie Factory and will also be on display during October and November First Fridays and 3rd Fridays.
If I have time, I may give it a whirl. I want to be in an art show!
For more info about the art show contact Beatrice Moore at 602-391-4016.
For more info about the Grand Avenue Festival contact GrandAvePhoenix@gmail.com
This will also be going on during the Grand Avenue Festival:
HANGING GARDENS & WOVEN FENCES:
CALLING ANYONE WITH OR WITHOUT A GREEN THUMB TO CREATE FANTASY GARDENS ALONG GRAND AVENUE FOR SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL
Phoenix, AZ (July 10, 2010) — As part of this year’s upcoming 2nd Annual Grand Avenue Festival, slated to take place all day on September 25th, the Kooky Krafts Shop will be hosting a “Hanging Gardens, Woven Fences” project along Lower Grand Avenue. The $ 15 entry fee will be donated in it’s entirety to the Grand Avenue Merchants’ Association.
Hanging Gardens: This component of the project will utilize existing trees along the street for installing temporary “guerilla gardens” which can be real or imagined. In other words, they can consist of actual living garden components or visual gardens created out of non-living materials, or a combination of both. Gardens can be hung from branches or wrapped around trunks in a non-invasive fashion (i.e without damaging the tree). Participants are encouraged to use recycled or biodegradable materials whenever possible.
Woven Fences: The woven fence component of this project can be something actually woven through a fence, attached along the top of a fence, or created in advance and attached to a woven, concrete, wooden or wrought iron fence surface. Again, recycled materials are encouraged. Care must be taken not to damage the fence surface being decorated. All materials must be removed by the participant at the festival’s end (within 48 hours) unless the property owner expresses the wish to have it remain.
Artists/fabricators will be paired with property owners who would like to have projects installed on their trees or fences, with an emphasis on those that line Grand Avenue. A map of projects and participants will be provided to festival-goers. Participants are responsible for their own set up and break down at the end of the project.
If you are interested in participating, fill out the attached form and submit a basic concept so we can pair artists with property owners and the proper fence or tree for your particular project. Projects would need to be installed the day before, or early morning, on event day. For more information contact Beatrice Moore at 602.391.4016. Concepts can be mailed to Kooky Krafts Shop; 1500 Grand Avenue; Phoenix, AZ; 85007 or sent via e-mail to muppetsrealmom@earthlink.net. For more info on the festival: Grandavephoenix.com
ABOUT KOOKY KRAFTS SHOP: The Kooky Krafts shop was opened in the Fall of 2009 and specializes in “queer, quirky, fun and fabulous” crafts made by local artists and crafters. The shop also carries quirky vintage crafts and interesting, hard-to-find craft supplies.
ABOUT THE GRAND AVENUE FESTIVAL: The annual Grand Avenue Festival celebrates the unusual history of this historic street and the small businesses, arts, and interesting adaptive re-use projects that line this angled corridor to downtown Phoenix. The festival highlights adaptive re-use of commercial buildings, neighborhood sustainability, and recycling – while showcasing the one-of-a-kind small businesses and art venues that populate Grand Avenue and vicinity. There will be tours of historic and hybrid commercial adaptive re-use projects; art exhibits; performances; installations; fashion shows; music; and merchandise that relate to the festival theme. For more info about the festival: GrandAvePhoenix@gmail.com