Applications open for the 2018 Sault Summer Arts Festival

NEWS RELEASE
SAULT AREA ARTS COUNCIL
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SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. - Applications for the 2018 Sault Summer Arts Festival are available online (or here). Just click on the festival notice on the top of the home page. 

The Sault Summer Arts Festival is a juried show and sale of original fine arts and crafts that are exhibited by the artists who created them. The site is Portage Street, between Osborn and Ashmun, one block east of the Soo Locks, in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

The date is Tuesday, Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The festival is held rain or shine.

Jury is by photograph, three per category for all categories but jewellery, which requires five. Photographs may be digital, e-mailed to saac@saultarts.org, or print included with application. 

Local artists may bring examples of their work to Alberta House to be juried there, if they prefer. No dealers or agents are allowed, nor is work employing commercial patterns or moulds.

Spaces are 10 x 10’. The festival space fee is $100 for all but Sault Area Arts Council members of one year or more; members pay $50. Some double spaces are available for $200.

The substantial awards include the $300 Best of Show Award, the $150 Painting Award, the $150 Best of Crafts Award, the $75 Judge’s Choice Award and $50 awards in design, jewelry, fibre, graphics, photography, pottery, wood, glass and display.

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