News type: Opportunity

Mentmore Arts Festival will be held May 27/28/29th 2023 at Mentmore Village Hall and St Mary’s Church Mentmore from 11am -5pm each day. Please see website www.mentmore-arts-festival.co.uk for more details
 

Following the fantastic successes of our last 2 Pop-Up Art Exhibitions at the MS Therapy Centre in Bedford in 2019 and 2022, we would like to make our 3rd an even more spectacular event in our 40th anniversary year!

The MS Therapy Centre will hold our 3rd exciting Pop-Up Art Exhibition & Sale 2023 over the weekend of 6th – 8th October, and we would love for you to join us.

There will be many local and national artists, working in a variety of media, exhibiting, demonstrating live, and selling original works of art at the MS Therapy Centre – we will also have stalls of pottery, sculpture, jewellery and many other forms of art.

We are now looking for 3 artists who will be invited to have one of their artworks displayed on all of our posters, flyers, website and the front cover of our colour art event catalogue.

Would you like to take part in our Artwork Competition to win a place? If so, please send us via email up to 2 images of original artworks (in any medium – paint, pencil, inks, collage, photograph, fabric etc). We will ask an independent judge to choose the 3 winning pieces. The winning artwork must be available for sale at the event in October.

When emailing in your artwork images, please ensure that each artwork entry has a title, medium, and date of each piece. The competition will close on Friday 14th April and the 3 winners will be notified by the end of April. We hope that many of you will join us for this exciting Artwork Competition and please pass this information on to your creative and artist friends who might also like to join in too.

Kindest regards Bela and the Art Team Bela Brown Art Exhibition Coordinator

frvolunteer@mscentrebedsandnorthants.com

Fundraising Team

Calling Local Artists and Craftspeople! 

At Lokkelebery Vineyard we are planning a unique arts and crafts event, which we have christened ‘VineyART’. The event will be held on 3&4 June 2023 and we are currently seeking artists and craftspeople who might be interested in hiring a pitch and exhibiting for the weekend.

The cost for the weekend will be between £35-£55 for 1 pitch, with 0% commission to kick start the event in its first year. Artists and craftspeople will need to provide their own tent and set-up (pitches will be 4mx4m). Double pitches are also an option depending on availability. 

If you are interested in exhibiting, please email hello@lokkelebery.co.uk by the 17th February 2023 with your:

• Name
• Medium/art style
• Email
• Telephone number

Please be sure to add the Lokkelebery email to your address book so that no emails regarding the event are missed/sent to spam. 

We will contact those interested from mid-February onwards to confirm whether we can accommodate them, as there is limited space available. 

Visitors to VineyART

VineyART will be officially launched in March 2023 with more information for visitors on what to expect. 

Mudlarks cafe in Hertford are after artists to get in touch to hang their work in the cafe. At the moment they have empty walls to the end of the year.

Here is the deal:

• There is space for approx 10 pieces of work. If you don’t know the cafe I’d suggest visiting the cafe to look at the space and speak to the staff.
• The is no charge to hang your work.
• 10% commission on sales
• You will need to put up your own display and include a biography. There is picture rails and hooks so you need to make sure your artwork has good wire/string through D Rings on the back. Make sure everything is labelled.
• You can leave the bubble wrap at the cafe after hanging so any work is protected when sold
• Call the manager Michelle on 01992 538515 to book your month.

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Get get on the blower and speak to Michelle.

ART IN THE CHAMBER

Herts Visual Arts, in partnership with Herts Chamber of Commerce, offers our members an amazing opportunity for contemporary abstract art work to be put on display and for sale at the Chamber’s prestigious modern offices in Hatfield.

There are 8 spaces for art to be hung as listed below. The sizes are maximum artwork sizes; artists should aim to be close to these sizes. 

• Boardroom: 5 x 1.5 ft – 150 x 60 cm
• Boardroom: 2 x 2 ft – 60 x 60 cm
• Membership: 2 x 2 ft – 60 x 60 cm
• Operations: 2 x 2 ft – 60 x 60 cm
• Export: 2 x 2 ft – 60 x 60 cm
• Meeting: 2 x 3 ft – 60 x 90 cm
• Reception: 2 x 3 ft – 60 x 90 cm

There are other potential areas for work to be displayed and these will be reviewed as the project moves forward.

All artwork must complement the décor at the Chamber which uses the following pantone colours:

Teal: #19bcb9

Orange: #ED5F1E

Yellow/Mustard: #FFBF00

Promotion of your artwork within the Chamber

HVAF has produced an A5 presentation folder for Art at the Chamber, with inserts for each artist’s work.  These will be replaced when art is changed over.  Specially designed labels give the artist’s name plus the title, medium, size and price of each painting.  These folders will be available for visitors and members of the Chamber to pick up and take away from the reception area.  As well as daily visitors to the various teams at the Chamber, they host a monthly event for new members which is attended by about 30 people from local businesses.

In addition, there is a label on each painting giving details including price.

Art Folder and Inserts

• Information about Herts Chamber
• Information about HVAF
• About the partnership
• How to buy our art
• Image of each artwork
• Artist’s name, artwork name, contact details, artwork price and short statement.

To cover the cost of producing the folder, inserts and labels, each exhibiting artist will pay a £10 registration fee.

Next steps

• Download and complete the online form.
• Submit this by email to enquiries@hvaf.org.uk with the word CHAMBER in the subject line.
• Attach a high quality image
• Send us the, description (max 100 words), price, with your contact information and artist statement (max. 150 words)
• Please provide both an email and telephone contact number

Please note: There should be no visible labels on any artwork. Artist information should be fixed to the reverse of the art piece.

Art in the Chamber timescales

• The inaugural exhibition of work at Herts Chamber of Commerce was hung during July 2022, and one of these paintings has already been sold.

We are establishing a reserve list of work to replace sold items from October 2022.  There is an ongoing submission process and images will be sent to the Chamber on a regular basis. They will decide which pieces to add to the reserve list.

• Artists whose work is selected for exhibition will be invited to attend the Chamber to hang their work on a specific day and at this stage will be asked to make a donation to HVAF towards the costs associated with this opportunity (minimum £10).
• In the event of any sales interest, artists will be responsible for dealing with any queries independently from HVAF. Any sales are commission free.
• When a sale is made, the artist will deal directly with the customer, notify the Chamber and arrange to attend their office to hand over the work.
• A replacement artwork will be chosen from the reserve list and details will be printed onto a new insert in the presentation folders.

Wenta is an active and vibrant business centre in Stevenage which, owned by Stevenage Borough Council, supports small and start up businesses.

A group of local HVA artists are able to hang their work on the walls of this centre which has 2 buildings, one with three floors and the other with two with – each artist having designated areas around the site. There is consistent footfall of staff and visitors to each of the individual companies based there. This opportunity has been presented to HVAF by Stevenage council who are very keen to support local artists and are delighted to see HVAF work hanging on their walls.

Artists taking part:

• Hayley Trampenau
• Lucy Sugden
• Vanessa Bryson
• Val Lawson
• Sharon Korek
• May Cheung Grant
• Laura Dunmow
• Mags Murray
• Amy Pettingill
• Sally Taylor
• Leon Barnes
• Karen Mangold

From time to time opportunities to join this group happen, if you are interested, please email enquiries@hvaf.org.uk

Wenta is an active and vibrant business centre, in Potters Bar that caters and supports small and start up businesses. Having just recently decorated their main corridor, where there is consistent footfall of staff and visitors to each of the individual companies based at this venue, this opportunity has been presented to HVAF as a result of the success of their Stevenages’ site, – so once again Wenta are very keen to support local artists and are delighted to see HVAF work hanging on their walls.

Participating Artists are:

• Alexander Gordon
• Leon Barnes
• Hillary Taylor
• Jackie Uphill
• Judy Bywater
• Julia Elmore
• June Faulkner
• May Cheung Grant
• Sally Taylor
• Sharon Korek
• Val Lawson
• Lesley Boost

From time to time opportunities to join this group happen, if you are interested, please email enquiries@hvaf.org.uk

Vacancies
Volunteer vacancies are a great way to use your existing skill-sets and grow even more. You’ll meet and get to know other members and extend your skills and influence.
 
Organising Group (OG):
Your Organising Group meets monthly, generally the last Monday of the month (evenings), and looks after Herts Visual Arts on behalf of all our members. We cover wide ranging topics such as events, management, finances and more. Annual membership fees are waived for regular OG participants.  Want to have a say in our future? Get in touch now chair@hvaf.org.uk
 
Open Studios:
We are looking for more volunteers to help deliver another successful event next year, with wider opportunities and venues – the more helpers we have, the more opportunities we can help deliver to our members.  If you want to get this event on your skill-set CV, email openstudios@hvaf.org.uk