Sunflower Festival art entries sought
<center><table border=0 align=center><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory.</font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/sunflowercover_web.jpg border=1 align=center vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory."></td></tr></table></center>
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide.</font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/sunflowerfest.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide."></td></tr></table>Mountainair – The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory, which means the 10th Annual Mountainair Sunflower Festival, sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Art Council, is on its way. The date is Saturday, Aug. 22 from 10 am to 4 pm, and this year the festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.
This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide and regional applications as well as additional Market Place exhibitors. Best in Show and two Awards of Merit will be selected from participants with cash prizes.
In an effort to bring the highest quality work, festival organizers are asking artists and craftsmen to submit 3 to 6 visuals of their work with their application. Deadline for application submissions is July 1, 2009. Booths, this year are $25 outdoors and $10 indoor; indoor spaces are limited. Details are included in the festival application.
<table border=0 align=left width=115><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts.org </font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Sunflower_retablo.jpg border=1 align=left vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts.org"> </td></tr></table>Other events that make the Sunflower Festival a big hit are the Poets & Writers Picnic at the Shaffer Hotel garden, a sunflower hat contest, local tours, a Cibola Arts Gallery show, a silent auction, a raffle, vendors, local organizations and wonderful live entertainment. Attendance is free and each year the festival draws close to a thousand people.
Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts (http://www.MountainairArts).org. For additional information, call: (505) 847-2205, or write: MMAC, P. O. Box 534, Mountainair, NM 87036.
<center><table border=0 align=center><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory.</font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/sunflowercover_web.jpg border=1 align=center vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory."></td></tr></table></center>
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide.</font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/sunflowerfest.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide."></td></tr></table>Mountainair – The bold and beautiful sunflowers in Torrance County are already staging their summer glory, which means the 10th Annual Mountainair Sunflower Festival, sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Art Council, is on its way. The date is Saturday, Aug. 22 from 10 am to 4 pm, and this year the festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.
This year’s event will showcase fine arts and crafts screened from statewide and regional applications as well as additional Market Place exhibitors. Best in Show and two Awards of Merit will be selected from participants with cash prizes.
In an effort to bring the highest quality work, festival organizers are asking artists and craftsmen to submit 3 to 6 visuals of their work with their application. Deadline for application submissions is July 1, 2009. Booths, this year are $25 outdoors and $10 indoor; indoor spaces are limited. Details are included in the festival application.
<table border=0 align=left width=115><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts.org </font></caption><img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Sunflower_retablo.jpg border=1 align=left vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts.org"> </td></tr></table>Other events that make the Sunflower Festival a big hit are the Poets & Writers Picnic at the Shaffer Hotel garden, a sunflower hat contest, local tours, a Cibola Arts Gallery show, a silent auction, a raffle, vendors, local organizations and wonderful live entertainment. Attendance is free and each year the festival draws close to a thousand people.
Applications for festival participants are on-line at www.MountainairArts (http://www.MountainairArts).org. For additional information, call: (505) 847-2205, or write: MMAC, P. O. Box 534, Mountainair, NM 87036.