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  The Del Rio Council for the Arts is very excited to invite you to participate in pARTners for Sharing. This exhibition is open to all Del Rio youth between the ages of 5-18. It will be blind juried by an impartial jury of Del Rio Art League members. The purpose of this project is to seek out artwork created by young artists to be displayed at Val Verde Regional Medical Center, which will lift the spirits of patients and families.

 
Eligibility requirements
Entrants must be between the ages of 5-18.
Only one work may be submitted per artist.
Artwork must be original and completed in the last year.
Artwork should be either 8 ½” x 11” or 11” x 14”.
If work does not meet size requirements it will be automatically disqualified.
Artwork may be in any media, but must be two-dimensional.
Artwork should not be on canvas, hard board, matted or framed.
Artwork that has won awards or has been exhibited previously is ineligible.
 Art work must be labeled with one entry form.
All work must be received at the Firehouse by 2 pm, Saturday, February 11, 2012.
 
Fifty works will be selected by the Del Rio Council for the Arts and displayed in
the Firehouse Gallery from March 2 to March 31 and then moved to
the Val Verde Regional Medical Center where they will be exhibited for one full year.
Selected artists will be notified by phone February 18.
If participant is not called by February 18, then the work has not been selected.
All works not chosen to be part of the pARTners for sharing exhibition must be picked up at the Firehouse Gallery starting February 18 and no later than February 25. If artwork is not retrieved by this date, it will become property of the Del Rio Council for the Arts.
Entrants, by way of submission, agree to grant the Del Rio Council for the Arts unlimited usage of all or part of their artwork without compensation.
When the year-long exhibit is completed, artists will be notified and artwork
will be available for pickup at the Firehouse.
As a gift for participation, each artist will keep the frame his or her piece was displayed in.


Artists, your participation is appreciated.
Every artist who enters this exhibition contributes to its success.
Thank you for helping to make this event possible.
  • Saturday, February11, 2012- entry deadline
  • February 18- selected artists notified by telephone
  • First Friday, March 2- opening reception at the Firehouse Gallery, 7-9 pm
  • April - artwork relocated to Val Verde Regional Medical Center for one year

 

We would like to thank the

Val Verde Regional

Medical Center

for sponsoring this event by providing

funds for the frames

and a location for the student work to be hung.