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Mountainair
Sunflower Festival
Call for Artists
(Mountainair, New Mexico) Now is the time
for artists to make plans for Sunflower
Festival. The 10th Annual Mountainair Sunflower
Festival, sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Art
Council, is on it’s way. The date is Saturday,
August 22nd from 10:00 am to 4:00 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 fine arts and crafts
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 $10 outdoors and $25 indoor; indoor spaces
are limited. Details are included in the
festival application.
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.org.
For additional information:
call: (505) 847-2205
or write: MMAC, P. O. Box 534, Mountainair, NM
87036.
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