Application Process

Requirements
Please return with your booth fee(s) a completed application and images.

$50.00 - Fee per booth. A booth space is 10x12.

$75.00 - A double booth space (20x24).

Please read the application process in its entirety. Artists applying are responsible for the information contained herein. The festival reserves the right to refuse any application and rescind an extended invitation should the artist misrepresent themselves.

Applications may be downloaded here.

Each Artist is required to submit a total of five (5) images, 4 per medium and a booth image and a complete application along with a $50 fee per booth in the form of a check or money order made payable to the Midtown Management District. Please note in the memo line “Art in the Park.”

If you have a website we will accept the website as a way to view your work as long as the work is current.

Work to be exhibited must be represented in your images. Attach four images per medium of individual pieces that accurately represent the body of work to be exhibited; work shown in the images must be representative of current work, and no more than three years old.

The Booth image/5th image must be of a display of the artist's work, showing overall continuity and presentation of your current body of work. The fifth image is mandatory. If a booth image (constructed tent & exhibit) is not available, submit an image taken of a grouping of works representative of the works to be exhibited at the show. The purpose of the booth image is to ensure the artist has a complete body of work which is represented both in the first four images and also within image #5. It also helps identify the scale of the artist's work.

Email your images as a jpg document to cynthiaa@houstonmidtown.com. 4x5 color photos will also be accepted, please NO SLIDES. It is the responsibility of the artist to follow up and verify that all documentation including those sent via Internet and by U.S Post have been received. The Midtown Management District, the staff, the Marketing Committee, nor the festival director is responsible for misdirected, lost mail or bounced email.

Media Categories
Media categories are used by arts festivals as a tool for organizing artists' images into logical, related groups for review. While a balanced show that equitably showcases both works of fine art and fine contemporary craft as well as diversity among media is a principal objective, there is no quota or entitlement by media category.

Clayworks
All original clay and porcelain work other than jewelry is accepted in this category. No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. If multiple pieces of the same design are displayed each piece must be signed.

Digital Art
This category includes any original work for which the original image, or the manipulation of other source material, was executed by the artist using a computer. Work in this category must be in limited editions, signed and numbered on archival quality materials. Traditional photographs taken through a digital media should apply in the photography category.

Drawing
Works created using dry media including chalk, charcoal, pastels, pencil, wax crayon, etc. or from the fluid medium of inks and washes applied by pen or brush are to be entered in this category.

Fiber
All work crafted from fibers including basketry, embroidery, weaving, leatherwork, tapestry and papermaking. No machine tooling, machine-screened patterns or other forms of mass production are permitted. No factory produced wearable items, regardless of additional modification or enhancement by the artist, may be exhibited.

Glass
No forms of mass production are permitted.

Graphics and Printmaking
Printed works for which the artist's hand manipulated the plates, stones or screens and which have been properly signed and numbered as a limited edition may be entered in this category. All photogravure, photocopy and/or offset reproductions will be rejected. Printmakers are required to disclose both their creative and printmaking processes.

Jewelry
All jewelry whether the work is produced from metal, glass, clay, fiber, paper, plastic or other materials must be entered in this category. No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is allowed.

Metalworks
Tncludes all non-sculptural, non-jewelry works crafted from metals. No production studio work is allowed.

Mixed Media 2D
This category includes 2 dimensional works that incorporate more than one type of physical material to produce.

Mixed Media 3D
This category includes 3-dimensional works that incorporate more than one type of physical material to produce. Includes non-sculptural work as determined by the artist.


Painting
Works created in oils, acrylics, watercolor etc. are in this category.

Photography
Photographic prints made from the artist's original image, which have been processed by that artist, or under his or her direct supervision, are included in this category. Photographers are required to disclose both their creative and printing processes.

Sculpture
Three-dimensional original work done in any medium.

Wood
Original works in wood that are hand-tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved are accepted in the wood category.