Artist Social October 30 and Calls to Artists

Dear Artists,

With the holidays closing in, we wanted to let everyone know about some upcoming opportunities for artists to get some exposure and hopefully SALES this holiday season. To get involved with HeartlandArts.Net events, please sign up now if you haven't already. Click here to learn more about member benefits.

We are keeping busy after the big Art Around the Square/Colorfest Art Trail weekend; in case you haven't seen pictures or heard about how it went, be sure to check the HeartlandArts.Net Artshows webpage.

Here's the current schedule:

Thursday, October 30 6-8pm: Artist Social at Rustle Hill Winery
Network with other artists, learn more about upcoming HeartlandArts.Net events, and get tips on selling in a downturn. If you have anything in particular you would like to suggest we talk about, any ideas for artists you think we should share, please let us know ahead of time! We will start the discussion portion of the evening around 6:30pm.

November 28-30, Holiday Art Bazaar
We are still in the planning stages but we are going to be attempting to work with select wineries and other venues along the wine trail to get art out in front of their visitors during their All Winery Open House event.

December 12, 2008
Art Around the Square in Carbondale

More information about these events in November and December to follow!

Regarding the call for art, we are looking for art not only for the events mentioned above, but also on an ongoing basis to place art in local wineries, rental lodging, businesses,etc. We have a lot of empty walls to fill so please let us know if you're interested!

Also, we are going to be doing a fundraiser with the Good Samaritan Ministries of Carbonale over the holidays. Their mission:

Good Samaritan Ministries is a tax-exempt organization, established in 1985 by Carbondale Interfaith Council, to provide services to the needy in the Carbondale area. We provide an emergency shelter, a transitional housing program, a soup kitchen, a food pantry, and an emergency assistance program. For safety reasons, persons using drugs and alcohol are not permitted to stay in the emergency shelter or transitional house.

We are most likely going to be auctioning off 2 or more items, one that will be on display at Art Lovers Trading Company, and one on display at one of the wineries, and we will also be running an online auction of the items, probably on Ebay. We are hoping to get a lot of people involved, so if you would like to participate or if you know anyone who would like to donate some art to be auctioned off for a good cause, please let us know or pass along this information.

Thanks! Again, if you haven't yet and would like to participate, please SIGN UP.