Call for Entries: Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park, March 26 - 28, 2010

Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park,
Houston Texas

March
19 – 21, 2009

Juried
at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park is the nation’s
premier spring outdoor fine art event. The Festival, held in Houston’s
prestigious Memorial Park, was ranked the #3 art festival in the country in
AmericanStyle Magazine's "TOP 10 Festivals" in February 2009, named
“Best Gallery in Houston” in March of 2009 by readers of Click2Houston.com, named
“Best Festival in Houston” in the 2008 Houston Press “Best of Houston” magazine
and is consistently ranked in Sunshine Artists Top 50. Conveniently located
five miles from Downtown, two miles from the famous Galleria area and
neighboring the elegant residential communities of River Oaks and Memorial, Bayou City
Art Festival
Memorial Park is an
artist’s dream.

“This
is my third time at Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park and it’s one of my
favorite shows.  I never get a better
response than here.  The people are so
friendly and I got a good and wide variety of clients who support art,
especially at this time.”

-Justin
Robinson, First Place, Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2009, Northport,
AL

“I’d
never been to Houston.  It’s
wonderful!  Sales have been good.  It’s a very well run show and it’s a beautiful
setting.  I met very sophisticated
collectors, serious buyers..”

-Michael
Wommack, Second Place, Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2009, Langhorne,
PA

• Bayou City Art
  Festival Memorial
  Park has a demonstrated history in strong
  sales for artists.
• National studies
  show Houstonians consistently have twice the discretionary income that
  workers in similar industries have around the country.
• With a median
  household income of over $50,000 and an income growth since 2000 of 13.1%
  as reported in Kiplingers.com, Houston has
  been ranked the Number 1 city in the U.S. in which to live, work
  and play in July of 2008.

Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park showcases works
representing 19 media formats.

Winners
receive:

• Best of Show:
  Ribbon and $1500 – jury exempt status for two years
• Second Place: Ribbon and
  $750 – jury exempt status for two years
• Third Place: Ribbon and
  $500 – jury exempt status for two years
• Best Booth: Jury
  exempt status for two years

http://www.bayoucityartfestival.com

Applications
are currently being accepted via ZAPP: https://www.zapplication.org

Deadline:
October 30, 2009

Entry
Fee: $30

Bayou
City Art Festival Memorial Park 2009 winners:

·        

Kimberly
Willcox – Sculpture – Best in Show

·        

Larry
Stephenson – Painting/ Watercolor – Featured Artist

·        

Justin
Robinson – Mixed Media 2D – First
Place

·        

R.
Michael Wommack – Drawing/ Pastel – Second
Place

·        

Mark
Stephenson – Photography/ Digital – Third
Place

·        

Matthew
Hatala – Wood – Best Booth

·        

Debra
Steidel-Rollin – Clay – Special Award for Recognition of Work in Clay,
presented by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Juried
at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston
by an invited panel of artists and collectors, past jurors have included:

• -Franny Koelsch,
  owner, Koelsch Gallery

• -Richard Fluhr,
  Houston-based artist who has bought art, sold art, owned a gallery in Houston, shown work in other galleries and has work
  in permanent collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Art Museum
  of South Texas in Corpus Christi and the British
  Museum in London
• -Nicola Parente,
  artist
• -Diane Barber,
  Executive Director, DiverseWorks
• -Sandra Zilker, Museum of Fine Arts,
  Houston, Glassell School
  of Art
• -Bart Truxillo,
  preservation architect, designer and developer

Contact
Info: Kelly Kindred

kelly@bayoucityartfestival.com