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The North Beaches Art Walk is a monthly event orchestrated by the North Beaches Art Walk Association, a non profit organization 501 (c)(3) based in Atlantic Beach, FL.

Since its beginning in October of 2007, the North Beaches Art Walk has continued to receive positive support from the community, and has an ever-growing list of participating merchants and artists. Spread the word - and hope to see you at the next Art Walk!

As a non-profit NBAW strives to support other local non-profits. We allow one non-profit a month to set up an informational table in front of Sticky Fingers Restaurant to promote themselves, and to sell art as a fundraiser. Contact Linda Stewart at Archway Gallery & Framing for more details.

Sponsors

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!

 

 

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Jun092009

Want to show your work at Art Walk?

DateTuesday, June 9, 2009 at 5:26PM

Interested in Participating?

All participating artists are responsible for coordinating directly with participating merchants in order to secure a spot. Artists are required to wear a badge on the night of the Art Walk. Badges can be picked up at Archway Gallery & Framing starting on the first of the month of the Art Walk. The cost is $10 before the Art Walk, and $20 the day of the Art Walk, so pick up your badge early.

All Jewelry and 3-D Art items must be reviewed (juried) before the artist can participate in Art Walk. There is a $20 non-refundable fee for the review. You will need to leave several examples of your art for review, which takes about a week. Bring examples (in a suitable enclosing container, such as a zip-lock bag) to Archway Gallery and Framing at 363 Atlantic Boulevard, Suite 2, Atlantic Beach, FL. There is no guarantee that you will be accepted. The art must be created by the artists, and must not be craft oriented. If the submission is rejected, new/different types of items can be submitted after six months.

If you set up on the sidewalk in front of a business, you need to make sure you do not block sidewalk traffic.  The amount of space needed varies with the location. The cities of Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and Jacksonville Beach have different rules. Make sure you allow plenty of room for foot traffic so they are happy (a few complaints to the city can adversely affect the success of Art Walk).

If you are having trouble finding a spot/venue you can contact Archway Framing, at 904.249.2222, and they will assist you.

 

Already an Art Walk Artist?

 

For the web, please read the following:

To be included in the Artists section, we need you to provide us with the following information:

Name

Business Title or Sub-Title or By-line you use (check examples online to get a good representation of this)

Contact Information that you want to provide to the public (for the website):

  • Phone
  • e-mail
  • Web Address (if this ever changes, you must let us know immediately; otherwise, our website will be linked to the next website to use the same domain name, which could be anything).

Contact Information you want to provide to North Beaches Art Walk only (not for web)

Bio about yourself.

Please ensure the spelling is correct, or ensure that we know it needs editing. Our interest is to make you look good, and we are willing to help out.  Common punctuation errors, and typos might be missed, but if noticed, they will be corrected; just don't count on it to happen automatically. All you have to do is ask for some review.

For your bio, make sure that the text will read as accurate a year from now as it does today. Avoid dated oriented items such as "currently artist of the month at AAAA Gallery" or "since moving here a year ago" or "our children graduating this spring." We do not want the website text to be incorrect a month from now or even a year from now if possible. You get the idea.

Suitable Image for the web:

  • Type: Basically, an example image or two showing your artwork.
  • Attachment: Send the actual image(s) as an e-mail attachment (do not send a reference URL to an image).
  • Naming: All received images end up in a common image directory, and without a good descriptive file name, they are hard to find later when doing the web editing. Please start the name of the file with your last name followed by your first name, followed by an underscore. Do not use the space character in the file name (continuous characters). An example: DaVinciLeonardo_MonaLisa.png (not Da Vinci Leonardo _ Mona Lisa.png)
  • Size: You can provide as large of an image as you have available; we will take care of reducing for the web if necessary. A larger image will also allow us to have it available for other purposes if we need it (such as advertising print).
  • Image Update: If you are already listed on the nbaw.org website and the image is rather small, we would like to have an updated image available. As computer display resolutions increase, the images we used a few years ago appear much smaller on these larger resolution screens (% of real estate).  We would like to have your image be large enough to show off your talents much better on the larger resolution displays.
  • Description:  We also need a short text description of the art image that would describe it to someone that was not looking at the image. The description is included in the website code so that blind users will know what the image is about (read aloud by the browser).

Finally, I need to know which category to put your bio and art into. In many cases, that may seem obvious, but in some cases, the art starts to blend into other categories. For example, some photography looks like painting, or vice-versa. Please let us know which of the following categories to place your information into:

  • Painting
  • Mixed Media
  • Photography
  • Jewelry & Accessories
  • Pottery & Sculpture
  • 3-D Art (very inclusive; if it doesn't fit in the others, this is it)
Send an e-mail to the Art Walk coordinator at info@nbaw.org in order to be posted on the Art Walk website.