Denver Art Society

Call For Artists: First Annual LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival

Call For Artists: First Annual LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival

Application Deadline: April 30, 2010

Artists can apply through http://www.Zapplication.org
Event dates: August 20 – 22, 2010

(from the press release)

LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival Announces Call for Visual Artists, Culinary Exhibitors and Fashion Designers

Professional and emerging visual artists, Colorado culinary artists and Colorado fashion designers, are invited to apply to the first annual LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival (LACAF), which will take place August 20 through 22, 2010.

More than 150 artists and exhibitors will be selected in the juried process, which will occur in May. Artists will be notified of acceptance May 10. The LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival is a premier event, whose mission is to enrich and diversify arts and culture in the most popular neighborhood in Denver, the lower downtown district known as “LoDo.”

The annual festival will transform historic streets and alleys into “festival within a festival” pageant of art and culture exhibits. Renowned leaders of the Denver arts community will be selecting the visual, culinary, and fashion artists. LACAF is expected to attract more than 100,000 medium- to high-income consumers.

The leading live and print media outlets from the Denver metropolitan area will be promoting the festival. Fine Arts Alley component will be a juried show, selected by a seven-member jury. The festival will be balanced with a wide range of media, featuring local and national artists. Student artists will be invited to apply and they will be juried for participation within the show, with selected students receiving mentoring and a free tent to exhibit their works. LACAF will promote LoDo and Downtown Art galleries by partnering with them to produce special exhibits and events that will be held inside or around galleries prior to and during the festival.

Culinary Alley component will be a celebration of food, beverages, and cooking ware from a juried group of vendors. A Chef Demonstration stage will feature exciting, up-and-coming chefs from area restaurants. The festival site will include between four and six cafes providing distinct food and beverages. Fashion Alley component will be presented by “Fashion Denver”, an organization that promotes fashion designers from all over Colorado. A fashion show located within an alley surface street will headline the opening gala. Fashion designers will display their works along a row of booths called fashion alley.

The LoDo Alley Cat Arts Festival is sponsored by LoDo District, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit civic organization that supports Denver’s LoDo neighborhood through marketing, education, and advocacy.