Art Show

• Jump Down the Page •
General Info | Registration & Forms: Deadlines • Fees & Costs • Forms (where to send)
Art: Sending • Hanging • Pick up | Sales: How it works • Art and Charity Auction • Print Shop Info
Awards • Confirmed Artists • Other Information • Questions

All artists participating in the show (whether in person or via mail) are strongly encouraged to read this entire page carefully.

General Info

The CONduit Art Show continues to be one of the best in the Intermountain West, and we'll have a variety of excellent art for you to see this year. Please be sure to come by to vote for your favorite in the People's Choice Award, and find some excellent artwork to grace your walls and shelves—we have 3D art in the show! We're also on Facebook, and you're welcome to join our group there. Just click the image to the right.

CONduit 21: Caped CONduit will be held May 27-29, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We generally have 500-900 members. We strongly recommend you not send art that is more than PG-13 rated or overtly sexual in nature as we are in a conservative and family oriented culture. We will not hang art that does not meet those standards, and we reserve the right to make this judgment call on a case-by-case basis.

Artists are welcome at CONduit events. Please note that purchase of art panels does not include a membership to the convention. For information on purchasing a convention membership go to the Membership rates page.

If you are an artist and wish to be updated on art show information via email, please subscribe to our announcement-only mailing list. From the address you wish to be subscribed, send "subscribe" (without the quotes) to artshow-request@sfcon.org. Please note that your email address will never be sold to or shared with anyone without your permission, and only announcements from the art show director will be sent out on the mailing list. We don't like spam, either.

Art Show Registration and Other Forms

All forms are in Adobe PDF format. Don't have the free Adobe Reader? Download it here.

Registration Form
Fill this out and send in with your registration fee to this address to reserve the panels you would like. Panels and 3D spaces are first come, first serve.

• Registration Form

Art Show Control Sheets
Please list each individual piece separately. More than one print of a single piece may not be submitted for display in the show itself.

• 1 page (1-21 items)
• 2 page (22-42 items)
• 3 page (43-63 items)

Print Shop Control Sheets
Please list multiple prints of a single piece on the same line, indicating the quantity in the appropriate column. Multiples of single title are allowed only in the Print Shop.

• 1 page (1-20 items)
• 2 page (21-40 items)
• 3 page (41-60 items)

Display Panel Bid Sheets
We will send premade bid sheets to you at the beginning of April, so please let us know how many you need and in which format. You may make your own with these, too, if you wish. Please make them two-part carbonless copy forms as that makes our job easier when processing sold pieces.

• Horizontal bid sheets. For wider pieces.
• Vertical bid sheets. For narrow width pieces (same content as above, only vertical).

Print Shop Bid Sheets
The Print Shop uses one-part "bid sheets" in order to keep better track of each item in the print shop. Each piece in the print shop must have one of these attached to it. You can download the form here or let us know how many you need and we will send them out to you. If you download and print your own, please print them on pastel green paper, if possible.

• Print Shop bid sheets

Please mail control sheets and bid sheets with the art.

Print Shop Information

There is no panel cost to have items in the Print Shop, but the art show will take a 10% commission on all sold works. As space in the print shop is very limited, the art show reserves the right to rearrange items in the Print Shop at any time during the show in order to make sure all items sent in for the print shop are displayed. We may also restrict the amount of space used by any one artist depending on the number of items in the print shop. Print Shop bid sheets are available directly above this section.

Fees and Costs

Art Show Panels have a 4'x4' pegboard panel area. We strongly encourage you to tape off a 4'x4' area on your carpet (use painters or artists tape) and layout your pieces so you can get a feel for how they will fit in that space. Be sure to include room for the bid sheets in the layout, too.

Once you have a layout which works for you, take a picture of it and send it along with your artwork. This will make hanging your artwork much quicker so we can open the art show earlier and get more people in to see your work and (hopefully!) buy it. It will also make sure your art is laid out on the panel in the way you believe is optimal for its display.

The CONduit Art Show reserves the right to adjust your preferred layout in order to make your works fit in your reserved space. We'll make sure it still looks nice if we need to do this.

The CONduit Art Show charges a 10% flat commission of the final sale price of any artwork sold in the show, whether display or print shop.

• 4' x 4' Full Panel: $10.00 each.
• 2' x 4' Half Panel: $7.00 each.
• Table (Full panel space with 18" deep table space): $15.00
  

All panel/table fees and forms are due by April 30th, 2011.

We have limited 3-d space (tables) at this time, so please reserve early.

Please limit yourself to two panels or panel units unless you have made prior arrangements with the art director. We like to give as many artists as possible the chance to show in order to have a wide variety for our attendees. We do take a waiting list for any unsold space at the reservations deadline or any cancellations of reserved spaces. Reservations are accepted on a first come, first reserved basis.

Sending Your Registration

Mail completed registration forms and appropriate registration fees (payable to "CONduit Art Show") to:

CONduit Art Show
c/o Joe Monson
PO Box 360
Orem, UT 84059-0360

Sending Art Through the Mail

Mail-in art must be received by May 14, 2011 (let me know if you can't make that deadline). Do NOT send art directly to the hotel.

Please insure your art so that if it is damaged in shipping, the carrier can compensate you.

CONduit Art Show/Print Shop
c/o Curtis Rich
848 N 500 E
North Salt Lake, UT 84054

Please do NOT send registration forms to Curtis. This will seriously delay processing.

INSURE YOUR WORK!
If you don't, it is left on the doorstep and its safety can not be guaranteed! Once art is received, you will receive a confirmation email that it has arrived.

Return instructions/costs for mailed in art.
Please send return postage and costs for insurance with your art, or with your registration fees. A return mail label is best. Many artists send a prepaid return label. This is strongly encouraged. If you do not send this, and have insufficient sales for us to cover the cost of returning the unsold art, we will be forced to consider your art a donation to the convention.

Please send reusable packaging as we will use your own packaging to return your unsold art. Please be aware that if you send your package to us via US Priority Mail, even if you specify you want it returned via parcel post, it will most likely be returned priority because the tape used to mark the box is difficult to remove and the Post Office requires that all priority markings be removed in order to reuse the box with a different method of delivery.

We can accept mailed in art by FedEx, UPS, Airborne Express (DHL) or USPS.

Unsold art will be returned to you via USPS, unless you have instructed otherwise, or necessitated by the labels on your box.

Unsold art will be sent by return carrier by June 20, 2011 at the latest. We try to get your art back to you ASAP.

Confirmed Artists

Registration is open, and space is available on a first-reserved basis. The following artists are confirmed as participating in the show this year (listed alphabetically). Artists will be added to this list as registration is received. If it's been a couple weeks since you sent your registration and you haven't heard back, please let us know.

Artists marked with are new to the CONduit Art Show this year.

Name	Site	Notes, style(s)
Brian C. Hailes	hailesart.com	Artist Guest of Honor Fantasy, horror, hyper-realism, pencils
Bobbie Berendson	Metallic Visions	Jewelry, masks, and 2D art
Marilyn Alice Boyle	moondriftgallery.net	Fantasy art, unicorns, pegasus
Alan M. Clark	AlanMClark.com	Fantasy, science fiction, fantastical landscape, humor
Sarah Clemens	magnusandloki.com	Magnus & Loki, fantasy art
Chris Dame		Fantasy, anime-style
Meredith Dillman	meredithdillman.com	Fantasy, fairies
Jessica Douglas	official site, deviantart.com	Fantasy
Jaimee Fox		Jewelry
Amy Gillespie	protosart.com	Digital, fractals
Cliff Green		Sculpture
Hibbary	deviantart.com	Fantastical creatures, dragons, anthropomorphic creatures
Abranda Icle	The Art of Abranda Icle	Fantasy, fairies, dragons
Kent Jeppsen		Cute, anthropomorphic
Jessica Ann Kiel		3D, bronze
Tabitha Ladin	tabithaladin.com	fantasy, science fiction, surreal, weird/horror
Brenda Lyons	falconmoon.com	Watercolor, fantastical birds, griffons
Theresa Mather	Rock, Feather, Scissors	Feather & rock paintings, dragons, general fantasy
Patricia McCracken	Official gallery	fantasy, dragons, Japanese/Chinese styles, watercolor
Heather Monson		Fantasy, fabric (quilting, costuming), jewelry, leatherwork, masks
Monsterhedz	Official site	Fantasy and horror taxidermy
Betsy Mott	cornerdoor.com	Licensed fantasy and science fiction character art
Carolyn Nicita	Blog, deviantArt	Fractals
Mike Oberg		Stone carvings, woodwork, wands, pencils
Helen Pattskyn	helenpattskyn.com	Fantasy, wiccan, mythological
Rose Pratt	whitewingphoto.com	Fantasy photography
Mark Roland	rolandscapes.com	Fantasy etchings, paintings and mixed media
Ralph J. Ryan		Science fiction, spacescapes
Sarah B. Seiter	deviantart.com	Fairies, elves, and many other fae
Brandy Stark	Stark Images	Sculpture, jewelry
Billy Tackett	Billy Tacket Studios	horror, zombie, humor
Kiki Tayler	deviantArt	Fantasy, dragons, anime-style, supernatural
Vance Trancygier	deviantart.com	Photo manipulation, horror, surreal
Kevin Wasden	Wasden Fine Art	fantasy, science fiction, Technosaurs, Hazzardous Universe
Bridget E. Wilde	bewilderedart.com	Cute, anime-style, lotsa cat girls and other morphs
Lubov Yegudin	lubov.net	Fantastical creatures and vistas, phantasmagoria

Awards

Awards are given in various categories unless there are not enough participants (minimum 3 participants) in a particular category to make an award viable. If you have a suggestion for an award, please let us know.

Be sure to come and vote before 3pm on Saturday for the People's Choice Award. Just pick your favorite work in the show and submit your vote. Ballots will be available at the front of the art show.

Some examples of past categories:

Setup and Hanging Art

Setup time for building the panels and getting everything ready for hanging art is Thursday, May 26, 2011, 7:00PM-Midnight. The more people we have helping, the faster things will be done. If you have some time and would like to help, we welcome you. There will be snacks provided!

Tentative hanging time is Friday, May 27, 2011, 8:00AM-11:00AM.

Please let us know if you are going to need different times than these designated for hanging so we can make those arrangements in advance. If you are not going to be able to hang your art show items at the designated time, please let us know so that we can place a notice on your panels to inform art show patrons that your art will be coming later.

Art and print shop items will need to be checked in by the artist or agent with the art show director or one of the art show staff. If you are having someone else hang your art, please make sure you have signed the necessary release on your art show registration form.

If you wish to hang your own art but not attend the convention, arrangements for that and for pick up after the show closes will need to be made in advance with the art show director. These hours will be very limited.

Sales

Art show items are sold by bid or quick sale only.

• Please set a minimum bid and quick sale price for each item.
• Use full dollar amounts only.
• Minimum bid is the lowest amount for which you will be willing to sell the item.
• Not for sale pieces need to be clearly labeled as "NFS" on both bid sheet and control sheets in the price column.
• Quick Sales can be done at the Quick Sale price provided no other bids are present on the bid sheet at the time of sale.
• Quick Sale prices should generally be at least twice the minimum bid.
• If you do not fill in the Quick Sale price, the piece will be sold by bid only.

Bids are accepted during Art Show open hours until 11:00am on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 when the show closes to prepare for the auction. Three written bids will send a piece to auction.

The Art & Charity Auction is currently scheduled for 1:00 PM, Sunday May 29th, 2011. Note: these times may change depending on availability of Programming space. Please check your Pocket Program for the final time.

If an item has no bids after the Art Auction, it can be purchased for the Quick Sale price only.

Art Auction and Charity Auction

The Charity auction is part of the regular Art Auction. (See above)This year's beneficiaries are the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center and the Best Friends Animal Society. Other beneficiaries of the charity auction have included Reading for the Future Utah.

CONduit's Art Show welcomes items for the charity auction. If you wish to donate items for the charity auction, please bring the items to the art show with the Charity Auction Donation Form (please be sure to mark to which charity you wish the funds raised from the item to go). You are also welcome to mail donation items in to the address below.

Picking Up Art

Take-down and pick up by artists or agents of unsold art is 4:00PM-5:00PM on Sunday, May 29, 2011. Please let us know if you are going to need different times than these designated take down so we can make those arrangements in advance.

Art will need to be checked out with the art show director or art show staff. If you are having someone else pick up your art, please make sure you have signed the necessary release on your art show registration form and that they have sufficient identification for the art to be released to them.

Other Information

Artist commission checks will be mailed, generally within two weeks of the end of the convention. The checks may be included in the package of returning art (if any), as well.

Checks will be made out to the artist unless otherwise instructed on the registration form.

Questions

Send questions and charity auction items and forms to:

CONduit Art Show/Print Shop
c/o Joe Monson
PO Box 360
Orem, UT 84059-0360
art at sfcon dot org