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, too! We're also on Facebook, ad you're welcome to join our group there. Just click the image to the right.

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 shared with anyone, and only announcements from the art show director will be sent out on the mailing list. We don't like spam, either.

Confirmed Artists

The following artists are confirmed as showing in the Art Show this year (listed alphabetically). Artists will be added to this list as registration is received.

Name	Site	Notes, style(s)
Kevin Wasden	Wasden Fine Art	C20 Artist Guest of Honor
Camille Berthelot	deviantart.com	Gothic, Victorian, Steampunk
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
Douglas Cootey		Fantasy
Meredith Dillman	meredithdillman.com	Fantasy, fairies
Jessica Douglas	official site, deviantart.com	Fantasy
Jaimee Fox		Jewelry
Amy Gillespie	protosart.com	Digital, fractals
Brian C. Hailes	hailesart.com	Fantasy, horror, hyper-realism, pencils
Ina Jane Harvey	deviantart.com	Fantasy
Joe Hovey		Stone & glass chess sets
Robert James	Megalaros
Rebecca Jensen	Silversong	Fantasy, Asian, illustrations
Kent Jeppsen		Cute, anthropomorphic
Adele Lorienne	meadowhaven.net or deviantart.com	Fantasy art
Kathleen Lowe	offical site down, deviantart.com	Fantasy, medieval, dragons
Brenda Lyons	falconmoon.com	Watercolor, fantastical birds, griffons
Kerry Maffeo	Fantastic Visions	Minature sculpture, crystals, dragons, digital art, fantasy
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
Betsy Mott	cornerdoor.com	Licensed fantasy and science fiction character art
Joe Mueller	Official site	Licensed fantasy and science fiction character art
Melia Newman	bemusedart.com	Celtic, art noveau, cats, cute
Carolyn Nicita	Blog, deviantArt	Fractals
Mike Oberg		Stone carvings, woodwork, wands, pencils
George Parmenter	artwanted.com/georgeparmenter	Fantastical creatures, surreal, fantasy
Ruth Peterson
Mark Roland	rolandscapes.com	Fantasy etchings, paintings and mixed media
Jose Sanchez	ASFA Gallery	Science fiction, digital, weird creatures
Sarah B. Seiter	deviantart.com	Fairies, elves, and many other fae
Alexandra Sforza	deviantArt	Steampunk jewelry
Cristina Steele	silvertales	fantasy, horror, anime style, pen & ink, humor
William Tackett	Billy Tacket Studios	horror, zombie, humor
Kiki Tayler	deviantArt	Fantasy, dragons, anime-style, supernatural
Ruth Thompson	Tarnished Images	Fantasy, dragons
Tiffany Toland	Tiffany's Realm	Fantasy, gothic, steampunk
Dineh Torres
Vance Trancygier	deviantart.com	Photo manipulation, horror, surreal
Amanda Wallace	mirrored-minds.net	Anthropomorphic/Furry, anime-style,
Bobbie Berendson Wilcox	Demons & Visions	Jewelry, masks, and 2D art
Bridget E. Wilde	bewildered-art.com	Cute, anime-style, lotsa cat girls and other morphs

General Information

CONduit XIX will be held May 28-30, 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We generally have 500-900 members.

Artists are welcome at CONduit events. However, 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 Registration Page

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.

We strongly recommend you not send art that is more than PG-13 rated as we are in a conservative and family oriented culture.
We will NOT hang art that does not meet those standards.

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 reserve the panels you would like. Panels are first come, first serve.

• Art Show Control Sheets: 1 page (1-21 items), 2 page (22-42 items), or 3 page (43-63 items). Please list each individual piece/title separately.

• Print Shop Control Sheets: 1 page (1-20 items), 2 page (21-40 items), or 3 page (41-60 items). Please list each individual piece/title separately.

Display Panel Bid Sheets
We will send premade ones 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. 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.
Print Shop bid sheets

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 charges a 10% commission of the final sale price of any artwork sold in the show.

• 4' x 4' Full Panel: $10.00 each.
• 2' x 4' Half Panel: $6.00 each.
• Table (Full panel space with 18" deep table space): $15.00
  

All panel/table fees and forms are due by April 30th, 2010.

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 to:

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

Sending Art

Mail-in art must be received by May 8, 2010. 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.

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.

Please make sure you have sent a hanging schematic with your art. 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.
Otherwise, you accept our arrangement, which may not be as optimized as the one you would have done

Mail control sheets and bid sheets with the art.

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 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 travel.

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 26, 2010 at the latest. We try to get your art back to you ASAP.

Awards

Awards are given various categories unless there are not enough participants (minimum 3 participants)
in a particular category to make an award viable. Some examples of past categories:

Color	Monochrome	Best in Show
3-Dimensional	Fiber	Humor
Jewelry	People's Choice	Photography/Digital Manipulation

Setup and Hanging Art

Setup time for building the panels and getting everything ready for hanging art is Thursday, May 27, 2010, 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 28, 2010, 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 designated assistant. If you are having someone else hang your art, please make sure you have signed the necessary release on your art show registration form.

Sales

Art Show items are sold by bid unless otherwise marked.

• 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 are also available to members who cannot be at the con on Sunday for regular pick up.

• Quick Sales can only be done at Quick Sale price as long as 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 12:00 Noon on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 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 2:00 PM, Sunday May 30th, 2010. 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.

Art Auction and Charity Auction

CONduit's Art Show welcomes items for the charity auction.
The Charity auction is also on Sunday May 24th and will be held held with the Art Auction. (See above)

CONduit's charity of choice is Reading For the Future Utah, a 501(c)(3) charitiable organization.

RFF Utah's goal is to get good science fiction and fantasy books into the hands of youth in an effort to get them reading.

To facilitate this, RFF Utah sends boxes of donated new and in-good-condition books to teachers and school libraries all
over the state.

The RFF Utah program actively solicits the donation of the books and works with librarians and teachers in order to get books to
the kids.

Any designated for RFF Utah charity auction funds are used for the postage to make this program possible.

All donations to RFF Utah are fully tax deductible. Consult your tax advisor for details.

For more information about the organization go to RFFUtah.org

Picking Up Art
Tentative take-down and pick up by artists or agents of unsold art is 4:00PM-5:00PM Sunday, May 30, 2010.

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 designated assistant. 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.

Print Shop Information

There is no panel cost to have items in the Print Shop. The CONduit 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.

CONduit will take a 10% commission on all sold works, whether print shop or art show.

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. 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.
Print Shop bid sheets

Other Information

Artist commission checks will be mailed, generally within two weeks of the end of the convention.

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

All fees and forms are due before the convention.

Mail completed registration forms and appropriate registration fees to:

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

Questions

Send questions to:

CONduit Art Show/Print Shop
c/o Joe Monson
PO Box 360
Orem, UT 84059-0360
saijojoe at gmail

            OR

CONduit
Department: Art Show
P.O. Box 11745
Salt Lake City, UT 84147-0745
801 776-0164
info@sfcon.org

NOTE: Do NOT send Art Show registration or artwork to this address. See addresses above for where to send those. This address is for general convention inquiries ONLY.

            OR

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