• $40.00 entry fee includes first 3 entries, $10.00 each for additional images up to 6. Notification of results July 2.
• All 2D work must be framed or properly wired for hanging, no brackets please. Art must not exceed 48" in width. Sculpture must be solid standing or securly mounted.
• All art must be for sale, the artist will receive 70% commission of sales. Proceeds go to our college art scholarship program.
• Artwork which differs from the accepted jpgs will not be allowed in the show. No refunds.
• Cash awards will be give in all categories plus a Best of Show and Viewers Choice. Nearly $3,000. in awards will be gived out.
• Awards are given at the judges discretion. The decisions of the judges are final. Best of show award is $1000.00
• KA&C reserves the right to use the accepted images for public relations, marketing and archival purposes. Artists rights are retained.
• Physical Delivery of art will be on Saturday July 20th, 10-2 pm. Kingston Community Center at Village Green, off of West Kingston Rd.(26159 Dulay Rd NE. Kingston WA).
• All artwork must remain until the end of the show, Sunday, July 28th, 4PM.
• Pick up is from 4-6pm on Sunday the 29th and 10am - 12pm on Monday, July 29th..
• Shipping & Return; all work must be suitably framed, wired and ready for hanging, or installation. Prints, watercolors and pastels must be framed under plexiglas. NO GLASS please, Contact for information. Shipped work must be packaged in a reusable container. NO STYROFOAM PEANUTS. A prepaid waybill for its return must be enclosed. Please make shipping arrangements through the U.S. Postal Service, DHL, FedEx, or UPS. COD returns are not acceptable. The gallery accepts no responsibility for work not retrieved on the pick-up date. Please mark the outside of shipping box with your name.
• Ship to  E. Holstein at 5941 NE Timberland Dr. Kingston Wa 98346 OR Po Box 1852 Kingston WA 98346. We accept delivery for two weeks before and including July 20. Again, email or phone with questions.
• The Preview Party Reception will start the Festival on Thursday the 25th at 7PM to introduce the artists, jurors and announce the awards. The fun (including live music, appetisers, silent auction & wine) will happen at the Village Green Community Center, 26159 Dulay Rd NE Kingston WA 98346. Do Not ship to this address.
• JURORS
  • ​2D
  • ​Amy Sawyer
    • Amy Sawyer is the assistant curator at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
      (BIMA). She is dedicated to assisting emerging and under-recognized artists to help expand their
      voice, and bring to light art that resonates with the present moment.
      Before transplanting to Seattle, Amy worked as a book artist and education assistant at
      Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2015, she began working with numerous artists
      throughout the Puget Sound region on exhibitions large and small at BIMA, Olympic College,
      and Museum of Northwest Art.
      Amy is in the final preparatory stages curating a solo exhibition of Seattle paper sculptor, Patty
      Grazini at BIMA. She is ramping up her engagement as a junior curator in the region and serves
      on the board of Fremont Abbey Arts Center, a Seattle-based non-profit that advocates for local
      musicians, visual artists, poets, storytellers, and performance artists.
  • Photography
  • Bonnie Block
    • Bonnie Block is an award winning wildlife photographer from Kingston, Wa. In 2016 she won the Audubon Grand Prize 
      for Photography. Her work has been displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History with the Natures Best Photography Show and has also been featured in many nature and photography publications.
  • ​3D/craft 
  • June Sekiguchi ​

    • June Sekiguchi is an artist working in large scale sculpture and installation and is curator for Era Living properties. Sekiguchi often works with modular units to gain scale and responds to each site through a cultural, historic, and artistic lens infusing symbols and meaning to give relevance to the art in its space. She has received an Artist Trust GAP grant and Fellowship in 2015 and five 4Culture grants. Travel in 2017-18 to Cambodia, Laos, Morocco, Portugal, France, and Ireland to inform new work is vital to her art practice.  She is currently exhibiting at The Wing Luke Asian Museum and working on a solo show at ArtXchange Gallery in Seattle in October 2019. Sekiguchi graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and recently moved to Tacoma.

       

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