Artist and Crafts Person Information

Art Show held on June 15, 2008
Application Deadline: May 1, 2008

River Rites 2008 is the first major festival produced by The Arts Community of Easton (ACE).  It is a combination of elements of the popular former Easton Blues Jam and a fine art exhibit and sales show.  
The main thrust of the event is musical performances that take place in Easton, PA.  On June 13th and 14th, musical performances take place in local musical venues.
Also on June 15th, alongside the Grande Finale, the River Rites Art Show will take place on the Riverside Park grounds.
In the past the Easton Blues Jam drew between 1000 and 1500 people for the Grand Finale in the park.  We expect to see at least the same numbers or more for River Rites 2008.  The event will be well publicized in the eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey press.  
Riverside Park is an excellent park for art shows and has been the home for several shows over the years. On the park grounds there is space for up to 50 10’ x 10’ booth spaces.  Our goal for this first event is to have 30 booths of fine art and fine crafts.  
We are looking for painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers, potters, carvers, and other types of fine artists and crafts persons.  We do not allow flea market booths or antique dealers.  The ACE River Rites Jury Committee will review all applications and their decision is final.
The Art Show aspect of the Grand Finale will start at 10 AM on June 15th, and run until at least 5 PM.
The display setup schedule:
-    Artists may start setting up booths at 8 AM
-    All artists booths are set up and ready by 10 AM
-    The Art Show opens at 10 AM
-    Music in the amphitheatre begins at 12 Noon
-    All artist booths must stay up until 5 PM
-    Music concludes at 8 PM
Artists are free to leave their booths up until the end of the musical performances, but should be aware that sunset is at 8:30 PM, and it may be fairly dark.

Application regulations:
All artists and crafts persons are required to fill out an application and mail it along with al least two (2) photos of the type of work they expect to show and one (1) photo of the display system they will use in their booth.  A nonrefundable $10.00 application fee must be included with your application.  If you wish to send digital images you may do so, but we will not review the images until the $10.00 application fee has been received.  Send the payment in the form of a check or money order.  If you wish to pay the fee by using Pay Pal, that will be acceptable as well and you should contact us by the email link on this page for more information.  Credit Cards are not accepted. 

No exhibitor will be allowed to show without an approved display system.  You are not required to have a pop-up canopy but it is recommended.  If an exhibitor shows up on the day of the event without an approved display system, they will not be allowed to set up, and will forfeit all fees paid.
The ACE River Rites Jury Committee will review all applications and their decision is final.
Once an artist has been accepted for the event they will be required to pay a nonrefundable $30.00 space fee.

The Deadline for applications is May 1, 2008.  We will notify all artists who have been accepted by May 10th.  The deadline for payment of the booth fee is June 1, 2008.  If we don’t receive your payment by that date, you will lose your space.

An application can be downloaded from this page by clicking on the link:
Artist Application. 
The application is a PDF file.  You need Adobe Reader to view the file and if you do not have Adobe Reader, you can download it by clicking on this link.
Download Adobe Acrobat Reader
Mail your application, photos and check to:

River Rites Music and Arts Festival
260 Raubsville Road
Easton PA, 18042

If you wish you can also fax the application to 610-438-1042. 

If you have any questions about this event and wish to speak to someone, you may call 610-515-1190. 
Ask for either Festival Chairman Bob Thena or Vice Chair Oli Landwijt.

River Rites 2008 is a production of ACE: the Arts Community of Easton, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of all the arts.
ACE has been serving the arts community since 1999 and received a non-profit 501C3 status in 2005.  
ACE Homepage: www.eastonart.net