The second Ridges & Rivers Book Festival returns to the City of Viroqua April 26-27, 2024. We’re pleased to announce the festival will once again feature an Art Show & Contest. Maggie Strittmater, a member of the show planning committee says, “We seek to celebrate the rich and varied partnership between the literary and visual arts. We invite visual artists to explore and push the boundaries of this connection by submitting original artwork reflecting or linked to the world of books and writing. Jurors will select and curate work that is born of the entwined traditions.”
Artwork submissions with a literary theme in any media, 2-D or 3-D are welcome. Artists are encouraged to showcase characters from stories, create a sculpture using actual books, or illustrate people enjoying spending time with books. These are just a few ways artists can shine a light on the connections made between visual artists and the world of writers and books. Human existence has been historically and developmentally documented, first, through visual images, then with spoken or written words.
There are two different Art Show parameters:
OPTION 1 – Juried, Multi-Media Art Show:
- Open to Professional and Aspiring Visual Artists may submit up to 2 unique pieces.
- These pieces will be judged for awards.
OPTION 2 – Multi-Media Art Show
- Open to any artist who does not wish for their artwork to be evaluated by judges and award consideration.
- May submit up to 2 unique pieces.
All work must fit the show’s purpose.
Prompts:
- Ridges & Ridges Book Festival tagline: “Where Ideas Take Flight “
- · Design a cover or illustrate a book you love or always wanted to write.
- · Share a memory of your experience with books or literature.
- · Use discarded books to re-create a new object or image.
- · Create an original, visual storybook.
- · Create a “portrait” of a literary “star.”
- · Bring your own ideas…
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