Special Events

The Great Winter Crow Show at the Spirit Room, held in alternate years, is a non-competitive festive exhibition free of entry fees. It is intended to be a mad combining of energies and visual ingredients. The theme is the crow, the blackbird, and all their marvelous and malevolent associations. The crows and ravens keep us company in the wintertime and continue to remind us with their squawks and pacing that they keep a close eye on our behaviors and movements.

Crows are known to play catch with twigs, to slide down snowy hills on their backs head-first, to soar and dive for entertainment, to carry shiny objects back to their nests for contemplation, and to collect hallucinogenic seeds in the fall, saving them to bring color to winter-white boredom. It gets slow in the winter for people too, a good reason to celebrate “the uncanny crow.”

The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher said in the mid 1880s, “If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to match the crow.”

This is a chance to put on your thinking cap and share your talents and good humor by entering the Great Winter Crow Show.

General Guidelines:

To enter the Crow Show, all deadlines must be met.

The following contract must be signed and submitted with the entry form.

Literary and performance art will be limited to a total of 60 minutes beginning promptly
at 7:30 pm. Entries will be first-come, first-serve.

Visual Arts that are offered for sale must include a 30 per cent donation to the Spirit Room.

There is no entry fee.

Deadlines

Entry Registration Forms are due at the PO Box 1657, Fargo, ND 58107 by Friday, 26 February 2010.

Art Delivery to the Spirit Room will be during the weekdays beginning March 1-4 between
1:00-5:00pm.

Artists will pick up art work on Saturday, April 10, 2010 between the hours of
1:00–5:00 or make other arrangements . The opening reception is March 6st, 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Presentation Guidelines: Artwork must be prepared for display with backing, dowels or hanging wire to enable hanging from picture rail. Any work not adequately prepared for presentation may be denied exhibition at the discretion of the curator. Installation pieces and exceptionally heavy or fragile pieces must be installed by the artist with approval prior to delivery of the art.

Liability: Each artist is responsible for insuring his or her artwork. The Spirit Room is not liable for damage or loss of artwork. All art will be handled in a professional manner.

Sales: Include in the price of your artwork an additional 30 per cent donation to the Spirit Room. Sales will be managed through the gallery.

Contract with Artist: Submission of the following entry form constitutes an agreement by the artist to abide by all details of this prospectus.

Entry Form Download this PDF and fill it out.


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