Whether you're an artist or a community organization, paint outs offer a wonderful package of fun, interactive entertainment. Everyone wants to experience creativity in the making. A successful Paint Out promotes artists and sells paintings, bringing income and profit for artists and organizations alike.
This guide provides step by step practical instructions for every single detail of the Paint Out planning process. Everything from selecting the artists, to selling wet canvases.
The appendix materials are worth the purchase price all by themselves: sample letters to artist, ad rates, catalog page layouts, and all the forms we use to put on our own Paint Outs.
How to Coordinate a Successful Paint Out: the Complete Guide, 2nd Edition
by Annie W. Pais and Stewart J. Thomas, ©2005 AAONF.
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Check out the table of contents before you buy:
see for yourself the wealth of material covered.
Table of Contents:
Throw a Paint Out
Planning
Planning Committee
Pick your Theme
Pick your Location
Pick your Dates
Create a Budget
Partnerships
Planning Timeline
Sponsors
Select and Care for Your Artists
Artist Selection
Total Quality
Invitational or Juried
Artist Contract
Artist PR materials
Caring for Your Artists
HOUSING
MEALS
WATER, WATER, WATER
ARTIST DINNER
Getting Out the Word
Pre-Event Publicity
SPONSORSHIPS
PRINTED MATERIALS
MEDIA OUTREACH
Publicity During the Event
Post-Event Publicity
The Catalog
Production and Printing
Contents
The Paint Out: Artists on Site
Logistics
Entry and Signage
Information Tables
The Wet Room
Spectators
Volunteers
The Gala Exhibition and Sale
Venue
Set-up and Volunteers
The Gala Frenzy
Finishing Up Your Event
Pick up and Clean up
Monetary Transactions
Post Exhibition
Post Publicity
Feedback
And Finally
Appendix
Communications with Artists
Artist Invitation Letters
Artist Agreement Form & RSVP
Artist Information Form
Artist Update Letter
Public Relations Materials
Posters & Flier
Postcards
Sample List-Serve Posting
Invite to One-Day Paint Out
Catalog
Catalog Ad Rates
Sponsor Letter
Catalog Covers
Catalog Page - Example
Event Materials
Participant Pass
Artwork Tags
Artist Listing
Event Map
Logo for Event T-shirts
Auction Guidelines
About Us
Paint Out Consultation
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