Tullahoma Arts Posts Festival Application On Site
In addition to an $80 booth fee, artists and craftpersons participating in the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center's Arts and Crafts Festival are being asked to provide door prizes for the festival's “shoppers.”
The festival application, available on their new website, states that “each artist/crafter will be asked to donate a door prize to be given away to shoppers during the event, representative of merchandise in your booth.”
The arts center has hosted an art fair for 42 years. However, this will be the first festival held since the center's long-serving executive director and president, Lucy Hollis, resigned. Her successor, Troy McFarland, canceled last year's event saying, “what [TFAC] had for years, just did not work.”
Now a new board of directors hopes to renew interest in the juried festival. They have scheduled it for May 26 and 27.
The booth fee is just $5 more than the 2010 fee. But the registration deadline has been moved up one month, from May 1 to April 1. And after that date, the fee goes to $110. In previous years the late registration fee was only an additional $5. No discount is provided for center members.
There is also no mention of awards. In 2010, a total of $1,200 in cash awards was offered. There were also product awards provided by art supply companies and purchase awards from patrons.
Despite the arts center's long history of hosting festivals, this one is being organized by a new group of volunteers and they see it as “a new beginning.”
