Booth and Display Requirements
Booth Dimensions
Your booth space is 10′ x 10′. There is no storage space available adjacent to the booths or behind the booths. The only thing that can go outside the 10′ x 10′ dimensions of your booth is you. Please plan your layout accordingly.
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival reserves the right, if circumstances demand, to change the location of allocated space, slightly reduce or increase the size of space, or otherwise alter the shape of space allocated. The Festival also reserves the right to rearrange the layout of unoccupied areas, alter entrances and exits to and from the site, and to undertake other structural alterations.
Booth Signs
You will receive a booth sign upon registration that lists artists’ names, hometown, medium categories and booth number. You must display this sign in your booth so that it is easily visible from the front entrance of your booth. Your booth sign must be displayed for the duration of your stay at the Market.
Tents
Exhibitors are responsible for providing their own booth structures with canopy, racks, tables, display units, fixtures, chairs and dollies. All display materials must be suitable for outdoor usage.
Please invest in a durable, sturdy tent with wind vents. While lightweight pop-up tents may seem like an economical arrangement, we have seen these kinds of tents blow over, bend, twist, collapse, and rip with only minimal wind gusts. When set up in close quarters with your fellow artists, a tent that blows over can have devastating effects on neighboring tents, even if their tent is otherwise sturdy and secure. Wind vents are crucial because they allow wind to blow through your tent rather than blowing it away.
Securing Your Tent
Exhibitors should prepare for inclement weather by bringing their own appropriate rain covers, tie-downs and weights. Even during nice weather, the Festival can experience extremely windy conditions. A tent with a removable top, wind flaps, heavy cord, bungee cords, clamps and wire will come in handy in securing your booth during windy periods.
Bring adequate weights. Do not tie ropes to benches, light posts, trees, or anything else. Use hanging weights. You will be unable to stake on walkways. You may not stake between the sandstone tiles in Gateway Plaza, nor the concrete and blue stone path in Point State Park.
Bring at least 70 pounds of weight for each corner of your tent. Weights can be fashioned from many different items, such as PVC tubes or buckets filled with concrete or sand, hand and barbell weights from your home exercise equipment collection, or gallon containers filled with water. Do not use plastic bags filled with sand. These inevitably rip open and create a tremendous mess. Hang weights from each of the four upper corners using strong rope. Allow the weights to hang suspended off the ground – approximately 12″ – 18″. This will help to keep your tent from twisting in the wind.
Work On Display
Only works of art created by the artist(s) accepted by the Festival may be displayed or offered for sale. Only work in the medium category or categories in which the artist is accepted may be shown. You may not display jewelry of any kind, even if it fits your primary medium category, unless you were accepted in the jewelry category. The Festival will ask you to remove any work that does not fit these criteria.
Work must be comparable in size, style, and quality to the work in images accepted through the jury process. The Festival will ask you to remove any work that it deems you did not appropriately represent through the images you supplied for jury.
All work must be properly identified with no misleading labels. Reproductions of original work must be identified as such. 75% of your stock must be original work. You will be asked to remove reproductions exceeding 25% of the work shown. Gold-filled, washed or plated work must be identified.
You may display your name, company name, logo and biographical information in your booth. You may distribute business cards within your booth. No other cards, ribbons, catalogues, brochures, flyers, posters or publicity materials may be displayed.
If you win an award at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, we hope you will proudly display it. You may not display awards or ribbons from other shows, not even previous Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival awards, to avoid confusion. You may keep an album or portfolio of awards and other materials in your booth.
Under no circumstances may you sublet your booth, in whole or in part, with or without charge. You may not display or advertise the work of individuals other than those accepted and specified in your application. Failure to comply with any of these rules will result in immediate removal from the show and future Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Artists Markets.
If you have questions about whether something you are planning to bring fits within our rules or relates to the slides you submitted with your application, please call or email Sonja at 412-471-3191 prior to the Festival.
Site Qualifiers
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival upholds high standards of quality as a fine art and fine craft market. The Site Qualifiers, comprised of professionals in each medium, will visit the Artists Market at various and random times during the course of the Festival.