Festival organizers are accepting applications for vendors for the 71st National Folk Festival from up to 25 traditional artists to sell their work as part of the Montana Arts Marketplace.
The Montana Arts Marketplace will host 25 Montana-based artists/craftspeople who have been selected through a juried process.
These vendors will be able to sell their products to thousands of attendees at the event. If you are a Montana-based artist/craftsperson interested in participating in the Montana Arts Marketplace at the next National Folk Festival in Butte, Montana July 10-12, 2009, download guidelines and an application by using the links below.
DOWNLOAD GUIDELINES FOR THE MONTANA ARTS MARKETPLACE
DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION TO BE A VENDOR IN THE MONTANA ARTS MARKETPLACE
The jury will make its selections of artists based on criteria including traditionality, regional culture, and the artists' relationship with his or her community, quality, and uniqueness. Both deeply traditional crafts (as defined below) and more contemporary handcrafted artistic expressions will be on display and available for sale at the National in Butte July 10-12, 2009.
Definition of “traditional arts”
Source: The National Endowment for the Arts
Traditional arts are those art forms that are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation and practice.
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