You will be required to submit one photo image to be considered for Art in the Park. This photo is the most important part of your application and the only thing that will be used to evaluate your submission and it alone will determine if you get accepted or not. The one photo must be a wide angle full view outdoor booth display image from one of your recent outdoor events you attended. This image must be a wide angle view. All of the following must be clearly in view and present in the image: 1.) A tent must be in use in the image. The tent color can only be white. The exterior fabric of your tent canopy must be visible in the image. This is how you will prove that your tent canopy is the required color WHITE. 2.)Tent Weights must be in use in the image. The image must show your 40 pound weights secured to each tent leg. At least one tent leg must be visible with the proper amount of weight clearly in view . We can infer that the remaining three legs will have the same set up with weights. 3.)Tables must be covered with table cloths and the fabric must drape to the ground on three sides of the table. No plastic table cloths are permitted at art in the park. 4.) Products, artwork, creations: Your products and artwork must be handmade and on display in the image. The work you intend to sell and the category of work for which you are applying must be represented in this one image. This is very important. We will be looking to see if the product fits our aesthetic. With 20 plus years experience in art fairs and festivals, we will be evaluating the quality and fit and finish of the products visible in the photo and we will be able to determine based off this one photo if your work is handmade or not. We will use the zoom function to really get a detailed view of your work when evaluating your photo. This will be done on an iPad. It is up to you to submit the best quality photo that you can. We also will be evaluating if you have an appropriate amount of inventory on display so your booth looks inviting. When customers have choices it will help you generate sales. Do not submit a second photo . Don’t submit individual photos of your work. Don’t submit any photos of you posing in your booth. If you follow directions well then the first time I will see that smiling face of yours will be when you arrive to check in at your first market with us. Let’s keep the mystery alive until then! Do not submit any other images. They will not be viewed and will not be used to evaluate your application. If you don’t already have this type of image that you can submit, please don’t submit one that has “almost” all of the required items. We get approximately 30 to 40 applications a day for only 30 slots each month. The people that follow directions will be accepted and the people who submit photos that are missing item(s) will not be accepted. You being precise helps me avoid charging application fee's. Our application deadlines are generously long. Please take the time and get a good quality photo! Booth spaces are not assigned. Artists select their own booth space on a first come first served basis at the time of check in. The booth spaces are all different and are not on level ground. You will be setting up your tent (booth) in grass or pine straw. Artists can arrive to check in on either Friday pm or Saturday am anytime during the window of time allotted by art in the park for checking in. it is your choice when you arrive. Instructions for checking in will be sent a week ahead of the event. . Art in the Park is a two day event one weekend a month. This application is for May 18th and 19th Hours Saturday 9 am to 4 pm Sunday noon to 4 pm Early check in is Friday 6pm to 830 pm Saturday regular check in is 630 am to 830 No smoking in the Park. Trailers are not allowed at Art in the Park. - there isn’t any place to park them at the event. No electricity is available - quiet generators are permitted. Vendor parking is in the city parking deck. There is security on Saturday night only. You must be set up for the entire duration of the show both days. The city has the right to cancel one or both days of the event due to severe weather in the forecast (this is extremely rare) There will be no refunds if this happens and no make up rain days the following weekend. Please consider our no refund policy when making a decision whether or not to apply. You may cancel your application and get a refund less credit card fees up to 30 days before the event. Less than 30 days you may request that your accepted application be switched to one of the markets later in the year space permitting otherwise there are no refunds through cancellations less than 30 days from the start of the event. Art in the Park is a small artist market with approximately 30 vendors each month. April through October. Our attendance is consistent with a small market. Our booth fee is only $85. Your sales expectations should be correlated to that level of fee. We are not an art festival. We may be small but we think big. Review our profile photos of our past events. You will get advance information instructions 5 days before the event.