Elora en Plein Air
GRAND RIVER PAINTING FESTIVAL
May 14 to 17, 2020
What & How
This is the 5th year of the Elora en Plein Air Festival. This is an ‘open’ competition for artists.
We invite artists to our beautiful Township to come and paint the towns of Elora and Fergus and the surrounding countryside. Capture the charming heritage buildings, historic neighbourhoods, dramatic river and gorge vistas and the rolling hillsides and picturesque farms of our uniquely beautiful region.
Our 4 day festival culminates in a show and sale of works. This is an open show of paintings produced during the festival. Each year, we invite a respected arts professional to judge the works.
Show & Sale - Sunday May 17th, 1 pm to 5 pm Elora Centre for the Arts.
Awards:1st: $10002nd: $5003rd: $300Peoples Choice: $200Artists' Choice: $200
There are also multiple $100. best awards: Garden, Street Scene, Rural Vista and Building.
Artists will receive a participant package and additional area information at check-in.
Pre-register by mailing the registration form below, the signed Rules page and a cheque or money order in Canadian funds to the address below:
Elora Arts Council, P.O. Box 3084, Elora, Ontario, Canada
You can also register below and use Pay Pal here or click on 'Pay' page.
Our 2020 Judge Mary Anna Goetz
Mary Anna Goetz was born in Oklahoma City where she began her art studies as a pupil of her well-known artist parents, Richard and Edith Goetz. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Oklahoma City University, Goetz furthered her studies at the Malden Bridge School of Art; Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA; and The New York Academy of Art. For four decades Goetz has painted her environs (Oklahoma, New York City, Cape Cod and Woodstock) with a heavily impastoed technique in an impressionist/tonalist style.
Her paintings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at galleries throughout the US including Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, the James Cox Gallery at Woodstock, and Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City.
Goetz maintains an active teaching schedule and has served on the faculty of the Woodstock School of Art. She is a member of the New York’s Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club.
Publications include: Painting Landscapes in Oils (1990, North Light Books), and A Fieldguide to Landscape Painting (DVD).
When: May 14th to 17th, 2020
Where: Fergus Elora and surrounding countryside
For more information: info@elorapleinair.ca
Photo credits: Anne Hobbs, Sylvia Galbraith & Gord Harris
© Shirley Al Design/Elora Fergus Arts Council
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