Submission Deadline for Photo Contest: June 7, 2008 Exhibition: July 18-August 9, Rondout Golf Club, Accord, NY Art Auction by JMW Auctions: Sunday, Aug. 10, Rondout Golf Club
(RVBA) The Rondout Valley Business Association proudly announces the launch of a new community service and outreach program, Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09. Destined to become a much-anticipated yearly event, Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09, is a multifaceted photography contest, photo auction and calendar sales fundraiser to benefit local scholarship programs, the event's participants, and the RVBA.
Call for Entries
Attention all photographers interested in showing and promoting your work in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region of New York: The Rondout Valley Business Association (RVBA) invites you to submit up to 4 entries in Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09. This contest, sure to become a much-anticipated annual event, is a community outreach program and fundraiser to benefit local scholarship programs and the RVBA.
Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09 is actually several events rolled into one: A non-juried photography exhibit, featuring works that celebrate the scenic yea r-round beauty of the Rondout Valley; a professionally conducted photo auction; and a juried photography contest, from which 13 winning entries, selected by a panel of distinguished judges, will be reproduced in high quality 2009 wall calendar of sophisticated design. Of these entries, 12 will be used to illustrate each of the months, with the 13th (chosen by popular vote) to grace the calendar's cover. The Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09 Calendar will go on sale later this year.
The Visions of the Valley™ 2008/09 Exhibition will be held in the restaurant of the Rondout Valley Golf Club in Accord, NY. Entries will be professionally mounted and displayed from Friday, July 18, to Saturday, August 9, 2008. The exhibition then culminates in an auction and cocktail reception on Sunday, August 10, conducted by professional auctioneer Jay Werbalowsky of JMW Auctions in Rosendale, NY. Exact time of this event TBA. Photographers will receive 50% of the proceeds from the sale of their work at the auction.
for more information on the event and how to enter
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