Category: TRAG Announcements

Timeline of Important Dates

• Thursday June 1:: Application form closes.
• Saturday July 1 st: Notifications will be sent (acceptance, decline, or alternate status).
• Tuesday August 1 st : Show fee due and is non-refundable. (Fee is $100)

Show Times and Days

Show Hours: 10 am to 5 pm on Friday and Saturday; 10 am to 4 pm on Sunday.
Show Days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 13, 14, and 15, 2023.

Set up time to be worked out between host and guest artist. Artists are not allowed to breakdown or close prior to 4 pm on Sunday (may risk participation in future shows if not compliant).

Jury

This is a juried show. All work, including fine crafts, must be original design and individually made by the artist, and signed when possible. All art is judged on a variety of criteria, including, but not limited to originality, variety, and appropriateness. One or two artists collaborating on one piece constitutes one artist.

Each artist participating in the Three Rivers Open Studios must apply and pay the fee.

Booth/Space Specifications

Tents, tables, chairs, and display equipment are the artist’s responsibility. Due to limited number of inside spaces, artists should be prepared to set up outside. Placement will be made after the jury process is complete. Everything will be done to accommodate artist needs. Host artists are not responsible for guest’s
art of property.

Promotion

This art show will only succeed and grow by the efforts of all artists. All artists must be willing to promote the show through placement of signs, postcards, posters, maps, and the use of social media. All of the money collected is used directly to support and promote the show.

Miscellaneous

A pre-show meeting will be scheduled, and all artists are asked to attend. We will pass out signs, postcards, and maps at that time.

If for any reason you are unable to attend the tour, or the full hours, please notify the open studios co-chairs immediately at openstudios@threeriversguild.com.

Questions

E-mail openstudios@threeriversguild.com. Please refrain from sending emails to planning committee members’ personal email accounts.

Open Studios Co-Chairs:
Jeanne Kelley-Brown
Tamara Scott

By Tamara Scott and Jeanne Kelley-Brown, Open Studios Coordinators

At our member meetings on November 14 (2022) and January 9th, the idea of having a TRAG-run Open Studios was proposed by some members. Jeanne Kelley-Brown and Tamara Scott are spearheading the beginnings of this project and want to assess member interest as well as member participation—we can’t do this alone!

In case you are not familiar with the Open Studios concept, here is a little explanation. Local artists open their home studio spaces for participants to come visit, view and purchase their art. If participating artists have room, they may also host 1-3 other artists who can set up in the house, the garage, or on the driveway, depending on what space is available. Portland Open Studios is HUGE, runs over two weekends, and had over 115 artists participate in 2022.

Damascus Open Studios usually has about 6 studio stops with around 21 artists. Open Studios of Beavercreek used to host two events per year (Spring and Fall) with an average of up to 26 individual artists displaying their works at as many as 14 different studio locations. Sadly, Beavercreek is no longer hosting these events after shutting down during the pandemic. Open Studios is really fun and gives people a chance to see artists in their work environments, have more personal conversations with the artists, and get to see our beautiful surroundings as they travel between studios. Usually there is a drawing for a gift certificate to the studio of the winner’s choice if they visit all of the studios and turn in a card (with signatures from each studio stop) at the end of their studio visit.

Please fill out a brief survey, as soon as possible, to indicate your interest and your level of anticipated participation if this project were to get off the ground. If there is a lot of interest and willing participants, we may be able to have our first Open Studios in the Fall. We could have studios in Oregon City, Milwaukie, West Linn, and perhaps, even Canby.

Here is a list of what would be needed (that we can think of right now!) in order for TRAG to do
this:

1. Call for Artists (application should include photos of work, questions on if artist is willing to
   have their space be a stop, how many artists can they host).
2. Jury potential artists
3. Go to artist studio, etc., to see if the accommodations will work for the show.
4. We need signs with numbers–4 for each spot
5. Postcards with a map included
6. Flyers with a map and list of artists and medium at each stop
7. Social Media
8. Meeting with artists (probably 2)
9. Fee for artist

We would probably need a committee of at least 6-8 people to do this.

Are you in??!!

If you were not present at the general meeting today, please cast your vote on proposed annual dues increase by filling the form below. Full detail about the proposed increase can be found here.

Thank you!

TRAB Board

If you were not present at the general meeting today, please cast your vote on board positions by filling the form below.

Thank you!

TRAG Board

By Cathy Rowe, OCFOTA Silent Auction Coordinator

Would you love to have your artwork shown at the Oregon City Festival of the Arts, but cannot have a full booth this year? We are opening up the silent auction for donations from anyone in the Three Rivers Artist Guild that would like to donate a piece to the Silent Auction. This means that your piece would be on display in the Silent Auction tent at the front of the Festival for Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 13 and 14). This can be a great way to get exposure and feedback on your artwork, while also helping the Three Rivers Artist Guild to grow and thrive. If you would like to donate a piece of artwork, print, art class, or something else please contact Cathy Rowe at cathyrowe.art@gmail.com with an image of the piece, title, description, size, and value. Cathy will arrange artwork drop-off or a pick-up as needed.

We already have a lot of great artwork and community donations that you can see here: https://app.galabid.com/ocfota22 , but we wanted to include as many of our great member artists as possible. Please contact Cathy by August 10 if you would like to have a piece included in the OCFOTA Silent Auction. Bidding opens August 1 and will close August 14 at 4pm.

This is one final survey that we ask you to participate in. The response to the April survey was great, now we need to narrow things down for what to offer the rest of this year.  Please see below one final survey where we’re asking you to mark your top three topics for meetings, top three topics for workshops (still working on whether we can do those this year or not), three top community ideas, and top 2 long-range “dreams”.  Please, please, please (☺) participate in this last survey to help us build a great TRAG program for the remainder of this year!

Tamara Scott,
TRAG President

Hello TRAG Members!!  We, your TRAG board members REALLY need your input!  Not being able to meet in person for two years has taken a toll on our art guild.  Overall, I think we’ve done a fairly good job keeping things going for two years, but still…..we’ve taken a hit.  Our membership numbers are down.  We are not alone in this….many organizations have been affected, and some have even folded.  We certainly are hoping that TRAG will continue and flourish in the coming year(s).  This, however, depends a great deal on participation of the membership.  This is one way that you can participate and have a say in how we move forward as a guild.  We’re hoping this will be an exciting time of “re-imagining” the guild as we begin to gather together again.  Previous surveys have only generated around 4 or 5 people responding.  My hope is that we get at least 50% of members responding.  Will you be one of those?  I sure hope so!  Thanks, in advance, for participating.

Tamara Scott
TRAG President