DORSET VISUAL ARTS

Dorset Art Weeks 2010
COVER DESIGN COMPETITION

Design a front cover for the Dorset Art Weeks 2010 Brochure and win £500 plus your design on 40,000 brochures distributed throughout the county and beyond.
Dorset Visual Arts, who organise the Dorset Art Weeks event, have announced a competition for the brochure front cover sponsored by solicitors Humphries Kirk.
The next Dorset Art Weeks is in 2010 and plans are already underway to make it the most successful yet. In 2010, Dorset Art Weeks will celebrate its tenth anniversary and for the first time, a Dorset artist will design the brochure cover.

ENTRANCE TO THE COMPETITION IS FREE FOR DVA SUBSCRIBERS. For further details email admin@dorsetvisualarts.org or ring 01305 853100 and leave your name and contact number.
Alternatively full details and application form are available from the links in the news section of this site -(click on News in the header bar of this page and scroll down the news stories to find the cover competition).

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF DVA
Dorset Visual Arts is a Charitable Trust set up to educate the public at large about the skills, visions and creative products of Dorset’s artists, craftspeople and designer-makers. It also aims to foster, develop and promote the talents of current and future subscribers to the organisation.

To achieve its objectives DVA gathers its income through donations, sponsorship, grant-funding, subscriptions and participation fees. Its organisation is carried out by its trading company Dorset Visual Arts (Promotions) Ltd.

SUBSCRIPTIONS HELP TO DELIVER,

DVA WEBSITE
DVA offers artists a dynamic web site that has a permanent directory of Dorset’s artists and makers. It allows individual content to be managed by each subscriber. The site links to the subscribers own websites.

THE DORSET ART WEEKS EVENT
Subscribers are able to take part in DVA’s main event - Dorset Art Weeks. Dorset Art Weeks is a biennial event and is the largest open studio event in the UK with over 800 participating artists in 335 venues taking part in 2008. 29 May to 13 June are the provisional dates for the 2010 event.

OTHER EVENTS AND ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES
Subscribers also have the opportunity to advertise their own events and exhibitions in the news section of the DVA website as well as in the quarterly newsletter. DVA offers the subscribers the opportunity to take part in other events. Their newest event is ‘Festive Dorset’. This Christmas opportunity combines an Art and Food event.

THE DVA ARTISTS AND MAKERS MAP
The DVA Artists and Makers Map, a guide distributed throughout Dorset in retail outlets and Tourist Information Centres, is another marketing opportunity that DVA offers subscribers. If you would like a copy please send an A5 stamp addressed envelope to DVA.