For the first time The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana (ARTSWIN) is working with a corporation — Toyota Indiana — to facilitate creating a new mural for the Princeton facility.
The artist selected for the project will be paid more than $30,000.
This compensation is important to ARTSWIN who was approached by Toyota to administer the commissioning of a very large mural that engages the local Toyota employee community.
ARTSWIN Gallery Director Andrea Adams said fair pay for a project like this is a long time coming.
“I think that we've done a really good job as a community and as the Arts Council, of educating the public and educating corporations who want a large scale mural like this, of how much that is actually worth, how much the artist's time is worth,” she said. “It takes a lot of time, and it takes a lot of expertise. Not just anyone can go paint on a wall and make it look good.”
One requirement is that Toyota employees and their family can paint the mural by numbers under the guidance of the artist on the October family day. The artist will start and finish the mural.
The two walls are nearly 1,600 square feet combined. ARTSWIN will get a five-percent commission for facilitating the search and selection.
The 10th annual Spooky Show is coming to the Arts Council. Local artists can submit creepy, fun or whimsical Halloween-themed items.
The show’s popularity over 10 years has prompted some changes to the submission rules.
For the first time ARTSWIN will be limiting submissions to one per artist. Last year they crammed 120 pieces into the gallery.
Overwhelmingly, artists submit wall art. Adams said the show started as a Monsters on Main sculpture event, and she wouldn’t mind getting more 3D art.
She said over time, the quality of art has increased.
“I think that people have learned to expect this show,” Adams said. “And so I have seen over the years that artists are working on it months in advance because they know to expect it. So I've seen the quality of work certainly go up over the last 10 years.”
This isn’t a juried-entrance event, but there will be prizes for first, second and third place pieces.
The deadline to register for the Spooky Show is September 25th. The Toyota Mural applications are due September 17. Details on both can be found here.
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