ADUR ART TRAIL

Yes, you must be a member of Adur Art Collective to sign up for the Art Trail. Adur Art Collective Members can invite a guest artist to exhibit alongside them, with a Guest Artist fee.

Artists with a Venue – Any member artists of the Adur Art Collective with a venue can run an artist open house, during the Adur Art Trail. Artists without a Venue – Any member artists of the Adur Art Collective without a venue can take part in the Adur Art Trail. Artists Venue with Space for other Artists – Any member artists of the Adur Art Collective with a venue, can take part in the Adur Art Trail, and offer space to other artists. An Established Group of Community Partner – Such as a gallery or houseboat, can take part in the Adur Art Trail. Guest Artists – Can take part in the Adur Art Trail when invited by an existing member and chosen by committee selection.

The Adur Art Trail takes place on weekends in June. Exact dates are confirmed in January before the Trail.

Your venue listed in the Adur Art Trail printed brochure distributed throughout Sussex. Opportunity to join an art trail due to area exclusion from taking part in larger better known art trails. Connect with the public and the local arts community. Share and market your work directly and in person, enabling you to share your passion. Year round social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram and regular updates from the team. Travel information. Assessibilty information in the brochure. Discounts which run for the duration of the art trail. Advertisting in local arts and culture publications. Art Trail Advertising pack for your venue for the duration of the art trail; including banners, flags, bunting, house number, artist badges. We ask for a small deposit which is returned to you when you return the art trail pack back to us at the end of the Art Trail. Opportunity to join an area art trail, with support from a committee member trail coordinator, if one exists in your area. Street advertsing with large banners. Online information and guides to opening your house. Email advise and support from committee team. Invitations to complete feedback and evalution forms. Annual review at the Adur Art Collective AGM in November. Invitations to previews at other open houses and venues. Chance to shine and really showcase your artwork and skills, if you want to run demos or workshops alongside the Art Trail. Promote your work, the Adur Art Collective and the Adur Art Trail. Gain social skills, by working and collaborating with others. It’s fun and incredibily rewarding. Option to charge commission of sold works if working in a group. Share the cost of opening your house if you work with a group of artists.

Expression of Interest Forms are sent out to all existing members of the Adur Art Collective, by email in December. All artist members and venues must have registered to take part by the end of February.

The Adur Art Trail All Adur Art Collective open house venues are required to agree to the Adur Art Collective Terms and Conditions when registering for the Adur Art Trail. The Adur Art Trail artist open houses is open to The Adur Art Trail open houses is open to all Adur Art Collective member artists living within the Adur district area, (Shoreham-by-Sea, Shoreham Beach, South Lancing, North Lancing, Coombes, Sompting, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea and Fishersgate. Adur Art Collective member artists taking part in the Adur Art Trail are welcome to also display the work of guest artists from outside the area, subject to agreement from the Adur Art Collective committee. Guest artist can only take part in the Adur Art Trail for one year only, after which time they must apply to become members of the Adur Art Collective. The Adur Art Trail Objectives Adur Art Collective (ADURARTS) coordinate and promote art and artists taking part in the Adur Art Trail Artists Open Houses, this includes the annual Art trail in June. The purpose of The Adur Art Collective Art Trail artists open houses is to promote practicing artists displaying/selling their own work. Commercial premises are welcome to take part in the Artists Open Houses, but the images and words used in Adur Art Trail listings must be relevant solely to the exhibition of artists’ work that they are hosting. Listings must not be used to promote a business or other unrelated business activities, but if a commercial premises would also like to promote their business they can, in addition, take out an advert in the Adur Art Trail brochure contact: info@adurartcollective.co.uk Art Trail Dates The Adur Art Trail artist open houses covers the first three full weekends of June only. While Adur Art Trail open house venues may list other opening dates as part of their brochure listing, including bank holidays, these dates do not generally constitute part of the official Adur Art Trail dates. Adur Art Trail Areas The June Adur Art Trail includes a number of geographic ‘trails’. These area trails are managed by elected Adur Art Collective committee Trail Coordinators. Dependant upon your open house location you will be assigned to a trail area if one exists in your area. Where no appropriate trail coordinator exists, houses will be listed in the Adur Art Trail brochure as independent venues. Brochure and Listings All artist open houses receive a listing in our Adur Art Trail brochure subject to meeting deadlines. Adur Art Collective reserves the right to review submitted listings and change details which do not comply with the Adur Art Trail style, or which are felt to be untrue or offensive. Listings which exceed the stated word count will be edited. Composite images where a single image is made up of several smaller ones – will not be accepted. The design and lay-out of the Adur Art Trail brochure is dictated by necessities of space and other essential design considerations, meaning we are not able to accept requests from individual Open Houses concerning specific listing placements or trail order. It is agreed that images uploaded as part of Adur Art Trail listings or sent to Adur Art Collective and/or their PR campaign coordinator for any promotional purposes, can be used by the Adur Art Collective and their PR campaign coordinator for any relevant promotional purposes without payment to the artists or seeking their further approval. Adur Art Collective and/or their PR coordinator will supply all publications with artist image credits, but cannot be held responsible for any publication’s failure to credit images. All Artist Open Houses venues must undertake to correct any errors on their brochure listing and map proofs and send via email all corrections by the date specified. Adur Art Collective cannot accept responsibility for any errors not clearly marked-up and returned at proof stage. Adur Art Collective reserves the right to refund payment and withdraw any entry that does not, after due consultation and consideration, comply with our Terms and Conditions of registration. Listings or venues displaying images or language considered to be homophobic, racist, sexist, ageist, abusive to people with learning or other disabilities or otherwise exploitative of others, will not be accepted and the right to register with Adur Art Collective may be withdrawn. All artist members will provide information and images made and owned solely by them, anything they provide us, will not infringe copyright law, or the copyright of others. In the event an artist member is found to be in breach of copyright law, the artist member is soley responsible for any financial or legal claims which may arise. The Adur Art Collective accepts no responsibily for any artist member, and shall not be liable for any artist member found to be in breach of copyright law. Art Trail Insurance It is a condition of taking part in Adur Art Trail that all Open Houses must take out public liability insurance. We recommend AN AIR: www.a-n.co.uk/about/insurance. Adur Art Collective takes no responsibility for injury to members of the public when visiting Open Houses. Art Trail Fees All Adur Art Collective individual member artists requesting a place on the Adur Art Trail shall be subject to an art trail fee. All Adur Art trail venue hosts shall be subject to an art trail fee. Adur Art Trail venues with more than five Adur Art Collective members shall be subject to an art trail fee. Invited guest artists shall be subject to an art trail fee. Payment of Fees Payment of fees can be made online on our website or by bank transfer. Our memberships team will provide you will the relevant information to make payment of fees. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information about how we process payments. Art Trail Refunds Full refunds are available until the end of the Adur Art Trail registration period only. It is agreed that full refunds for listings withdrawn from the Adur Art Trail cannot be made once the brochure has reached proof stage. Partial refunds only will be offered, where possible, from proof stage and beyond, but cannot be guaranteed. Pets It is recommended that Adur Art Trail artist open houses with pets and with dogs make sure pets and particulary dogs are controlled or shut in a different area of the house during open ours, particularly pets or dogs that have a tendency to be child or visitor unfriendly. Discussion and Feedback In coordinating and promoting the Adur Arts Trail, the Adur Art Collective committee will regularly consult with and seek the views of participating member artists open houses, through discussion and email surveys, ensuring it is, and remains, responsive to members and venues needs. However, in coming to decisions regarding the type and extent of services provided, and the nature of the direction and future development of the Adur Art Trail, decisions reached by the Adur Art Committee team will be contingent on the needs and interests of the Adur Art Collective as a whole, rather than the interests of any particular individual or group. The Adur Art Collective committee provide a forum for discussion of issues affecting the organization and promotion of the Adur Art Trail. Any member artist can request to join the committee. Committee members will be invited and informed of the meeting time and place well in advance. 
The meeting agenda will be circulated to attendees before each meeting. Attendees may be invited to submit agenda items for discussion, although Adur Art Collective reserves the right to determine the overall content of the meeting agenda. All artist members are invited to the Adur Art Collective AGM. Adur Art Collective will provide Adur Art Trail open houses with regular feedback and information regarding the provision of services, fees and other changes, including any decisions taken by the committee, via discussion group meetings, regular newsletters, reports and email communication. All artist members will complete and return the Art trail evalution form or survey, at the end of the trail, these are usually requested by email.

For artists without a venue we will review the opportunities for you and advise you of your assigned venue in March. Each venue has a co-ordinator who will be in contact with you to make arrangements with you and other artists participating.

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