2nd Annual Outdoor Painting Festival  September 29, 30, October 1 coincides with Culture Days Canada www.outdoorpaintingfestival.com      This is a new website for the event.  There have been some changes and because it is a new website not everything is there yet.  On the other hand, the rules, registration form and payment are there.  I would like to post more soon such as photos from 1st annual, plus lodging, food, venues etc.  For the meantime you can  see photos at www.cavanarts.ca   outdoor painting festival There are some changes:  there is some relaxation on supports The price has gone up to $75 cause I did not have enough money to do everything I thought would be great for participants The prizes have increased to $1500 first, $1000 second, $500 third, $100 honarary mention, 2 plaques, 6 honarary mentions tba... New  Event:  Quick Paint Event October 1st  9 to 11:00  prize $500   Cost to enter ONLY Quick paint $25   No charge for artists who paid full price  The events will be juried. New Event:  Plein Air Workshop facilitated by Sam Paonessa September 28    9:30 a.m to 4 pm   Cost $75 Please check out the website.  Call me for information you need  705 944 9444 or contact me through the website. I have a favour to ask.  Please share this with anyone you know who might want to participate.  Also tell friends and family to come out to visit and support you during the festival. Your Greatest gift to me would be to sign up as soon as possible.  You have no idea how helpful that will be.  I will have a better idea what I can do.  There will be the Celebratory Reception on October 1st at 2:00 pm to announce the Awards.  The Fresh off the Easel Sale will go on right after Awards.  Please do not leave right away.  People came to buy and most folks had Gone.   Also I really hope you will help me with the Call to Artists and to spread  the word to visitors and collectors.  I so appreciate the members who came out last year to the Events.  Hope to see you back and want very much to welcome new artists.   The prize money has once again been donated by Galerie Q.  Another new change is that the Top Award Winners will go into a special new Plein Air Show till October 29th, 2017 at Galerie Q.  I will add to this and the website as it progresses.  Valerie Kent  

New banner is ready I put the banner up take a look http://cavanarts.ca/index.php/2016-03-22-23-44-51  Hope this answers the question but please do not hesitate to contact me if anything is not working for you.  Thanks

Hi Mary I am so sorry you could not access the registration.  I sent the problem to my webmaster, Jeff Sanders, and hope he will get back to me soon and I can get back to you so you can sign up.  That will be great.  Maybe try http://cavanarts.ca I just talked with him and he is going to make a banner for you to register and pay.  He is doing it now...If you have a problem you can contact  Jeff and he can help get this done at  j@vx1.net  Thanks Mary

I wanted you to know that the registration form and the details are ready. www.cavanarts.ca I welcome anyone who wishes to register now.  Thanks for responding.

October 1st and 2nd, 2016  Saturday and Sunday Cavan is a series of rolling hills with wide vistas, some marsh, the Cavan Creek and if we hit the right time, the autumn colours.  (No guarantee on colour unless it is on your canvas.) And 6 km away is the quaint and picturesque town of Millbrook that features Needler Mills and a one block main street.  It is a honey as far as the "olden days" look.  The town also features a park and pond. This is about 1 hr 15 min from Toronto going east.    By then the Cavan Art Academy and Cavan Art Gallery will be up and running so that is where we will meet and where the prizes for the juried  plein air competition will be held.  There are 7 acres and the property is on the Creek.  The website is www.cavanarts.ca    There will soon be a registration form on the site. Prizes will be awarded at the reception on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. There will be a charge of $25 per person (so I can get a Johnny on the Spot), honorariums for the jurors and it will fund the reception and for some of the prize money which will be announced a little later on as I am fundraising at this time. If you have a thought about that...hmmm, let me know.  It would do my heart good to be able to offer  both "gracious" and "generous" prizes. Since this is the first one in Cavan/Millbrook, the number of registrants will be limited and therefore, I encourage you to sign up early enough so that proper planning can be done.  My thought is to .  .  have the public in to purchase the "fresh off the easel" paintings and your cooperation and .  .  help in publicizing this event would be required.  The sale will go on from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m..  .  Paintings will be displayed in the Gallery and you will need to be there if your work is for sale..  .  I am trying to line up reasonably priced places to stay overnight in the area on Saturday night.    Of course this is not something that can be done alone so any help that is available from members would be welcomed.  If you have skills in the social media arena - hello there, you would be a VVA (very valuable asset) . Press releases - awesome.  .  I am trying to get a reading on if there is any interest in my pursuing this event so I definitely want to hear from anyone who has questions, who is interested, who has some ideas.  Give me feedback please.. .  .And if you have lots of experience doing this kind of event - do not be a stranger.   If you sing and or play an instrument we could make Saturday evening just that much more fun.  'Fess up!"  www.galerie-q.com has already pledged prize money.  They are 4 doors south of Cavan Art Gallery. So now it is in your hands.  Is this a yea or a nay.   Valerie