Spencer County
Elementary School,Ky. Hwy. 44,
west of Downtown
Taylorsville KY
Saturday, May
15, 2010 from10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday May 16,
2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
with crafting
classes Fri, Sat, & Sun
Admission $4
for adults; age 12 and under free
 Quick
link to categorized information and forms
Join us for the 16th
Annual Kentucky Gourd Art Show. We look forward to seeing you as
a participant in the show, so check out the possibilities for entering
your dried gourds and your works of art. After you have decided
what entry classes you want to win those ribbons in, be sure to print out
the registration form, fill it out, and
mail it to address on the form. If you are going to be
a vendor at the show, use the same registration form along with the
vendor
contract. A variety of workshops are offered
Friday-Sunday. And of course, you will get hungry looking at all the fabulous
gourd art work, so sign up to enjoy the fellowship and entertainment at
our Saturday evening dinner and Sunday
morning breakfast.using the meal reservation form.
A Letter from
the President:
Dear Gourders,
We hope that you will join us for the Kentucky Gourd Society’s "sixteenth"
show. Wow!! Though we’ve grown and developed, we are still
devoted to spreading the gourd word!
1)
Our theme this year is "Horsing Around With Gourds" in honor of the great
"Equestrian Games" competition being held in the United States and in Lexington
KY. This is such a grand thing to happen to KY that we are devoting
our show to that theme. Think of ways that you can sculpt, paint, or otherwise
create a horse theme with a gourd. There is also a special category on
page 24, so check it out!
2) We are
also introducing a very special area this year. Its title is "Touchable
Gourds". This area has been designed by Patrice Will of Louisville, who
is working with the Kentucky School for the Blind. The students will
have work to display and to be judged by "special" judges. There
is also a category for you crafters to enter a "Tactile” piece. This
section of the display area will be open to the students and the public
to touch, feel or hold entries in these classes. There are guidelines
for you to go by on pages 11 (youth) and 25 (adult).
3) This year
we will be using the guidelines set by the American Gourd Society for judging.
For more information you may go to the AGS web site at http://www.americangourdsociety.org.
We have added a lot of information to help you with your entries; see the
DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES at the beginning of the crafted gourds section.
There are additional notes above many of the entry classes. Much
of the information comes from the new Judging Handbook developed by the
American Gourd Society. We hope that this information helps both
you (in creating your entries) and the judges (in awarding you ribbons).
4) We’ve added
lots of new entry classes for young artists (and some for adults, too)
this year!! There are so many that they are too numerous to mention
here. They are all marked “new” above the entry class in the booklet
so you can easily find them.
5) Entry classes
with cash awards are marked with “$$$” above the entry class in the booklet,
so check them out.
Be sure to read through
the booklet. It’s packed with information to help make the process
of creating those masterpieces and successfully entering them in the show
easy! Check the web site at www.kygourdsociety.com for more
information on the show and workshops. See you in May!!
Janet Barnett,
KGS President
Volunteer Opportunities
We need your help
to make our show a success. If you can spend some time in one of
the following areas, please contact Tracy Pace at (502) 477-2159 or at
kgs@elkcreek.net. You will have an opportunity to meet some great
people and make a personal contribution to the Kentucky Gourd Society.
In addition, you will earn five “gourd dollars” an hour! You can
spend them bidding at the auction following the Sunday morning breakfast.
If you sign up to volunteer for a 3-hour shift before April 24, we will
send you a free pass to get into the show, too!!
We need help on Friday
evening with checking in gourd show entries, setting up the exhibit area,
handing out vendor packets and registering exhibitors and entries.
On Saturday and Sunday,
we need to man the Kentucky Gourd Society table, the Gourd General Store,
the Membership table, the Workshop registration table, the Information
Desk and the Exhibit Area, including the Touchable Gourd area. This
is a great chance to have some fun and meet a lot of nice people.
We also need someone to handle our PA announcements during the day.
And of course, on Sunday, we will need help with taking down the show.
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