New for 2012
New for 2012, thanks to a generous sponsorship by Morel Ink, the full-color Tour Guide will be a museum-quality 10″ x 8″ perfect bound book, featuring artists’ contact information and full color images of their work. And, it has been redesigned to include a 2013 Datebook, and makes a great desk calendar.
As in prior years, tickets for the Portland Open Studios Tour will come in three forms – the full-color Tour Guide with a fold-out map ticket for $15, an iPhone app for $9.99, and a Map Only Ticket for $5. While your clients and patrons can visit your studio on your invitation, they do need a ticket to take the Tour and visit other studios.
Full-color Tour Guides and map-only tickets will be available through participating artists, sponsors, resellers, the Portland Open Studios website, and at special events.
You will get 5 full-color Tour Guides and 5 map-only Tour Guides included in your participation fee. You can give these away to key collectors, gallery owners, artists, students or friends. Or, you can resell them at the retail price.
Reselling the tour guides you are given as part of your participation fee will net you $75. According to our 2010 survey of event visitors, more visitors got their tour guide from a participating artist (33%) than anywhere else. That’s as many as from art stores and New Seasons combined!
Order before July 15, and you can pick them up at the July Workshop! No need to pay for shipping!
Purchase 10 Full Color Tour Guides with Datebook for $100
Purchase 5 Full Color Tour Guides with Datebook for $50
Purchase 10 Map Only Tickets for $30
Portland Open Studios activities are funded solely by the sale of Tour Guides and artist’s participation fees. Funds raised by these activities pay for signs, insurance, advertising, quality design and printing, public relations efforts, web development and more! Tour Guide sales are critical to keeping the artists’ fees as low as possible.
Buying a tour guide is like buying a ticket for the event, and we all know that most really good events cost money. Paying for a ticket means that people who visit your studio are really interested in art, not just bored people out for a walk on a Saturday. It also places a value on what you do as an artist – sharing your workspace, offering demos, and educating the public about what it takes to be an artist. Each ticket gives 2 adults plus their kids access to 100 artists studios across the city for four days – imagine what it costs to take a family of four to a two-hour movie, and the ticket price for the tour begins to look like the value it is.
