TD Art Gallery Paint-In

Saturday July 21, 2012

Paint-In: 11:00 - 4:30 pm
Gallery Open House: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Food & Beverage Garden: 11am - 9:00 pm
Dancing to Kumbia: 5:00pm - 9:00 pm

Vancouver Island’s largest outdoor visual art event, the TD Art Gallery Paint-In is celebrating its 25th Anniversary! So mark your calendar and plan to join us on Saturday July 21, 2012.

The Paint-In is a community outreach initiative featuring 150 invited professional and emerging artists from Victoria and surrounding areas. Artists take their studios to the street to display and produce their work on Moss Street between Fort Street and Dallas Road. The Paint-In is a free and fun-filled community-based art awareness and education event that sees up to 35,000 visitors. Once again TD is demonstrating its commitment to supporting the visual arts as the Paint-In's Title sponsor, back by further support from the City of Victoria.

Visitors to the event have the opportunity to meet with an enormous variety of artists and learn about their work and techniques. Ultimately, the event allows local artists access to a receptive audience while encouraging an appreciation of the arts among the visitors. Over 200 volunteers plus the participating artists dedicate more than 3,800 hours to make this exceptional community event possible.

NEW: Paint In the Square

Monday July 16 - Friday July 20 | 11am - 4pm daily

It’s a big anniversary year: Vancouver Island’s largest outdoor visual art event, the TD Art Gallery Paint-In is celebrating its 25th Anniversary, and our beautiful city is marking its 150^th. As part of the City of Victoria’s 150 Celebrations, the Art Gallery will storm the Downtown Core, with five days of Paint-In festivities in Centennial Square as we build towards our main event on Moss Street on the Saturday. Key features of this satellite event will be artists working in their studios, art-making activities for children and youth, a children’s art exhibition, and opportunities to access information about the Gallery and its upcoming programs. There will also be food vendors and the City of Victoria’s lunchtime concerts to make the event a great lunch break stop for downtown workers. So come on down and Paint In The Square! Generous support has been provided by the City of Victoria to bring you this *NEW* event, which is free and open to the public.

Artist Russ Layton's painting "Koi Faith" at the 2010 Paint In. Photo: Larry Pfister

Artist Paint-In Application

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's Annual Paint-In on Moss Street (a not-for-profit event) features invited professional and emerging artists from Victoria and Region who demonstrate their art to over 35,000 visitors strolling Moss Street from Fort St. to Dallas Road. The Paint-In offers visitors an opportunity to meet and discuss the artists' work, materials, process and to see an enormous variety of professional work at one time.

Invited participating artists pay a registration fee of $40.00 plus tax and receive a complimentary one-year Art Gallery VIP Pass as well as complimentary drink voucher for use in the Beverage Garden. Artists are permitted to sell their work on site; however the emphasis is on artist demonstration. Artists are requested to exercise discretion in keeping their set-up and displays moderate in size.

Paint-In Artists, who receive an invitation to take part, are selected through a competitive process that includes the following criteria

level of professionalism;
excellence, quality and strength of work;
originality and inventiveness;
media and process; and
willingness to work on site.

Each year we have been in the fortunate position of having more artists interested in participating than we have spaces available and the only way to ensure consideration is by submission. Artists who have participated in previous years are not guaranteed an invitation. Each year we hope to invite 25% new and emerging artists to take part .

To be considered for an invitation to participate in the Gallery Paint-In on Moss Street, please print the Paint-In Application Form, and send application (link below) with submission package to:

Mary-ellen Threadkell
Coordinator, TD Art Gallery Paint-In
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Telephone: 384-4171 ext. 248
Fax: 361-3995

Deadline Date for submissions is April 1, 2012.
Submissions will not be accepted after this date.
Invitations to selected artists will be mailed during the 1st week in May.

Please Note:Though all submissions will be treated with care, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria assumes no responsibility for loss or damage to submission material.

TD Canada Trust Moss Street Paint-In Artist Application Form (2012).
Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Volunteer Application

Call to Volunteers!

Click here to apply for a Paint-it Volunteering opportunities.

Click here to view job description and qualifications.

Application deadline is Thursday, July 12th at 5pm. If you have already submitted an application, please email Katie Hughes, khughes@aggv.ca to indicate your shift and position preference.