Sketch Crawl-Mid Michigan Area

The Shiawassee Arts Center and the Shiawassee Artists’ Guild presents:
SketchCrawl.com drawing marathons from around the world

Dear Artists and Fellow Artists Guild Members

We are anxious to hold our first ever SketchCrawl along the beautiful Shiawassee River in downtown Owosso. This event is being sponsored by the Shiawassee Arts Center (SAC) and the the Shiawassee Artists’ Guild.

You ask…what is a sketch crawl? This event is where artists from all over the world get together (so to speak) and draw! The basic idea is to record non-stop everything and anything you can around you with your favourite artist mediums…watercolour, pastel, pencil, charcoal, oils, acrylic, just to name a few. Willing participants will have their work photographed and uploaded to the www.sketchcrawl.com website to be viewed all over the world on this fun/artistic day!
One of our main goals is just for fellow artists, young and old/children and adults/professional and beginners, to meet, get together, to share, and most importantly, have fun.

Now for the details:

Where: along the Shiawassee River in Curwood Castle Park between the SAC and Curwood Castle. Registration will take place on the front porch of the Shiawassee Arts Center, 206 Curwood Castle Drive.

When: Saturday October 25, 2008

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m and we will end around 3:00 pm. You are invited to come anytime between these hours. You can stay 1 hour or the entire time…we’re hoping that when you come, you won’t want to go home!

What to Bring: Your friends, your artist supplies, something to sit on, snacks, … even walking shoes if you want to walk around town. We will be serving chilli, crackers, sheet cake and fruit/water, coffee, and cider will be available….all for a donation to SAC.

Cost: FREE…however, any donations will kindly be accepted

We will be holding this event rain or shine…in case of inclement weather, we will gather inside SAC in our beautiful new gallery (which will be open during the day). We would really like it if you would RSVP your intentions…just so we have some idea of how many to expect for food, etc. You can e-mail back to sue@shiawasseearts.org. or call SAC at 989.723.8354. You can also visit our website at http://www.shiawasseearts.org/.

Looking forward to October 25th and hopefully, seeing you here,

Susan Newcom, Gallery Manager