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INVITATIONS AND REGISTRATION -------------------------
All Year - Invitations and registration are all year except those registrations after March 1 will be considered and or accepted for the following years April show. For invitation submit your website for jury.

Until March 1 - April show installation deadlines are February to March 1. Early installations are encouraged. Make your appointments 1 month in advance. Schedule arrival times 10a to 2pm. No installations after dark or before 10am. Confirm your appointment before you travel, then call 2 hours ahead as you are driving in. Sculpture information due: name, title, material, price. Post show installations are accepted year around by appointment except no installations during March and April.

Period of Stay Note. Large sculptures are encouraged to be shown at least two show years. Colossal works may stay 4 years.

Removal and Price changes Note. All works on the grounds in March and April, whether from a prior show or just installed, may not be removed until the day after the April show ends. Due to already printed materials and conditions of the grounds preparations no works may be moved or traded out during the month before the show or during the show dates. No prices may be changed during the show or the month before the show.

March 1 - Registration ends. Invitations close. A late registration requests will be considered with the satisfaction of the $250 donation option.

March 1 - Installation Deadline for April show. Late installations must satisfy the $250 fee plus requests for help or tractor loading equipment - a service fee of $20 per hour is charged - payable in advance on site. There are no charges for self installation. Beyond weight of 4,000 pounds will require a crane which is at the hire of the sculptor.

[ Note during rain - no heavy works requiring driving a truck, trailer or tractor on the grounds or grass may be installed before the show or picked up after the show - during or after a heavy rain due to damage to the grass and terrain. ]

THE SHOW DATES----------------------------------------------------------
April 3 - Sculptors Reception and Opening. Soft reception will be from 11a until 2pm with light hors d' oeuvres. Show opening 11a - 5p. Public Donation Entry is $20 at the gate. Sculptor and one are complimentary admission.

[No Reception Rain Date. - Note due to the spoils of food and beverages and arrangements of demonstrations and floor shows, performers etc. the date and times of gala opening will not change due to weather or other conditions.We will open. Please bring an umbrella or jacket if needed. The show is a total of 8 days over one month, thus one day hindered by rain will not be rescheduled.]

April 3 through April 25 - REGULAR PUBLIC SHOW DATES - Open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays only from 11am to 5pm.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT YEAR-AROUND. Viewing 'By appointment' year around is available to the public who are interested in a self tour, or a purchase. A $20 donation to enter. 210 696-9813. Guided tours with lecture are $40.

PICK UP - DATES---------------------------------------------------
May 1 through May 14 - PICK UP. [...unless you elect to show year around through the next April show]. The times to pick up are 10am to 2pm, call 1 week ahead, 210 696-9813. (If you are picking up a heavy work you must schedule your appointment a week in advance if you need a tractor to load.) Works not picked up after April show ends automatically enter the year-around Outdoor Gallery. They are exhibited and promoted through February/March of the next year. Works must be picked up before March 1 or they automatically will be exhibited for the April show. Or at that time you may exchange your work out for a new one.

There are 3 months for pick up: May, October and February; by two months advance notice.

Sculptors Dominion promotes and sells your sculptures year around on the grounds and on the web and at other local exhibit venues as opportunities arise.

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ENTRY

HOW TO GET INTO THE INVITATIONAL & EXHIBIT-----------------------
Entry is by invitation or by self submission of website work.

Read the Policies and Register. Your Registration is also your consent to have your name, photo, work and website published and promoted for sale and exhibit during the show or during the year if your work stays during the year according to the terms of the policies.

SELF SUBMISSION. First register. Therein your website will be found and juried. You will be notified by return email of your registration acceptance and invitation or not. Do not send slides or photo packets please. Any materials mailed or delivered will not be returned or stored after jury. Missing the March 1 installation deadline for sculpture and required materials jeopardizes you to be refused admission and deleted from all materials.

INVITATION - You may be invited to exhibit by the director in person or by submission of juried website. Registration completes the invitation. Registration is mandatory.

RECOMMENDATION - Another way you can be accepted is by recommendation. Upon the recommendation of a professional sculptor or friend of SDI go to the website and register. Send an email after your registration of whom recommended you. Upon confirmation by that sculptor or friend your will be juried and notified of an invitation or not.

SCULPTURE QUALITY - The show seeks large outdoor sculpture of professional quality, composition, construction and presentation from qualified and career sculptors.

JURY - Submitted works will be juried by professional sculptors and the director. Submit by website or email. Do not send or bring actual work for jury. Do not send slides or paper photos for entry by mail, no materials will be returned.

QUANTITY - Limit - 1 large outdoor sculpture. No bases provided.

COMMISSION - 25%

INSURANCE - Insurance is the responsibility of the sculptor.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST-----------------------------------------------------------
FEE OPTIONAL - Free. There is no fee required. However we do accept donations. Some sculptors can afford to help. For those that can we ask for your help. Donations or lack there of do not affect your invitation. IRS specifies that a mimimum contribution of $250 qualifies as your year end tax deduction, see your CPA, we can both benefit from your donation - please.

DONATION OF SCULPTURE, AS OPTION 2. As a substitute, a small sculpture may be donated to the show to be sold to help the show pay bills. The sculpture must have a minimum retail value of $250. The donation becomes the property of the show even if it does not sell during the show. It is recommended where possible that the donated sculpture be a maquette of the large sculpture(s) you are exhibiting.

LOCATION

VENUE ADDRESS - The Sculptors Invitational will be hosted at The Villa del Carmen Conservatory, a residential 6 acre garden estate at 11354 Vance Jackson, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. The grounds are landscaped with open fields and thousands of oak trees on softly rolling carpet grassed hills. About 200 largescale works can be spaciously displayed. Click HERE for a MapQuest Map, as well as locations of close-by hotels or see Contact link at website.

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GUIDELINES

Description of Large.-------------------------------------------------------------
Human Scale or 350lbs. SDI large is loosely defined by either or both height and weight. The show will accept height sizes of: half life-size, life-size, over life-size, monumental, colossal or heroic sizes. Importantly 350lbs is our general mimimum weight.

SDI 'Large' also means one person could not casually walk off with it in a crowd or overnight. If one person can not pick up your sculpture then its large, generally that is 350lbs without base. Security plays a role in our description of height and weight. So a small in size sculpture can be accepted if it is over 350lbs. A large size in height - but lightweight - sculpture must be secured to a heavy base or pedestal. SDI size ideals mean, a size at least 1/2 lifesize or about 3 to 4 feet high, minimum.

Descriptions of Outdoor----------------------------------------------------------
No Wood bases or pedastals. Bases, their core structure and face finish must be of a permanent outdoor material. If you choose to exhibit a wood sculpture, your wood sculpture will be exhibited outdoors at all times. We are not responsible, during of after the show, if weather, wind or other conditions causes either your wood sculpture or wood base to be unpresentable or damaged which would subject it to be removed from the exhibit until you fix it.

God, Weather, the Elements and Gods Animals ----------------------------------
The show or its agents will not be responsible for accidents, acts of God, weather, the elements, birds or animals and their behaviors: i.e., wind gusts, wind carrying dirt or smoke, water, sun, cold, hail, falling leaves or branches or trees or the effects of the aforesaid or related damages or losses of any kind at any time for bases/pedastal or sculpture. We are not responsible for fading paint or patinas due the the said elements. Also note birds and animals use sculptures as a bathroom or drill, peck or bore into wood surfaces and we are not responsible for Gods animals or birds or insects. Be sure materials you use are outdoor proof.

Vandals, Criminals, Trespassers, Guests and Normal Handling-----------------------------
The show or its agents is not responsible for acts of vandalism, criminal acts, trespasser damage, guests damages or freak accidents related to your sculpture. We are not be responsible for normal handling resulting in damages; such as picking up your work and it breaks of its own weight.

Repairs and Fixes.
You are responsible to fix or repair your own sculptures at your own expense. You may send us a repair order with your handwritten signature and payment in full. Payments due and owing will create a lien on the sculpture, redeemable upon payment with interest.

BASE OR PEDESTAL ENCOURAGED - Please use and provide a base or pedastal where appropriate. A base adds to or finishes the presentation of your sculpture. It helps make a sale. All prices will assume inclusion of base or pedestal unless otherwise clearly stated. Two dimensional, 2D, reliefs must be presented on an outdoor material artist easil that is professionally constructed. A base/pedestal carries its own image of value. Do not bring a base/pedestal inferior to your sculptures quality. Bring something satisfactory for the customer who we are trying to convince to pay thousands of dollars.

EXHIBIT SPACE - A spacious landscaped presentation is part of the dignity that enhances your sculpture and one of the key features of this shows design. Space is first come first serve if you install. The director will guide your selection or select for you if you have shipped your work. Late arriving sculptures will be designated by the director.

INSTALLATIONS, REMOVALS Installations and removals are the responsibility of the sculptor and are by appointment at least two weeks in advance of arrival. A tractor with forklift (up to 2 tons) and backhoe 'crane' (1 ton) is available to install or remove works at $20 per hour. Very large or heavy works requiring a larger tractor or crane are at the hire of the sculptor. A fresh rain will delay use of a tractor, trailor or vehicle on the soaked grass and grounds and create a delay of installation until one full day of sun. If the show installs, has to move or remove a sculpture, a service rate of $20 per hour with a two hour minimum will incur.

STAY OF WORK - Due to early promotion, printing, and public expectations - sculptures must stay March and April and through the end of the show. All sculptures new or old and sculpture prices may not be changed, added or traded out or price changed. After March 1 registration and installation deadlines we have invested in your exhibit. Press, printing and other costs have been incurred. Sculptors insisting on pulling or changing their works or prices during March and April will be assessed a mandatory $250 for moneys spent or potential loss of commission.

SALES - Sales commission will be 25%. Set your price minimums at or about $4000 [give or take a thousand]. Sculptors Dominion will handle sales after installation. Sculptor attendance is not required. Commission applies year-around for sculptures sold at this or any venue secured by Sculptors Dominion. Upon the bank approval of the purchasers purchase check and transaction, the sculptors payment check will be mailed within 10 days after the show ends. Be sure the address in the Registration form is correct.

NOTE ON COMMISSION:  The purpose of the show is to bring your sculpture and a buyer together for a sale to occur. When that happens a commission has been earned; even if the transaction of the check occurs later or years after, even if the check is given off site at any other location, even if the show or its agent is not present, even if you substitute a later or earlier edition of the same sculpture that was seen at the show. You and the buyer cannot legally agree to terminate that earned commission, or to not pay the commission. If you do you both commit theft of services rendered.

The sculpture, or its copy, or any editon before it or after it, that is of the sculpture the purchaser saw at the show is one key; a second key is if it happens during the show time or happens any time or even years after the show and the third key is if it happens at the show or any other place, such as you took the sculpture back to your studio; or the purchaser who saw it at the show went to your studio saw it again or its copy. The show caused its knowledge and caused the purchasers interest in it if a sale occurs the show has earned the commission. You owe the commission at the immediate time of reciept of the purchasers check.

To avoid difficulties buyers should be directed by you to pursue the sale through the show. Make your buyer understand the show spent money, time and labor to present your work to him or her and that action causes his awareness of the sculpture and his interest in it and an earned commission.

TAXES - The buyer is responsible to pay state taxes with the purchase price unless they present at time of sale a tax number or unless the final destination of the sculpture is out of the state of Texas. The show collects the San Antonio tax rate.

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SERVICES

1. All sculpture installations requiring help to install are charged at $20 per hour, minimum one hour and such services apply automatically in your absence such as where your work is commercially sent. A tractor with boom ,1 ton, and front end forklift, 2tons, is available on site. All services payable upon completion of service.

2. During the show a $5 per service fee will be charged each time of handling for sculptures requiring special maintenance. Such maintenance includes but is not limited to covering the work betweeen shows, upkeeping of fountain water levels or cleaning or turning on electric switches; switching on sculptures that require lights; cleaning sculptures or adjusting sculptures easily mispositioned by wind.

3. Crating or re-crating, loading, shipping services and/or hauling sculptures for the sculptor are $20 dollars an hour plus materials.

5. All sculptures recieve promotional graphics for outdoor presentation of sculptors photo and information particular to the sculpture and sculptor. All sculptors recieve year around website sale space for photos and personal websites. All sculptors recieve printing and publishing services on invitations and flyers. All sculptors recieve show advertising in print media. All sculptors recieve sales and promotional efforts.

REGISTRATION
Click here for REGISTRATION.

Required information: Name. Phone. Address. Website. Email address. Send it by the shows computer registration form, or send it by mail, handwritten, or send it by email.

If you encounter computer difficulties, use mail or email to supply the same contact information. A sent Registration means that you read the policies for purposes of this show. The mailing address of the show is: 11354 Vance Jackson Rd., San Antonio, Texas 78230.

NOTICE: SUBMITTING A REGISTRATION OR SUBMITTING A SCULPTURE FOR THE SHOW IS YOUR DEFAULT SIGNATURE, ACCEPTANCE AND CONSENT TO THE POLICIES OF THE SHOW. ALL CONFLICTS WILL BE LITIGATED IN BEXAR COUNTY TEXAS.

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