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 For those of you who are interested, Minette has been contacted regarding a weaving loom and Alpaca yarn being available. Please contact Minette for information if you are interested: (928) 978-1119 

Artists, buckle up and create your designs for a poster, sized at 24” x 36”. Use any medium and any support. Do not frame so that your work is camera-ready. Oriented vertically, the artwork must leave room for the verbiage. Design your work so that these words and thw Western Heritage & Film Fest logos have room to be very visible:

142nd World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo August 14-17,2025

Also visible, need to be the logos of both Rim Country Artists and the Payson Pro Rodeo Committee The Pro Rodeo Committee will judge the competition. No RCA Board members may compete. After the winning artwork is selected, RCA will create the lettering in appropriate fonts, Both the Rodeo and RCA Boards will approve the poster before production. RCA will then give the file to the Rodeo Committee, printer ready. The Pro-Rodeo Committee will select the number of posters, pay for them, sell them, and retain all profits.

The winner and all other artists will be allowed to keep their original artwork. The winner will sign a contract that says he/she will never create posters from the winning entry, nor reproduce the art for sale. The artist may, however, sell the original. The Pro Rodeo Committee will keep all rights to the poster itself, in perpetuity, as well as its reproduction and all profits from sales. These posters will likely become collectors’ pieces.

There is a $25 entry fee for competing artists, and $500 prize money for the winner, paid for and awarded by RCA. If you are competing, let Elizabeth Fowler know that you are. Reach her at (928) 970-1825 or at elizaufowler@gmail.com. All entries must be turned in by July 1st.

Show your Western art and/or Southwest landscape art at our 2nd Annual Western Heritage and Film Festival. All art mediums are welcome. You may share a booth with friends or have your own booth. The booth fee is $75 per booth. This will be held at our highly advertised and well populated ‘Sunday Doin’s’ event on August 10th by the Rim Country Museum. 

This festival is an incredibly big RCA event and we hope to have a great turnout to show off and sell your beautiful work. Let's get Payson on the map as an arts destination! Register your space with Elizabeth Fowler: 928.970.1825 or elizaufowler@gmail.com

• 1: Please submit  3-18 high quality photos (JPG images, not PDFs), including a photo of the artist if desired. Please crop the artwork photos to include just the piece and/or frame. Take the photo straight on, in good lighting, and avoid glares from glass, or too bright of light and/or shadows. 

• 2: Photos should be 72-100 dpi, and at least 9"x9" which would translate to 900 dpi x900 dpi. Do not send higher resolution photos, or thumbnails (very small photos). Even if using a dpi converter, those programs won't be able to compensate for too small of images. Certain online  programs and features on your smart phone should be able to shrink down hi res images.

• 3: Artist Statement and/or Bio. I'm not picky about the number of words, but it should be in a copyable (editing feature enabled) Word or Pages document (Do not send PDF's). 

• 4: Any links to websites, online shops, social media accounts, or physical galleries or shops carrying their work, as well as Artist Contact information (phone number/email if desired~not required). 

• 5: Please let us know if you would also like to have your artist page featured on RCA's social media with a link to your RCA artist page.

Submissions can be emailed to emily.e.kraemer@gmail.com. Please give RCA two weeks to process and update our website and social media.