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Monte Vista's Swoop of the Cranes 2023!
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The Swoop of Cranes is entering its fourth year!
The Swoop of the Cranes is a community art project celebrating our Sandhill Cranes and showcasing the extraordinary talent of our local artists. Our goal is for travelers to stop and take notice. We hope they will park, stroll the streets, spending time and money in Monte and enjoying the Artists' creations.
Citizens and businesses can sponsor a 5 foot steel crane silhouette that will be changed from a steel blank to an artist's creative rendition. The completed work of art will be attached to light poles in town from March through August.
Our goal: 50-60 completed cranes on display on light poles in Monte Vista's City Center.
The Swoop of the Cranes is a community art project celebrating our Sandhill Cranes and showcasing the extraordinary talent of our local artists. Our goal is for travelers to stop and take notice. We hope they will park, stroll the streets, spending time and money in Monte and enjoying the Artists' creations.
Citizens and businesses can sponsor a 5 foot steel crane silhouette that will be changed from a steel blank to an artist's creative rendition. The completed work of art will be attached to light poles in town from March through August.
Our goal: 50-60 completed cranes on display on light poles in Monte Vista's City Center.
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By the way, wonder why we call it a Crane Swoop? There are packs of wolves, herds of elk, gaggles of geese. A large group of cranes are a swoop! Please join us in this fun project!
Turn the crane on the left into a beautiful art work like the crane on the right. Get creative! COMPLETED CRANES MUST BE RETURNED TO THE CHAMBER BY FEBRUARY 15TH - THANKS! |
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Sponsorship Price: $200.00
Online Sponsorship Form
Swoop of Cranes Sponsorship Downloadable Order Form
Please make payment to: Monte Vista Chamber of Commerce, 947 1st Ave, Monte Vista, CO 81144
Forms are available at the Monte Vista Chamber of Commerce as well.
You may select an artist from our list, or you may choose a local artist yourself.
Online Sponsorship Form
Swoop of Cranes Sponsorship Downloadable Order Form
Please make payment to: Monte Vista Chamber of Commerce, 947 1st Ave, Monte Vista, CO 81144
Forms are available at the Monte Vista Chamber of Commerce as well.
You may select an artist from our list, or you may choose a local artist yourself.
Notice to sponsors and artists: The Chamber of Commerce will provide $70 per silhouette to artists to help defray the cost of materials upon completion and delivery of the crane. The Chamber acknowledges that this won’t adequately cover the artist’s expenses and dedication of time involved. We encourage sponsors to work directly with the artist providing their sponsored silhouette in helping to cover additional costs.
Monte Vista’s Swoop of the Cranes Deadlines & Details
You’ve sponsored a Crane Silhouette. Thank you very much! You have just stepped up to help beautify Monte Vista, increase interest in our city, and once displayed your contribution will attract more tourist attention!
Art Completion and Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2023. We need them in hand so we can work with the City crews in getting them put up in the right places and in time for Crane Fest in early March. If they are not returned by this date, they will not be hung.
Silhouettes are 2 cranes standing together made of 12-gauge steel, about 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. The steel is likely to have some residual oil on it from the cutting process which will need to be cleaned off in preparation for the artist’s rendition. There will be brackets on the back for attaching to the LED light poles in the Monte Vista City Center.
Artists may elect to render both the front and the back of the silhouette with the understanding that the back of the silhouette will be attached to the light poles and therefore will be partially covered. We request that if the artist does not wish to render the back of the silhouette, please paint the back a flat black color.
Completed silhouettes will be on display on the light poles in Monte Vista from March thru August (6 months). Durability of color and creative renditions is therefore of great importance. Completed works will need to be clear coated with a protective finish. Keep in mind the potential damaging impact of wind, rain, snow, and our high-altitude UV. Aside from the foregoing cautions, it is up to the artist to decide what type of media/material is applied in the silhouette creation (painted, welded, mosaics, tiled, or even cloisonné? be creative!). The Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to not display any silhouette that it determines may be inappropriate.
There will be ‘Artist’s info’ available with tips and tricks from previous Artists!
The Chamber of Commerce will provide $70 per silhouette to artists to help defray the cost of materials. The Chamber acknowledges that this won’t adequately cover the artist’s expenses and dedication of time involved. We encourage sponsors to work directly with the artist providing their sponsored silhouette in helping to cover additional costs.
Sponsors will be granted first dibs and may “buy back” their sponsored silhouette for $75. Otherwise, the silhouettes will be auctioned. Money raised from the Monte Vista Swoop of Cranes auction shall be used for planting trees, hanging flower baskets, and other storefront improvement programs.
Art Completion and Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2023. We need them in hand so we can work with the City crews in getting them put up in the right places and in time for Crane Fest in early March. If they are not returned by this date, they will not be hung.
Silhouettes are 2 cranes standing together made of 12-gauge steel, about 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. The steel is likely to have some residual oil on it from the cutting process which will need to be cleaned off in preparation for the artist’s rendition. There will be brackets on the back for attaching to the LED light poles in the Monte Vista City Center.
Artists may elect to render both the front and the back of the silhouette with the understanding that the back of the silhouette will be attached to the light poles and therefore will be partially covered. We request that if the artist does not wish to render the back of the silhouette, please paint the back a flat black color.
Completed silhouettes will be on display on the light poles in Monte Vista from March thru August (6 months). Durability of color and creative renditions is therefore of great importance. Completed works will need to be clear coated with a protective finish. Keep in mind the potential damaging impact of wind, rain, snow, and our high-altitude UV. Aside from the foregoing cautions, it is up to the artist to decide what type of media/material is applied in the silhouette creation (painted, welded, mosaics, tiled, or even cloisonné? be creative!). The Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to not display any silhouette that it determines may be inappropriate.
There will be ‘Artist’s info’ available with tips and tricks from previous Artists!
The Chamber of Commerce will provide $70 per silhouette to artists to help defray the cost of materials. The Chamber acknowledges that this won’t adequately cover the artist’s expenses and dedication of time involved. We encourage sponsors to work directly with the artist providing their sponsored silhouette in helping to cover additional costs.
Sponsors will be granted first dibs and may “buy back” their sponsored silhouette for $75. Otherwise, the silhouettes will be auctioned. Money raised from the Monte Vista Swoop of Cranes auction shall be used for planting trees, hanging flower baskets, and other storefront improvement programs.