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Monte Vista's Swoop of the Cranes!
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The Swoop of Cranes is a community art and city beautification project.
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 rendition will be attached to light poles in town from Crane Fest in March through August.
Our goal: 30-40 completed cranes on display on light poles in Monte Vista's City Center. This will attract attention during summer tourism season. Generate interest and excitement in Monte Vista!
Sponsorship is $150 per silhouette. Help us... Click Sponsor Now! Or download the sponsorship form and mail with payment to the Monte Vista Chamber. We will get you a blank Pronto!
For more detailed information open this Deadlines & Details document or simply read the information below the images.
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 rendition will be attached to light poles in town from Crane Fest in March through August.
Our goal: 30-40 completed cranes on display on light poles in Monte Vista's City Center. This will attract attention during summer tourism season. Generate interest and excitement in Monte Vista!
Sponsorship is $150 per silhouette. Help us... Click Sponsor Now! Or download the sponsorship form and mail with payment to the Monte Vista Chamber. We will get you a blank Pronto!
For more detailed information open this Deadlines & Details document or simply read the information below the images.
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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! |
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Monte Vista’s Swoop of 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 20. Firm! 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.
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 does reserve the right to not put on display any silhouette that it determines may be inappropriate.
The Chamber of Commerce will provide $50 per silhouette to artist’s 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.
During Crane Fest, voting by citizens and guests will be conducted to determine a People’s Choice Award. A panel of artists will judge the Artist’s Choice Award. The Chamber of Commerce will poll its membership to Chamber Choice Award. While these are mainly for recognition, the winners will receive $100 per Award to be given to the artists!
At present the plan is to collect the displayed silhouettes in late August and at a special event in September, conduct a fundraiser, including a live or silent auction of all the displayed silhouettes. Sponsors will be granted first dibs and may “buy back” their sponsored silhouette for $50. Otherwise, the silhouettes will be auctioned. Money raised from the Monte Vista Swoop of Cranes shall be used for tree planting, flower baskets, and other streetscape beautification projects.
Art Completion and Submission Deadline: February 20. Firm! 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.
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 does reserve the right to not put on display any silhouette that it determines may be inappropriate.
The Chamber of Commerce will provide $50 per silhouette to artist’s 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.
During Crane Fest, voting by citizens and guests will be conducted to determine a People’s Choice Award. A panel of artists will judge the Artist’s Choice Award. The Chamber of Commerce will poll its membership to Chamber Choice Award. While these are mainly for recognition, the winners will receive $100 per Award to be given to the artists!
At present the plan is to collect the displayed silhouettes in late August and at a special event in September, conduct a fundraiser, including a live or silent auction of all the displayed silhouettes. Sponsors will be granted first dibs and may “buy back” their sponsored silhouette for $50. Otherwise, the silhouettes will be auctioned. Money raised from the Monte Vista Swoop of Cranes shall be used for tree planting, flower baskets, and other streetscape beautification projects.