2025 Tour Application Will Be Emailed in Early February
Contact us to be added to our "Call for Artists" email list so you automatically receive an application in February.
The completed application along with images of your work and payment must be submitted by the deadline which is usually the first week in April. The costs to participate in the 2025 Tour are:
$35 application processing fee - non-refundable
$200 early-bird participant fee - refundable until May 31.
OR $275 regular participant fee - refundable until May 31
Optional - $100 opt-out fee to opt out of completing volunteer tasks - refundable until May 31
Our Jury Committee reviews all the applications and emails of acceptance/rejection are sent by the end of April. If accepted, you will be assigned a mentor, an experienced Tour artist, who will answer your questions and help ensure you have a successful Tour.
The Studio Tour is open to all artists with studios in the Quad-City area: Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Paulden, Dewey-Humboldt and surrounding communities.
The Studio Tour is a juried event, and the images you submit of your artwork are judged using the following criteria:
The artwork indicates a consistent technical proficiency with the medium and demonstrates an understanding of formal elements of art.
The artwork reflects a coherent individual style and originality.
The artwork is representative of what you have created in the last two years and will have available during the Tour.
If juried into the Tour, artists may choose to be in their own studio, be a host studio for other juried artists, or be included in another host studio. If you need a studio for the Tour, the Tour Committee will help you find one.
Tour Studios with more than one artist receive substantially more visitors than studios with only one artist. Therefore, we encourage artists to band together whenever possible.
As we prepare for the 2025 Studio Tour, we have sent letters to Art Supporters, everyone who bought an ad or listing for the 2024 Tour, offering them a discount if they sign up by January 31, 2025. We also want to give this special rate to any Art Supporter who signs up by January 31.
If you know of a person or business who might be a new Art Supporter for 2025, please offer them this special Early-Bird rate. You may also direct potential Art Supporters to the Art Supporter section of the Tour website where they can access the form and make a secure payment.
We appreciate your help and want to remind you that the funds we get from Art Supporters cover a large part of our advertising expenses.
Here's where to find all the information you need to get Art Supporters.
Ad Spec Sheet - shows the different sizes of ads available.
Download and print the letter, form, and ad spec sheet and take them with you as you talk to potential Art Supporters. You may also wish to take a copy of the 2024 Studio Tour Guide with you to show its quality. Guides are available in a plastic box outside the door of Suite 105, 697 6th St, Prescott.
You may want to guide a potential Art Supporter to the Art Supporter page on the Tour website - www.prescottstudiotour.com/be-an-art-supporter.html- where they can complete the form, attach any artwork, and securely pay online. That saves them the extra steps of writing a check and mailing it, the form and any artwork.
If you have questions, contact Patty Lindsey at 714-651-7648 (call or text) or email [email protected].
2024 Tour Tips Helpful tips for both new and experienced Tour Artists. Ideas to help you have a successful Tour.
2024 Important Dates There are lots of activities leading up to the Studio Tour from. This is a handy list of dates you need to reserve for Studio Tour activities. Be sure to mark your calendar.
Raffle Sign The Raffle Sign lists the prices of tickets and explains where proceeds will be used. Display it next to the item you are raffling.
We encourage all Tour artists to donate and raffle a piece of your art. Studio Tour visitors love the possibility of winning a unique piece of art. The money they spend on raffle tickets helps to fund next year’s Tour and art programs for children in the Quad-City area.
Studio Tour Mailing List Sign-Up Sheet Use the sign-up sheet to capture the names of visitors who would like information about the Tour emailed or mailed to them.
Make as many copies of the Sign-Up Sheet as needed.
Use this Sign-Up Sheet in place of a "guest book" or "guest sign-in sheets". You may keep copies for your records.
Encourage visitors to sign up, but also let them know they only need to sign up at one Tour location.
Encourage visitors to indicate if they live outside the Quad-City area. This information is critical for receiving grant funding which we use for advertising and publicity.
Please bring the completed Sign-Up Sheets to the Post-Tour Potluck Party on October 14, 2023 or mail them to Lynn Schmitt, Prescott Studio Tour, 697 6th Street, Suite 105, Prescott AZ 86301.
We use these Sign-Up Sheets to add to and update both our mailing list and our email list. If everyone uses the same Sign-up Sheet, it makes it much easier to accurately enter the information in our database. Your help is greatly appreciated.