It will involve a variety of partners, including: arts organizations, museums, colleges and universities, galleries, web-based entities, artist collectives, print shops and other professional organizations.

Program partners are those organizations that choose to develop and/or host programs that respond to the thematic framework of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious and are scheduled either as a prelude to the festival or during its run, January through April 2010.

Yes. And we encourage prospective partners to think about natural affiliations to maximize the benefit of the event to the organization – mission, discipline, geography, shared space, and existing collaborative programs. For instance, a special collection without traditional exhibition space, curator or preparator may want to work with an artist to develop a special project and could contribute toward developing educational materials.

While we expect that exhibitions and the programming around them will be the single largest category of programming, Philagrafika 2010 welcomes the development of a variety of offerings. Depending upon the mission and program goals of our partners, we hope that partners will do what they do best, i.e. classes, panel discussions, workshops, performances, site specific installations, public art projects, or publications.

No. We understand that organizations must develop programs in the context of their own calendars. There will be peak visitorship during the four month run of The Graphic Unconcsious and we hope to coordinate with you to take advantage of these audiences.

We welcome participation by regional organizations. Geographic proximity to the city does facilitate our ability to both market and coordinate transportation between and among sites. All participating organizations will be included in marketing initiatives and we are considering transportation as part of the overall festival planning.

We are working on building audiences through professional art affiliations. For example the Southern Graphics Council Conference is scheduled in Philadelphia March 25-28, 2010 with an expected attendance of 2,000. We also expect to welcome group tours from Art Table and College Art Association, as well as cultural tourism on a regional, national and international level. Additional initiatives are being explored for building audiences related to print in the fields of medical, humanities and law.

Organizations should have programming defined by fall of 2008, with the understanding that they are responsible for raising money for their respective projects. Philagrafika recognizes that implementation is subject to funding. Philagrafika will need a letter of commitment from institutions. Each institution will be required to meet deadlines for inclusion in publications and marketing materials. In addition, in order for us to market the festival we need a very modest investment from our partners through membership contribution. The goal is to have all participating partners confirmed by the fall of 2008 to coincide with branding for Philagrafika 2010. Since 2007, Philagrafika has been marketing this project through national and international presentations to professional organizations and we have been improving and adding to the organization’s website, www.philagrafika.org.

The Graphic Unconscious is a curated international exhibition. The curatorial team is considering Philadelphia artists whose work fits within the themes. If you send materials to the office we have an informal archive of materials which we will make available to the curators, however it does not guarentee inclusion in the festival. We can suggest that you apply to InLiquid.com and participate in local arts organizations to create programming. There will be multiple programs around the city that make up the festival at large, providing opportunities for artists. Philagrafika eagerly promotes artist members’ print related exhibitions and programs through our member news and will continue to do so.

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