Listings and Features for the Open Studios Directory
For exhibitions and events taking place on both Open Studio weekends 8th-9th June and 15th-16th June 2024.
You can publicise your exhibition or event as a listing on the Open Studios Route pages and you will have a Feature on the “Featured” pages at the back of the directory.
The deadline for submissions : 28th February 2024
Registering for an “Listing and Feature” means :
Your exhibition/installation will be part of Site Festival
The information will be on the Open Studio routes in the directory (which is based on location) and in the Feature section at the back.
The information will be on the route map.
If you would like to take advantage of being listed in the Open Studio route pages, you must be open on both Open Studio weekends from 11am-6pm.
The prices range from £273-£427.
The deadline for submissions : 28th February 2024
What’s the difference between taking part as an Open Studios artist, and having a Listing and Feature?
With a Listing and Feature you get :
A profile with information about the exhibition specifically, within the main part of the directory. It flows in terms of the route, so that visitors can find it easily on the map.
A listing in the back of the directory with full information about the exhibition.
An online listing in the Festival Programme.
A dot on the route map.
Listing: A 1/3 page column in the main pages of the Open Studios directory - the position will depend on the location of the exhibition and where it sits on a route. This is will be the same size as an Open Studios artist profile, but designed slightly differently.
Feature: You will also get a feature in the “Featured Events” section of the directory - either one third, 2 thirds or a full page.
Extras that are not included with a Listing and Feature are:
Working for the Payback Scheme to get up to £50 of your fee paid back to you for doing up to 5 hours work.
SVA membership and addition to the Artist Network
Taking part in the Taster Exhibition
How to submit listings and features:
Please complete the Listings and Features Registration form. If this is a barrier for you, please contact kazz@sva.org.uk for an alternative.
Feature and Listing Layout, Sizes and Prices
Prices
1/3 page : £273
2/3 page : £355
Full page : £427
What is needed for a submission :
Images - please see requirements below.
For the Listing on the Open Studios route : Description of exhibition/collective - up to 165 characters. And directions to your venue - up to 99 characters
For the Feature on the Event pages : Description of exhibition/collective - in 50 words, 130 words, and 240 words. This is because the available space won’t be known until it is all being laid out, so having a variety of paragraphs to choose from is really helpful.
Providing artwork for a Feature Listing
We require at least 3 high resolution images to choose from, cropped as a square.
Image Requirements: 3 x square jpg/png (1mb-10mb, minimum 1500x1500px)
We need images to be:
High quality for the directory and website, so they need to be between 1mb and 10mb, and a high number of pixels (i.e. you cannot just scale the image up because the quality is lost).
Cropped as a square. Although these examples are different aspect ratios we will be using your image in the main pages of the Open Studios directory, so we will require square images.
Named and numbered so rename your files with your surname or group/company name first, and in this format : SMITH.R.1.jpg. This is so we can identify who has provided each image.
Between 1mb and 10mb so we recommend making the images at least 1500x1500 pixels, and you should find that the file size is above 1mb.
Either .jpg or a .png files.
At least three different examples of your work so that we can choose from them, and use different examples in our publicity. A variety is best for us to choose from.
Images that don't have important detail/features at the very edge of the images - this is because if your image ends up on the edge of a page, then it may get cropped into by the printer. All images have an edge along the top, so please be aware that you will lose 3mm off the top of the image. In printing terms it’s called the “bleed edge”.
Solely images of artwork - no logos or text please.
We also recommend looking through previous directories, such as the 2022 directory, to get an idea for descriptions and images that work really well.