Youth Wearable

School and Group

Online Application Below

The NEW YOUTH WEARABLE ART SHOW is intended for ALL youth Wearable artists and models 18 and younger! If there is a young person creating the wearable art piece, and or modeling the wearable art piece this is the place for them to shine!!! Youth Wearable submissions can have adult help with the application process, the artistic process, and or have adult models included and still be considered a Youth Wearable Art piece. The Youth Wearable Art Show provides a family friendly venue and opportunity for Youth Wearable Artists to create and perform as an individual or within a group on stage. An application is required for each entry. An entry is defined by the music.Typically a single entry can contain between 1 and 6 models. More than that and it is hard to see all the pieces. Youth Wearable Art is an opportunity for art teachers, school groups, science teachers, classrooms, after-school groups, scouts, and parents to encourage the youth wearable artists and young people in their lives to create art for exhibition on the stage!!! Adult lead group submissions should use the School /Group Application below and should be filled out by the teacher/adult, and that each participant's parent must sign the model release form.

DEADLINE to submit your application is March 8th, 2024!!! Call with questions! 907-225-2211

Things to Know

• Artists, models, most volunteers, emcees, the opening act, stage set, lighting front of house back of house will be all YOUTH!!!!
• Any participants who have active Covid-19 or are showing symptoms of Covid-19 will be asked not to attend the event.
• Dress rehearsal will be Friday, March 22nd, 2024 This is REQUIRED. All pieces must be finished for the dress rehearsal, no matter what. 
• The Youth Wearable Art Show will be on March 23rd, 2024 at Kayhi!!! Yay!!!

Further Information:

We are really excited about the fun, creative ways you will bring the Second Annual Youth Wearable Art Show to our community. The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council (KAAHC) began the Wearable Art Show in 1986. It has since become one of Ketchikan’s favorite events and is copied in communities across Alaska and in Washington. The Wearable Art Show focuses on one-of-a-kind, handcrafted artwork designed to be worn by the human body. Artists of all media are invited to create functional - and not so functional - pieces of WEARABLE ART. Our hope is that participation in the Youth Wearable Art Show fosters the love and dedication to the Wearable Art Show for the future. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your participation, involvement, and support create the atmosphere where Wearable Art can thrive! Just think, you are paramount in the cultivation of creativity in the future culture of Wearable Art!!

We are lucky to have highly efficient, creative, and insightful leadership for the development of this event in the form of the Youth Wearable Art Show Committee. This committee is possibly the best committee in the history of the universe and we are very, very lucky to benefit from their knowledge, energy, and commitment to Wearable Art!!!!

As always, we will need volunteers to help with load-in and load-out. If you know someone who is able to help, please let the Arts and Humanities Council know at kathleenl@ketchikanarts.org

Rules of the Road!

This is an online registration form for submission to participate in the 3rd Annual Youth Wearable Art Show, March 23rd, 2024 on stage at the Kayhi Auditorium. The application form below is for Schools or Groups. Use this application if you are working with a group of kids and you are the teacher/mentor. If you are an individual artist please fill out the Individual Artist Application.

Below is a basic list of guidelines, however, you may download this list of guidelines as well. Download Guidelines Here

• The Youth Wearable Art Show is a production of the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council (KAAHC)
• The Youth Wearable Art Show showcases youth artists and models 18 and under.
• Artwork, should be made by hand, and designed to be worn on the human body.
• Teachers and Mentors may submit multiple entries to include and incorporate as many student/youth artists and models as possible. Entries can include as many students as can display their pieces on stage in under 2 minutes. However, we find six pieces at a time allows ample viewing of each piece by the audience members!
• However because of time requirements, models may only participate in two pieces!
• Wearable Art must be handmade from “scratch.” No ready-made costumes or street clothes will be accepted. 
• Artists must provide their own model for all performances. Models cannot appear in more than two pieces. 
• A photographer will document the event for the KAAHC. It is the applicants responsibility to inform all students/models that photos may be used in publicizing the Youth Wearable Art Show. ALL youth participants will be required to sign a model release form and have parental/legal guardian permission.
• The Dress Rehearsal is mandatory for all group entries. Models must wear the entire Youth Wearable Art piece and practice on stage.
• If you have any participant with  mobility challenges please let us know so we can make accommodations.
• You must submit up to 3 images of your group piece through this form! You can upload pictures from your phone! Take pictures of your supplies, your drawings, your color palate, the students working on a piece, a partially finished piece, or a completed piece. Have your images ready before filling out the application.
• Each group is considered one piece. Each piece requires a musical selection to go with it. Which is awesome because you can pick music that your students like to move to, or that inspires them! Please have the title and composer ready before you fill out the application! In order to use the music for your performance you must own it. Amazon is a great location to purchase single songs. They typically run $1.29 each. Once purchased the music file can be downloaded to your computer or phone. If you want to get fancy you can edit your music. Either upload music into the application or email to KAAHC. If multiple submissions choose the same music. The musical choice will be awarded to the application that was submitted first and the other submission will be notified they need to find new music.
• KAAHC will start the music at the beginning. We will not edit your music.
• The music must be in an MP3 or MP4 format. If you have questions please ask.
• KAAHC reserves the right to exclude work that is incomplete or inappropriate.
• KAAHC reserves the right to alter the music and the lineup after the Dress Rehearsal to better serve the performance.

Important dates

March 8th, 2024, by 5 pm
School/Group applications must be received - Please include Model Release Forms, Music, and images. Main Street Gallery, 330 Main Street, Ketchikan, AK   907-225-2211 info@ketchikanarts.org

March 22nd, 2024
MANDATORY DRESS REHEARSAL, Kayhi Auditorium. This may become open to volunteers, and as an "artist comp" event - plan accordingly!!! Models are required to wear the entire Wearable Art piece.

March 23rd, 2024
Evening performance Kayhi Auditorium!!! Invite your friends and family to buy tickets for the performance!

We often receive requests from newspapers, magazines, and authors for publicity photos for the Youth Wearable Art Show. Publishers require proof of the model’s consent to have his/her image published. Therefore, we are asking for your permission to use photos from the 2024 Youth Wearable Art Show for future publicity requests, and for promotional efforts This includes but is not limited to the artist/model’s name, picture, portrait, photograph, or recording, including composite or altered representations, live streaming and airing on KPUTV, for the purpose of publicizing or advertising the Youth Wearable Art Show. I waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product, including written copy, which may be created in connection therewith. I approve the foregoing and waive any rights in the premises.

Teacher/Mentor Information. If more than one please list the main contact.

To minimize crowding backstage, only the students who are modeling the piece on stage are allowed back stage. All other students should sit in the audience. Teachers are always welcome and encouraged to help their students backstage and provide parent helpers when needed! Please list any parent helpers who may be backstage helping. Thank You!

School/Groups may include as many students as can display their pieces on the stage in under 2 minutes. However, we find six pieces allows ample viewing and enjoyment of each piece by the audience. Teachers and Mentors are not limited to two entries in order to include and incorporate as many students as possible in the Youth Wearable Art Production. However please keep in mind because of timing requirements, models may only be in two pieces!

Description of your Wearable Art piece

You must submit 3 images of the piece. The line up committee will make determinations based on the images you submit. Images can be a collage of ideas, a storyboard, a color palette, drawings, pictures of students working on the piece, pictures of partially finished pieces, or ideally, images of the finished piece. This part of the application is required and incredibly helpful in saving time later, and in the overall presentation of the 3rd Annual Youth Wearable Art Show!

The submission form will upload your images at the end when you submit your form. The system cannot accept any single images over 2GB.

Music

You must submit music for your piece. Music should be 2 minutes or less. You may submit the music file either through this form below or via thumb drive or e-mail to kathleenl@ketchikanarts.com You must own the music and it must be in an MP3 or MP4 format. The entirety of your music will not exceed 2 minutes. If it is unedited the sound booth will start at the beginning and cut it at 2 min. Plan your groups experience on stage to be 2 min or less.

If multiple applicants choose the same music, the first application turned in will be given priority for the music, all others will need to find different music. The final decision about music selection and lineup will be made by the Youth Wearable Art Show Committee, Please remember all music needs to be family friendly.

We are unable to accept late music submissions.

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