Welcome! We’re so happy you want to participate in our annual Arts Marathon. The Arts Marathon is a great adventure and community event, not just a sprint to the finish.
For our artists, here’s how the annual Arts Marathon works:
- Choose your genre or medium. Write a poem, draft a micro story or essay, take a photograph, make a sketch, paint a watercolor, write a song. Or perhaps mix it up, writing a poem one day and doing a drawing the next. Or do a mixed media or craft project. Or commit to work on an ambitious project. The work you share can also be previous projects, sharing with your sponsors how they were produced. The form your creative practice will take is up to you.
- Register for your personalized fundraising page. Use this form to provide information for your artist page: tell us about you and your art and upload a sample of your work.
- Share your fundraising page. By the end of February, you will receive an email with a link to your page to share with your friends and family – and all your possible sponsors.
- Share your work. Over the 30 days of the Arts Marathon you will be expected to share your creative work, with some commentary about your process, thinking and/or plans, with your sponsors by email at least 5 days per week throughout the month. We will provide you with your sponsors’ email addresses so you can communicate with them.
- Show us your progress. We will create an exhibit of participants’ work at the end of the Arts Marathon. You’ll be invited to submit 3 pieces for the online exhibit. Of course, exhibiting is optional.
Thank you for participating in the April Arts Marathon and supporting Bridge to Rutland and our work with asylum seekers.