Moscow Artwalk is a cornerstone cultural event that, for over two decades, has fostered a thriving artistic ecosystem within the Palouse region by showcasing the community’s diverse artistic talents. Held on the 3rd Thursday of each month from October to May at business and non-profit locations throughout Moscow, Artwalk offers a unique opportunity to engage with local artistic expression. The 2024-2025 season culminates in a grand finale on June 26th, 2025, transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings.

Monthly Host
 Monthly host registration is available to all businesses and non-profits each month throughout the season. Hosts are invited to feature up to 5 visual, performing, culinary, or literary listings by selecting the Monthly Host registration type.

Season Host
 Businesses and non-profits were invited to sign up prior to September 16, 2024 for the entire 2024-2025 Artwalk Season. Pre-registered Season Hosts may enter Arts listings on a monthly basis by selecting the Season Host registration type.

Registration is open through May 6, 2025 at 5 p.m.

       Arts Staff will deliver event posters, artwork title cards, and flyers to each host location prior to the event. Registration includes social media posts promoting 3rd Thursday Artwalk, so keep an eye out for these posts in the week leading up to the event. Share these social media posts to connect with an even broader audience!

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2024-2025 Artwalk Season Finale: June 26 from 4 - 8 p.m.

Moscow Artwalk is a cornerstone cultural event that, for over two decades, has fostered a thriving artistic ecosystem within the Palouse region by showcasing the community’s diverse artistic talents. Held on the 3rdThursday of each month from October to May at business and non-profit locations throughout Moscow, Artwalk offers a unique opportunity to engage with local artistic expression. The 2024-2025 season culminates in a grand finale on June 26th, 2025, transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings.
 

This form is for those who would like to participate as a Host Location inside their own brick-and-mortar business or non-profit organization. 

Monthly Host registration is available to all businesses and non-profits each month throughout the season. Hosts are invited to feature up to 5 visual, performing, culinary, or literary listings by selecting the Monthly Host registration type.
Monthly Host Registration Fees
- Business Host Location - $106

- Non-Profit Host Location - $53.00

- Arts Listing - $26.00 each

Businesses and non-profits were invited to sign up prior to September 16, 2024 for the entire 2024-2025 Artwalk Season. Pre-registered Season Hosts may enter Arts listings on a monthly basis by selecting the Season Host registration type.

Participation Guidelines
Following registration, all participants will receive an email containing event-branded graphics to support participant promotion of the Artwalk Season Finale. Share these graphics and/or City of Moscow social media posts to connect with an even broader audience. Additionally, Arts Staff will deliver event posters, artwork title cards, and flyers to each host location prior to the event. 

Please find answers to Frequently Asked Questions HERE.
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2024-2025 Artwalk Season Finale: June 26 from 4 - 8 p.m.

Moscow Artwalk is a cornerstone cultural event that, for over two decades, has fostered a thriving artistic ecosystem within the Palouse region by showcasing the community’s diverse artistic talents. Held on the 3rdThursday of each month from October to May at business and non-profit locations throughout Moscow, Artwalk offers a unique opportunity to engage with local artistic expression. The 2024-2025 season culminates in a grand finale on June 26th, 2025, transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings.

  This form is for those who would like to participate as a Food/Non-alcoholic Beverage Booth in the Artwalk street fair. These booth spaces on Main Street are available to a wide variety of registrants. Examples include, but certainly are not limited to the following:
  - Food vendors 

- Non-alcoholic beverage vendors

- Business or non-profit organizational outreach (e.g. popcorn, sno cones, candy)

- Brick-and-mortar location outside the Main St. corridor

Registration Fees
  - Food/Non-alcoholic Beverage Booth (on Main Street) - $84

- Youth Vendor (under the age of 18) - $0

Vendor Duplication
  To avoid duplication, Food/Non-alcoholic Beverage Booth registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis (i.e. space in the event footprint will be reserved for only one sushi vendor, donut-maker, kettle corn seller, etc.) This area of the registration form will be updated regularly as registrations come in. The following Food/Non-alcoholic Beverage Booth registration types have already been received:
- Ice Cream

- Sushi

- Lumpia

Participation Guidelines
  All registered participants will receive an email containing event-branded graphics to support participant promotion of the Artwalk Season Finale. Share these graphics and/or City of Moscow social media posts to connect with an even broader audience.

  All vendors are expected to be present and open for customer interaction throughout the duration of the event. In the weeks leading up the event, each registrant will be informed about vendor space assignments, load-in, and load-out times. Please note that each registrant will be responsible for supplying canopies, tables, and other equipment required for their activity during the event.

  Please find answers to Frequently Asked Questions HERE.
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2024-2025 Artwalk Season Finale: June 26 from 4 - 8 p.m.

Moscow Artwalk is a cornerstone cultural event that, for over two decades, has fostered a thriving artistic ecosystem within the Palouse region by showcasing the community’s diverse artistic talents. Held on the 3rdThursday of each month from October to May at business and non-profit locations throughout Moscow, Artwalk offers a unique opportunity to engage with local artistic expression. The 2024-2025 season culminates in a grand finale on June 26th, 2025, transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings.

This form is for Beer and/or Wine Vendors who wish to pour beer and/or wine in the official Artwalk drinkware at their brick-and-mortar location or on-street booth within the event footprint. The Artwalk street footprint stretches from 3rd to 6th on Main Street, including the half-block of 5th Street between Main and the alley. Up to 5 vendors of this type will be accepted.

Registration Fees
- Beer and/or Wine Vendor (brick-and-mortar) - $84

- Beer and/or Wine Vendor (on-street booth) - $84

ALL Beer & Wine Vendors
All vendors who register to pour beer & wine will be provided with official Artwalk event drinkware. These cups are to be provided free-of-charge to members of the public 21 years-of-age or older who have purchased beer or wine after showing valid identification. All beer and wine consumed within the on-street event footprint must be contained in Artwalk drinkware. Beer and/or wine vendors found to be pouring beer and/or wine in non-approved drinkware will not be allowed to continue serving during the event. 

Participation Guidelines
All registered participants will receive an email containing event-branded graphics to support participant promotion of the Artwalk Season Finale. Share these graphics and/or City of Moscow social media posts to connect with an even broader audience.

All vendors are expected to be present and open for customer interaction throughout the duration of the event. In the weeks leading up the event, each registrant will be informed about vendor space assignments, load-in, and load-out times. Please note that each registrant will be responsible for supplying canopies, tables, and other equipment required for their activity during the event.

  Please find answers to Frequently Asked Questions HERE.

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2024-2025 Artwalk Season Finale: June 26 from 4 - 8 p.m.

 Moscow Artwalk is a cornerstone cultural event that, for over two decades, has fostered a thriving artistic ecosystem within the Palouse region by showcasing the community’s diverse artistic talents. Held on the 3rdThursday of each month from October to May at business and non-profit locations throughout Moscow, Artwalk offers a unique opportunity to engage with local artistic expression. The 2024-2025 season culminates in a grand finale on June 26th, 2025, transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings.

 This form is for those who would like to participate as an Art Vendor/Demonstrator in the Artwalk street fair on Main Street. Registrants have an option to request placement in the Kidwalk section of the Artwalk street fair. This part of the street fair is ideal for registrants whose vendor/demonstrator booths are designed to engage kids and families in art viewing and hands-on interaction.

Art Vendor/Demonstrator booth spaces are available to a wide variety of registrants. Examples include, but certainly are not limited to the following:
  - Individual artist vendors or art displays

- Art clubs or collectives

- University or K-12 program outreach

- Business or non-profit organizational outreach with art activity

- Entities with a brick-and-mortar location outside the Main St. corridor

Registration Fees
  - Individual, Adult Vendor or Business/Non-profit Organization - $53.00

- Youth Vendor (under the age of 18) - $0

- City Department or Commission - $0

- Artwalk Season Host - $0

Vendor/Demonstrator Duplication
To avoid duplication of certain art demonstrations, registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis (i.e. space in the event footprint will be reserved for only one face painter, henna artist, etc.) This area of the registration form will be updated regularly as registrations come in.
We are no longer accepting the following registration types:

- Face Painting

- Giant Jenga 

Participation Guidelines
All registered participants will receive an email containing event-branded graphics to support participant promotion of the Artwalk Season Finale. Share these graphics and/or City of Moscow social media posts to connect with an even broader audience.

All vendors are expected to be present and open for customer interaction throughout the duration of the event. In the weeks leading up the event, each registrant will be informed about vendor space assignments, load-in, and load-out times. Please note that each registrant will be responsible for supplying canopies, tables, and other equipment required for their activity during the event.

Please find answers to Frequently Asked Questions HERE.
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PALOUSE PLEIN AIR is an annual painting event that takes place every September, with experiences including painting workshops and a juried exhibition at the Third Street Gallery inside Moscow City Hall.
 

Historic Moscow, Idaho and the beautiful Palouse are the perfect destination for plein air artists, and the annual Palouse Plein Air painting event connects artists with the region’s landscape and arts culture. French for “open air,” the phrase “plein air” (pronounced plen-air) describes the act of painting outdoors. The outdoor experience on the Palouse is particularly rich, as its rolling hills, rivers, mountains, fields, farms, and homes tell the long history of the landscape.
 

Guided by the vision of the Moscow Arts Commission and University of Idaho art professor Aaron Cordell Johnson, Palouse Plein Air began in 2010, and the event continues to grow. A collaboration of community partners makes this growth possible; the City of Moscow Arts Department and the University of Idaho College of Art + Architecture work together to make a great event for artists and art lovers alike.

Important Dates
May 1 – September 4
          Registration will be available online via Submittable. No emailed or paper registrations will be accepted.

September 8 - 16  
          Painting Period in Latah, Nez Perce, Whitman, and Benewah Counties

September 17
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
          Artwork Drop-off at the Third Street Gallery, located inside Moscow City Hall at 206 E Third St.
7:00 p.m.
          Juror Lecture on the UI Campus

September 18
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
          Juror Demonstration at the UI Arboretum
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
          Reception & Awards at the Third Street Gallery

September 18 - October 3
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
          Exhibition open at the Third Street Gallery

October 6   
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
          Artwork Pick-up at the Third Street Gallery (No early pick-up of artworks will be allowed.)

Eligibility
Palouse Plein Air is a painting competition open to all artists 18 years-of-age or older. All painting media are eligible for competition, including gouache, watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pastel.

Registration and Fees
$37 per participant or $31.50 per student participant (18 years-of-age and older.)
 

Painting and Exhibition Guidelines
 

• Following registration, participants paint out-of-doors at any location of their choosing within Latah, Nez Perce, Whitman, and Benewah counties. Participants have the option to paint on all days of the competition or any combination of the competition days. No use of electronic, pictorial, or other aids is allowed. All work must be done on location by the individual artist.
• Each artist will submit photos of their completed works along with inventory information and images of the painting on location. This submission will be completed using a Submittable form to be provided by City staff following the close of event registration. This procedure not only generates content for the publicly-viewable online gallery, but also authenticates that each piece was made on location during the Palouse Plein Air competition period. 
• Participants are invited to deliver finished entries to the Third Street Gallery inside Moscow City Hall on September 17 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. No early drop-off of artworks will be allowed. Artworks that arrive at any time other than the stated drop-off period will not be exhibited. 
• Up to 3 (three) paintings will be accepted. Painting sizes accepted will be up to 72” total unframed perimeter inches or smaller. (e.g. a 16” x 20” has a 72” perimeter: 20” x 2 + 16” x 2 = 72”)
• Artworks must be presented for exhibition in sturdy framing with a wire hanger (no sawtooth hangers). Please see the Third Street Gallery presentation requirements for an illustration of wire installation standards. Works submitted without proper framing and wire hangers will not be exhibited. 
• In the Best Lil’ Painting award category, from small acorns mighty oaks grow. Whether acorn, oak, or something in between, these lil' paintings are kind of a big deal! To participate, participants must select “Yes” to receive a welcome package. The welcome package will include a little canvas and a little watercolor board. Artists are invited to submit one little painting for this award category, and this submission will count toward the artist’s overall allowed total of up to 3 (three) paintings. The little paintings can be presented without frames or wires, but must be labeled as described below.
• Please label the back of each artwork with the following: artist name, artwork title, medium, and date.
• Event organizers reserve the right to determine suitability of all works shown in the Palouse Plein Air exhibition.
• Works may be offered for sale, and any sales will be handled by Third Street Gallery staff. Artwork sales will be subject to a 20% Gallery commission and Idaho State sales tax.
• Works will remain at Third Street Gallery for the entire length of the exhibition.
• Artists shall release the City of Moscow to use photographs and/or video of them and their exhibited art works, for future publicity and promotional purposes without copyright, use fees, or charges.

Juror and Awards
George Scribner is the 2025 Palouse Plein Air juror. Scribner is an artist and filmmaker. He was born and raised in Panama City, Panama and has been with The Walt Disney Company for more than thirty-five years as a Character Animator, Director and Fine Artist. In 1988 he directed Oliver and Company, a full length Animated Feature.

Commissioned by the Autoridad del Canal to record the expansion of the Panama Canal, George spent more than nine years creating large scale oil paintings documenting the construction of this multifaceted engineering marvel. “It was an honor to be a part of this project and my way of giving back to the country where I grew up;” commented George about the creation of these paintings. He completed thirty-five paintings now part of the Panama Canal Authority's permanent collection.

Scribner recently completed a series of original oil paintings documenting the construction of Shanghai Disneyland, a three year commission. He not only painted scenes documenting the construction of this massive entertainment complex but also directed animation projects for a number of new attractions. His new paintings will become part of the historical documentation for this newest addition to the Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. 

Scribner will adjudicate the exhibition at the Third Street Gallery and will offer a lecture open to all registered participants.

Awards will be announced during the artist reception at the Third Street Gallery. Winning participants need not be present to receive awards. Paintings will be available for sale and are eligible for the following cash and other recognition awards: 

• 1st Place ($500)
• 2nd Place ($250)
• 3rd Place ($125)
• Best Palouse
• Best Downtown
• Best Historical
• Best Lil’ Painting
• Student Awards (2)
• Honorable Mentions (2)
• City of Moscow Purchase Award (1)

Registration Support for Palouse Plein Air
            Megan Cherry
            Arts Manager
            206 East Third Street
            Moscow, ID 83843
            208.883.7036
            mcherry@ci.moscow.id.us