People’s Choice Award special promo encourages families to enjoy SculptureTour
SculptureTour Salina has a special back-to-school promotion underway in September.
"We want to encourage families of elementary age children to be introduced to our 2021 exhibition downtown and are offering an incentive this month," SculptureTour Salina noted in a news release.
The promotion also allows SculptureTour Salina to support an elementary level art program in the area through a prize drawing.
How it works
●Families go downtown and pick up SculptureTour Salina brochure/ballots – one for each person who is touring the exhibition.
●Then, the families can enjoy looking at the art, on artist loan from across the country.
●At the end, each person – any age – completes a ballot, voting for their favorite sculpture. For this promotion, the name of the elementary school they want to support in the drawing must be written on each ballot.
●Once complete, all ballots need to be placed in one of the silver boxes at the mid-block crosswalks on Santa Fe, taken to a participating downtown business, or dropped off at 120 W. Ash, the offices of Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, Visit Salina, and Salina Downtown, Inc.
Through Sept. 30, 2021, all ballots that bear the name of an area elementary school will be placed into a drawing. One ballot with a school shown, will be drawn to receive $100 for their art department. Two ballots from the ‘12 & under’ age category will be drawn, and those voters will each receive a $25 Smoky Hill Silver Gift Certificate as a prize as well. Smoky Hill Silver Gift Certificates are accepted at hundreds of chamber member businesses.
“We are so excited to announce this promotion, which we hope will not only encourage many to enjoy this family-friendly arts experience in Salina, but also emphasize the importance of arts education at the elementary level,” said Sylvia Rice, a member of the SculptureTour Salina Committee, and director of Visit Salina at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce.
The People’s Choice Award is an integral part of the SculptureTour Salina program. Each year, ballots are cast indicated a that voter’s favorite sculpture. The artwork receiving the most votes by Dec. 31, is purchased by the City of Salina, at its listed price, up to $15,000. The sculpture then is placed somewhere in a public location to be enjoyed as part of Salina’s permanent art collection.