Listing Submissions

The newsletter is sent out on Tuesday mornings. Submissions are due by 5pm Sunday evenings. Submissions received after 5pm on Sunday will be included in the following week's newsletter. Listings are free!

This newsletter is focused on the visual arts in the Pioneer Valley, so there are only two criteria for submissions:

Visual arts-related
Pioneer Valley area *

* Pioneer Valley is Hampshire, Hampden, and Franklin counties of western Massachusetts.

How to Submit a Listing:

Email submissions to art@valleyartsnewsletter.com, and include the following info below (where applicable), depending on the type of submission. An easy way is to copy the appropriate list below, paste into an email, and fill in the details. Or just email your press release!

PLEASE NOTE: listings are NOT ads. To purchase a banner ad, please visit the Advertising page for more information.

Featured Listings! Your event at the top!

Have your listing featured at the top of the listings, the first listing readers see! This top-billing is first-come first-serve, and you may reserve in advance. Prices (per issue): $25 for the top spot, $20 for the second spot (right below the top spot) See below for details and available dates.

Please note that I do not post listings for business services, jobs, or real estate. Please consider purchasing an ad for this purpose. Ads run for four weeks and cost between $15 to $70 depending on size and placement (10% discount for a year-long ad). Great rates!

Non-visual arts submissions: The newsletter is only visual arts at this time. I do this as a one-person volunteer labor-of-love, and putting it together each week is time-consuming. Film/video art installations are welcome, and I will occassionally list film/video events at my discretion, but non-art films will probably not be listed. (I know film is a visual medium, but then we get into the whole "What is Art" debate, and in this newsletter I make the rules ;)

Theater submissions: Theater-related events will be listed if there is a visual art component (e.g. concurrent exhibit, arts fundraiser, etc). There is a new local newsletter devoted to theater, Pioneer Valley Theater News, which lists all things theater-related in the valley.

Please don't send your listing as an image only, or flattened PDF. It's too time-consuming to decipher and type out text information contained in an image. This kind of submission will no longer be accepted.

If you add me to your arts organization's mailing list, thank you, but I won't extract listings from email newsletters (too much information to sift through, and I get a lot of newsletters!) - please send me anything you'd like to list separately.

Listings formats:

Art Exhibits / Events

Name of event/exhibit
Artist(s)/Group exhibiting
Start Date
End Date
Reception Date
Location name
Hours
Address
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact name
Contact email
Contact phone
One image (attach in jpg format)

Craft Fairs & Open Studios & Pop-up Shops

Event Name
Date(s)
Location name
Address
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact name
Contact email
Contact phone
One image (attach in jpg format)

Call to Artists/ Artist Opportunities

Sponsoring Group Name
Show/Event Name
Deadline
Submission Fees
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact name
Contact email
Contact phone
One image (attach in jpg format)

Classes

Class Name
Class Time
Start Date
End Date
Fee
Organization
Location name
Address
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact name
Contact email
Contact phone
One image (attach in jpg format)

Studio / Artist Space Available

Location name
Date(s) available
Address
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact name
Contact email
Contact phone
One image (attach in jpg format)

Crowdfunding

Title of fundraiser
Goal
Start Date
End Date
City/Town
Website
Description/info (500 character limit, includes whitespace)
Contact
One image (attach in jpg format)

Listings policies:

as of October 2019

Art Exhibits / Events: listed up to two weeks in advance of start date, and deleted on end date.
Craft Fairs & Open Studios & Pop-up Shops: listed up to two weeks in advance of start date. Temporary pop-up and holiday shops selling work by local artists and makers are welcome but permanent brick & mortar stores will not be listed (please consider buying an ad instead).
Call to Artists / Artist Opportunities: listed up to 6 months in advance, deleted on deadline date. Open-ended listings (i.e. no end date) will be listed for eight weeks. You are welcome to re-submit your listing. Preference is given to Pioneer Valley area calls/opportunities; though I may list, at my discretion, calls/opportunities outside the Pioneer Valley area.
Classes: listed up to three months in advance, deleted on start date. A maximum of two classes per organization can be listed per issue. If you are offering multiple classes, you may combine them into one listing. Open-ended listings (i.e. no end date) will be listed for eight weeks. You are welcome to re-submit your listing.
Studio / Artist Space Available: listed for four weeks. Please notify me if the space has been rented within that time. You are welcome to re-list a space if it's still available after four weeks.
Crowdfunding: listed up to one week in advance of start date, and deleted on end date. Nearly anything visual-art related will be considered via Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or GoFundMe (including funding for individual artists and artists-in-need). Please contact me with any questions.
Images: JPG or PNG format only. Please note that images will be resized down to 200px width, and a maximum of 300px height. Image credit can only be added as part of the 500-character listing description (see listings formats below). Listing images are only shown with the listings on the website, and no longer in the email version (it was getting too large to email so the images were removed to reduce the size, rather than cut listings).
Errors/Omissions: Every effort is made to accurately post your listing, but occasionally mistakes will happen. If a mistake does happen, please let me know and I will correct it ASAP.

Featured Listing Info:

On the website and newsletter: your listing appears at the top of the listings.
One week/issue: $25 for the top spot, $20 for the second spot (right below the top spot).
First come, first serve. See dates available below.
The second spot is only available if the top spot is taken.
Payment is due at time of your request to ensure your reservation. (I'll email you an invoice)
Payment accepted via check or PayPal.
Reservations are non-refundable.
Please note that this is a paid listing, not a banner ad, so listing submissions requirements apply.

Email to reserve your spot: art@valleyartsnewsletter.com

Featured Listing dates available:

2020 top spot:

5/26 - 6/1	RESERVED
6/2 - 6/8	RESERVED
6/9 - 6/15	open
6/16 - 6/22	open
6/23 - 6/29	open
6/30 - 7/6	open
7/7 - 7/13	open
7/14 - 7/20	open
7/21 - 7/27	open
7/28 - 8/3	open
8/4 - 8/10	open
8/11 - 8/17	open
8/18 - 8/24	open
8/25 - 8/31	open
9/1 - 9/7	open
9/8 - 9/14	open
9/15 - 9/21	open

2020 second spot:

5/26 - 6/1	open
6/2 - 6/8	open
6/9 - 6/15	open
6/16 - 6/22	open
6/23 - 6/29	open
6/30 - 7/6	open
7/7 - 7/13	open
7/14 - 7/20	open
7/21 - 7/27	open
7/28 - 8/3	open
8/4 - 8/10	open
8/11 - 8/17	open
8/18 - 8/24	open
8/25 - 8/31	open
9/1 - 9/7	open
9/8 - 9/14	open
9/15 - 9/21	open