City Pulse announces 2018 Summer of Art cover series

For a third year, City Pulse and the Arts Council of Greater Lansing are teaming up to put local artists on our covers all summer. Over the last two years, the Summer of Art featured 26 artists ranging from local stalwarts to aspiring creatives to talented hobbyists.

So how does it work? Starting today, local artists can submit original works of art to the Arts Council through lansingarts.slideroom.com. If selected, the artist agrees to donate the art to the Arts Council to be auctioned off at its annual Holiday Glitter fundraiser. The last two auctions raised over $3,000, with over $800 going to the artists and the rest benefitting the Arts Council.

It’s a win-win-win for everyone involved. We get great cover art, the Arts Council gets great art to auction off at the end of the year and the artists get great exposure and 30 percent of the auction price. (You can’t pay the bills with exposure, after all.)

This summer, City Pulse will feature local art on our cover for up to eight issues: June 27-Aug. 29, excluding our Aug. 15 anniversary issue.

For the June 27 issue, we are looking for an Independence Day theme.

Submission guidelines: Anyone living in Ingham, Eaton or Clinton counties may submit entries.

Submissions should be print quality (300 dpi) at the dimensions listed below.

The available space is 10.25 inches wide by 6.5 inches high. Your art need not be exactly that, but it needs to be a rectangle of roughly those proportions — or able to be cropped to those proportions — for us to make it work.

We’re looking forward to another wonderful Summer of Art!