Heritage Arts entries are divided via the following sub-categories:

• Basket Weaving: Interlacing pliable materials like reeds or grasses into 3D containers.

• Crocheting: Creating fabric by using a single hooked needle to interconnect yarn loops.

• General Fiber Arts: Art using natural or synthetic fibers; must include a technique like sewing, felting, or knitting.

• Jewelry: Designing wearable adornments using metals, beads, gemstones, or other decorative media.

• Knitting: Producing fabric by using needles to intermesh loops of yarn in a structured sequence.

• Needlework: Decorative textile crafts worked with a needle, such as embroidery or needlepoint.

• Quilting (hand-stitched): Quilts constructed and finished using only hand-stitching.

• Quilting (machine-stitched): Quilts constructed using any amount of machine stitching.

• Stained Glass: Cutting and joining colored glass with lead or foil to create patterns.

• Tole/Decorative Painting: Folk art painting of designs on tin, wood, or household objects.

• Pottery-Thrown & Hand Built: Clay objects shaped by hand or wheel and hardened by heat.

• Weaving: Interlacing threads on a loom; includes the craft of chair caning.

• Woodcarving: Shaping wood by cutting or burning (includes wood burning/pyrography).

• Woodturning: Using a lathe to rotate wood while using tools to cut symmetrical shapes.

• Wood working: Building or joining wood for functional or decorative items; the primary category for wood art that is not carved or turned.

Each piece must be the work of the individual, not a group effort. One entry per sub-category. Patterns may be used, but no stamped pieces will be accepted. Framed work must be securely wired and ready to be hung (no serrated hooks or string). Framed works can be no larger than 36″ x 42″, including matting and frame and no heavier than 40 pounds. Prohibited Items: No Kits, i.e. Diamond Art, Latch Hook, anything that is pre-designed/pre-cut or commercially produced.

Literary Arts entries are divided via the following sub-categories:

• Essay (not autobiographical): Nonfiction writing examining a specific theme or academic topic.

• Life Experience: A personal narrative written by the author about their own life.

• Poems: Writing characterized by rhythm and imagery, often arranged in stanzas.

• Short Story (fiction): Brief prose focusing on a self-contained incident or narrative.

Please note: only one entry per sub-category. All entries must be typed and double spaced on an 8.5′ x 11″ page with a minimum of 1″ margins and a minimum font height of 10. Poems cannot exceed 40 lines typed; Short Stories, Life Experiences and Essays cannot exceed eight pages.

Visual Arts entries are divided via the following sub-categories:

• Acrylics: Paintings using fast-drying pigments in an acrylic polymer emulsion.

• Digital Art: Art created via technology, including digital painting and photomanipulation.

• Drawing: Creating marks on a surface using tools like pencils, charcoal, or ink.

• Mixed Media 2D: Multi-medium art (paint, cloth, etc.) viewed from one side, like collages.

• Mixed Media 3D: Multi-medium art viewed from multiple sides or in the round, like sculpture.

• Oil Painting: Artworks using pigments bound with drying oil, such as linseed.

• Pastels: Art created using sticks of powdered pigment bound with gum or resin.

• Photography (Digital): Images captured and recorded via digital sensors.

• Photography (Film): Images captured and recorded via light-sensitive chemical film.

• Sculpture: Shaping figures in 3D by carving, modeling, casting, or welding.

• Watercolor: Painting using pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

Entries in Drawing, Painting or Photography must not exceed 36″ x 42″ including matting and frame and no heavier than 40 pounds. Entries must be framed and wired for hanging. No serrated hooks or string. Two-dimensional artwork not properly framed and wired will be disqualified. Staff and volunteers have the right to refuse artwork not framed properly.

Sculptures can not exceed the following dimensions – height 60″, width 36″, length 36″ and weigh no more than 50 pounds.

Performing Arts entries are divided via the following sub-categories:

• Comedy/ Drama: A solo or group performance of a monologue, scene, or skit, either humorous or dramatic.

• Dance: A rhythmic stage performance in any style (ballet, tap, jazz, etc.), excluding line dancing.

• Instrumental: A musical performance using one or more instruments without vocal accompaniment.

• Line Dancing: A choreographed dance with repeated steps, performed by a group in one or more lines.

• Vocal: A musical performance focusing on singing, performed a cappella or with instrumental backing.

Some of these sub-categories are divided into solo, small group and large group sections.

Cheerleading is described as a performance by individuals or groups who lead cheers through rhythmic vocal patterns and/or present choreographed routines. Cheerleading entries are divided via the following sub-categories:

• Small group (2-4 member squad)

• Medium group (5-9 member squad)

• Large Group (10+ member squad)

Each group has a four (4) minute maximum length of time for their act, and each squad must have a Head Cheerleader identified to be the communication liaison between staff and remaining squad members. The Cheerleader Showcase will be included as a part of the Follies on stage.