Galleries West 2016 Planner

2016

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Art Rotterdam, Feb. 10-14 Palm Springs, CA, Fine Art Fair, Feb. 11-14

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Galleries West, Feb. 12 Deadline for editorial submissions, Summer Issue

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Deadline for Canada Council for the Arts, Mar. 1 Fine Craft: Long-Term Grants to Artists and Curators, Fine Craft: Grants to Artists and Curators, Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts

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SOFA, Hamptons, Jun. 24-26

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Aboriginal/Inuit Traditional Visual Art Forms Program for Individual Artists, Aboriginal/InuitTraditionalArtFormsProgramforOrganizations Assistance to Artist-Run Centres

FIAC Paris, Oct. 22-25 Toronto International Art Fair, Oct. 21-24 (TBC)

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FULL PAGE BLEED ADS ■ The bleed amount should be 1/4" beyond the trim area.

■ Crop marks can be present but must not be in the bleed area.

SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY: We can also accept files in Adobe (CS6) InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark Express (v7 or earlier).

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