Help us decorate the light posts in town this winter by purchasing and decorating a banner to create a Sharpsburg Winter Wonderland!
Banners will be available with a donation of $20 each. The money raised by the sale of the banners will help fund the banner program and more Artspiration projects in Sharpsburg, Etna and Millvale. There will be a limit of TWO banners per household.
Banners sales will take place from October 1 through October 15
Banner Pickup will be October 16 from 10am-2pm and 4pm-7pm at Ketchup City Creative.
Banner Drop-off will be November 6 and 7 from with times and locations TBD.
You will create an original banner for this year's themes of "Winter Wonderland" and "Sharpsburg in Winter". Think hot chocolate, mittens, knit caps, scarves, colorful jackets, sledding, ice skating, animals that love the cold, animals dressed up for the cold, skiing, skating, sledding, snowshoeing, reindeer, candy canes, bright colorful lights, pine trees, snow boots, snowflakes, bowls of soup, family time, warm fires, the new year beginning, party hats...anything that is colorful and makes winter a celebration of cozy inside time and bundled up outside time.
Sample Banner from 2023
Banners are unprimed canvas and are approximately 30"x17.5" in size. Artists will decorate BOTH sides VERTICALLY.
What works to create the banner? It helps if you use Gesso and make a base coat on both sides. Then acrylic paint, fabric markers, spray paint, stencils, and stamps work well.
You can try tie-dye (no Gesso) or be as creative as you want. Artists should decorate BOTH sides. Colorful is great as it will make the town look bright and cheery!
We ask that you do not do an overtly religious banner or one tied to specific holidays since these will be up before and after the holiday season. The borough will review all banners before hanging them and retains the right to refuse to display individual banners that are determined to be offensive or distasteful.
Sharpsburg Shines is a project by Artspiration to add art, color, and life to the main street of Sharpsburg by having individual banners painted by local artists and local residents to brighten the Main Street Business District. This is being done at no cost to the borough.