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Guild advocating
carving collections
Provides opportunities
for entities to sponsor
components of festival
By MIKE VOSS
Contributing Editor
Something new is coming to the annual East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships.
The East Carolina Wildfowl Guild, with its headquarters in Washington, will offer individuals, businesses and corporations opportunities to begin collections of waterfowl decoys, carved songbirds or other wildfowl carvings. The collected decoys and carvings would come from the various carving competitions held as part of the annual event.
The guild also is accepting sponsors for the carving competitions.
The new program will debut at the 14th-annual East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships, to be held Feb. 6-8, 2009, in Washington.
“It was mine,” said David Gossett, the festival’s show chairman, when asked who came up with the collection idea.
“Over the years, we’ve had a couple of people doing this,” Gossett said. “There is one man who started a collection for himself and a collection for his children.”
Gossett said he believes such collections will prove popular.
“We’ve never promoted it. ... I thought it would be a good idea to let the public know about it,” he said.
The guild believes that beginning a collection of decoys and carvings makes sense because a collection increases in value as it expands. Such collections have been proved to be a good investment, according to the guild.
“Interested parties may choose types of decoys, species and, in the case of songbirds and other wildfowl types, the sponsor may specify the habitats to be used,” reads a news release from the guild. “As a sponsor of a division, the individual would be able to obtain the winning entry, name the division, and participate in the judging process if so desires.”
Presently, the guild is preparing to circulate its 2009 competition book to world-champion carvers and other world-class carvers throughout the United States and Canada.
“To get an individual’s new division in the book for circulation, we must be contacted by no later than August 15, 2008, so that details can be discussed about the division,” reads the release.
Sandra Gossett, who coordinates the festival’s vendor-exhibitor component, said wildlife artist Art LaMay, known for such works as “Bad Boys,” a row of mallard ducks on a log, asked for an application so he could participate in the 2009 festival. Gossett said she told LaMay not to worry about submitting an application and that she would find a place for him to display his work at the festival.
LaMay, who turns 70 Aug. 28, said he learned about the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships at a similar show in Virginia earlier this year. LaMay, who lives in Palm Coast, Fla., has been producing wildlife art for 38 years, specializing in waterfowl works.
“I was talking to someone at the Virginia festival, and they asked me if I was going to be at the festival in Washington,” LaMay said. “I said that I didn’t know about it.”
That person informed him about the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships, LaMay said.
“I said, ‘Boy, that sounds interesting,’” he said. “We’re excited about doing it.”
Provides opportunities
for entities to sponsor
components of festival
By MIKE VOSS
Contributing Editor
Something new is coming to the annual East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships.
The East Carolina Wildfowl Guild, with its headquarters in Washington, will offer individuals, businesses and corporations opportunities to begin collections of waterfowl decoys, carved songbirds or other wildfowl carvings. The collected decoys and carvings would come from the various carving competitions held as part of the annual event.
The guild also is accepting sponsors for the carving competitions.
The new program will debut at the 14th-annual East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships, to be held Feb. 6-8, 2009, in Washington.
“It was mine,” said David Gossett, the festival’s show chairman, when asked who came up with the collection idea.
“Over the years, we’ve had a couple of people doing this,” Gossett said. “There is one man who started a collection for himself and a collection for his children.”
Gossett said he believes such collections will prove popular.
“We’ve never promoted it. ... I thought it would be a good idea to let the public know about it,” he said.
The guild believes that beginning a collection of decoys and carvings makes sense because a collection increases in value as it expands. Such collections have been proved to be a good investment, according to the guild.
“Interested parties may choose types of decoys, species and, in the case of songbirds and other wildfowl types, the sponsor may specify the habitats to be used,” reads a news release from the guild. “As a sponsor of a division, the individual would be able to obtain the winning entry, name the division, and participate in the judging process if so desires.”
Presently, the guild is preparing to circulate its 2009 competition book to world-champion carvers and other world-class carvers throughout the United States and Canada.
“To get an individual’s new division in the book for circulation, we must be contacted by no later than August 15, 2008, so that details can be discussed about the division,” reads the release.
Sandra Gossett, who coordinates the festival’s vendor-exhibitor component, said wildlife artist Art LaMay, known for such works as “Bad Boys,” a row of mallard ducks on a log, asked for an application so he could participate in the 2009 festival. Gossett said she told LaMay not to worry about submitting an application and that she would find a place for him to display his work at the festival.
LaMay, who turns 70 Aug. 28, said he learned about the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships at a similar show in Virginia earlier this year. LaMay, who lives in Palm Coast, Fla., has been producing wildlife art for 38 years, specializing in waterfowl works.
“I was talking to someone at the Virginia festival, and they asked me if I was going to be at the festival in Washington,” LaMay said. “I said that I didn’t know about it.”
That person informed him about the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival and North Carolina Decoy Carving Championships, LaMay said.
“I said, ‘Boy, that sounds interesting,’” he said. “We’re excited about doing it.”
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tunne rat wrote on Jul 6, 2009 8:55 PM:
that is the biggest propganda word that every came out of butterfields and rino jones mouth in the past hundred years .
just 2 water boys for the obama socalist party , and a hand full of red necks that dont have a clue about whast they are talking about . "