The Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania is accepting applications for wholesale suppliers to stock the 300 sq. ft gift shop at the new Kinzua Bridge State Park Visitor Center. To be considered applicants must meet eligibility requirements:
Preferred Terms. We will be buying inventory (no consignment) to stock the gift shop and preference will be given to vendors that can extend Net 30 terms.
Wilds Cooperative Members.Vendors must be Juried Artisans or Creative Service partners in good standing. Not a member? For info on how to join visit The Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania.
Wholesale Pricing.Vendors must create work that can be reproduced and sold in quantities of 20 or more and offer wholesale pricing (we use keystone pricing to calculate our retail pricing). Selected vendors will be invited to submit this information in digital form via a buyers' pack.
You can read more about the opportunity here.
As you fill out the application please be sure to complete all of the fields with as much description as possible. We may not be familiar with your work and this is the time to let us know what and how you make your products.
USING THE PA WILDS LOGO : Licensing Program Summary
PURPOSE
The PA Wilds Licensing Program provides a way for businesses and organizations to apply to use the PA Wilds logo on saleable and non-saleable products to help them leverage their business and community development efforts.
TYPES OF USES
There are two main types of logo uses:
Non-Saleable Uses include using the logo on business or event websites,banners, rack cards, signage and other marketing materials not sold in the marketplace. There is no cost for this type of use but a one-page application is required. Approval takes about one week, the application can be found here.
Saleable Uses include using the logo on t-shirts, hats and other merchandise to be sold to customers. These types of uses require a contract and membership in The Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania. A standard royalty is collected: 9% on wholesale or 4.5% retail. Royalties go to support the work of the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, a regional non-profit dedicated to growing the region’s nature and heritage tourism industry.
ELIGIBILITY
Businesses, organizations and individuals serving the Pennsylvania Wilds region may apply to use the logo on saleable or non-saleable items. All participants must adhere to the standards defined in the PA Wilds Brand Book.
HOW TO APPLY
The application for non-saleable logo uses can be found by visiting here.
Continue with this application to apply for saleable use of the PA Wilds logo.
The PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship welcomes the opportunity to meet with companies exploring saleable uses of the PA Wilds logo. Contact us today to learn more about the logo property, to discuss ideas or talk next steps.
You may apply to become a juried member of The Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania at any time of year. However, jury decisions are made twice annually; you may choose between two membership cycles:
Spring Membership
submission deadline: third Monday in March
jury decision: no later than the third Monday in April
If you missed the spring jury deadline you may register for the 2018 Fall Jury Review Session.
Jurying is required for Artisans (Visual, Food & Craft) and Creative Service Partners.
Jury panels, made up of professionals from relevant fields, will decide about acceptance into the program after reviewing your application materials, including the required images and the information you complete when registering for the jury session. For a variety of reasons, tasting is unfortunately not a required part of the review of food items. Only in rare cases might juries request food samples.
Renewing members must undergo jurying at least once every five years.
DECISION CRITERIA
Artists’ applications and related images are evaluated on artistic merit (70 percent), marketability (20 percent) and design/material sourcing (10 percent).
Juries for artisan food producers, craft artists and local eateries focus first on local aspects such as ingredient/material sourcing (40 percent), followed by aesthetics & technique (30 percent), presentation and marketability (20 percent) and value-added features (10 percent).
You may read more about the Jury process here.
Clinton County artisans, entrepreneurs and producers are invited to attend a presentation, “Growing Your Business in the Pennsylvania Wilds,” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24 at The Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., Lock Haven.
The free, informational event runs from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. and will feature presentations from the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, the Clinton County Economic Partnership & Visitors Bureau, Lock Haven University Small Business Development Center and Clinton County Arts Council.
The presentations will cover programs and services offered by LHU SBDC and Clinton County Economic Partnership and will touch on how tourism can positively impact area businesses and organizations. A large portion of the program will cover business development programs offered by the PA Wilds Center, including regional marketing and branding opportunities available to the Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania, the nonprofit’s membership program.
Join us for the opening reception of the Creative Makers Exhibit. This traveling exhibit features the profiles of 22 Wilds Cooperative members from across the Pennsylvania Wilds, working in the inspired spaces where they regularly craft their chosen art form.
Wilds Cooperative member Katie Weidenboerner traveled across 13 counties, clocking a combined 2,061 miles to capture the images that tell the story of our Creative Makers.
This event is free and open to the general public. The exhibit will be on display at the Winkler Gallery of Fine Art through November 30, 2017. Future exhibition dates and locations will be announced here.
This exhibition was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
