Dear Mr. David Roche:

The purpose of this letter is to formally invite you, on behalf of the outstanding artists of your country, to participate formal exhibition section of the upcoming Olympic Fine Arts 2008.  

Olympic Fine Arts 2008 is an international art event organized by International Olympic Committee, the Organizing Committee of the 29 th Olympiad and the Ministry of Culture of PRC. The event is composed by 3 main sections:

Artwork contest, from June to July 2008;

Formal exhibition, from August to September 2008;

World wide exhibition, from December 2008 to 2010. 

As the biggest sport event in the world, the Olympiad will focus more than 4 billion peoples¡

attention, Olympic fine arts as the unique art event adheres to Olympiad, it will invite up to 300 excellent artists all around the world. During the Olympic Games, all the selected artworks from more than 80 countries will gather in Beijing , to express the individual culture and art feature of the country to the world.

There are two themes of this years, Olympic fine arts event: Sports and the Olympics and China and the world. Here we expect you can produce or select one piece of artwork according with these two themes. The type of the artwork could be oil painting, etchings and prints or sculpture. Please send the photo of the artwork to the organizing committee (by mail or email ) before 20 th Jun..

All the artworks which will attend this event have the opportunity to be collected by the Olympic Fine Art Museum (which will complete the construction in 2010 ). The appraisal committee will select from the artworks which want to be the first batch of the permanent collection of the museum, all these collections will attend the following world wide exhibition.

All the transport and insurance fee of the artworks will offer by the organizing committee.

  In closing, we would be pleased and honored if you would participate Olympic Fine Arts 2008. If you make your decision, please give us the feedback in a week so that we can organize and inform you all details.

 Yours sincerely,

Address: BeHeYan Street No.83, DongChen district, Beijing China ,100009

Contact: Ms Feng Jiao

Tel: 0086-10-84851406 0086-10-64006677