Art
Saint Louis announces
new juried exhibit opportunity:
Entry
deadline: October 31, 2016
PERSONAL SPACE
"Personal Space"
is a juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks and imagery that focus
on the human form, the human experience, how people interact, move & use
our bodies, especially in terms of personal space. All explorations of this
theme are invited. Artworks in all media, techniques and styles are
encouraged.
EXHIBITION SPACE & DATES
Art Saint Louis Gallery in downtown St. Louis, MO. Exhibition
dates: January 14-February 15, 2017. Free reception on Saturday, January 14,
6-8 p.m.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to artists 21 years of age and older living in the St.
Louis, Missouri region and surrounding 200-mile radius*.
*ONLY artists from the St. Louis region may enter exhibit--if
you live further than 200 miles, we appreciate your interest, but you are not
eligible. Sorry, but Chicago, IL and Kansas City, MO are further than 200
miles and are not in the St. Louis region.
ENTRY DEADLINE
The deadline to submit works for this exhibit is this Monday,
October 31, 2016 (11:59 MST).
Please note that this is an online
entry process. The entry & upload process does require time, depending on
your advance preparedness and image sizes, so please allow yourself adequate
time when applying for & submitting your work to this exhibit. Advance
registration (prior to entry deadline date) and image uploads to a Portfolio
are highly recommended.
OUR JURORS
We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with artists Cbabi
Bayoc and Ruth Reese as our exhibition Jurors. Cbabi Bayoc is a
St. Louis-based father, husband, community member, and artist. Cbabi is
co-owner of SweetArt Bakeshop & Art
Studio. A painter, his subjects include family, children, music,
and notably his "365
Days with Dad" series. Ruth Reese is a ceramic artist and owner of Reese Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Reese
previously taught ceramics at St. Louis Community College Meramec and
Maryville University. Reese and Bayoc are both past recipients of Regional
Arts Commission's Artists Count Individual Grants.
CASH AWARDS
Five cash Awards of Excellence
will be selected by the Jurors for this exhibit and include (1) $250 Best of
Show Award of Excellence and (4) $100 Awards of Excellence. These five Award
recipients will then be eligible for our "Honor Awards 2017" ten-artist curated
exhibit (June 17-July 20, 2017). Curator: Joe Page, artist,
Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Department of Art & Design, Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville.
ENTRY FORM/APPLICATION
ABOUT ART SAINT LOUIS
Located on the ground floor of
the historic and beautifully renovated Park Pacific building at 1223 Pine
Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, Art Saint Louis
is home to one of the most popular and frequently visited exhibition spaces
in the St. Louis region. Created in 2013 and built upon the organization's
32-year success in connecting St. Louis regional artists and audiences, our
2,700 square foot space Gallery boasts a year-round series of professionally
juried group exhibitions showcasing the best of the region's contemporary
visual art. Highlighting each exhibition, Art Saint Louis opening receptions
are a cultural mainstay in downtown St. Louis and are followed throughout the
run of each exhibit with extensive viewing hours Monday through Saturday and
an average of over 500 visitors per week. Uniquely designed as a gallery/café
hybrid, the space is also the one and only café home of St. Louis coffee
roaster Mississippi Mud Coffee Roasters café, making it a cultural and social
destination like no other in the St. Louis region. Find Art Saint Louis on Facebook
to view highlights from our previous exhibits in our photo albums.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Limit THREE (3)
original artworks in all media, styles, themes, and
techniques that respond to the theme of the exhibit, "Personal Space."
Theme described at top of this call for entry.
- Artwork must be
completed between 2013-2016.
- Works not
exhibited in any juried exhibit in St. Louis region during 6 months
prior to exhibit dates.
- Works not
previously exhibited in any exhibit in Art Saint Louis Gallery.
- NO ceiling
installed work, this includes installation works.
- NO artworks
that sit directly on Gallery floor.
- 2-d works must
be framed or, if not framed, pre-approved presentation.
- Works on canvas
may be framed, strip-framed or gallery-wrapped.
- Size limits:
Final installation size on Final installation size on all 2-d and
wall-displayed/hung work not to exceed 6' (72") WIDE or 7'
(84") HIGH/TALL, this includes frame.
- Larger
sculptures, oversized 2-d work or installation works must be installed
by artist under direction of Art Saint Louis Artistic Director.
- We are only
able to exhibit pedestal-displayed or wall-hung sculpture--no ceiling
installed work and no artworks that sit directly on the Gallery floor.
We have a limited number of standard sized pedestals (painted white)
& will gladly provide those for display of 3-d work. However, if
your 3-d artwork is odd-sized, excessively heavy, or requires a very
specific sized pedestal or platform, plan on providing that pedestal or
platform yourself, please.
- 3-d works that
are extremely fragile, very small, that have a very small bottom/base,
are unstable, or do not sit flat on a pedestal are NOT considered.
- NO works that
are nailed, pinned, tacked, taped, velcroed, painted on, glued, adhered,
or affixed directly to/on Gallery walls. Art Saint Louis uses
traditional hanging hardware (hooks/nails) to hang artworks from their
wires on the back of the pieces- however, we will not nail or tack an
artwork directly to a wall, nor will we velcro, glue or use any other
substance to directly apply an artwork to the wall. ALL works must hang
by/from standard picture hanging hardware.
- No loose plexi
that is clipped or nailed to wall.
- Artist must
provide all equipment necessary to present video or artwork requiring
electricity, incl. cords, adapters, DVD player, monitor, etc.
JURYING & IMAGE REQUIREMENTS
- Judging is done
by JPEGs online only at CallForEntry.org.
- LIMIT: 3
artworks.
- The image limit
reads 6, and this allows for either one detail or one alternate view per
artwork. Do not exceed 3 artworks total or you will be disqualified.
- Limit 2 JPEGs
per artwork: 1 full view is required and you may also submit (not
required) either 1 detail OR 1 alternate view. IMPORTANT: IF you submit more
than 2 images per artwork, the Jurors will NOT be shown your additional
images. Any more than 2 images per artwork is not permitted and all
additional images will be moved to the "withdrawn" category.
Please make sure that the digital images of your artworks are:
- In focus.
- Cropped to
feature only your artwork.
- Free of any
watermarks or name imprint.
- Free of a
time-date stamp.
- Please do not
photograph your artwork framed. If the only image you have of your
artwork is of the work framed, use image editing software to crop the
frame out of the image.
Upload options for image files:
- File format: JPEG only.
- File dimensions: No smaller
than 1920 pixels on the longest size.
- File resolution: 72 ppi/dpi
(standard web resolution).
- File size: 5MB maximum.
Upload options for video files:
- File formats: 3GP, WMV,
AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, M2TS.
- Resolution: minimum
620x480; max. 1920x1080.
- Aspect ratio: 4:3 or 16:9.
- Bit rate: recommended
above 240 kbps.
- Frame rate: minimum 12
fps, recommended 30 fps. The frame rate of the original video should be
maintained without re-sampling. In particular, pulldown and other
frame-rate re-sampling techniques are strongly discouraged.
- Codec: h.264, h.263,
mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, Windows Media Video, and motion jpeg mpeg-1
muxed, Apple Lossless
- Container: 3gp, asf,
avi, mov, mpeg, mpeg-2, mp4, ogg
- Video file size: 100 MB
maximum.
IMPORTANT:
Submissions that do not comply with rules of entry will not be
presented to the Jurors. Artworks selected for exhibition that are not
accurately depicted by JPEGs may be removed from exhibit at Artistic
Director's discretion.
HOW TO APPLY
THE JURYING PROCESS
The method by which ALL exhibitions are juried at Art Saint
Louis is always a fair and blind (anonymous) process. What this means is that
at no time before or during the jurying process do our Jurors know the names
of entering artists. Exhibit Jurors are presented all entrants' JPEGs in an
anonymous digital image presentation and the only information provided to
them pertains to the artwork and includes the following: artwork title, year,
media, dimensions, and method of presentation (displayed on the wall, sits on
a pedestal). To repeat: Jurors are never shown the names of any artists entrants
during the jurying process. All artworks that you submit for
jurying are presented one after the other in the presentation that the jurors
view. So, if you are artist #25, your artworks/entries are in the
presentation after artist #24 and before artist #26. From the jurying
presentation and information provided about the artworks, the jurors make
their selections for the final exhibit. Artwork selection decisions are in
part based on a set of specific jurying instructions & criteria relating
to the theme of the exhibit as well as specific conditions & rules of the
Gallery. For non-thematic exhibitions, a well-rounded exhibit is based on the
Jurors' aesthetics along with general exhibition criteria established for all
exhibits by Art Saint Louis' Artistic Director. This is a FAIR jurying
process. Jurors often do not even see names for selected artists until they
arrive to the Gallery to view the final exhibit on the Gallery walls, many
months after an exhibit has been juried.
SALES & INSURANCE
- All artworks
must either have a sale price or be marked Not for Sale (NFS).
- No works marked
POR (price on request) will be accepted.
- Artist's sale
prices listed with original entry submitted for jurying may not be
changed after entry deadline.
- All sales are
through Art Saint Louis with 30% donation/commission on work sold to ASL
and 70% to artist. Sale price includes Art Saint Louis' commission.
- Artist
responsible for delivery of sold work to buyer at end of exhibit.
- Artworks are
insured at 50% of retail value during exhibit.
- Artist
responsible for work in transit to/from ASL.
FRAMING & FINAL PRESENTATION
- All work
selected for exhibit must be delivered to Gallery ready to install.
- 2-d work must
be framed & equipped with hanging wire stretched across back of
artwork.
- NO sawtooth
hangers, clip-style frames or keyhole mounts.
- French Cleat
mounts okay.
- Works on canvas
may be framed, strip-framed or gallery-wrapped.
- 2-d works must
be framed or, if not framed, pre-approved presentation.
- NO works that
are nailed, pinned, tacked, taped, velcroed, painted on, glued, adhered,
or affixed directly to/on Gallery walls.
- No loose plexi
that is clipped or nailed to wall.
- Oversized,
heavy, or installation work must be installed by artist under direction
of Artistic Director.
- Video must be
presented on min. 9" monitor; monitor weight not to exceed 20 lbs.
- Artworks
requiring electricity: Artist must provide all cords, adapters, cord
protectors & equipment required to present work.
- Specific
installation requirements must be resolved in advance with
directions/devices provided by artist.
- Art Saint Louis
reserves the right to install accepted works in a manner deemed
necessary for a well-designed exhibition or for security purposes.
ENTRY FEE
- Entry
fee is non-refundable.
- Artist
may submit up to 3 artworks for the one fee.
- $35
Non- member entry fee; OR
- $20/Art Saint Louis member* entry fee.
- Fee payable by credit card through www.CallforEntry.org
or by check to Art Saint Louis, 1223 Pine St., St. Louis,
MO 63103.
*MEMBERSHIP IN ART
SAINT LOUIS
Membership in Art Saint Louis is open to all. Membership
is not required to have your work considered for or juried into this
or any ASL exhibit. Membership does have its benefits, including discounts on
entry fees--the reduced Art Saint Louis member entry fee for this show is
$20 and the non-member fee is $35. Benefits of membership
discounts on entry fees to juried exhibits, include a weekly e-newsletter, a
Membership & Resource Directory, access to a Members Only area of our
website, 10% discount on all art purchases from the ASL Gallery, 10%
discounts in the ASL café, and more. To download a Membership brochure and
join Art Saint Louis today, visit our website
(PayPal accepted). As an Art Saint Louis member, you can take advantage of
the reduced member entry fee for this & every exhibit. Entry fee payment
is a the very end of the entry application process and there are simply two
choices: non-member or member.
DIRECT LINK TO ONLINE
ENTRY
VOLUNTEERING
As a non-profit artists' organization, Art Saint Louis relies
on volunteer support to help present our exhibitions. All exhibiting artists
are required to volunteer 4 hours per
artwork selected of time to the production of this exhibit; artists may
contribute food or goods for the opening reception (value $20/per artwork),
help out in the Gallery, or may buy-out volunteer time at
$5/hour or $20/per artwork. Volunteer sign-up upon delivery of artworks for
exhibit. Cash, contributions or in-kind goods or services are tax-deductible
to the extent allowable by law. Volunteer sign-up is conducted at delivery of
artwork for exhibition.
PUBLICITY
Art Saint Louis reserves the right to photograph all exhibited
works for web use and publicity purposes. Art Saint Louis reserves the right
to use digital images submitted for jurying for publicity of exhibition
including but not limited to email, web use and social media. Accepted
artists will be required to send high resolution JPEGs of accepted artworks
to Art Saint Louis for exhibition records/paperwork and publicity.
DELIVERY of Accepted works FOR EXHIBIT
and PICK-UP at END OF EXHIBIT
- Artworks juried
into exhibit are to be hand-delivered to Art Saint Louis Gallery on
either Friday, December 23, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., or Tuesday, December 27, 9
a.m.-4:45 p.m., Wednesday, December 28, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Thursday,
December 29, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. or Friday, December 30, 2016, 9 a.m.-4:45
p.m.
- Exhibited
artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Thursday,
February 16, 2017, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Friday, February 17, 9 a.m.-4:45
p.m. or Saturday, February 18, 2016, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
- Exhibited works
may not be removed from ASL prior to 9 a.m. Thursday, February 16, 2017.
- ALL exhibited
works must be removed from Gallery by 3:45 p.m. February 18, 2017.
PRESENTER & SPONSORS
EXHIBIT or ART SAINT LOUIS QUESTIONS?
Robin Hirsch-Steinhoff, Artistic Director, Art Saint Louis, robin@artstlouis.org or
314/241-4810 (2#), Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
NEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE or
HAVE ONLINE
APPLICATION QUESTIONS?
- If this is your
first time using this online application process,
it's in your best interest to register (free) and upload your images
into an image Portfolio on CallforEntry.org sooner rather than later,
just in case you face any technical challenges or need assistance. That
way, when you do want to submit your works for our entry, you should be
ready to go and the process will run smoothly-depending on your computer
and internet service.
- IF you require
assistance are having challenges with the online application process,
uploading images or any other issue, there is a HELP page
you can visit for troubleshooting. Or, the good people at CallforEntry.org are
available Monday through Friday during business hours only, in Denver,
CO, and can be reached by email at cafe@westaf.org
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