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MIX TAPE
" Mix Tape"
juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks that are about, or
influenced by, all genres of music or that are about/or influenced by
musicians. Artworks can be about music of any genre-from classical to
classic rock, country to jazz, hip hop to folk. Artworks might also be
about, or influenced by, musicians-from Clara Schumann to Beyoncé,
Johannes Brahms to The Clash-anyone who has written a score, recorded a
song, made music. The resulting art exhibition will be a visual mix tape.
All explorations of this theme are invited. Artworks in all media,
techniques and styles are encouraged.
EXHIBITION SPACE & DATES
Art Saint Louis Gallery, 1223 Pine Street in downtown St.
Louis, MO. Exhibition dates: October 1-27, 2016. Free reception on
Saturday, October 1, 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.
DEADLINE
The deadline to submit works for this exhibit is July 7,
2016 (11:59 MST).
We encourage you to
enter before the deadline. The entry & upload process can take up to
45 minutes, depending on your advance preparedness and images, so give
yourself adequate time when applying for & submitting your work to
this exhibit. Advance registration and image uploads to a Portfolio are
highly recommended.
OUR JURORS
Cat Pick and Eddie Silva. Cat Pick is a
fixture of the St. Louis music community with her on-air program, Emotional Rescue,
on KDHX 88.1 FM. She has been with with station since 1989. Cat is a
music writer and co-creator of the Married With Music podcast. She is
also an artist and owner of TinyMontgomery and has been creating original
designs and selling at area festivals and shows since 2005. Eddie Silva
is External Affairs and Publications Manager for the St. Louis Symphony,
where he has worked since 2003. Silva interviews musicians for broadcast
on St. Louis Public Radio, writes the STL Symhony Blog and Playbill, and
collaborates with arts and media organizations including Carnegie Hall,
amongst other projects. Prior to joining SLSO, Eddie was Arts &
Culture writer for Riverfront
Times, where his writing included fine art, architecture, and
music, as well as investigative reporting and criticism.
ENTRY
FORM/APPLICATION
Online only at https://callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=3361&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes
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 31-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
3
original artworks in all media, styles, themes, and techniques that
respond to the theme of the exhibit, "Mix Tape."
- 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 2-d 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. Gallery
owns a limited number of standard sized pedestals & will provide
for display of 3-d work. If your 3-d artwork is odd-sized,
excessively heavy, or requires a very specific sized pedestal, 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, but this allows for a detail or alternate view for
each artwork submitted. 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:
Please be reminded that this is a VISUAL art exhibition-videos submitted
for this exhibit must be visual art-please, NO musical performances-that is not
what this exhibition is about.
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
Click here for a Step-by-Step
guide on how to apply to exhibits through CallForEntry.org.
You can also watch a short video on
How to Apply here. The good folks at CallforEntry.org are
better suited to assist you with technical issues with your online entry.
For assistance, please contact cafe@westaf.org during weekday business
hours only, Mountain Standard Time.
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. The 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). Jurors are never shown the names of any
artists. 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 blind and FAIR
process and at no time are the Jurors shown entrants' names, and
oftentimes they do not even see names for selected artists until they
arrive to the Gallery to view the final exhibit on the Gallery walls.
Ours is a fair jurying process.
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 (May 12, 2016).
- 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.
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. All five Award recipients
will then be eligible for our "Honor
Awards 2017" ten-artist curated exhibit (June 17-July
20, 2017).
 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. However, 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, special exhibit opportunities, and more. To download a
Membership brochure and join Art Saint Louis today, visit our website
(PayPal accepted). Then, once you are a member, you can take advantage of
the reduced member entry fee for this & every exhibit.
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 during the reception or other special events,
with weekday Gallery monitoring or cleaning, OR
may buy-out volunteer time at $5/hour or $20/per
artwork. Volunteer sign-up upon delivery of artworks for exhibit
(December 29-30/January 2). Cash, contributions or in-kind goods or
services are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
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, September 16, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. or
Saturday, September 17, 2016, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
- Exhibited
artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Friday, October
28, 2016, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. or Saturday, October 29, 2016, 9
a.m.-3:45 p.m.
- Exhibited
works may not be removed from ASL prior to 9 a.m. Friday, October
28, 2016.
- ALL
exhibited works must be removed from Gallery by 3:45 p.m. October
29, 2016.
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 at least register 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 from them. 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 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 in their offices M-F only in Denver, CO, so
remember that they are an hour behind us-and they can be reached by
email at
cafe@westaf.org
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