"Rabbit Hole"
is a juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks that focus on the
ideas of fantasy, whimsy, imagination, and sense of wonder. All
explorations and interpretations of this theme are invited. Artworks in
all media, techniques and styles are encouraged. Open to artists 21+ in
the St. Louis, MO region.
EXHIBITION SPACE & DATES
Art Saint Louis Gallery in downtown St. Louis, MO.
Exhibition dates: August 5-September 7, 2017. Free reception on Saturday,
August 5, 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.
ENTRY DEADLINE
The deadline to submit works for this exhibit is
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (11:59 MST).
OUR JURORS
Justin Henry Miller, artist,
Associate Professor of Art, Exhibitions Coordinator, River Campus Art
Gallery, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO. Justin
holds an MFA from University of Notre Dame (2006), MA, Eastern Illinois
University (2003), and BA, Art Education, Eastern Illinois University
(2002). Justin's work is represented by Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Sarah Paulsen, artist, Art Instructor,
St. Louis Community College Forest Park, and Art Teacher, Miriam Middle
School, St. Louis, MO. Sarah holds a MFA from Sam Fox School of Design
& Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis (2007) and BFA/BA
in Fine Arts and Spanish, University of Missouri-Columbia (2000). Sarah
is the recipient of the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission's Artist
Fellowship (2014) and RAC's Artist Support Grant (2012), as well as Saint
Louis Critical Mass for the Art's Critical Mass Stimulus Grant (2010).
AWARDS
Awards of Excellence
will be selected by the Jurors for this exhibit and include (1) $250 Best
of Show Award of Excellence and (4) non-cash Awards of Excellence. All
five Award recipients will then be eligible for our "Honor Awards 2018"
ten-artist curated exhibit presented at Art Saint Louis, June 16-July 19,
2018. "Honor
Awards 2018" Curator: Artist Brian D. Smith, Professor, St. Charles
Community College, Cottleville, MO. Brian is represented by Duane Reed
Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
ENTRY FORM/APPLICATION
ABOUT THE ONLINE ENTRY PROCESS
The online entry
& image 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. There is no fee to register to use the
CallforEntry process, but there is an entry fee to register for our
exhibit (payable at the end of the whole process for our particular
entry).
ABOUT ART SAINT LOUIS
Located on the ground
floor of the historic and beautifully renovated art deco style 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 home of Catalyst Coffee Bar by Art Saint Louis,
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, "Rabbit Hole,"
as described at top of this call for entry.
- Artwork
must be completed between 2014-2017.
- 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 all 2-d and/or wall-displayed/hung
work not to exceed 6' (72") WIDE or 7' (84")
HIGH/TALL, this includes frame.
- Weight
limit: 2-d works not to exceed 40 lbs.
- 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. 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, 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.
- All rules
listed in "Specifications" category also apply here.
- 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 gallery-wrapped, strip-framed or framed.
- 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 at our
Catalyst Coffee Bar, 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 accepted artworks for
exhibit. Cash, contributions of goods, or in-kind 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 of EXHIBITED WORKS at END OF EXHIBIT
- Artworks
juried into exhibit are to be hand-delivered to Art Saint Louis
Gallery on either Friday, July 21, 2017, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. or
Saturday, July 22, 2017, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
- Exhibited
artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Friday,
September 8, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. or Saturday, September 9, 9 a.m.-3:45
p.m.
- Exhibited
works may not be removed from ASL prior to 9 a.m. Friday, September
8, 2017.
- ALL
exhibited works must be removed from Gallery by 3:45 p.m. Saturday,
September 9, 2017.
LEGAL
Having submitted artworks for jurying & having paid
the entry fee, artist (1) accepts all conditions listed in the
aforementioned rules of entry/exhibit prospectus; (2) represents,
warrants and covenants that artist is not infringing on any proprietary
right, copyright, patent right or any other right of any third party, and
artist will indemnify Art Saint Louis and its agents, employees,
affiliates, licensors, and business partners harmless from and against
any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including
attorneys' fees)incurred in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose
of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party that the submission,
ownership, display, sale or the presentation of your artworks violate any
applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party. This is
legal & binding. Accepted artworks may not be substituted and prices
may not be changed once submitted for jurying.
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 and can
be reached by email at cafe@westaf.org or
303/629-1166.
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