Call for Work: Deadline 9 July 2018
Juried
exhibit opportunity
for St. Louis regional artists:
"Pink Pearl"
for St. Louis regional artists:
"Pink Pearl"
Entry
deadline: July 9, 2018
"Pink
Pearl" is an all media juried visual art exhibition. Drawing
is a foundation of all art making. Erasing what one has drawn also may come to
play in the act of the process, thus "Pink
Pearl"--that bubble gum-pink eraser many artists have used.
This all media juried exhibit is about drawing as well as the removal/erasing
process-adding & subtracting. The acts of drawing and erasing expand to and
include all media. We invite all explorations & interpretations of this
theme and encourage all media, styles and techniques. Open to artists 21+ in
the St. Louis, MO region and 200-mile surrounding radius.
EXHIBITION SPACE & DATES
Art Saint Louis Gallery in downtown St. Louis, MO. Exhibition
dates: September 22-October 25, 2018. Free reception on Saturday, September 22,
2018, 5-7 p.m.
ELIGIBILITY
- Open to artists 21 years of age
and older living in the St. Louis, Missouri region and surrounding
200-mile radius*.
- Artist also must be resident of
the St. Louis region/200-mile radius when show begins (August 4) in order
to submit work & participate, if selected for exhibition.
- *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 July 9, 2018
(11:59 p.m. MST).
OUR JURORS Mary Borgman and Brigham Dimick are our
exhibit jurors for "Pink
Pearl." Mary
Borgman's large-scale charcoal portrait drawings
have been exhibited in galleries & museums across the U.S. Brigham Dimick is Professor, Art & Design,
Head of Drawing, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he has taught
since 2002.
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
2019" ten-artist curated exhibit presented at Art Saint Louis,
June 15-July 18, 2019. "Honor
Awards 2019" Curator: Jessica
Mannisi, independent curator, St. Louis, MO. Jessica previously served as
Assistant Curator, Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL from 2008-2017.
ENTRY FORM/APPLICATION
Entries for this exhibition are accepted online only at https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=4973
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).
WHAT IS A JURIED EXHIBIT?
WHAT IS A JURIED EXHIBIT?
- A juried exhibition is a
competitive exhibit process. The artworks that you submit will be in
competition against all of the other artworks submitted for consideration
for this exhibit. Some artworks will be selected for the final show, while
others will not be selected. The exhibition Jurors make all final
decisions as to which artworks are selected for the exhibit. If you do not
wish to enter into a competition, then please do not submit your artworks
for this juried exhibition.
- At no point during the jurying
process are our Jurors shown any artist-entrants names. This process is
called a Blind Jury and your works are most fairly considered by the
Jurors. The Jurors are shown a digital image presentation of only the
artwork, the artwork title, year, media, dimensions--NO names of artists
are shown and in fact, most Jurors do not see/know the name of the
selected artists until the exhibition actually goes up on Gallery walls,
months after jurying has taken place.
- Artwork availability: Please do
not double-book your artwork, do not commit it for other conflicting
exhibits or sell it without possibility of exhibition availability if you
plan on entering your work into our show. Please do not enter work for
jurying if you are not able to follow through with the rules of entry/art
& exhibit guidelines.
SPECIFICATIONS-ALL ARTWORKS
- Limit THREE (3) original
artworks in all media, styles, and techniques that respond to the theme of
the exhibit, "Pink
Pearl." Theme described at top of this call for entry.
- Artwork must be completed between
2015-2018.
- 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
gallery-wrapped, strip-framed or framed.
- 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.
- 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.; OR Art Saint Louis has one 20" monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which selected video artworks can be presented during exhibition. Headphones are provided if audio is a integral to artwork. Artist must provide MP3 or MP4 file on thumbdrive.
3-D WORK/SCULPTURE
- ALL rules/specifications as listed
above pertaining to 2-D work also apply to 3-D work.
- 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.
- Do not submit any 3-d artwork that
will not fully sit flat/level on pedestal or other display surface.
- NO ceiling
installed work, this includes installation works.
- NO artworks that sit directly on Gallery floor.
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.
- 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.
- NOTE: Multi-paneled artworks count
as one artwork, as long as they are presented as one artwork and the total
size of the artwork does not exceed our size limit rules. An artwork that
is a diptych (2 panels) = one artwork; a triptych (3 panels) = one
artwork, and so on. Please photograph the overall artwork and only be sure
to include one detail/close-up view. if you submit images of all 3 panels
and a full view of your triptych, you have exceeded your image limit.
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 photograph your 2-d work
before you have it professionally framed. If the only image you have of your artwork is of the
work framed, please use image editing software to crop the frame out of
the image. Your artwork is what will be judged, not the frame.
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
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 or 303/629-1166. You can reach CaFÉ's
staff during weekday business hours (they are located in Denver).
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.
SALES & INSURANCE
- If you are accepted for this
exhibit and sell your accepted artwork prior to the show, we recommend
that you please sell the artwork with the condition that it will be
available for this exhibit. If that condition isn't possible, please do
not enter that artwork to our exhibit. Remember that entry fee is
non-refundable and artworks may not be substituted.
- All works submitted for this
exhibit must be available for the show dates. We will not exhibit
substitutes.
- 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.
- Artist must provide all equipment
necessary to present video or artwork requiring electricity, incl. cords,
adapters, DVD player, monitor, etc.; OR Art Saint Louis has one 20"
monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which selected video
artworks can be presented during exhibition. Headphones are provided if
audio is a integral to artwork. rtist must provide MP3 or MP4 file on
thumbdrive.
- 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 or PayPal through https://www.callforentry.org
or by check to Art Saint Louis, 1223 Pine St., St. Louis, MO 63103.
ENTRY FEE SCHOLARSHIP UNDERWRITING
- To provide as much opportunity as
possible for artists at work in our region, Art Saint Louis is pleased to
offer scholarship underwriting of entry fees for individuals for whom such
entry fees might otherwise be a financial barrier to participation.
- To be considered for scholarship
underwriting, please submit a written request to info@artstlouis.org
relaying your request, including the title of the exhibition/Call for
Entry ("Pink Pearl"),
and your financial need.
- A limited number of scholarships
are available for each exhibition, and will be awarded by Art Saint Louis
on a case-by-case basis at the sole discretion of Art Saint Louis.
- Requests for scholarship funds do
not guarantee approval or scholarship underwriting.
*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 the Art
Saint Louis 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
- The direct link to
the online entry is here: https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=4973
- You can find info about the exhibit on our website here: http://artstlouis.org/index.php/2011-10-08-03-21-13/calls-for-entries/745-pink-pearl
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; OR 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.
- Volunteering, donating goods or
buying out volunteer time IS required, this is not optional.
- 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.
COMMUNICATIONS RE:
EXHIBIT
All communications to artists in regards to this exhibition are made by email. Please be sure that you have a working email address. Save robin@artstlouis.org and info@artstlouis.org as safe senders. If you use gmail, please be sure to check your Promotions folder for any emails from Art Saint Louis, as sometimes our mail ends up there.
PUBLICITY
All communications to artists in regards to this exhibition are made by email. Please be sure that you have a working email address. Save robin@artstlouis.org and info@artstlouis.org as safe senders. If you use gmail, please be sure to check your Promotions folder for any emails from Art Saint Louis, as sometimes our mail ends up there.
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, September 14, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. or Saturday, September 15, 2018, 9
a.m.-3 p.m.
- Exhibited
artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Friday,
October 26, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., or Saturday, October 27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
- Exhibited works
may not be removed from ASL prior to 8 a.m. Friday, October 26, 2018.
- ALL exhibited works must be removed from Gallery by 3 p.m. Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
NEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE or
HAVE ONLINE APPLICATION QUESTIONS?
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 challenges or require assistance. That
way, when you do want to submit your works for our entry, you will be
ready to go and the process will run smoothly--depending on your computer
and internet service.
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