ART ST. LOUIS XXXV, THE EXHIBITION
Art Saint Louis
presents "Art
St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition," our 35th annual juried
exhibition featuring artworks in all media, themes, subjects,
techniques, and styles. Open to artists 21+ in the St. Louis, MO
region.
EXHIBITION
SPACE & DATES
Art Saint
Louis Gallery in downtown St. Louis, MO. Exhibition dates: November
9-December 23, 2019. Free reception & Awards on Saturday, November
9, 2019, 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. Our 200-mile radius service area
includes MO, IL, parts of KY and IN.
- Artist also must be
resident of the St. Louis region/200-mile radius when show begins
(November 9, 2019) in order to submit work & participate, if
selected for exhibition.
ENTRY DEADLINE
The deadline
to submit works for this exhibit is August 12, 2019 (11:59 p.m. MST).
Serving as Juror
for this year's exhibit is artist and art educator Jason Bly.
AWARDS
Awards of
Excellence will be selected by the Awards Judge 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 2020"
ten-artist curated exhibit presented at Art Saint Louis, June 13-July
16, 2020. Exhibit Juror/curator is Amy MacLennan,
artist, Associate Professor, Department of Art, McKendree University.
Awards for this
exhibition will be selected by Shannon Bailey. Shannon Bailey is Chief
Curator, World Chess
Museum, 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 online or by check (see below).
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.
- The Juror will not view
any artworks or jury this exhibit until after the entry deadline.
ARTWORK
AVAILABILITY
- We ask that you please
do not double-book your artwork, commit it for other conflicting
exhibits or sell it without possibility of exhibition availability
if you plan on entering your work into our show.
- Only submit artworks
for jurying that are available for exhibition.
- 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 our entry fee is non-refundable and selected
artworks may not be substituted.
- This exhibit is not
juried until after the August 12 entry deadline. Please make sure
that you do not submit this same artwork for another exhibit
elsewhere. All artist-entrants are notified of Juror's decisions
by email by September 9, 2019.
- 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 FIVE (5) original
artworks in all media, styles, techniques, subjects, and themes.
- Artwork must be
completed between 2016-2019. Works
from before 2016 not considered.
- 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.
Email robin@artstlouis.org with alternate
presentation info prior to entering exhibit.
- 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
wall-hung works not to exceed 30 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 wall-hung works
must be able to hang from standard picture hanging hardware.
- No loose plexi that is
clipped or nailed to wall.
- For video presentation
and/or artwork requiring electricity, artist must provide all
equipment necessary to present work, incl. cords, adapters, DVD
player, monitor (min. 9"), etc.
- Art Saint Louis has one
20" monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which
selected video artworks can be presented during exhibition. If
artist selects this presentation method, it must be noted that
multiple artworks could be presented on same shared monitor by
different artists (in sequence), if selected for show. Headphones
are provided if audio is integral to artwork. If accepted, artist
is to 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, complicated pieces, and/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.
- We cannot accept works
that are intended to sit/stand directly on Gallery floor.
- 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 large, 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.
JURYING & IMAGE REQUIREMENTS
- Judging is done by
JPEGs online only at CallForEntry.org.
- LIMIT: 5 artworks.
- The image limit reads
10 and this allows for a full view of your artwork and either 1
detail/close-up view OR 1 alternate view per artwork. Do not
exceed 2 images per artwork.
- Do not exceed 5
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.
Your extra images will be removed from consideration for jurying.
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 1200
pixels on the longest size. Anything
larger than 1200 pixels will be resized by CaFÉ to fit the
limitations.
- File resolution: 72 ppi/dpi (standard
web resolution).
- File size: Under 5 MB.
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' artworks in an
anonymous digital image presentation and the only information provided
to them pertains to the artwork & includes: artwork title, year,
media, dimensions, method of presentation (displayed on the wall, sits
on a pedestal), artist's statement (optional). 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 in sequence in the jurying presentation. 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 specific exhibit as well as 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. We work very hard to ensure that our
exhibits are juried with open eyes & open minds in the most fair
and unbiased manner possible. If you do not trust this process, please
do not enter our exhibit.
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 our 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.
- Sold artworks are to
remain in show for duration of exhibition.
- 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/shipment of sold work to buyer at end of exhibit. Shipped
works are sent at buyer's expense.
- 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 above are also applicable
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.
- Artworks requiring
electricity: Artist must provide all cords, adapters, cord
protectors & equipment required to present work.
- Video must be presented
on min. 9" monitor; monitor weight not to exceed 20 lbs.
Equipment provided by artist; OR Art Saint Louis has one 20"
monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which all accepted
video artworks can be presented during exhibition. Headphones are
provided if audio is integral to artwork. Gallery video monitor
may be shared for presentation of multiple works.
- 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.
- $40
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 exhibit ("ASL35")
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 $40. 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
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), assist in
Gallery, OR may buy-out volunteer time at $5/hour ($20/per
artwork, max. $40).
- 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. Artist is responsible for record-keeping of
donated items.
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 our mail may 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.
- In addition to sharing
your featured artwork from our exhibit on our website, press
releases, and social media (including but not limited to Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more), Art Saint Louis is furthering
our promotional efforts on behalf of all artists featured in the
ASL gallery. All artworks showcased in the ASL gallery will be
given additional exposure through listing on our ArtLoupe mobile app
for visual art. Artloupe is a national publishing, discovery and
sales platform for visual art that is created, owned & operated by Art Saint Louis. We will publish your accepted artwork
on our ArtLoupe mobile app and will continue to promote the
artworks during and continuing after the run of the exhibition.
This provides not only additional exposure for your artwork but
further sales opportunities as well, allowing ArtLoupe users across
the U.S. to discover and purchase your work. Artworks listed Not
for Sale in the Art Saint Louis gallery will be marked Not for
Sale on ArtLoupe as well. If you wish to opt out of having your
work listed on ArtLoupe, or for any reason wish to have the listing
removed at any point, please feel free to email us at chandler@artloupe.org and let us know, and we'll
remove the listing accordingly. We look forward to spotlighting
your work.
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 Friday, October 25, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. or Saturday,
October 26, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m.
- Works
accepted for exhibit but not delivered by 3 p.m. October 26 will
not be exhibited.
- Exhibited
artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Thursday & Friday, December 26-27, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Saturday,
December 28, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Monday, December 30, 8 a.m.-3:45
p.m., Thursday & Friday, January 2-3, 2020, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m.,
or Saturday, January 4, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m.
- We
are closed Sundays, November 25-27 for Thanksgiving, and for the
Christmas & New Year's holidays December 24-25 & December
31-January 1.
- Exhibited
works may not be removed from ASL prior to 8 a.m. Friday, December
26. 2019.
- ALL
exhibited works must be removed from Gallery by 3 p.m. Saturday,
January 4, 2020.
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?
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 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.
- IF you require
assistance and are having technical 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
(also
referred to as CaFÉ) 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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