American Artists Professional League announces a call for artists for the 91st Grand National Exhibition. Open to artists 18 and over. Only works in representational or traditional realism will be accepted. Works in oil, acrylic, watermedia, mixed media, pastel, graphics, and sculpture will be accepted. No photo-lithographics, photographs, or computer generated art will be accepted. All work must be original, from a living artist, and not previously exhibited with the American Artists Professional league.
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Deadline: 5 Oct 2019
The show is held in the Salmagundi Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious arts club in New York City. The Salmagundi Club has exhibits every week and attracts many art collectors.
91st Grand National Exhibition Artist Benefits
There will be over $18,000 in awards and medals. Awards will be given in all categories, with over 50 awards. There are five top awards, including Best Painting in Show, Traditional Landscape in Oil, Excellence in Pastel, Traditional Sculpture, and Traditional Artistic Merit.
There are 20 awards in the Oil and Acrylic category, 9 awards in the Pastel Category, 7 Watermedia Awards, 8 Sculpture Awards and 6 Graphics and Mixed Media Awards.
The commission on sales is 25%.
About The American Artists Professional League
In 1928 F. Ballard Williams, Assistant Treasure of the National Academy of Design in New York, called a meeting of 15 members of the Salmagundi Club. The purpose: to discuss the need for a national organization to meet the increasing interests in traditional realism in American art. The attendees all agreed that an organization designed to protect artists’ interests and promote traditional American art was necessary. The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) was born.
The AAPL first focused on the issue of obtaining commissions of official portraits for American Artists. By using its national stature, the AAPL influenced a rider to a Congressional Bill stipulating that all official portraits paid for with taxpayers’ dollars were to be painted by American artists. A fact that remains in effect to this day.
For more information, contact office@aaplinc.org.
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 5th Annual International All Women 2019 Online Art Competition and Exhibition to be held from January 28th, 2019 to February 24th, 2019. Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all 2D and 3D women artists regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of all entrants will be held online at Contemporary Art Gallery Online from February 26th, 2019 to March 24th, 2019.
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Deadline: 25 Feb 2019
All Women 2019 entry fee: $15 for up to three images and $25 for up to five images. Funds in US Dollars.
This competition will be judged on painting/drawing art, photography/digital art, and 3D/mixed media art. Awards will be given for the top five to eight works selected category. In addition to the winning images, Honorable Recognition awards will be presented. Winners will be announced on March 12th, 2019. Prizes include memberships to Contemporary Art Gallery Online, event collateral, award certificates, and extensive marketing.
About Contemporary Art Gallery Online
Contemporary Art Gallery Online is a collector’s number one source for all original contemporary art. CAGOnline is proud to showcase tomorrow’s art giants today. CAGOnline has created CAGO Media which has two purposes. First is to share art business ideas, and second to introduce artists to the buying public. CAGO Media accomplishes both of these initiatives by programming radio and TV shows.
The Business of Art Show airs bi-monthly, 15 to 20 minute episodes. Hosted by Sharon Belle Hawkshawe, each episode discusses everything pertaining to the Business of Art. The What is Art Show is a monthly 30 minute episode with hosts Michael Harris (art collector) and Sharon Hawkshawe (acclaimed artist), who discuss current art movements and art shows. The hosts are occasionally joined by museum curators, gallery owners, art critics, and art insiders. The third show is An Artist Speaks. These lively 30 minute episodes are in-depth interviews with artists discussing their art process, philosophy, and a candid look at their work. Every month, a video is produced showcasing the monthly art participants. Other videos highlight gallery artist and art styles.
For more information, contact cago.offices@gmail.com.
Previous call for artists from Contemporary Art Gallery Online
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The Irving Arts Center announces a call for artists for the Texas and Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition 2019, open to artists 18 and older living in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Up to three works of two-dimensional art may be entered by an artist for an entry fee of $50 ($40 for IAA members). Exhibit dates: May 18 – June 15, 2019. All events will take place at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving TX 75062.
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Deadline: 1 Mar 2019
The annual Texas & Neighbors exhibit is back for its 34th year! This five-state competition is highly respected and very competitive. Held in the spring at the prestigious Irving Arts Center. Cosponsored by the Irving Art Association and the Irving Arts Center. Texas And Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition 2019 supports: canvas, panel, paper, or yupo. Two-dimensional works must classify in one of the following five categories:
- Oil painting
- Acrylic
- Water Media – Watercolor, casein, and gouache
- Mixed Media -The use of two or more mediums, collage, calligraphy, hand-pulled prints. Collage must incorporate two-dimensional, self-created elements. No relief or three-dimensional objects including found objects or magazine clippings.
- Drawing (Dry Media) – Pastel, colored pencil, graphite, ink, silver, gold, conte crayon, oil pastel, markers, and scratchboard
Submitted works of art must be two-dimensional originals completed within the last two years without instructor supervision. Work must not be a copy of other artist’s work (including reference photographs).
Jurors: Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, Owners, Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas.
Ro2 Art, a contemporary fine art gallery located in The Cedars Neighborhood near Downtown Dallas, represents a diverse group of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists – many with ties to the North Texas Region. The gallery, founded in 2010 by mother-and-son partners Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, regularly collaborates with organizations such as The MAC and Cedars Union and maintains an exhibition program within the Magnolia Theatre at West Village and other satellite venues.
Ro2 Art has been named Dallas Observer’s “Best Art Gallery” and was presented with the 25th Annual Obelisk Award for small business by the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. The gallery’s art fair program has included the Dallas Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Art Aspen.
Texas And Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition 2019 Artist Benefits
- Best of Show – $1350
- IAC Award of Excellence – $900
Awards schedule for each of the five media categories (oil, acrylic, water media, drawing and mixed media):
- 1st – $450
- 2nd – $350
- 3rd – $250
- Honorable Mention – $100
Texas & Neighbors Signature Status (TxN) is earned by having five paintings exhibited in the Texas & Neighbors exhibit. This designation is retroactive. A medal and certificate are awarded. Artists who receive signature status have the right to add the TXN acronym to their paintings plus a listing with a direct link to their websites on the TxN site.
About Irving Arts Center
A comprehensive economic impact study released summer 2017 by Americans for the Arts, provides compelling evidence that the nonprofit arts and culture sector is a $25.5 million industry in the City of Irving—one that supports 1,031 full-time equivalent jobs and generates $2.6 million in local and state government revenue. The data from the Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 Study prove that the impact of arts in Irving goes beyond the benefits of community engagement and quality of life. It bolsters the economic well-being of the city.
For more information, contact info@texasandneighbors.com.
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The National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) invites painters to apply to the 2018 Fall International Online Exhibition, honoring the best in oil and acrylic painting. This is a juried online competition open to artists 18 years of age and older working in oil and acrylic medium. 150 artworks will be accepted into the show and are eligible for awards.
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Deadline: 4 Nov 2018
Artwork must be original two dimensional, completed in the last three (3) years, and not previously accepted in any other NOAPS national exhibit or NOAPS online exhibition. No minimum or maximum size.
2018 Fall International Online Exhibition Artist Benefits
This contest supports the artists through price money, awards certificates, and social media exposure to a Facebook following of close to 8,000 artists and collectors. NOAPS is a non-profit arts organization that has been working to help artists gain recognition for their work for 27 years.
Prizes
- Best of Show: $1000
- Second Place: $500
- Third Place: $300
- Best Landscape: $100
- Best Still Life: $100
- Best People: $100
- Best Use of Light and Color: $100
- Most Innovative: $100
- Narrative Excellence: $100
- Ten Non-Monetary: Award of Excellence Certificates
- Ten Non-Monetary: Merit Award Certificates
The top 150 artists will be given recognition on the NOAPS website with artist name, website link, and image selected for this exhibit.
About The National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society
The National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society has been showcasing the talents of oil and acrylic painters since 1991. They host four shows a year. Two shows are brick and mortar shows hosted by various prestigious galleries in the United States, known as the “Best of America” shows. Two shows are international online shows including entries from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, China, Russia, India, the Netherlands, and Japan.
In 2013, NOAPS started advertising its “Best of America” exhibitions in National art magazines along with marketing in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. These steps, along with the NOAPS blog and MailChimp email blasts provide information and exposure of artists to collectors internationally.
For more information, contact kolorama@newageart.com.
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Pelham Art Center is pleased to announce a call for entries for the 10th biennial Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition for Painting. This juried competition is open to U.S.-based artists aged 19 and older. All work submitted must be available for exhibition and be categorized as paintings.
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Deadline: 25 Jan 2019
Pelham Art Center is proud to sponsor this competition and award honoring the memory and artistic achievement of artist Alexander Rutsch (1916 – 1997). Rutsch actively supported Pelham Art Center for more than 25 years. After his death, friends, family, and supporters established a generous fund to support a biennial, open, juried competition in painting.
Rutsch’s work, as seen through his mastery of various art forms – sculpture, painting, print-making, and drawing – has been described as “vibrating showers of lines, bold geometries, wounded anatomically rambling scrap-wood skeletons, enigmatic totem figures, and congregations of fetishized, domesticated, and recycled rubbish heaps [that] conspire to a fantasy of Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Fauvism, Cobra, and Primitivism.”
Rutsch’s pieces, as described by Emily Genauer, impart silence and the monumentality of primitive statuary. His sculptures are stylized to abstract construction made of “found” objects, welded and reshaped into bronze figures and animals of uncommon wit, airy grace, and individuality. His portraits are crisp, intense, spare linear characterizations that convey empathy. Pelham Art Center is proud to sponsor a competition and award to honor the memory and artistic achievement of Alexander Rutsch.
The Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition program continues Rutsch’s belief that art transcends all of our humanity. Rutsch saw art as “the stone in the water sending ripples throughout the universe.” His extraordinary work, rich in the celebration of life and our shared human experiences, is included in many of public and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Alexander Rutsch Award Previous Winners
- 2017: Sammy Chong
- 2015: Lindy Chambers
- 2013: Siobhan McBride
- 2011: Nina Rizzo
- 2009: Tracy Miller
- 2007: Liang Guo
- 2005: Dorothy Robinson
- 2003: Mitchell Marco
- 2001: Frank Trankina
The winner receives a solo exhibition on May 3 – June 22, 2019 and $5,000 cash award. On May 3rd, there will be a well publicized exhibition opening at Pelham Art Center. Over 1500 postcards are mailed out. The audience at the exhibition openings is generally over 100 people from Westchester and NYC.
About Pelham Art Center
Pelham Art Center (PAC) is a non-profit educational and cultural institution committed to providing public access to see, study, and experience the arts; foster lifelong arts appreciation; and strengthen the community. The Art Center was founded in 1970 and serves more than 16,000 people each year.
Pelham Art Center aims to provide art access to everyone. Along with the public programming PAC offers an affordable membership program to individuals, seniors, art educators, and families. Memberships provide further discounts on classes, workshops, and the Artisan Craft Marketplace. Higher levels of membership include invitations to exclusive art access with behind the scenes VIP art experiences. These experiences include a private artist studio tour, curator lead museum tour, viewing a private collection/artist home, and special access to an Art Fair during Armory Week. All events are lead with Executive Director, Charlotte Mouquin.
For more information, contact anki@pelhamartcenter.org.
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Rose Squared Productions announces a call for artists for Fine Art and Crafts at Verona Park. The show features 140 fine artists and crafters and has an estimated 10,000 plus attendance.
Call for artists application / registration
Deadline: 1 May 2017
Verona Park is a beautiful Essex County Park in Verona, New Jersey. The park boasts a boathouse with rental boats and canoes, a lovely lake, and many flower gardens. Located on busy Bloomfield Avenue in Verona, it is an excellent location for an outdoor fine art and fine craft show.
Many Fine Art And Crafts At Verona Park exhibitors can have their car behind their space with their canopy backdrop in place. Set-up is all day Friday and early Saturday morning. The free to the public show runs from 10am-5pm. Jurying for jewelry is January 8. Other categories are juried on an ongoing basis with categories closing as they fill.
The 32nd annual Fine Art and Crafts at Verona Park is an excellent way for artists to display and sell their work in a beautiful county park. All categories of fine art and sculpture accepted. Accepted fine artists must have a canopy and professional display. This is the first of Rose Squared Productions’ four long-standing fine art and fine craft shows of the year. The event is heavily advertised with a 25,000 mailing of color postcards, multiple paid email blasts, email blast to our 5,000 subscribers, paid Facebook advertising, local newspapers, billboards, and posters.
About Rose Squared Productions
2017 is the thirty-sixth year Rose Squared Productions have been promoting shows in New Jersey. They:
- have been in your shoes and have the tales to tell to prove it.
- promoted the Super Crafts Sunday in the NJ Meadowlands, Peter’s Valley, Nassau Colosseum, Hartford Civic Center, and more.
- take the jurying process very seriously, presenting quality fine art and craft shows. They do due diligence with regard to buy/sell using a number of investigative techniques including internet research, studio visits, and input from our exhibitors.
Exhibitors can confirm that removal of inappropriate exhibitors most definitely occurs. - have no set deadlines (except jewelry). Categories close as they reach a specific percentage of the show’s expected total number of exhibitors. Jewelry is juried beginning January 8 accepting approximately 20% of a show’s expected total which is fair to the participating jewelers and the public looking for a balanced show.
- are organized ad nauseam, double and triple checking everything so your experience is the most positive it can possibly be.
- have built a reputation of treating others the way they want to be treated.
- create an exhibitor friendly atmosphere where exhibitors get to park behind their booths at three out of four of our outdoor shows. Booth sitting offered when requested for those bathroom/food runs.
- have a great web site. Individual show exhibitor lists link to participants’ web sites and images of their work on the year’s gallery and slide show.
- do whatever needs to be done to insure a successful event from bringing along extra soap and toilet paper for the bathrooms to killing ants or bees if needed.
For more information, contact info@rosesquared.com.
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Las Laguna Gallery is seeking submissions from oil and acrylic painters for the Oil vs Acrylic Challenge.
Call for artists application / registration
Deadline: 7 Oct 2016
This unique open theme exhibition is designed to explore the differences and similarities between the two mediums.
Artists selected for this exhibition will display their work at Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
This premier gallery sits atop the cliffs on Coast Highway overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Each year thousands of art lovers travel to Laguna Beach to view and purchase art.
Las Laguna Gallery is dedicated to the exploration and engagement of contemporary and fine art visual culture through unique collaborations between artists, students, and the community.
For more information, contact laslagunagallery@gmail.com.
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Oil Painters of America announces a call for artists for its annual Eastern Regional Exhibition of Representational Oil Paintings, to be held September 9 – October 8, 2016 at Eisele Gallery of Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Call for artists application / registration
Deadline: 27 May 2016
Juror of Awards is renowned artist Charles Cox OPAM.
Eastern Regional Exhibition entry fee: $30 for the first entry, $15 for the second. Maximum Size Unframed: 720 square inches.
To enter, artists must reside in the eastern region of the U.S. or Canada and be a current member of OPA at an annual fee of $70. OPA is currently accepting 2016 member applications.
Approximately 9 awards will be given with a total value estimated at $11,500 including a $4,000 award for Best of Show.
Dedicated to preserving and promoting excellence in representational art, Oil Painters of America’s primary mission is to advance the cause of traditional, representational fine art by drawing attention to the lasting value of fine drawing, color, composition, and the appreciation of light.
For more information, contact Lpusch@oilpaintersofamerica.
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Oil Painters of America will hold its Twenty-fifth Anniversary National Exhibition of Representational Oil Paintings, May 13 through June 15, 2016 at Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Deadline: 29 Jan 2016
Approximately 30 awards will be given with a total value estimated in excess of $100,000, including a $30,000 Best of Show. Convention events include a plein air competition with awards, demonstrations, interviews and exhibitors. Juror of Awards is renowned Master Signature Artist Kevin Macpherson OPAM.
To enter, artists must reside in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico and be a paid 2016 member of OPA at an annual fee of $70. OPA is currently accepting new member applications.
National Exhibition entry fee: $30 for the first entry, $45 for the second. No maximum size limit.
The Oil Painters of America‘s mission is to advance the cause of traditional, representational fine art by providing a forum in which artists can display their art in regional and national competitions. In addition, the organization is committed to providing education opportunities to its members through weekly blog articles, quarterly newsletters, critique programs, scholarships, workshops, seminars, and demonstrations by today’s masters.
For more information, contact lpusch@oilpaintersofamerica.com.
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Beauty Art Gallery, located in Newtown Square, PA, will hold its 2015 Small Treasures Juried Exhibition November 28, 2015 through January 8, 2016. For this 4th annual event, the gallery seeks submissions welcomes artists 18 years of age and older.
Deadline: 14 Nov 2015
- The exhibition will feature two-dimensional works, including paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, fiber and metal.
- Works must measure 256 square inches or smaller, such as 16×16 inches, inclusive of frame.
- Works must be priced $395 or less.
- Works must be wired and ready to hang.
Juror is Deena Ball.
The exhibition will run November 25 to Jan 8, 2015. Public Reception is Saturday Dec. 5, 2015, 5 to 8 p.m.
Chosen artists will benefit from exposure to thriving western Delaware County art scene. Have potential to be selected for awards totaling $1,400 in cash and merchandise.
Beauty Art Gallery provides an eclectic mix of art forms and handmade goods from the region and the country is a spacious 2,500 square feet gallery.
For more information, contact paula@beautyartgallery.net.