IMPORTANT TIMELINE DATES:

Registration Deadline: Monday, August 22, 2022

Exhibition at Art League RI Gallery: Saturday, October 1, 2022 – Saturday, October 29, 2022

Public Reception and Awards at Art League RI Gallery:  Evening, Saturday, October 1, 2022

Notification of Acceptance:  On or before Friday, September 9, 2022, via Call for Entry (CaFE) email.

In-person Drop Off at Art League RI Gallery:  Thursday, September 22 & Friday, September 23, 2022 from 12:00 – 5:00 pm & Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 12:00 – 4:00 pm

Shipped Artwork:  The address for shipped artwork is: The UPS Store #0504, Attn: Art League RI, 1643 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI  02889   Phone: 401-738-4612

Shipped artwork must be received by the UPS Store no later than Tuesday, September 20, 2022

JUROR:  

Conor Moynihan, Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, RISD Museum, Providence, RI.

Connor Moynihan is the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. As a PhD candidate at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he is working on a dissertation titled "Queer Spectacles, Precarious Bodies: Remainders of Orientalism, Primitivism, and Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Art and Performance from the Middle East." A version of his first chapter, “Timelessness and Precarity in Orientalist Temporality: Mehdi-Georges Lahlou’s Aesthetics of Disorientation,” is forthcoming later this year for the journal Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture (2019). 

In addition, Conor has curated exhibitions on queer art (Drama Queer, 2016, Vancouver, BCE, with Jonathan D. Katz), the relationship between illness and health (Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art, 2017, Buffalo, NY), and most recently on forms of giving and taking care (Three Acts, Three Scenes: Your Care, My Care, Careful Care, 2018, Brooklyn, NY, with Natalie Fleming). He has written criticism for a number of print and on-line journals, including Artforum. His research also encompasses Middle Eastern studies and disability studies.

 Awards:

1st Prize            $500

2nd Prize           $400

3rd Prize            $200

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Art League RI, a non-profit, membership organization has been supporting and promoting artists and the arts for the past 22 years.

In-Person Delivery of Accepted Work: All in-person deliveries will be made Thursday, September 22, 2022, & Friday, September 23, 2022 between 12 noon and 4pm & Saturday, September 24 12:00-5:00, at 80 Fountain Street, Suite 107A, Pawtucket, RI  02860.  Parking and entrance to the building is on the Middle Street side of the building, not the Fountain Street side.  

Please DO NOT use Styrofoam peanuts or their equivalents in packing. Accepted work MUST remain in the Gallery for the duration of the exhibit.

Shipment of Accepted Work: Shipped deliveries must arrive at our designated UPS facility in Warwick, Rhode Island no later than Tuesday, September 20, 2022.  Specific instructions will be communicated via a separate e-mail to those artists whose work is accepted.  Please make sure that the box and materials that you use will adequately protect your work, and DO NOT use Styrofoam peanuts or their equivalents in packing.

Handling Fee: A $15 ALRI handling fee will be required for each box shipped. Artists whose work is accepted and ship their work will be billed separately via email.  The handling fee must be paid in advance.  Art League RI reserves the right to disqualify juried artwork if the handling fee is not paid before the opening of the exhibition.   

Artwork Pickup: Participating artists who delivered their art in person will pick up on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Wednesday, November 2, 2022 or Thursday November 3, 2022, between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm at 80 Fountain Street, Suite 107A, Pawtucket, RI  02860.  Parking and entrance to the building is on the Middle Street side of the building, not the Fountain Street side.  

Return of Shipped Artwork: Those who shipped their artwork will have it returned to them via The UPS Store #0504, 1643 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI  02889.  The UPS Store will contact you a few days after the close of the exhibition.

 UPS Store #0504 Phone: 401-738-4612 

 UPS Store #504 Website: https://locations.theupsstore.com/ri/warwick/1643-warwick-ave?utm_source=Yext&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Listings

 UPS Store #504 Email: store0504@theupsstore.com

 The UPS Store will contact the artist directly to arrange shipping and collect shipping costs. 

 IMPORTANT

If ALRI, UPS, or other carrier determines that the original packaging is not adequate to safely ship the art back to the artist, the UPS Store will contact the artist.  The artist must notify ALRI in writing of any changes in their contact information, or their intended place or time of return of their art, prior to the end of the exhibition. The artist is solely responsible for any time, materials, storage, shipment, or other charges that may arise from inadequate packaging, delayed or redirected shipments, nonresponse of the artist, or any other artist requests. All additional charges must be paid prior to the return of the art.

Application Requirements

Artwork: All 2D and 3D media is eligible. Artwork previously exhibited with ALRI is not permitted. All work must be original. Work found to be copied from copyrighted work will not be hung. Reprints are not permitted. All work must be exhibition ready to install with the appropriate hardware. No saw-tooth hangers or clips. Work that does not adhere to the guidelines or is deemed not to be a faithful representation of the image submitted, will not be exhibited.  Artwork must be appropriate for viewers of all ages.

Submittal Fee:  Art League RI Members: 1st piece is $25 and each additional piece is $10, for a total of 3 pieces.  Non-members:  1st piece is $30 and each additional piece is $10, for a total 3 pieces.  All CaFE fees are non-refundable and must be paid by credit/debit card. Payment of those fees indicates the acknowledgement of the terms and conditions of the exhibition.

Size Limit: Maximum size up to 40” wide and 60” high including the frame. Artists may have multiple pieces (diptych, triptych etc.) to make up one work. 3D work will be moved on a regular basis for events. We ask that the overall footprint of 3D work be 40" x 60” or less with a weight limit of 100 lbs.

Installation Pieces and Digital Artwork: Must include a detailed description of any electrical, lighting, or space requirements.  Digital work must include all technical equipment, including but not limited to, screens / monitors, wiring, etc. along with a clear set of installation directions.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility:  Any artist who is at least 18 years or older may participate to the extent that their participation is allowed by law.