528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: January 18 - March 24, 2024

Call for Entry Dates: July 7, 2023 - October 2, 2023

The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition is open to artists residing within a 528.0 mile radius of Denver, Colorado. This exhibition seeks to celebrate the expansive diversity of contemporary printmaking found within this western region and aims to highlight both traditional and alternative printmaking methods being used in the field of contemporary printmaking. The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition is sponsored by the Invisible Museum and will be hosted in the Main Gallery at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, Colorado. Two companion printmaking exhibitions will be presented simultaneously with 528.0: a solo exhibition of Master Printer Sue Oehme and a process based exhibition of works created at her print studio Oehme Graphics, all in conjunction with Denver’s Month Of Printmaking (March 2024). The number 5,280 refers to Denver’s status as the Mile High City.

Eligibility Criteria and Terms of Submission - Please read thoroughly before beginning your application.

Eligibility:

1. Applicants must reside within the circle that extends approximately 528.0 miles out from Denver, Colorado. For the purposes of this exhibit it will include the entire states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. In addition, Northwest Arizona including Flagstaff; Northwest Texas including Amarillo, Lubbock, and Wichita Falls; Oklahoma west of Tulsa; the southwest quarter of North Dakota including Bismarck and Dickinson; Southeastern Montana including Bozeman and Billings (not Missoula or Butte); Southeastern Idaho including Idaho Falls and Pocatello; and Iowa including Sioux City and Council Bluffs. Please email galleries@arvadacenter.org if you are unsure if you reside within the allowed area.
2. Open to artists over age 18.
3. All applications must be completed online through CaFE; no paper or emailed applications will be considered.

Artwork Requirements:

1. Submissions must utilize a form of traditional hand printed media as their primary technique, but they may include digital output elements within the greater work. Artwork submissions may include but are not limited to: monoprint, monotype, screen print, intaglio, photopolymer, photogravure, collagraph, stone or plate lithography, woodcut, linocut, steamroller, letterpress, and book-arts.

• Book-arts submissions must contain printed artworks and cannot be blank journals or inkjet-based text blocks.
• Any oversized or steamroller prints accepted will require installation instructions provided by the artist.
• We encourage you to submit Installation, mixed media, and new media works if the artwork includes the use of hand-pulled prints and is accompanied by detailed presentation/installation instructions and images within your application. The Arvada Center has basic projectors, media players, and an assortment of TV screens. Please describe how best your new media work would be displayed. If you would like to provide equipment, that is also an option.

There are no minimum or maximum size limitations for submission.

2. Finished artworks that are composed solely of inkjet, risograph, photocopy, laser engraving, or giclée reproductions will not be accepted.

3. Any artwork not conforming to the selected conditions set forth will be disqualified.

4. For specific questions regarding eligibility, please email  galleries@arvadacenter.org

Submission Guidelines: 

1. Non-refundable entry fee of $35 for up to 3 pieces. Limited entrance fee scholarships are available for artists who are experiencing economic hardship, for artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and for artists who identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Please email galleries@arvadacenter.org to request a scholarship.
2. Images may be JPG files only. New media files must fit requirements set by Call For Entry.
3. Crop images to exclude framing and background.
4. Images must represent the work exactly.
    

Delivery and Return of Accepted Work:

1. Shipped work should arrive no later than December 21, 2023. Ship work in sturdy, reusable crates or cartons. Work will be returned in the container and materials in which it arrived. Artists must provide a pre-paid return shipping label.
2. Artwork may be hand-delivered December 21 - 22, 9:30am - 4:30pm.
3. Arvada Center provides insurance for artworks while on premises.
4. Arvada Center is not responsible for damage or loss during transport.

Sales of Artwork:

1. If artwork is sold, artists will receive payment after the close of the exhibition. 
2. Artworks may be for sale during the exhibition. Artists will receive 60% of sale proceeds. Arvada Center will retain 20% of sales, and the Invisible Museum will retain 20% of sales.
3. Artwork does not need to be for sale to be selected for the exhibition.

Agreement:
Submission to this competition constitutes an agreement on the part of the entrant to the conditions set forth in this prospectus. Submitting an application and application fee in no way guarantees acceptance into the exhibition. Arvada Center reserves the right to final curatorial, educational, and installation decisions. The Arvada Center may use your image(s) for marketing and catalog purposes, and will credit the artist in that case.

The Arvada Center reserves the right to all final curatorial, educational, and promotional decisions, and reserves the right not to exhibit any piece that is not faithfully represented in its application, arrives damaged, is not properly prepared for exhibition, or is deemed too fragile for effective display.
 

Awards:

1. Cash awards will be given to Best of Show, 2nd, and 3rd place.
2. Other independent awards may be awarded.
    

About the Arvada Center Galleries:
With a focus on featuring living Colorado artists and artists of the Western region, The Arvada Center Galleries host more than 12 art exhibitions each year across its three distinctive galleries spanning over 10,000 square feet of space. The galleries are free and open to the public seven days a week, keeping access to local and regional art available to all. Learn more at arvadacenter.org/galleries.

About the Invisible Museum:
The Invisible Museum 501(c)(3) is a consortium of thinkers assembled to facilitate projects in the visual arts that would not otherwise be imagined, proposed, or completed. Its invisibility stems from its ability to make what was formerly invisible or at least unseen – visible. In addition, the Invisible Museum encourages exhibitions, symposiums, and critical discussions in a variety of spaces and places. Learn more at invisiblemuseum.org

About Month of Printmaking (Mo’Print):
The Month of Printmaking (Mo’Print) is a biennial celebration with a mission to educate, create accessibility, inspire, and promote awareness of the art of making original prints through public events and exhibitions in the Denver Metropolitan Area, the Front Range Region and throughout Colorado. Learn more at moprint.org

Jurors

Emily Grace King is the Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator at the Arvada Center. She manages and helps curate the Center’s three art galleries, mounting over 12 exhibitions each year in the Center’s expansive 10,000 square feet of gallery space. ​Emily founded the much-beloved community project Art Drop Arvada in 2016, working with artists and art-lovers throughout Metro Denver to create interactive, grassroots events in public spaces that bring free, hyper-local art to anyone willing to hunt for it. Emily serves her city as Chair of the Arvada Arts and Culture Commission and is a strong advocate in the community for public art and for civic investment in local artists at all stages of their careers. 

Emily is a multidisciplinary artist currently focused on creating encaustic monotype assemblies using beeswax from her backyard hives. The pursuit of creating her own artistic medium inspired Emily to learn to keep bees and led her to transform her outdoor space into a haven for pollinators, planting and cultivating the raw material the bees need to create wax for her artwork. Emily’s art, curatorial, and expressive practices are rooted in empathy, experimentation, and radical collaboration.

Jennifer Lynch received her MFA in printmaking from Hunter College in New York City and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Owner and master printmaker of Lynch Pin Press, founded in 1999, she has collaborated with many regional and nationally known artists and holds regular workshops. Lynch is a committed artist and continues her personal artistic pursuit in both printmaking and painting. She has been the master printer for Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in NYC and The Printmaking Center for Safe and Non-Toxic Printmaking at the College of Santa Fe.

Her teaching experience spans 25 years between positions at the College of Santa Fe, The University of New Mexico, the American Institute of Indian Arts, and currently Santa Fe Community College.

Highly versed in various mediums of printmaking, including etching, lithography, woodcut, and monotype, her own work specializes in photopolymer viscosity etching. Trained in traditional methods, she has since investigated new technologies with a focus on safe and non-toxic processes and materials. Her approach to teaching stems from her professional work in the field; beginning with technique, then advancing to aesthetic process and intuition.

Ms. Lynch is an active painter and printmaker and exhibits regularly. Recently, she was included in Collaborations, an extensive print show focusing on the collaborative artist/printer relationship. The exhibition focused on six master printmakers and their presses held at the Albuquerque Museum.

Howard Paine is an Associate Professor of Printmaking at the University of Nebraska Omaha and is the head of the Printmaking area and coordinator of the BFA Program. Previously, he taught at Memphis College of Art where he was the director of the MFA program and at the University of Southern Mississippi where he was the Chair of the Department of Art and Design. He earned an MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BA in Studio Art and American Studies from Grinnell College. He has been integrating digital imaging and traditional printmaking processes for 30 years. His prints have been shown nationally and internationally. In 2019, he was a guest artist and lecturer at the Beihai College of Art and Design in Beihai, China. Thematically his work is concerned with ideas of death, memory, and transformation over time. He lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife Teresa and dogs Truman and Akira.

Important Dates:

Call for Entry Opens Friday, July 7, 2023

Call for Entry deadline: Monday, October 2, 2023 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (late entries will not be considered)

Email notification by November 3, 2023

Hand-delivered artwork: December 21 - 22, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Shipped artwork deadline: December 21, 2023

Exhibit opens: Thursday, January 18, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Free and open to the public

Print Jam: Saturday, March 16 2024, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Live printing demonstrations featuring 16 artists with Mo’Print www.moprint.org. Free and open to the public.

Last day of Exhibition: March 24, 2024

Work returned to artists via pickup or shipping: Week of March 24, 2024

Application Requirements

Submission Guidelines: 

1. Non-refundable entry fee of $35 for up to 3 pieces. Limited entrance fee scholarships are available for artists who are experiencing economic hardship, for artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and for artists who identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Please email galleries@arvadacenter.org to request a scholarship.
2. Images may be JPG files only. New media files must fit requirements set by Call For Entry.
3. Crop images to exclude framing and background.
4. Images must represent the work exactly.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria and Terms of Submission - Please read thoroughly before beginning your application.

Eligibility:

1. Applicants must reside within the circle that extends approximately 528.0 miles out from Denver, Colorado. For the purposes of this exhibit it will include the entire states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. In addition, Northwest Arizona including Flagstaff; Northwest Texas including Amarillo, Lubbock, and Wichita Falls; Oklahoma west of Tulsa; the southwest quarter of North Dakota including Bismarck and Dickinson; Southeastern Montana including Bozeman and Billings (not Missoula or Butte); Southeastern Idaho including Idaho Falls and Pocatello; and Iowa including Sioux City and Council Bluffs. Please email galleries@arvadacenter.org if you are unsure if you reside within the allowed area.
2. Open to artists over age 18.
3. All applications must be completed online through CaFE; no paper or emailed applications will be considered.

Artwork Requirements:

1. Submissions must utilize a form of traditional hand printed media as their primary technique, but they may include digital output elements within the greater work. Artwork submissions may include but are not limited to: monoprint, monotype, screen print, intaglio, photopolymer, photogravure, collagraph, stone or plate lithography, woodcut, linocut, steamroller, letterpress, and book-arts.

• Book-arts submissions must contain printed artworks and cannot be blank journals or inkjet-based text blocks.
• Any oversized or steamroller prints accepted will require installation instructions provided by the artist.
• We encourage you to submit Installation, mixed media, and new media works if the artwork includes the use of hand-pulled prints and is accompanied by detailed presentation/installation instructions and images within your application. The Arvada Center has basic projectors, media players, and an assortment of TV screens. Please describe how best your new media work would be displayed. If you would like to provide equipment, that is also an option.

There are no minimum or maximum size limitations for submission.

2. Finished artworks that are composed solely of inkjet, risograph, photocopy, laser engraving, or giclée reproductions will not be accepted.

3. Any artwork not conforming to the selected conditions set forth will be disqualified.

4. For specific questions regarding eligibility, please email  galleries@arvadacenter.org