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B Extraordinaire Gallery

BEST DAY

Online Exhibition Only 

Have a Best Day you want to share?

A day when life is just right and each moment glistens like sunlight on the water. B Extraordinaire is asking you to express what your best day (real or imagined) looks like. Is it filled with the beautiful or the ordinary? Or a day when nothing or everything happens. Bring the scene to life with your canvases, paints, inks, pastels, pencils, cameras, and other 2-D materials to capture those moments of your best day. The selected works will be displayed in the B Extraordinaire Online Gallery "Best Day" Art Exhibition. Make every day a Best Day!

An exhibition catalog will be available to download.

The online exhibition will run from November 1- December 31, 2023. 

The DEADLINE for Submission is September 23, 2023.

ELIGIBILITY
All artists 18 years and older are eligible to enter. The call is open to national artists. Work must be 2-D original art, not copied from published photos or the work of other artists. Artwork must have been created in the past 3 years.

JURORS

Serving as co-Jurors for this exhibition are Virginia Becker and Giselle Obermeier. 

Virginia Becker earned her Master’ degree in Art History from American University and has worked at Christie’s, Guarisco Gallery in Washington, DC, and the National Gallery of Art.  She co-owns Terra Innovations which specializes in high-end home design.

Giselle Obermeier holds an MA in Art History from George Washington University and a BA from Princeton University in Comparative Literature. She works in the Development Office at the National Gallery of Art, where she collaborates with colleagues throughout the museum and generous donors who support art acquisition, special exhibitions, and other programming.

Selected entries will be notified by October 25, 2023.

Jurors will award cash prizes of $150 for Best of Show, $75 for Second Place, and $50 for Third Place, and an official award certificate.

THE JURYING PROCESS

• The Jurors will not view any artwork until after the entry deadline.
• The Jurors will be presented with all entrants' artworks in an anonymous, digital-image presentation, and the only information provided to them will pertain to the artwork.  This information includes the artwork title, year, media, dimensions, and artist's statement.
• The jurors make the selections for the final exhibit.
• The Jurors have the right to reject art that includes pornography, violence, and hate speech.
• Entering artists may not contact the Jurors about this show. Artists who disobey this rule will forfeit their entry and entry fee to our show.

ENTRY FEE
Each artist may submit up to three artworks for the entry fee of $35. An entry discount is available for new and current B Extraordinaire members. B Extraordinaire members' entry fee is $10. For more info on joining B Extraordinaire, https://www.bextraordinaire.com/join.html

Entry fees are not refundable. 
Maximum of 3 artworks/1 submission per artist.

ENTRY SPECIFICATIONS
The exhibition is online only.  Images only.
Images submitted must adhere to CaFÉ submission requirements. The image size must be 1,200 pixels or greater on the longest side. The maximum file size is 5 MB. 

For application questions, contact: bextraordinaire@gmail.com
Accepted artwork will be downloaded from the CaFÉ portal or B Extraordinaire Gallery may request a higher resolution image if deemed necessary.

SALES AND SHIPPING

B Extraordinaire Gallery will receive a 10% commission for the sale of artwork. All sold works remain in the exhibit until it ends. It is the artist’s responsibility to deliver, or ship sold artwork to the buyer after the show closes. B Extraordinaire will provide the buyer’s contact information to Artist. The artist is to handle all shipping responsibilities on sold works with ALL related shipping costs.

Legal Agreement:

By submitting an entry, the artist agrees to the following statements: The artist agrees to allow their work to be reproduced for publicity and for viewing in an online-only exhibition. The artist agrees that all entered work will be available for the exhibition if chosen with no substitutions allowed. The artist agrees the B Extraordinaire Gallery will take a 10% commission on any sales.

Application Requirements

The exhibition is online only.  Images only.

You may submit a minimum of 1 artwork and a maximum of 3 artworks/1 submission per artist. 
Images submitted must adhere to CaFÉ submission requirements. The image size must be 1,200 pixels or greater on the longest side. The maximum file size is 5 MB. 

An artist statement is required. 

For application questions, contact: bextraordinaire@gmail.com
Accepted artwork will be downloaded from the CaFÉ portal or B Extraordinaire Gallery may request a higher resolution image if deemed necessary.

Eligibility Criteria

All artists 18 years and older are eligible to enter. The call is open to national artists. Work must be 2-D original art, not copied from published photos or the work of other artists. Artwork must have been created in the past 3 years.