Eligibility:TEXAS NATIONAL COMPETITION & EXHIBITION 2018 is open to all artists working in the UNITED STATES. Works may be of any medium (except video and performance). All works must be original and completed within THE LAST TWO YEARS. Works too old or two large will be disqualified. No previously submitted works will be accepted. All works must be available through the entire run of the show. Do not submit works for jury that might be sold before or shown elsewhere during the TEXAS NATIONAL 2018 show time frame.Deadline for entries has been extended from January 20 to February 5, 2018. Visit us at: http://www.art.sfasu.edu/cole, or apply on line at:https://www.callforentry.org/and search for Texas National. Questions? email us at sfaartgalleries@sfasu.edu, or call 936-468-1131.
Size Limitations: Two-dimensional works, when displayed, cannot exceed 48” in height or width, including frame. Three-dimensional works cannot exceed 60” in height, 24” in width, and 24” in depth. If a separate pedestal is sent with the work, the total height, including the pedestal, must not exceed 60”. The weight limitation of each crated or packaged work must not exceed 50 lbs.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED. Size Limitations: Two-dimensional works, when displayed, cannot exceed 48” in height or width, including frame. Three-dimensional works cannot exceed 60” in height, 24” in width, and 24” in depth. If a separate pedestal is sent with the work, the total height, including the pedestal, must not exceed 60”. The weight limitation of each crated or packaged work must not exceed 50 lbs.
Entry Fee and Procedures: One, two or three digital images may be submitted via CaFÉ for $35 entry fee at https://www.callforentry.org. Secure credit card payments can be made through CaFÉ.
Deadline for Submissions has Been Extended to February 5, 2018.
If you require additional information regarding TEXAS NATIONAL, e-mail us at sfaartgalleries@sfasu.edu.
Submitting Images for Jurying: All entries (information and images) will be accepted through the CaFÉ website.
1) Each entrant may submit up to three digital images of three different art works.
2) Each work must be represented by only one image (no detail views or duplicates).
Instructions on how to format images to CaFÉ specifications can be found at Image Prep.
Juror’s choices for TEXAS NATIONAL 2018 will be announced via e-mail and the CaFÉ website during the first week of March 2018. Exhibition dates are April 14 – June 9, 2018.
Shipping: Accepted work must be sent at the artist’s expense, properly and securely packed in a single reusable carton or crate (NO Styrofoam peanuts) to TEXAS NATIONAL. Works must be shipped ready for installation. All 2-D works must have hangers or be wired for hanging. Plexiglas must be used instead of glass in framing. Works must arrive by March 30, 2018 IMPORTANT RETURN SHIPPING INFORMATION: Each reusable carton or crate must include a pre-paid return-shipping label, which also includes pre-paid insurance. Detailed instructions will be sent to those artists whose works are accepted by the juror. Artists do have the option to hand-deliver/pick up work if arrangements are made in advance. ANY ARTWORKS THAT DO NOT HAVE RETURN SHIPPING, ARE ABANDONED OR NOT CLAIMED BY SEPTEMBER 15, 2018, WILL BECOME THE PROPERTY OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY.
SFA Galleries: The SFA Galleries present exhibitions of regional, national and international art to an expanding audience centered in East Texas. It maintains high security with a guard always present during gallery hours. The gallery facilitates sales but takes no commission. The gallery does not profit from the entry fees of TEXAS NATIONAL. All monies collected pay for the entire exhibition, artists’ fees, awards, and advertising.
Legal Agreement
Stephen F. Austin State University, TEXAS NATIONAL and SFASU Galleries are responsible for works only while they are on the campus of SFASU. On-campus liability for each work in this exhibition is limited to $500, and by entering the competition, each artist accepts this insurance limit. Works will be handled carefully and displayed in a high-security gallery. Fragile works will be placed near a wall and under a vitrine, if appropriate. SFASU reserves the right to photographic reproduction of the works in the exhibition for publicity and educational purposes. Stephen F. Austin State University does not discriminate with regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or veteran status. TEXAS NATIONAL events are free to the public and accessible to the physically challenged. Venue is in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.
Images – Minimum: 1, Maximum: 3 (different artworks).
Entry Fee (TEXAS NATIONAL 2018): $35.00
TEXAS NATIONAL EXHIBITION & COMPETITION, April 14-June 9, 2018
Juror: Jed Perl
The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
Nacogdoches, TX
Annually since 1995, The TEXAS NATIONAL Art Competition and Exhibition has been hosted by the School of Art in the College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU).
About the Juror:
Jed Perl, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, has been called by poet John Ashbery “an almost solitary, essential voice.” And a reviewer in the Atlantic, writing about Magicians and Charlatans--Perl’s most recent collection of essays --observed that he “may be the finest American critic at work today in any field.” Perl was the art critic for The New Republic for twenty years and a contributing editor at Vogue for a decade. The first volume of his biography of the American sculptor Alexander Calder—Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940—is being published by Knopf in Fall 2017. “All artists are critics,” the novelist Fran Lebowitz has written about Perl’s biography of Calder, “but very few critics are artists. Jed Perl is one of those few.”
Among Jed Perl’s many books are Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World, Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis, and New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century, which was a 2005 New York Times Notable Book. He is also the editor of Art in America: 1945-1970, a 900-page anthology that he edited and introduced, published by the Library of America. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The New Criterion, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, and many other publications. He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Leon Levy Biography Center at the City University of New York, and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, the McNeil Lehrer News Hour, CNN, as well as National Public Radio; and he is a professor of Liberal Studies at The New School in New York City, where he lives.
Entry Fee and Procedures: One, two or three digital images may be submitted via CaFÉ for $35 entry fee at https://www.callforentry.org. Secure credit card payments can be made through CaFÉ.
If you require additional information regarding TEXAS NATIONAL, e-mail us at sfaartgalleries@sfasu.edu.
Submitting Images for Jurying: All entries (information and images) will be accepted through the CaFÉ website.
1) Each entrant may submit up to three digital images of three different art works.
2) Each work must be represented by only one image (no detail views or duplicates).
Instructions on how to format images to CaFÉ specifications can be found at Image Prep.
Juror’s choices for TEXAS NATIONAL 2017 will be announced via e-mail and the CaFÉ website during the first week of March 2017. Exhibition dates are April 8 – June 10, 2017.
Shipping: Accepted work must be sent at the artist’s expense, properly and securely packed in a single reusable carton or crate (NO Styrofoam peanuts) to TEXAS NATIONAL. Works must be shipped ready for installation. All 2-D works must have hangers or be wired for hanging. Plexiglas must be used instead of glass in framing. Works must arrive by March 31, 2017. IMPORTANT RETURN SHIPPING INFORMATION: Each reusable carton or crate must include a pre-paid return-shipping label, which also includes pre-paid insurance. Detailed instructions will be sent to those artists whose works are accepted by the juror. Artists do have the option to hand-deliver/pick up work if arrangements are made in advance.
SFA Galleries: The SFA Galleries present exhibitions of regional, national and international art to an expanding audience centered in East Texas. It maintains high security with a guard always present during gallery hours. The gallery facilitates sales but takes no commission. The gallery does not profit from the entry fees of TEXAS NATIONAL. All monies collected pay for the entire exhibition, artists’ fees, awards, and advertising.
