Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition "Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition" is our 35th annual juried exhibition featuring artworks in all media, themes, subjects, techniques, and styles. ELIGIBILITY Open to artists 21 years of age and older living in the St. Louis, Missouri region and surrounding 200-mile radius*. Artist also must be resident of the St. Louis region/200-mile radius when show begins (November 9, 2019) in order to submit work & participate, if selected for exhibition. *ONLY artists from the St. Louis region may enter and participate in exhibit--if you live further than 200 miles, we appreciate your interest, but you are not eligible. Sorry, but Chicago, IL and Kansas City, MO are further than 200 miles and are not in the St. Louis region. OUR JUROR Artist and art educator Jason Bly resides in Wichita Falls, TX where he is Assistant Professor of Art at Midwestern State University teaching painting and drawing (since 2017). Previous experience includes teaching at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2009-2017) and Lewis and Clark Community College (2009-2017). Bly also served as Director of Exhibitions at the Edwardsville Arts Center (2013-2017), a non-profit gallery which hosts regional shows and offers educational opportunities. His paintings have been exhibited in solo, invitational, and juried shows primarily throughout the Midwest and Southern U.S. Bly holds his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2007) and MA and BA degrees from Eastern Illinois University (2003, 2004). AWARDS JUDGE Awards for this exhibition will be selected by an individual from the St. Louis visual art community (tba). AWARDS Awards of Excellence will be selected by the Awards Judge (tba) for this exhibit and include (1) $250 Best of Show Award of Excellence and (4) non-cash Awards of Excellence. All five Award recipients will then be eligible for our “Honor Awards 2020” ten-artist curated exhibit presented at Art Saint Louis, June 13-July 16, 2020. “Honor Awards 2020” Curator is Amy MacLennan, artist, Associate Professor, Department of Art, McKendree University. EXHIBITION SPACE & DATES Art Saint Louis Gallery, 1223 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis, MO. Exhibition dates: November 9-December 23, 2019. Free reception & Awards on Saturday, November 9, 2019, 5-7 p.m. ENTRY DEADLINE The deadline to submit works for this exhibit is August 12, 2019 (11:59 p.m. MST). WHAT IS A JURIED EXHIBIT & SUBMITTAL PROTOCOL A juried exhibition is a competitive exhibit process. The artworks that you submit will be in competition against all of the other artworks submitted for consideration for this exhibit. Some artworks will be selected for the final show, while others will not be selected. The exhibition Juror makes all final decisions as to which artworks are selected for the exhibit. If you do not wish to enter into a competition, then please do not submit your artworks for this juried exhibition. At no point during the jurying process are our Jurors shown any artist-entrants names—never. This process is called a Blind Jury and your works are most fairly considered by the Jurors. The Jurors are shown a digital image presentation of only the artwork, the artwork title, year, media, dimensions--NO names of artists are shown and in fact, most Jurors do not see/know the name of the selected artists until the exhibition actually goes up on Gallery walls, months after jurying has taken place. ARTWORK AVAILABILITY Important: Please do not double-book your artwork, commit it for other conflicting exhibits or sell it without possibility of exhibition availability if you plan on entering your work into our show. Only submit artworks for jurying that are available for exhibition. If you are accepted for this exhibit and sell your accepted artwork prior to the show, we recommend that you please sell the artwork with the condition that it will be available for this exhibit. If that condition isn't possible, please do not enter that artwork to our exhibit. Remember that our entry fee is non-refundable and selected artworks may not be substituted. This exhibit is not juried until after the August 12 entry deadline. Please make sure that you do not submit this same artwork for another exhibit elsewhere. All artist-entrants are notified of Invited/Not Invited status by email by September 9, 2019. Please do not enter work for jurying if you are not able to follow through with the rules of entry/art & exhibit guidelines. ABOUT ART SAINT LOUIS Located on the ground floor of the historic and beautifully renovated Park Pacific building at 1223 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, Art Saint Louis is home to one of the most popular and frequently visited exhibition spaces in the entire St. Louis region. Our current space was created in 2013 and builds upon the organization’s 35+ year success in connecting St. Louis regional artists and audiences, the 2,700 square foot space Gallery boasts a year-round series of professionally juried group exhibitions showcasing the best of the region’s contemporary visual art. Highlighting each exhibition, Art Saint Louis opening receptions are a cultural mainstay in downtown St. Louis and are followed throughout the run of each exhibit with extensive viewing hours Monday through Saturday and an average of over 500 visitors per week. Uniquely designed as a gallery/café hybrid, the space is also the one and only café home of Catalyst Coffee Bar, making it a cultural and social destination like no other in the St. Louis region—we own the Coffee Bar & all sales benefit Art Saint Louis. Find Art Saint Louis on Facebook and view highlights from our previous exhibits in our photo albums. PLEASE NOTE that this is an online entry process. The entry & upload process does require time, depending on your advance preparedness and image sizes, so please allow yourself adequate time when applying for & submitting your work to this exhibit. Advance registration (prior to entry deadline date) and image uploads to a Portfolio are highly recommended. SPECIFICATIONS-ALL ARTWORKS Limit 5 original artworks in all media, styles, subjects, themes, and techniques. Artworks created/completed between 2016—2019. Works not previously exhibited in any exhibit in Art Saint Louis Gallery. Works not exhibited in any juried exhibit in St. Louis region during 6 months prior to exhibit dates. NO ceiling installed work, this includes installation works. NO artworks that sit directly on Gallery floor. 2-d works must be framed OR, if not framed, pre-approved alternate presentation--ask. Works on canvas may be gallery-wrapped, strip-framed or framed. No unstretched canvas. Size limits: Final installation size on all 2-d and wall-displayed/hung work not to exceed 6’ (72”) WIDE or 7’ (84”) HIGH/TALL, this includes frame. Weight limit: 2-d works may not exceed 30 lbs. NO works that are pinned, tacked, taped, velcroed, painted on, glued, adhered, nailed, or affixed directly to/on Gallery walls. Art Saint Louis uses traditional hanging hardware (hooks/nails) to hang wall-installed artworks from their wires on the back of the pieces— however, we will not nail or tack an artwork directly to a wall, nor will we velcro, glue or use any other substance to directly apply an artwork to the wall. ALL wall-installed works must hang from standard picture hanging hardware. No loose plexi that is clipped or nailed to wall. Artist must provide all equipment necessary to present video or artwork requiring electricity, incl. cords, adapters, DVD player, monitor (min. 9"), etc. Art Saint Louis has one 20" monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which selected video artworks can be presented during exhibition. If artist selects this presentation method, it must be noted that multiple artworks could be presented on same shared monitor by different artists (in sequence), if selected for show. Headphones are provided if audio is integral to artwork. If accepted, artist is to provide MP3 or MP4 file on thumbdrive. ALL artworks must fit through our standard-sized front door. There is only 1 entrance to the Gallery and that is through our front door. 3-D WORK/SCULPTURE ALL rules/specifications as listed above pertaining to 2-D work also apply to 3-D work. Larger sculptures, oversized 2-d work, complicated pieces, and/or installation works must be installed by artist under direction of Art Saint Louis Artistic Director. We are only able to exhibit pedestal-displayed or wall-hung sculpture. Gallery owns a limited number of standard sized pedestals & will provide for display of 3-d work. If your 3-d artwork is odd-sized, excessively heavy, or requires a very specific sized pedestal, plan on providing that pedestal or platform (that sits at least 18" up off of the ground) yourself, please. 3-d works that are extremely fragile, very small, that have a very small bottom/base, are unstable, or do not sit flat on a pedestal are not considered. Do not submit any 3-d artwork that will not fully sit flat/level on pedestal or other display surface. NO ceiling installed work, this includes installation works. NO artworks that sit directly on Gallery floor. ALL artworks must fit through our standard-sized front door. There is only 1 entrance to the Gallery and that is through our front door. JURYING & IMAGE REQUIREMENTS Judging is only done by JPEGs online only at CallForEntry.org. LIMIT: 5 artworks. The image limit reads 10, and this allows for your full view image (required) and either one detail or one alternate view per artwork. Do not exceed 5 artworks total or you will be disqualified. Limit 2 JPEGs per artwork: 1 full view is required and either 1 detail OR 1 alternate view. IMPORTANT: IF you submit more than 2 images per artwork, the Jurors will NOT be shown your additional images and those images will be moved to the "withdrawn" category. NOTE: Multi-paneled artworks count as one artwork, as long as they are presented as one artwork and the total size of the artwork does not exceed our size limit rules. An artwork that is a diptych (2 panels) = one artwork; a triptych (3 panels) = one artwork, and so on. Please photograph the overall artwork and only be sure to include one detail/close-up view. if you submit images of all 3 panels and a full view of your triptych, you have exceeded your image limit. Please make sure that the digital images of your artworks are: In focus. Cropped to feature only your artwork. Please, NO watermarks or name imprints/signatures. Free of a time-date stamp. Please photograph your 2-d work before you have it professionally framed. If the only image you have of your artwork is of the work framed, please use image editing software to crop the frame out of the image. Your artwork is what will be judged, not the frame. Upload options for image files: File format: JPEG only. File dimensions: 1200 pixels or greater on the longest dimension. File resolution: 72 ppi/dpi (standard web resolution). File size: Up to 5 MB. Upload options for video files: File formats: 3GP, WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, M2TS. Resolution: minimum 620x480; max. 1920x1080. Aspect ratio: 4:3 or 16:9. Bit rate: recommended above 20 kbps. Frame rate: minimum 12 fps, recommended 30 fps. The frame rate of the original video should be maintained without re-sampling. In particular, pulldown and other frame-rate re-sampling techniques are strongly discouraged. Codec: h.264, h.263, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, Windows Media Video, and motion jpeg mpeg-1 muxed, Apple Lossless Container: 3gp, asf, avi, mov, mpeg, mpeg-2, mp4, ogg Video file size: 100 MB maximum. HOW TO APPLY INFO We recommend this handy online document on How to Apply for a Call for Entry using CaFÉ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-eiPx-uukbrpSciO1cmg2KCfO66chdXalmm3Ue8oMw/edit?pli=1 You can also view the How to Apply for Artists video here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4hLvyPfgM2wc29oZjM2V1RZMUE/edit?pli=1 Submissions that do not comply with rules of entry will not be presented to the Jurors. Artworks selected for exhibition that are not accurately depicted by JPEGs may be refused/will not be exhibited at Artistic Director’s discretion. SALES & INSURANCE If you are accepted for this exhibit and sell your accepted artwork prior to the show, we recommend that you please sell it with the condition that it will be available for this exhibit. If that condition isn't possible, please do not enter that artwork for our show. Entry fee is non-refundable. All works submitted for this exhibit must be available for the show dates. We will not exhibit substitutes. All artworks must either have a sale price or be marked Not for Sale (NFS). If NFS, please provide an insurance value (50% retail). No works marked POR (Price on Request) will be accepted. Artwork prices may not be changed once submitted for jurying. All sales are through Art Saint Louis with 30% donation/commission on work sold to ASL and 70% to artist. Your sale price should include Art Saint Louis' 30% commission. Artist responsible for delivery of sold work to buyer at end of exhibit. Artworks are insured at 50% of retail value during exhibit. Artist responsible for work in transit to/from ASL. FRAMING & PRESENTATION for EXHIBITION All rules listed in above "SPECIFICATIONS" section apply. All work selected for exhibit must be delivered to Gallery ready to install. 2-d works must be framed or, if not framed, pre-approved presentation. Unsure if your presentation method is acceptable? Ask. 2-d work must be equipped with hanging wire stretched across back of artwork. NO sawtooth hangers, clip-style frames or keyhole mounts. French Cleat mounts okay. Works on canvas may be framed, strip-framed or gallery-wrapped. NO works that are nailed, pinned, tacked, taped, velcroed, painted on, glued, adhered, or affixed directly to/on Gallery walls. No loose plexi that is clipped or nailed to wall. Oversized, heavy, or installation work must be installed by artist under direction of Artistic Director. Video must be presented on min. 9” monitor; monitor weight not to exceed 20 lbs. Equipment provided by artist; OR Art Saint Louis has one 20" monitor permanently mounted on gallery wall on which all accepted video artworks can be presented during exhibition--this is a shared monitor for presentation of multiple artworks. We provide headphones if audio is integral to artwork. Specific installation requirements must be resolved in advance with directions/devices provided by artist. Art Saint Louis reserves the right to install accepted works in a manner deemed necessary for a well-designed exhibition or for security purposes. ENTRY FEE Entry fee is non-refundable. Artist may submit up to 5 artworks for the one fee. $40/Non-member entry; OR $20/Art Saint Louis Member entry. Fee payable by credit card or PayPal through CallforEntry.org or by check to Art Saint Louis, 1223 Pine St., St. Louis, MO 63103. ENTRY FEE SCHOLARSHIP UNDERWRITING To provide as much opportunity as possible for artists at work in our region, Art Saint Louis is pleased to offer scholarship underwriting of entry fees for individuals for whom such entry fees might otherwise be a financial barrier to participation. To be considered for scholarship underwriting, please submit a written request to info@artstlouis.org relaying your request, including the title of the exhibition/Call for Entry, and your financial need. Do not send artwork or attachments with your request--this exhibit can only be entered through CaFÉ. A limited number of scholarships are available for each exhibition, and will be awarded by Art Saint Louis on a case-by-case basis at the sole discretion of Art Saint Louis. Requests for scholarship funds do not guarantee approval or scholarship underwriting. If you are granted scholarship for jurying and your work is selected for exhibition, artist is obligated to contribute time/services or goods towards the volunteer commitment for this exhibit. MEMBERSHIP IN ART SAINT LOUIS Membership in Art Saint Louis is open to all and is not required to have your work considered for or juried into this exhibit. However, membership does have its benefits, including discounts on entry fees--the reduced Art Saint Louis member entry fee for this show is $20 and the non-member fee is $40. Benefits of membership include discounts on entry fees to juried exhibits, a weekly e-newsletter, a Membership & Resource Directory, access to a Members Only area of our website, 10% discount on all art purchases in the Gallery, 10% on all coffee bar purchases, and additional opportunities. To download a Membership brochure and join Art Saint Louis today, visit our website (PayPal accepted). VOLUNTEERING FOR EXHIBIT As a non-profit artists' organization, Art Saint Louis relies on volunteer support to help present our exhibitions. All exhibiting artists are required to volunteer 4 hours per artwork selected of time to the production of this exhibit; OR artists may contribute food or goods for the opening reception valued at $20/artwork, help out in the Gallery, OR may buy-out volunteer time at $5/hour or $20/per artwork. Volunteering, donating goods or buying out volunteer time IS required, this is not optional. Volunteer sign-up upon delivery of accepted artworks for exhibit. Cash, contributions of goods, or in-kind services are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. Artist is responsible for any record-keeping of donated items. PUBLICITY Art Saint Louis reserves the right to photograph all exhibited works for web use and publicity purposes. Art Saint Louis reserves the right to use digital images submitted for jurying for publicity of exhibition including but not limited to email, web use and social media. Accepted artists will be required to send high resolution JPEGs of accepted artworks to Art Saint Louis for exhibition records/paperwork and publicity. In addition to sharing your featured artwork from our exhibit on our website, press releases, and social media (including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more), Art Saint Louis is furthering our promotional efforts on behalf of all artists featured in the Gallery. All artworks showcased in the ASL gallery will be given additional exposure through listing on our ArtLoupe mobile app for visual art, a national publishing, discovery and sales platform for visual art that is created, owned and operated by Art Saint Louis. Art Saint Louis will publish your accepted artwork on our ArtLoupe mobile app and will continue to promote the artworks during and continuing after the run of the exhibition. This will provide not only additional exposure for your artwork but further sales opportunities as well, allowing ArtLoupe users across the US to discover and purchase your work. Artworks listed Not for Sale in the Art Saint Louis gallery will be marked Not for Sale on ArtLoupe as well. If you wish to opt out of having your work listed on ArtLoupe, or for any reason wish to have the listing removed at any point, please feel free to email us at chandler@artloupe.org and let us know, and we’ll remove the listing accordingly. We look forward to spotlighting your work in this new way. DELIVERY & PICK-UP Artworks juried into exhibit are to be hand-delivered to Art Saint Louis Gallery on either Friday, October 25, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. or Saturday, October 26, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Works accepted for exhibit but not delivered by 3 p.m. October 26 will not be exhibited. Exhibited artworks are to be picked-up at the end of the show on Thursday & Friday, December 26-27, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Saturday, December 28, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Monday, December 30, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Thursday & Friday, January 2-3, 2020, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or Saturday, January 4, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. We are closed Sundays and for the Christmas & New Year's holidays December 24-25 & December 31-January 1. Exhibited works may not be removed from ASL prior to 8 a.m. Friday, December 26. 2019. ALL exhibited works must be removed from Gallery by 3 p.m. Saturday, January 4, 2020. LEGAL Having submitted artworks for jurying & having paid the entry fee, artist (1) accepts all conditions listed in the aforementioned rules of entry/exhibit prospectus; (2) represents, warrants and covenants that artist is not infringing on any proprietary right, copyright, patent right or any other right of any third party, and artist will indemnify Art Saint Louis and its agents, employees, affiliates, licensors, and business partners harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party that the submission, ownership, display, sale or the presentation of your artworks violate any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party. This is legal & binding. Accepted artworks may not be substituted and prices may not be changed once submitted for jurying. COMMUNICATIONS RE: EXHIBIT All communications to artists in regards to this exhibition are made by email. Please be sure that you have a working email address. Save robin@artstlouis.org and info@artstlouis.org as safe senders. If you use gmail, please be sure to check your Promotions folder for any emails from Art Saint Louis, as sometimes our mail ends up there. EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION By submitting artwork to an Art Saint Louis juried exhibit, artist-entrants acknowledges that they will be subscribed to our email list, which includes notices about our exhibit opportunities, receptions, and special events. You can opt out of this list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. C A L E N D A R DEADLINE to ENTER: August 12, 2019 (11:59 p.m. MST). This is an online entry process, so we recommend giving yourself plenty of time (and patience) before the final entry date and time. Advance registration and image uploads to a Portfolio are highly recommended. Jury notifications will be e-mailed to ALL entrants by September 9, 2019. Deliver accepted artworks to Art Saint Louis Friday, October 25, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. or Saturday, October 26, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Install exhibit at Art Saint Louis on October 30, 2019, 4-6 p.m. “Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition” exhibit dates: November 9-December 23, 2019 Free Reception & Awards on Saturday, November 9, 2019, 5-7 p.m. Free Artists' Gallery Talk Saturday, December 7, 2019, 10-11:15 a.m. Art Saint Louis Gallery hours: M—F 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Sundays & major holidays, incl. November 28-30, December 24-25, December 31-January 1. Gallery free & open to the public. Pick-up exhibited works Thursday & Friday, December 26-27, 2019, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Saturday, December 28, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Monday, December 30, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Thursday & Friday, January 2-3, 2020, 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or Saturday, January 4, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. No artworks may be removed from the Gallery prior to 8 a.m., December 26. QUESTIONS? Contact Robin Hirsch-Steinhoff, Artistic Director of Art Saint Louis robin@artstlouis.org or 314/241-4810, 2#. Office hours: M-F 8 a.m.-4 p.m. www.ArtStLouis.org