Call Detail
Earth Works: National Juried Art Exhibition
Entry Deadline: 1/13/20
Application Closed

Entry Fee (Earth Works: National Juried Art Exhibition): $45.00
Media Fee(Add'l Artwork Fee): $5.00
Work Sample Requirements
Images | Minimum:Min. 3, Maximum:Max. 10
Video | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 3
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 3, Maximum:Max. 10
Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: International
State: New York

Earth Works:  Art in Ecological Context National Juried Exhibition
Juror: Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum

Deadline: January 13, 2020

Exhibition Dates: March 28 – May 2, 2020

$500 Juror’s Prize, $250 Second Prize, $125 Honorable Mention

Barrett Art Center invites artists to submit work that explores mankind’s impact on the environment and our relationship with the earth.  Artists are likewise invited to submit works that stimulate conversation about our evolving ideas about the landscape and climate change in contemporary culture. 

Drawing, painting (all mediums), pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fiber, mixed-media, new media, and installation works are eligible. We invite proposals of both contemporary and traditional pieces that create a visually-compelling complement, or counterpoint, to Barrett Art Center’s 1840s Greek Revival townhouse interior. 

Submitting Entries: 

BAC Members: $35 for the first three images plus $5 for each additional image.
Non-members: $45 for the first three images plus $5 for each additional image.
Members, please email info@barrettartcenter.org or call us at 845-471-2550 for coupon code.  To become a member, visit, www.barrettartcenter.org/membership

 About the Juror:
Karl Kusserow is John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. His exhibitions and associated publications include Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall (2010) and the prizewinning Picturing Power: Portraiture and its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce (2013). He recently co-organized Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment (2018), a traveling exhibition reexamining 18th-21st-century American art in relation to issues of ecology and environmental history. Its catalogue received a 2019 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators and was named the Art Exhibitions category winner by the Association of American Publishers in its 2019 PROSE Awards. Kusserow is currently preparing a related volume, Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective, for publication, in addition to Object Lessons: American Art from Princeton, accompanying a forthcoming traveling exhibition.

His exhibition, Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment was featured at the Princeton University Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Ark.  See, “Can Art Help Save the Planet?”, New York Times, March 12, 2019:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/arts/art-climate-change.html

About Barrett Art Center:
Barrett Art Center works with curators from around the globe to bring exemplary contemporary art from international artists to its exhibitions in the Hudson Valley. Our reputation for high-quality exhibitions and programs attracts thousands of art enthusiasts from the northeast corridor to our gallery annually.

Always free and open to the public — so there are no financial barriers to access — BAC’s arts programming engages with its inner-city community. Barrett Art Center is an open, inclusive, and equitable place where all feel welcome.

Marketing strategies employed for exhibitions include:
Press releases submitted to more than print and electronic media outlets in the Hudson Valley with consistent local newspaper coverage; Online: weekly newsletter; website (www.barrettartcenter.org); Facebook; Instagram. The e-newsletter has over 2,700 subscribers.  Exhibition artwork is posted in an online exhibition during the show and archived on the site after the show closes.  Social media and eNewsletters emphasize “action links” to drive traffic to the Barrett website and connect viewers to relevant artist contact information in the online gallery for each exhibition. 

 

 

 

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