Three Rivers Artist Guild

Verum Ultimum Art Gallery invites artists to explore the theme, ABSTRACT CATALYST for its 8th year and enter work that is any interpretation of the call. Please note this exhibition will be ONLINE ONLY.

Abstract Catalyst takes on a distinct edge that seems to catapult it in a divergent direction (and unlike the focus of Verum’s other Abstract show, Abstract Sanctuary). As always, the intention of the theme is never to drive the work, rather have it serve as an impetus to discover unique visions and showcase them. All mediums are welcome. What will be revealed this year? Verum Ultimum Gallery invites artists to showcase their talent within this expressive genre and propel a new vision in this 8th year of Abstract Catalyst Exhibition.

This is a virtual exhibition and all works will be displayed on the gallery website, within a virtual viewing gallery setting, and promoted through blogposts and social media channels.

Deadline is August 16th, 2021

Apply through Cafe: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=9210

EXTRA DETAILS

Benefits to online exhibitions at Verum Ultimum:

• A higher percentage of artists will be ACCEPTED! This exhibition is not confined by space.
• The website remains comprehensive and exhibitions remain on the website beyond the exhibition dates
• An exhibition book will be produced and will remain in the Verum Ultimum library to be shared with visitors for years to come.
• Social media attention will be focused on this exhibition for 5 weeks.
• 80% of sales WILL GO TO THE ARTIST and Verum Ultimum will provide a prepaid shipping label for the artist to ship work directly to collectors!
• ​Verum Ultimum enjoys a monthly reach of 8-14K through its website, google, and social media channels.
• Verum Ultimum average order value outperforms 93% of sites in the industry

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ENTRY FEES:

There is a $20.00 entry fee for 1 image

(PLEASE NOTE: you only need one image to apply, extra images are completely optional)

($5 for any entries over the minimum); presentation is by digital JPG image files.

Details of artwork count as an additional artwork.

Payments by credit card at time of entry through Cafe

IMAGE USE / COPYRIGHTS:

Artist retains all copyrights to submitted images and represented artwork. Digital images submitted with artist entry are for exhibition selection only and will be deleted after completion of the selection process. By entering the competition, artists selected to exhibit grant Verum Ultimum Gallery rights to use the selected image(s) on printed materials and the gallery web site for promotional purposes only. Verum Ultimum retain no copyrights to artists work.

NOTIFICATION:

Artists will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance no later than 30 days after the deadline. Notification will be made via email. All artists who provide a working email address will be notified via email, if no email is provided, artists will be notified via postal mail only if accepted to exhibit. Type your email address clearly, if a mistake is made you will not be notified.

PRIVACY POLICY:

Artist contact information (address, telephone, etc.) is only held for the purpose of contacting selected artists and is not preserved in any database. Entry data and image files are deleted on the completion of the jury process.

We are seeking one Oregon-based artist to create 3 original pieces for promoting our 2022-2023 season. The commission is for $1,500, and includes:

• A 3-month showcase, with the 3 original pieces and up to 7 pieces of the artist’s already created works.
• An opening reception hosted by us (CMA) and Emerald Art Center (EAC), with publicity, food, music — and fun — organized by CMA and EAC.
• Artist retains newly created works (unless they sell!) at the end of the 3-month show.

Deadline for submitting applications is Friday, August 27, 2021.

For complete details, including application guidelines and commission requirements, please click here: https://chambermusicamici.org/amici-art-contest/.

PNWS has opened the application process for “Emergence,” our first national, juried, virtual exhibit. Our Juror is Richard Speer, art critic, author, and curator. Awards include: $500 Best of Show, $200 First Place, $100 Second Place plus several Honorable Mentions.

Deadline: August 21st, 2021

Date of Exhibition: September 1 through October 30, 2021, on PNWS website

The theme, “Emergence” is intentionally vague to encourage a broad range of interpretations by artists in any physical 3-dimensional medium. The exhibit will be displayed on this website from September 1 through October 30, 2021. The dates coincide with several major art festivals and events in the Pacific Northwest.

EXHIBIT DETAILS:

ENTRIES & FEES   – General Entry Fee of $30 includes 3 pieces. PNWS Members may enter for $15 (with code emailed with our monthly Calls for Artist listings). Additional entries are $5 per piece. Maximum pieces per artist is 6. Submission and payment are made through CaFÉ via credit card. Fees are non-refundable. There is no guarantee of acceptance into the exhibit.

SALES – 100% of sale price goes to the artist – Prospective buyers may contact the artist directly through the link included with the entry. All sales will be handled directly between the artist and buyer. PNWS will not take a commission on any sale. Prices cannot be changed from those stated at submission. Sales tax, shipping and insurance shall be the responsibility of the artist. Any artwork without a sale price on the entry form will be considered “Not for Sale” (NFS).

THE VIRTUAL RECEPTION – Virtual receptions will be scheduled via Zoom. Participating artists may introduce themselves and discuss their art during the reception.  Award winners will have the option to discuss their work. Details will follow show acceptance via e-mail.

PROMOTION OF THE EXHIBIT – Promotion will be handled by the PNWS. Artists are also encouraged to promote the event. A digital ad will be e-mailed to all participating artists.  LOCATION – This virtual exhibit may be viewed 24/7 on the PNWSculptors.org. A link to the gallery page will be provided when entrants are notified of the juror’s decisions.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY
The artists indemnify the PNWS for any copyright violations in their work.

REPRODUCTION OF ARTWORK – Artwork may be reproduced for advertising, marketing, and promotional purposes by PNWS without consent from or notification to the artist or the artist’s agent. Appropriate attribution will be included with any artwork used for marketing purposes.

By submitting your entry/entries, you agree that you have carefully read ALL the information in this Call for Entries and agree to the terms. You also certify that you are 18 or older and that the artwork was completed within the last 3 years. Submitted photographs of artwork may be reproduced for educational and publicity purposes by PNWS, and published on our website and social media.

You certify that the artwork information in this entry is true to the best of your knowledge. Pacific Northwest Sculptors reserves the right to remove from the exhibition any work of art that has been misrepresented in the entry.
Prospective buyers may contact the artist directly through the link included with the artwork. All sales will be handled directly between the artist and buyer – 100% of sale price goes to the artist. PNWS will not take a commission on any sale. Prices cannot be changed from those stated at submission. Any artwork without a sale price on the entry form will be considered “Not for Sale” (NFS).

Sales tax, shipping and insurance shall be the responsibility of the artist.
By entering the contest, each artist agrees to these terms of use.

CHARBONNEAU ARTS ASSOCIATION
presents
the 38th Annual
Charbonneau Festival of the Arts

The 2021 Charbonneau “Art with Flair” Festival of the Arts will combine the best of two worlds for lovers of the arts to enjoy, admire and purchase fine art, crafts, and music — a LIVE Art & Music Show at the Charbonneau Events Center and a VIRTUAL EXHIBITION of Art & Music online through the end of the year.

Covid-19 & a Live Festival
Uppermost in our planning is the health, welfare and safety of all in attendance. Most COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, but we never know when that might change.

Live & Virtual Shows: Art & Music
Artists will be juried to display their works at the Live Art Gallery Show or the Live Artisan Vendor Show. For our Music Stage, musicians will be auditioned and selected for online performances and potentially invitations to live performances at this year’s festival. Those plans are still in development.

We want as many as physically possible to join us in person of course, but you have an additional option — the Virtual Exhibition — open to all artists, artisan vendors and musicians. This allows a broader range of artists and musicians to participate as well as a broader audience of supporters to attend in-person and online.

We strive to earn a five-star experience from our entrants as well as from our supporting audience who participate in the festival each year. To encourage as many as possible to enter, there will be no jury fees.

2021 Silent Auction
As in past years, we welcome entrants to donate one of their works of art or their music CD’s or performance tickets to our Silent Auction, which is one of the primary fundraisers.

Our Invitation to Join “Friends of Charbonneau Arts”
New this year, we are offering membership to the “Friends of Charbonneau Arts” which includes the benefit of discounts at festival registration.

Partnerships & Publicity
Community Partnerships. We are happy to announce that we are continuing our community partnership with the Wilsonville Arts & Cultural Council (WACC) this fall. As they were unable to present a live festival again this year, we are working together to invite their artists to our live and virtual shows and more. Organizers are still planning other exciting possibilities.

Spreading the Word. Along with our website presence, we offer widespread promotion of our event and our participating artists and musicians. We have planned publicity with the help of Pamplin Media, our ongoing partnerships with the Charbonneau Villager, Wilsonville’s Boones Ferry Messenger, the Clackamas County Art Alliance, Charbonneaulive.com and other online and print outlets, to help us promote the Virtual Exhibition throughout the region. Our big marketing push starts in September and includes print and online media buys. We maintain active Facebook and Instagram pages where we post features on all artists and musicians participating in the show. Posters, flyers and postcards are used throughout the local area to promote the event. An online media kit page with digital flyers are made available to all juried-in artists and musicians to forward to their personal mailing lists. Last year several thousand viewers checked into our Virtual Exhibition. In past years, the live show has also attracted hundreds of local artists and supporters of the arts over the three-day festival.

We hope to see you at the 2021 Charbonneau’“Art with Flair” Festival of the Arts, sell a lot of art and music, and raise funds for our local high school art programs too. Click the following button link to begin the process.

Our deadline for this year’s entries is August 13, 2021.

See you in November!

John McLain, Chair
2021 Charbonneau Festival of the Arts

Call to Art Makers living/working in Oregon for an Open/Invitational show

Deadline: September 12, 2021

Date of Exhibition: November 18 – December 29, 2021

In 2020, The Arts Center asked art makers to think about what “home” meant to us all in the year-end Home Sweet Home exhibit. At that time, our homes were our prison and/or our sanctuary. This year, we have seen signs of hope and getting back to what once was called “normal”, after the intense time of restrictions.

For the 2021 Winter show, The Arts Center seeks artworks that contemplates the notion of going On to New Horizons.

How can we express our regained freedom of movement and re-emergence back in the world? Interpretation of a “new horizon” can be literal, (now that we can venture out again), or metaphoric, (an escape of the confinement in which we all lived). May this show inspire dreams of our renewed possibilities:  about community, about travel to exotic places or to our own backyards. Visits with friends at gatherings and festivals, and meeting new people are other subjects to explore. There is an opportunity for storytelling and representational art, but also for more conceptual and abstract artwork. 

• On to New Horizons will be a hybrid invitational and non-juried exhibit.
• Registration is required by Sunday, September 12, 2021 via online submission form.
• All art makers and creatives will be notified that their work submission has been received. Emails confirming decisions of the selection committee will be sent October 1, 2021. This is our holiday show, you may consider the gift appeal of your work. 
• All submitting art makers and creatives must include a short statement about what On to New Horizons means to you, and how it is expressed in your artwork. 

This Call is for all visual art media, literary short prose and poetry, music and recorded dance performances! The recorded literary readings and performative arts videos will be played on a monitor in the gallery and shared online. Literary arts submissions will also be collected in a loose leaf book to enjoy reading in the gallery. We will schedule a “Read-In” for our writers and the public. 

We welcome artists of all ages and levels of experience. We encourage a diverse selection of artists to sign up, including artists from traditionally or currently underserved communities including (but is not limited to): artists from rural communities, emerging artists, artists from communities of color, LGBTQ+, artists who are self-taught, and artists new to creating artwork. We welcome artists regardless of citizenship status, color, familial status, gender identity or expression, religious observance, sex, sexual orientation, and sources or level of income. 

To access accommodations needed to support signing up for this show, please contact Curator, Hester Coucke, hester@theartscenter.net and/or 541-754-1551, Ext. 658. Monday – Thursday, 9:30 am – 2 pm.

Visual art:

• 2 D, ready to be hung on the wall, no larger than the sum of 72 inches (height + weight = 72”).
• 3 D, safe to display on a pedestal, weight not exceeding 25 lbs.

Literary arts:

• Written version for display in the gallery and/or audio/video recorded files (max. 2 minutes) on a stick or upload.  MP3 and MP4 only.

Music and Dance:

• On audio/video file (approx. 2 minutes) on a memory stick or upload 
• We are considering the opportunity for live performance, depending on the Covid-19 situation in November and December 2021.

Disclaimer: Registration for this exhibit constitutes agreement with the parameters below and giving permission to use images of the work for promotion of the exhibit and The Arts Center.

Terms and Parameters:

• Non-juried work cannot be substituted for accepted work.
• Artwork must be available for the duration of the exhibit.
• Artists are responsible for delivery/transportation to and from The Arts Center.
• Pieces must be ready to hang or install (we do not accept saw tooth hangers). If not, staff can choose to exclude work.
• Artworks must be identified with a label on the back or bottom, either your own label or TAC label provided with notification.
  • Labels must include: artist name, title of the work and email address or phone number.
• Fragile surfaces must be protected by glass or Plexiglas; for special display methods the artist needs to supply materials and clear instructions.
• Artwork must be for sale. The Arts Center will receive a 50% commission on all sales or if artists can specify to donate 100% on submission form.
•  Insurance will be provided during the exhibition. All work will be reimbursed for the full commission of the sales price declared in the submission process.
• The Arts Center will not be responsible for loss or damage to artworks left at TAC after Monday January 3, 2021.
• Work left after January 31, 2022 will be considered a donation to The Arts Center.