NLAPW 2012 BIENNIAL JURIED ARTS COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION
Note: The deadline for this contest has passed. This page remains available for reference for those whose work is accepted.
46th NLAPW Biennial Convention | April 19-22, 2012
Exhibit will hang at the Charles Sumner School, 17th St NW, Washington, D.C.
April 20th through June 1, 2012
Download and print the entry form here.
JUROR – MOE BROOKER, ARTIST ~ PHILADELPHIA, PA.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all active Pen Women
AWARDS:
1st Place – BEST IN SHOW $1000 (includes Howison Art Fund)
2nd Place – $750 3rd Place – $500
Special Awards
Photography Award – $150 Donated by Delta Branch
Water Media Award -$150 Donated by Delta Branch
Jean Baber Memorial Art Fund – 5 Awards of Merit – $100 each
(Shipping: The Biennial Exhibiting Artist Fund, aka “BEAF” will pay for the return shipping on all accepted and exhibited works in this exhibit! )
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
You may submit up to TWO (2) entries. All work must be original, completed in last three (3) years for two-dimensional work and pottery, and five years (5) for sculpture. Entries must NOT have been previously submitted to the NLAPW Biennial Exhibit.
FEE: $35 per artist – this fee includes BOTH entries if you choose to enter two pieces. The fee is payable by check or money order to NLAPW Art Chair.
DEADLINE: Entries must be POSTMARKED no later than JANUARY 16th, 2012. Late entries will not be accepted.
CATEGORIES: Entries may be in any of the following: Painting – all mediums, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, mixed media; Drawing and Graphics – all mediums; Photography, Printmaking (original prints only – NO GICLEE or other reproduction prints of work done in other media will be considered ORIGINAL), pottery (hand-formed or wheel-thrown) and Sculpture.
We will accept no more than 50 pieces of art total, including three-dimensional works.
Completed works may not exceed 30” x 40” including FRAME if it has one. Sculpture must not exceed 50 pounds.
Gallery-wrap canvas does not have to be framed. All other two-dimensional works MUST be framed suitably for museum
display, and with wire on the back -NO SAW-TOOTHED HANGERS and NO EXCEPTIONS.
The committee reserves the right to not hang pieces that are sent that are not wired correctly. No special hardware is needed.
SUBMISSIONS: Image Specifications: All images must be saved as a BASELINE JPG. at 300 ppi, maximum of 1920 pixels (H) x 1920 pixels (V). The image file size must be 1 MB or less.. The file name should be the title of the piece. Please submit 1 image of each 2-dimensional entry; 3 images (front, back and side views) of all 3-dimensional entries.
CD must be labeled with artist’s name, title of each piece and medium.
*These CD’s will NOT be returned to the artists and should have ONLY the entries for this exhibit on them.
MAIL entries to: Jamie Tate, PO Box 387, Stoneville, Mississippi 38776
Shipping instructions will be sent with acceptance notification.
