Santa Cruz Oil Painters
Quintessential Santa Cruz County 2017
Quintessential Santa Cruz County
Prospectus
Eligibility:
Open to Santa Cruz Oil Painters (SCOP) membership.
$25 per artist for a maximum of 7 submissions. Entry fees are non-refundable and must be paid by the entry deadline.
Jurors:
Mary Anne Carson, Curator/Art Director (Santa Cruz County Bank)
This exhibit is a collaboration with the Santa Cruz County Bank in Santa Cruz, CA. The Santa Cruz County Bank Arts Collaborative is an outreach effort to promote professional artists and art education by providing exhibiting artists with promotional assistance and by mounting public exhibitions in its banking offices throughout the county. In 2007, Santa Cruz County Bank received the ArtWORKS Emerging Business Award granted by the Santa Cruz Arts Commission for its support of the arts.
Exhibition Theme:
"Quintessential Santa Cruz County" paintings by SCOP members
(August 15, 2017 - March 2, 2018)
This exhibit by the Santa Cruz Oil Painters, (SCOP), will explore the extraordinary landscape and lifestyle contrasts in Santa Cruz County, California. From the mountains and redwoods to the river mouths and sweet surf and sand spots, rocky tide pools, bird filled lagoons and sloughs to crashing waves. Residents enjoy the beauty of our preserved State Parks, Land Trust Reserves and picturesque city and county parks. We are rich in history and historical landmarks from the Santa Cruz Mission, historic churches and California houses to the Boardwalk and art-deco Rio Theater. Our musical culture abounds in the Santa Cruz Symphony, Cabrillo Music Festival, Kuumbwa Jazz Center and our 60's Catalyst, from the Santa Cruz Ballet to the Derby Girls.
This Santa Cruz Oil Painters exhibit offers the viewer many of the visual flavors of a county that is considered one of the happiest places to live in the United States.
Entering Your Images:
Entry form must be filled out in its entirety. List sizes up to the nearest inch. Submitted images must not include matting or frame. Crop the photos to include only the artwork. Be sure your images are right-side-up.
Before uploading your images, make sure they are smaller than 4MB, but at least 1920 pixels on the longest side at 72 dpi. Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Help in photographing your work and properly sizing your images can be found at: www.OnlineJuriedShows.com/help.aspx. If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please write to us here: https://onlinejuriedshows.com/Contact.aspx.
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Artwork Requirements:
All paintings shall be delivered framed and ready to hang (gallery wrap, unframed paintings acceptable).
All paintings will be labeled on the back with the following information:
1. Artist Name
2. Painting # (Please assign a number to each painting.)
3. Painting Title
4. Medium
5. Size
6. Sales Price (Be sure that your pricing includes estimated sales tax. Sales tax is not calculated at the time of a sale.)
Exhibition Locations:
Santa Cruz County Bank
Aptos, CA - 775 Soquel Drive
Capitola,CA - 819 Bay Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA - 720 Front Street
Scotts Valley, CA - 4604 Scotts Valley Drive
Watsonville, CA - 595 Auto Center Drive
Viewing hours: Monday through Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-6pm excluding holidays
Exhibition Contact:
Lorraine Catania, ljcatania@gmail.com
Ann Thiermann, annthiermann@comcast.net
Media Contact:
Mary Anne Carson, Santa Cruz County Bank, mcarson@sccountybank.com, 831 457-5003, ext. 2118
Calendar and Timeline:
April 15 - Open for On-line Juried Show submissions.
June 15 - Deadline for Online Juried Shows submissions.
June 16-June 25 - Selection of art to be exhibited.
Week of June 26 - artists notified of accepted/declined paintings.
On or before July 15 - Submit artist statement or biography to Mary Anne Carson at mcarson@sccountybank.com (text only Word documents, no pdfs).
Before or on July 28 (9-11am) - deliver all art, (framed and wired, ready to hang) Deliver to Mary Anne Carson at Santa Cruz County Bank, 740 Front Street, Ste. 220, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Please contact Mary Anne regarding delivery if you will not be able to deliver on July 28th between 9-11am.
March 16, 2018 - Artwork pickup at Santa Cruz County Bank,740 Front Street, Ste. 220, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Reception: TBD
Disclaimer:
Art images may be used for marketing/advertising purposes.
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