The New Haven Paint & Clay Club - founded in 1900
PO Box 6314, Whitneyville, CT 06517
124th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
March 31 to April 25, 2025 at The Creative Arts Workshop (CAW), 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510
the NEW HAVEN PAINT & CLAY CLUB (NHP&CC) The NHP&CC celebrates its 125th anniversary year in 2025. It is the oldest continuously active artists’ association in Connecticut. The Club showcases the work of its members and regional artists through annual exhibitions and actively supports the visual arts in the greater New Haven, CT area and beyond. In addition, the Club holds a large permanent collection of works purchased from its art shows and loans them to several public venues. It also offers merit awards, scholarships, free programs and lectures to the arts community. In its early years, membership was by invitation. Currently, artists who have been accepted into two of the Club’s juried shows, which exhibit art from New England, New York, and New Jersey, are eligible for active membership. Jurors are well-experienced artists or museum professionals who are unconnected to the Club. More information about the Club and its permanent collection can be found at www.newhavenpaintandclayclub.org
This Year’s Juror, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, graduated from Cornell University, earned degrees in art history from the University of Chicago (MA), and Boston University (PhD), and is the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art. Dr. Heydt came to the New Britain in 2023 from the High Museum in Atlanta where she was the Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art and managed a collection that spanned over two hundred years. Her specialty is nineteenth-century paintings, prints, and popular culture. She values the breadth and diversity of American art and uses these elements to form threads and connections over time. Dr. Heydt also held positions at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Florida, the Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, and the Terra Museum of (now the Terra Foundation for) American Art in Chicago. Dr. Heydt has collaborated on projects with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is widely published in the field.
Awards Over $4000 in prizes and additional purchase funds for the NHP&CC’s permanent collection.
Gallery hours The CAW galleries are open on Mondays through Fridays from 9 AM to 7 PM and Saturdays from 9 AM to 4 PM. The RECEPTION will be held on Sunday, April 6, 2025 from 1 to 3 PM, and awards will be presented at 2 PM
All accepted art works will also be exhibited on the NHP&CC website
Entry Rules The NHP&CC RETAINS THE RIGHT TO REJECT WORKS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING:
· Acceptable works include all traditional and contemporary media, photography and digital art.
· Work must be the artist’s own concept and design. No reproductions, giclée prints, video, classwork, or AI generated work are allowed.
· Artists must be over eighteen years old and from the Northeast USA, including New York and New Jersey.
· Work must have been produced within the last three years and not previously exhibited with the NHP&CC.
· All wall art must be securely wired for hanging. NO clip frames, brackets or wet work are allowed.
· Wall art cannot exceed forty inches in width including the frame.
· Works on paper such as watercolors, pastels, mixed media, graphics and photography, must be framed and under glass.
· Sculptures are limited to seventy-five pounds and stands must be provided.
Entry Limits Artists may enter up to three art works each. However, the juror may accept only one piece per artist, Sculptors may submit three jpeg views per piece.
ENTRY Fees Active NHP&CC members* who are up to date on dues: $30 for the first entry, and $10 for each additional entry. All others: $45 for the first entry, and $10 for each additional entry. Entry fees are non-refundable, acceptance is not guaranteed.
Online Submissions All entries must be submitted through the OnlineJuriedShows (OJS) website between January 19 and February 15, 2025. For best results submit high quality 72 dpi images under 4 MB, and close to 1920 pixels on the longest side. File name should include only letters and numbers, no spaces, and end with .jpg. Help with photographing, sizing, and entering images can be obtained at www.OnlineJuriedShows.com/help.aspx.
For help with your submissions, contact onlinejuriedshows@gmail.com or 888-666-1351
Notification of Accepted Work will be on or about March 3, 2025 by OJS. Results will be available in your OnlineJuriedShows artist profile.
Receiving All accepted art works must be hand delivered to the CAW on either Friday, March 28, 2025, between 3 and 5 PM, or on Saturday, March 29, 2025, between 9 AM and 12 noon. NO exceptions.
Removal All art works must be removed on either Friday, April 25, 2025, from 3 to 5 PM, or on Saturday, April 26, 2024, from 10 AM to 12 noon. Unclaimed art will be stored and incur a $50 late pick-up fee. PLEASE NOTE WELL - NO work may be removed before April 25 at 3 PM.
Sales The NHP&CC suggests that all work is available for sale. However, NFS but no POR is allowed. The NHP&CC receives a 20% commission on sales. Works purchased for the NHP&CC permanent collection obtain 80% of the catalog price.
Liability All realistic care will be taken with art work in the show. Submission indicates that the artist agrees that neither the NHP&CC nor the CAW are responsible for loss or damage.
*ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Artists become eligible for, and are invited to active membership in the NHP&CC after their work has been accepted into two separate NHP&CC juried exhibitions.