Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery 27th Annual Juried Competition
The Adirondack Artists Guild announces its twenty-seventh annual juried competition. Entries will be accepted through OnlineJuriedShows and the actual exhibit will be both on our website and in the Gallery. NOTE: all accepted pieces need to be hand-delivered, so please do not enter if you are unable to deliver in person.
The Adirondack Artists Guild is a cooperative retail art gallery representing a diverse group of artists residing and working in the Tri-Lakes region of the Adirondack Park in northern New York State. The gallery is located at 52 Main St, Saranac Lake. The Adirondack Artists Guild is on Facebook, Instagram, and on the web at www.adirondackartistsguild.com.
DATES
Registration opens: Jan 10, 2025
Submission deadline: February 23, 2025
Notifications: March 4-5, 2025 via email and on website.
HAND DELIVERY of accepted work: March 6-8, 2025
Juror selection of prize winners: March 10-11, 2025
Show opens: March 14, 2025
Show closes: April 19, 2025
Pick up of exhibited work: April 19-23, 2025
ELIGIBILITY
• This competition is open to all living artists, 18 and older.
• Must be able to hand-deliver actual work to Gallery.
• There is no specific theme.
• Work must have been completed in the last three years.
• Work must not have been previously exhibited at the Adirondack Artists Guild.
• All media are acceptable, including 3D items such as ceramics, jewelry, fiber art, etc.
• Maximum width, including frame, is 38” and any 3-D work must be suitable for a small gallery.
• All work must be original.
• No work done in class or under supervision may be submitted
• No prints of work originally done in a different medium (i.e. prints of paintings).
• AAG reserves the right to not display work that does not meet our standards for exhibition.
• The Gallery reserves the right to use photos of exhibited works for publicity purposes.
ENTRY PROCEDURE
Apply and submit your images online on OnlineJuriedShows. Log in on this page and click Enter This Show to begin your submissions. There is advice on how to resize and rotate images here: https://onlinejuriedshows.com/Help.aspx. All images should be the artwork only, no frames or mats. Images should be in JPEG format, under 4 mb, and in sRGB colorspace. For best results, images should be at least 1920 pixels on the longest side@ 72 dpi.
For help with your submissions, contact onlinejuriedshows@gmail.com or 888-666-1351
Notifications will be sent via email when the results are available in your OnlineJuriedShows artist profile and a list published on our website.
AWARDS
Cash awards will be announced on the opening day of the show. All accepted works will be displayed and available for purchase (unless NFS) on the Adirondack Artists Guild website and in the Gallery. Prize winners will be featured on the home page. Press releases and email announcements will be sent out to publicize the exhibit.
EXHIBITION
All accepted entries will be hung in the gallery from March 10-April 19, 2025. The opening reception and awards presentation will be Friday, March 14, from 5 - 7 pm. Refreshments provided. The event is open to the public and all artists and their families are invited to attend.
ENTRY FEE
A non-refundable entry fee of $35 for one or two works, with the submission of a third piece optional for an additional $10, must accompany entries.
SALES AND COMMISSION
The gallery will handle all sales of artwork, retaining a 30% commission. Checks for sold pieces will be sent to artists within a few weeks of the conclusion of the exhibition.
SELECTION & AWARDS JUROR: Betsy Krebs
Betsy Krebs is the owner of Birds of a Feather Studio & Gallery in Chestertown, NY. She is an award-winning painter who has been an art teacher in Queensbury, the Hyde Collection, and the Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam. She actively shows her work widely in New York and beyond.
Krebs writes, “As I paint I take an unknown “gnostic” path that becomes my voice, a language unknown to me until I come to the journey’s end. I tell stories, I replay the past through the eyes of curiosity. The past is only moments away as I form my images. My “visual” voice becomes a world of color, depth, light, symbolism when aligned that can transform the heart through the eyes”.