UPDATE: Due to the postponed deadline for submissions, the adjudication process is also delayed, as a result, accepted/ declined announcements will now be sent out the week of March 18, 2024.

Submissions are closed.

The deadline for submissions is extended to February 15, 2024. $2000.00 in awards.

Call for Entry –2024-2025 Juried Two-Dimensional Art Exhibition

A Sense of Place: Identity, Community, and Geography on the Colorado Plateau

October 15, 2024-April 11, 2025

Informational poster for A Sense of Place exhibition call for works

 

Please read the prospectus in its entirety, including drop-down menus (indicated by yellow bar and blue down arrow), before submitting an entry.

Northern Arizona University’s Clara M. Lovett Art Museum is pleased to announce a juried two-dimensional exhibition to be presented at the Clara M. Lovett Art Museum in the fall of 2024. The exhibition in the Clara M. Lovett Art Museum galleries will present new works conceived within the conceptual categories of identity, community, and geography within the broader theme of a sense of place. The Museum invites submissions exploring the many layers of our connection to physical past, present and future spaces as well as how place impacts community collective identity and personal concepts of identity (or the lack thereof) in relation to the Colorado Plateau through painting, printmaking, and/or photography.

“To be at all—to exist in any way—is to be somewhere, and to be somewhere is to be in some kind of place. Place is as requisite as the air we breathe, the ground on which we stand, the bodies we have. We are surrounded by places. We walk over and through them. We live in places, relate to others in them, die in them. Nothing we do is unplaced. How could it be otherwise?” Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place

Place is both material and the immaterial, tangible, and intangible, and marked by boundaries that can be real or imagined or layers of borders from the geographical to the cultural. Our relationship to the land we live on shapes our understanding of the world and creates a sense of community with those we share it with. Our collective living gives us a sense of place as a space filled with meaning. On the Colorado Plateau, the geography dictates much of how we live from the snow in our mountains to the wildfires that ravage our landscape. Place is, however, is more than our physical connection to the earth but also the meaning we ascribe to it as part of our individual and community identities. Together, we turn our lived space into a particular place. Approaches to this theme should focus on one of the following within the geography of the Colorado Plateau (which includes parts of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico and converges at the four corners of these states) and will creatively explore  our relationship to the geography and environment, individual experiences of place historically or in the present or imagining place in the future in the region, reflect on the cultural or physical borders and boundaries that have shaped collective and personal identities, or examine aspects of cultural, political, economic, environmental, or other forms of displacement.

ADJUDICATORS Accordion Closed

Ty Miller, Senior Curator, Northern Arizona University Art Museums

Becky Pratt-Sturges, Associate Professor of Public Humanities and Museum Studies, Northern Arizona University

ELIGIBILITY Accordion Closed

This national exhibition is open to all artists, 18 years old and older, practicing in the United States of America. Each artist may submit up to two images (one full and one detail) for each of their works completed in the last two years.

CALENDAR Accordion Closed

Entry Materials Due at Clara M. Lovett Art Museum by January 22, 2024

Notice of Acceptance Sent via Email Feb. 12, 2024

Artwork Due at NAU Art Museum August 15, 2024

Exhibition Opens to the public October 15, 2024

Exhibition Closes April 11, 2025

SUBMISSIONS AND ENTRY FEE Accordion Closed

A non-refundable entry fee of $45.00 entitles the artist to submit up to four entries. You will be asked to provide information about yourself when you access the entry form. Then, for each entry, you will be asked to enter the title, dimensions, and media and given the option of 2D or 3D for your artwork –  only select 2D for this exhibition. You will then be given the opportunity to upload image files for that artwork in JPEG or PDF format. Each artist may include two image files per 2D artwork (often an image of the entire artwork and a detail) with up to four artworks total (8 image files). Each file name must correspond with the title on the entry form and include your first initial and last name (e.g., TITLE OF ARTWORK_A-Artistname); longer titles can be truncated.

To allow for a ‘blind’ adjudication of the artwork, please do not embed your name on the image you are submitting for the jury; or, if your name/signature/watermark is on the artwork, please blur it out or remove it from the submission image.

After completing the personal contact info page and artwork submissions, entry fees will be submitted online as part of the online form process. Credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB) and electronic checks are accepted.

Image files for submissions are limited to 4 MB. Images submitted may be used for promotional purposes. We may request print-ready image files with the acceptance notice for work accepted into the exhibition.

 

SHIPPING Accordion Closed

Works over 50 lbs. may require additional shipping fees charged to the artist. For artwork over 150 lbs. or larger than 42″ cubed, please contact the Museum before submitting your entry.

For artworks accepted into the exhibition, the artist will pay expenses to ship artwork to the NAU Art Museums | Clara M. Lovett Art Museum. NAU Art Museums will provide return shipping for these artworks (unless the artwork is dropped off and picked-up) — Additional charges may be billed to the artist for oversized artwork packaging or shipping expenses over $60.* All work must be either professional crated or double-boxed. All works on paper should be framed and glazed with acrylic sheeting/Plexiglas; please do not ship glass. We also request packing and unpacking instructions for complex packaging. The Clara M. Lovett Art Museum reserves the right to refuse acceptance of any packaging that arrives in questionable condition. Artwork which had been hand-delivered must be picked up by May 5, 2025.

NAU Art Museums reserves the right to refuse acceptance of any shipped artwork that arrives in questionable condition. Sending entry constitutes an agreement of the entrant to all conditions stated above. Additionally, a Loan Agreement will be sent to artists whose work is selected for exhibition. Artists’ work will be insured while on exhibit. NAU is not liable for damage or loss in transit.

 

MAIL TO Accordion Closed

For USPS shipments, use the following address:
ATTN: Ty Miller
NAU Art Museums
P.O. Box 6021
Flagstaff AZ 86011

For non-USPS shipments (e.g. UPS, FedEx), use the following address:
ATTN: Ty Miller
NAU Art Museums
620 S. Knoles Dr.
Bldg 10/ Rm M203/ #6021
Flagstaff AZ 86011

PRESENTATION Accordion Closed

All works must be display ready and including display instructions. Identification labels must be attached to the bottom/back of the work. Actual work received by the Museum must match the image chosen by jurors; no substitutions accepted.

LIABILITY Accordion Closed

Artists’ work will be insured while on exhibit. NAU is not liable for damage or loss in transit.

AGREEMENT Accordion Closed

Sending entry constitutes an agreement of the entrant to all conditions stated above. Additionally, a Loan/Display Agreement will be sent to artists whose work is selected into the exhibition.

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