Month: May 2016

CALL FOR ENTRIES

A Visual Feast
A multi-media, juried exhibition

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) invites New England artists to submit work to “A Visual Feast” a six-week exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.

Juror: Ellen Wineberg
Deadline for Submissions: 11:59 PM, June 22, 2016
Exhibition Dates: August 4-Sept 11, 2016
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-6:00 PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 6, 5:00-7:00 PM

The Call:

RNAC seeks a mix of contemporary, experimental and traditional works of art suggested by the title “A Visual Feast.” The art could rock with realism, stun in still life, interpret abundance in line, color, pattern, or abstraction. Bring on your best in assemblage, pastels, paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media and small sculpture. Close to thirty works will be chosen for their ability to dazzle or tease the eye. Juror will select one or more works for special recognition.

About the Juror:

Ellen Wineberg is an artist and co-curator (with Cathleen Daley) at ROOM 83 Spring, an alternative gallery and event space in Watertown, MA. Ellen has work in the Danforth, DeCordova, and New Britain Museums, and Simmons College, Dana Farber and Fidelity collections. She has shown at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, and Gallery Henoch in NYC. She was a Mass Cultural Council finalist in painting in 2004 and a recent member of Bromfield Gallery in Boston.

Eligibility:

Open to all artists 18 years and older living and working in New England.

Requirements:

• Work submitted will have been created within the past 4 years.
• Artwork previously shown at any other Gloucester venue will not be considered.
• Art must be original creations of the artist. No reproductions or videos will be considered.
• Accepted work must be delivered in person, absolutely no shipping.
• Work must be gallery wrapped or suitably framed and wired for hanging; saw-tooth or sandwich frames will not be accepted. To maintain a contemporary vibe throughout the exhibition, the use of gold frames is discouraged.

Entry Fees:

$35 for 3 entries, 2 additional entries $10 each; RNAC members: $25 for 3 entries, 2 additional entries $5 each. (Member discount code available.) Please make sure you have a credit card or a PayPal account to make your payment at the time of applying.

Open for submissions:

9:00 AM, Wednesday, May 4, 2016

• Entries must be submitted via the online entry system only.
• To submit, go to: https://client.smarterentry.com/rnac

Deadline for submissions:

11:59 PM, Wednesday, June 22

Notification:

Selected artists and 30 works will be announced on the RNAC website (www.rockyneckartcolony.org) by 5:00 PM on June 28, 2016. Accepted artists will be contacted with a follow-up email. Artists will be invited to join us in welcoming viewers for a day during the exhibition.

Images:

You will need good quality photos of your work in JPEG format, sized no greater than 2 MB, with 1200 pixels for the longest dimension. Each image must be labeled with the following information: last name, first initial, title, medium.jpg. Example: Smith_J_SunsetSymphony_acrylic.jpg.  Do not use any special characters (e.g. !@#$%^&*+()][{}|/) in your image name, your image will not be accepted.

Size of artwork:

Submitted 2-D work may not exceed 60 inches in height and 48 inches in width, including a frame. 3-D work must fit on a 16 x 16 inch pedestal top (3-D artists should be prepared to supply pedestals as needed). There is a space for one large work of 60″h x 70″w.

Accepted Work

• Deliver: Monday, August 1, 10 AM-12 PM to the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA.
• Pick up unsold work: Sunday, September 11, 6:00-6:30 PM or Monday September 12, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM.

Commissions:

All work must be for sale. There is a 40% commission on the sale of non-member work; 25% on RNAC member work. Artists must be members when entering to take advantage of the reduced entry fee and the membership commission rate. To join the Rocky Neck Art Colony go to http://rockyneckartcolony.org.

URL for more information:  http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/a-visual-feast-call-for-submissions/

Please send any questions about this call to entry@rockyneckartcolony.org.

For more information about the gallery at the Cultural Center or to join the RNAC go to www.rockyneckartcolony.org. OK

Do you like stories told from the heart? Do you listen to NPR’s Moth Radio Hour? Well, you owe it to yourself to go to the Rocky Neck Cultural Center on Friday evening for this presentation of Fish Tales from the Gloucester Writers Center. These will be true stories told by people you know. It doesn’t get much more real than this.

If you missed the last one, Tattoo Show and Tell, here’s a link to the video from Henry Ferrini.

The the view is looking better and better everyday!  Grateful for the views that surround us!  Happy Gratituesday!

Sid forwards-

Now that I try to take both dogs on my run/walk in the afternoon, I am hard pressed to take photos.  For anyone who has chanced upon me taking a Nantucket Sleigh Ride through town while being pulled by 100 pounds of dog can confirm that.

This intrigued me too much though to not stop last night.  6:30 in the evening and no one in sight.

Does anyone know what the space through which the rudder post runs is called?