PROSPECTUS 2021 

Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery 23rd Annual Juried Competition

The Adirondack Artists Guild announces its twenty-third annual juried competition. Due to the pandemic, the show will be online only. Entries must be made through OnlineJuriedShows.com. 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 5, 2021

Submission deadline: March 9 2021

Notifications: March 23 2021

Show opens: April 1 2021

Show closes: April 30 2021

ELIGIBILITY

• This competition is open to all living artists, 18 and older.
• 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.
• 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 Adirondack Artists Guild reserves the right to use digital photos of exhibited works for publicity purposes. 

ENTRY PROCEDURE

You can enter your images online at www.OnlineJuriedShows.com Help in photographing your work and properly sizing your images can be  found at: www.OnlineJuriedShows.com/help.aspx For best results, make sure your image is 72 dpi and 1920 pixels on the longest side. Images should be in JPEG format and RGB color space. If you need help entering your images please contact info@onlinejuriedshows.com or call 949-287-8645.

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. Prize winners will be featured on the home page. Press releases and email announcements will be sent out to publicize the exhibit.

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. Framing and shipping costs will be independently negotiated by the artist and and buyer. Sales checks to artists will be sent at the end of the month and after delivery confirmation is received.

SHIPPING OF SOLD WORK

When a piece is sold, the Artists Guild will provide the artist with the buyer's contact information.  The artist should then contact the buyer to arrange for shipping. Shipping costs are the responsibility of the buyer. Artists are responsible for packaging, shipping and insuring the works direct to the purchaser within 7 days of a sale. Artists must use a shipping method with insurance, signed delivery and a tracking number. The tracking number must be provided to the Adirondack Artists Guild in order for artists to receive payment for sold pieces. All art must be signed for upon delivery. Artists and the Adirondack Artists Guild cannot be responsible for art that has been delivered without a signature.

 SELECTION & AWARDS JURORS

David Fokos

David Fokos is an internationally renowned photographic artist who has been photographing the landscape for over 40 years. His elegant black and white images have been lauded as masterpieces of minimalism. His work has been the subject of over 60 solo shows, and can be found in a dozen galleries on three continents, as well as in scores of museums, and prominent corporate and private collections.  Fokos writes. “The images I make today are the result of over 30 years of exploration and discovery in my quest to understand how we are affected by the world around us and how we perceive our environment.  It is my desire to express to the viewer the essence of my experience in these places – to evoke within them the same emotion I felt at the time of the exposure. Rather than show what these places look like, I want to show how they feel....Through the use of long exposures I have been able to encode the element of time into what would otherwise be a static image.  This process has the effect of stripping away the “visual noise” to reveal a world that, while very real, is not experienced visually.  We feel it.  We sense it.  But in general, we don’t see it. With my camera, I am able to translate this hidden world into a visible form for us to contemplate.”   http://www.davidfokos.net

Sherry Kerlin

Sherry Kerlin has had her paintings and drawings exhibited in prominent galleries throughout the United States.  Her work is built around the many facets of the human condition. She examines both the physical and the metaphysical world. Her work includes narratives from the past and the present day, which can be playful and humorous or dark and mysterious. You feel as if you are viewing the images through a mist of memory. Sherry Kerlin is from Oklahoma, and now lives and works in New York City. She attended the Chicago Art Institute and completed her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City in 1966. Kerlin has been exhibiting her work since 1981 in New York and throughout the United States. She received a grant in 1995 from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and in 1992 she received a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.  http://sherrykerlinfineart.com