Theme: This open-themed, open-call juried exhibition will feature all photography and sculpture disciplines.
Show Dates: June 21 (opening reception) – July 19
Submission dates: April 27 – May 15 (midnight deadline)
Cash Award: $250 for Best in Show
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
Artist Eligibility: Open Call
Entry Fees:
RAC Members: $25 for one piece; $10 for each additional piece, up to five.
RAC Art Angel members (Life Members – enter as Art Angels): $2 for one piece, $1 for each additional piece, up to five.
Non-Members: $35 for one piece, $10 for each additional piece, up to five.
Exhibition Requirements: Please review the exhibition requirements carefully to ensure your work complies with the guidelines for acceptance at the Rowayton Arts Center. By submitting your work to the show, you agree to the exhibition requirements and RAC Gallery Policies.
The Exhibitions Committee reserves the right to refuse any entry on the grounds of poor
condition or oversized artwork.
An important note on resolution: Please make sure your image is of a high enough resolution to produce a print devoid of pixilation and blurriness. We will not accept prints that are of poor quality. It is a good practice to print your image before submitting it to ensure it will be of good quality at the intended print size.
For professional quality prints, divide your image pixel width and height by 300 to find the maximum print size in inches. For example, a 4288 x 2848 pixel image can produce a 14.3 x 9.5 inch print at a high quality.
Submission Link – will be available on April 27
Elizabeth Avedon Bio:
Elizabeth Avedon is the former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; Creative Director for The Gere Foundation; Art Director for Polo Ralph Lauren national advertising; and Photo Editor for Ralph Lauren Media’s RL Magazine. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book, “Avedon: 1949–1979” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; “Richard Avedon: In the American West” for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago; and exhibition designs for the Estate of Diane Arbus, the Menil Collection, Houston and the Leica Gallery, New York.
Along with leading advanced photo-editing and photography book design workshops, Elizabeth continues to participate as a reviewer in many international portfolio reviews, including: the Icelandic Photography Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland; the Landskrona Foto Festival Review in Sweden; the New York Times Portfolio Reviews; Review Santa Fe; FilterPhoto Festival, Chicago; Photolucida, Portland. She was a juror for the prestigious 8th Edition Carmignac Fondation Photojournalism Award in Paris and juried the 22nd Annual Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography. She created the black/white juried publication, “fossils of light + time,” for the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.
Her writing includes, “Self Portrait: My Impressions of Vivian Maier” for John Maloof’s “Vivian Maier: Self Portraits” (powerHouse Books); “Trusted Witness” an essay for Dornith Doherty’s monograph, “Archiving Eden” (Schilt Publishing, 2017); the introduction to Tom Chamber’s retrospective, “Hearts and Bones” (Unicorn Press 2018); and as a contributor for many years to Paris based La Lettre, Le Journal de la Photographie and L’oeil de la Photographie, she profiled notable leaders in the world of Photography.
In 2017, Elizabeth received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission link is “live” on our website: Monday, April 27
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 15, midnight
Accepted Artists Notified: on or before May 22
Receiving Dates: Monday, June 15 (5-7pm) and Tuesday, June 16 (12-2pm)
ARTWORK MUST BE DELIVERED DURING RECEIVING TIMES – COMMITTEE WILL
NOT ACCEPT PIECES DELIVERED AFTER 2 pm Tuesday, June 16. No exceptions!
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 21 (4-6pm)
Pick Up of your work: Monday, July 20 (5-7pm) and Tuesday, July 21 (12-2pm)
Please pick up your artwork during the designated times. Due to extremely
limited storage, any artwork not collected on time will incur a $10 per day storage
fee, which will begin accruing on the day after the final pick-up date.
Questions? Please email executivedir@rowaytonarts.org