Calls to Entry |
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Enter a Valley Art Center Gallery Exhibition
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Art by the Falls
CTE CLOSED
Deadline: February 23, 2018 |
Blossom Time Poster Contest
CTE CLOSED
Deadline: March 30, 2018 |
Student/Faculty Art Exhibit
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Opportunities for exhibiting your art
Margaret "Peg" Bowen Gallery
Valley Art Center presents five exhibits annually in a professional, 1,000-square-foot gallery. Typically, at least three of these exhibits are open competitions for submissions from artists. The only nonprofit art gallery in the Village of Chagrin Falls, VAC has been presenting the original art of novice, emerging, and professional artists for 45 years. VAC's gallery call-to-entries are open to regional, national and international artists. The Annual Juried Art Exhibit CTE is open to artists living in a 250-mile radius of the Center. The Annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibit is noncompetitive and open to all students and instructors active at VAC within the previous two years. The Margaret "Peg" Bowen Gallery welcomes thousands of guests every year and is an excellent opportunity to share your work with an appreciative public.
Art by the Falls
Every June, the highly attended Art by the Falls outdoor show introduces the work of national artists and fine crafters to the suburbs of Cleveland. Founded over thirty years ago, the event draws 10,000 patrons every summer to Riverside Park in historic Chagrin Falls. The show features approximately 120 painters, potters, jewelers, wood workers, fiber artists and other fine craftspeople. An ideal setting for an outdoor festival, the village's popular Main Street overlooks two waterfalls and hosts a wealth of fine shops, galleries and restaurants.
Other Opportunities
Members of Valley Art Center are invited to submit work for consideration to display and sell in the Gift Shop. Our Gift Shop artists are local and are active members at VAC. Gift Shop artists may also be considered for exhibition in our outreach gallery at the Village Martini Bar. This spring, VAC and Lowe's Greenhouses will present the second annual Early Bird Art and Craft Show. The one-day show and sale features approximately 30 fine artists and crafters in the beautiful setting of Lowe's Greenhouse's inspiring and spacious facility. Each artist is provided a table and chairs to set up a booth to sell their artwork.
Hall Gallery and Educational Annex
These two smaller exhibit spaces are programmed by VAC staff and the Gallery Committee. The Educational Annex is reserved for VAC instructors to highlight their teaching and art making. We welcome suggestions and proposals for the Hall Gallery but we generally reserve the space for opportunities identified by the Executive Director and Gallery Manager for pop-up exhibits that cannot be accommodated through our regular gallery programming.
Valley Art Center presents five exhibits annually in a professional, 1,000-square-foot gallery. Typically, at least three of these exhibits are open competitions for submissions from artists. The only nonprofit art gallery in the Village of Chagrin Falls, VAC has been presenting the original art of novice, emerging, and professional artists for 45 years. VAC's gallery call-to-entries are open to regional, national and international artists. The Annual Juried Art Exhibit CTE is open to artists living in a 250-mile radius of the Center. The Annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibit is noncompetitive and open to all students and instructors active at VAC within the previous two years. The Margaret "Peg" Bowen Gallery welcomes thousands of guests every year and is an excellent opportunity to share your work with an appreciative public.
Art by the Falls
Every June, the highly attended Art by the Falls outdoor show introduces the work of national artists and fine crafters to the suburbs of Cleveland. Founded over thirty years ago, the event draws 10,000 patrons every summer to Riverside Park in historic Chagrin Falls. The show features approximately 120 painters, potters, jewelers, wood workers, fiber artists and other fine craftspeople. An ideal setting for an outdoor festival, the village's popular Main Street overlooks two waterfalls and hosts a wealth of fine shops, galleries and restaurants.
Other Opportunities
Members of Valley Art Center are invited to submit work for consideration to display and sell in the Gift Shop. Our Gift Shop artists are local and are active members at VAC. Gift Shop artists may also be considered for exhibition in our outreach gallery at the Village Martini Bar. This spring, VAC and Lowe's Greenhouses will present the second annual Early Bird Art and Craft Show. The one-day show and sale features approximately 30 fine artists and crafters in the beautiful setting of Lowe's Greenhouse's inspiring and spacious facility. Each artist is provided a table and chairs to set up a booth to sell their artwork.
Hall Gallery and Educational Annex
These two smaller exhibit spaces are programmed by VAC staff and the Gallery Committee. The Educational Annex is reserved for VAC instructors to highlight their teaching and art making. We welcome suggestions and proposals for the Hall Gallery but we generally reserve the space for opportunities identified by the Executive Director and Gallery Manager for pop-up exhibits that cannot be accommodated through our regular gallery programming.
How to answer an online call to entry
Before you start, you will need a number of items.
- One to three digital images of art, depending on the call. For gallery shows, these must be good photographs of the actual, original art you want to exhibit. For Art by the Falls and similar vendor shows, you will need several images of art that are representative of the work you will be selling.
- The Annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibit is NOT an online call to entry.
- Digital images must conform to the specifications listed in the call to entry. Generally, they should be standard, optimized JPG file format within 1000 to 1920 pixels wide and 1000 to 1080 pixels tall in pixel dimensions. They should be less than 1.8 Mb in file size but probably more than 200kb.
- For some competitions, supplementary images will be required such as booth, context, or detail shots.
- Please make sure you are settled on titles, media descriptions and prices. The way you identify yourself and your work in the submission form is what we start with when we present your information on art labels and in program listings, including your full name and your city, state, and nation.
EntryThingy
Most of our competitions are entered and managed through an online call to entry submission program called EntryThingy. You will find the EntryThingy form throughout our site, wherever a competition is open for online, digital entries.
Your EntryThingy Account
If you have never used EntryThingy before, you will create an account. With this account, you can submit your work to many competitions around the world, wherever a venue uses EntryThingy. If you already have an EntryThingy account (even if you've never submitted to VAC), you'll simply log in. It is the same on our site as any others.
Most of our competitions are entered and managed through an online call to entry submission program called EntryThingy. You will find the EntryThingy form throughout our site, wherever a competition is open for online, digital entries.
Your EntryThingy Account
If you have never used EntryThingy before, you will create an account. With this account, you can submit your work to many competitions around the world, wherever a venue uses EntryThingy. If you already have an EntryThingy account (even if you've never submitted to VAC), you'll simply log in. It is the same on our site as any others.
Submitting your entry
You may leave your submission partially completed and finish it later. When you are finished with your forms and uploads, you will complete the submission with a secure payment of the nonrefundable entry fee through PayPal.
If you want to edit your entry after it is paid and submitted, you must contact VAC during office hours as soon as you can before the close of the CTE and the Gallery Manager will revert your entry to a pre-submitted draft for you to correct. Then contact VAC again to have us resubmit. You will not have to pay a second fee.
For reasons of fairness and impartiality, there may be limits to the assistance we can provide, however please call us if you have any difficulties or need any instruction; most of our staff are well-versed in providing assistance with entries.
Acceptance
Accepted artists are listed on the website. Following acceptance, artists must deliver their art during specified days and times.
Accepted artists are listed on the website. Following acceptance, artists must deliver their art during specified days and times.
