May All-Media Show
Call for Entry Dates: April 1, 2025 – April 20, 2025
Open to all artists working in any medium.
Artwork must be ready to hang or display.
Juror: Reni Gower
Professor Emerita of Art Virginia Commonwealth University Curator, Wylie Contemporary, Inc
Reni Gower is an artist, curator, educator. Her work has been exhibited at international and national venues for over 40 years and represented in collections such as the Global Centre for Drawing, Melbourne, Australia; the Library of Congress Print Collection; the American Embassies in Lima, Peru and Osaka Japan; Capital One; and the Federal Reserve Bank. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper and a 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2017, she was awarded SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. In 2014, she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teacher of Art Award, as well as distinguished teaching awards from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts. Gower also curates award winning traveling exhibitions that include COLLECTive Concerns: Collage and Assemblage; The Garden: Thistle and Thorn, FLASHPOINTS: Material/Intent/Fused, Geometric Aljamía: a Cultural Transliteration, and Pulped Under Pressure: the Art of Handmade Paper. After 37 years, Professor Emerita Gower retired from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2018. Gower is represented by Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, an MA from the University of MN-Duluth, and a BS from the University of WI-Madison.
Submission: Online through Artcall.org – https://may2025cacjuriedclaycreationscallforentries.artcall.org
Submission Fee: $15 each up to 3 entries
Commission: 70 % to artists, 30% to CAC
Artists Notified via Email by: Friday, April 25, 2025
Artwork Drop Off: Wednesday, May 7 – 10, 2025 by Noon
Exhibition Opening: Friday, May 16, 5pm – 8pm
Exhibition End Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025
Artwork Available for Artists to Pick Up: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Submission Details:
You will need an artist statement – 200 word limit in first person when you first register in ArtCall.
- You do not have to create a portfolio site to enter the show.
- The way you fill out the form is how it will be shown on the labels, awards, and publicity. We will not change text after the end of Call for Entries, unless it is our mistake. Please be sure it is what you want to say. b. Prices – DO NOT TYPE IN A COMMA. This produces the wrong price. ArtCall will add it automaticaally. Double-check it–We will not change prices after the end of the Call for Entries, unless it is our mistake.d. Verbiage regarding the piece of art – The character limit is 300, including spaces!! This is used for all publicity and labels online and inhouse. Spellcheck it as well as word count it! We use it exactly the way your have written it in ArtCall, by copy/pasting what you type. We do NOT change prices after the Call For Entries ends, unless it is our mistake.f. Please double check all information (see above).
- e. FYI – You can go back in and add/edit images and edit text until the call ends.
- c. Measurements – HEIGHT first, then Width then Depth (H x W x D)
- a. Name: Use Capital Letters for the first letters of your name.
2D IMAGE REQUIREMENTS:
3 images of each piece are required, one of the art without frame, one with frame, and a close detail image (zoomed into a small section of interest). If the art is unframed, only 2 photos are required.
If it is framed, this image must be included during the Call for Entries period.
NOTE: if the work is framed, we must have the outside measurements of the frame (H x W x D). Please do not guess. If we do not have the measurements for the art and/or the framed art, your piece will not be considered to jury. Walls and backgrounds SHOULD NOT SHOW in photos. When taking the digital image please make sure the photo is not at an angle or crooked.
3D IMAGE REQUIREMENTS:
For each 3D, installation, or wearable art entry, submit 3 images: one overall front, one overall rear or sideview, and one detail (zoomed into a small section of interest).
- Detail images must show an important aspect of the artwork. Make sure that both the full-view and detail images are oriented correctly. Please keep backgrounds as unobtrusive as possible.
IMPORTANT: After submitting, please go back in and double check your information. Did you enter the required 2 or 3 photos? Is your price correct? Measurements? Is your statement complete? Too long? Please remember we do not change prices or text after the CFE ends, unless we are at fault.
NOTE: You can delete and change photos, and change text within each submission up until end-of-call. Do not delete an entire submission and then replace it with a new one–ArtCall will charge you for a new submission!
Crossroads Art Center’s AMS are open to mid-Atlantic artists through a bimonthly call for entries, and cash prizes are awarded for the winners. Each show is juried by a prominent art professional from the community (a gallery director, curator, museum official, arts professor, or accomplished artist). Cash awards are given for 1st $100, 2nd $75, and 3rd $50 place winners, as well as Honorable Mentions. The 2025 AMS shows are exhibited at Crossroads Art Center and as an online exhibition where customers can shop directly from the website.
