CALL FOR ENTRIES: Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, (WAAM)
Woodstock, New York - https://www.woodstockart.org/
New York Artists Equity Association Exchange Show, Equity @ WAAM, Equity Members Only
APRIL 19 – JUNE 2, 2024 / MAIN GALLERY
SUBMIT ONLINE: December 1, 2023 – January 3, 2024
Jurors: WAAM Exhibition Committee
NOTIFICATION: January 25
DROP OFF: Apr 14, 5-7, Apr 15, 9-1
PICK UP: June 2, 5-7, June 3, 9-1
FEE AND REQUIREMENTS: $10 hanging fee for selected artists
WAAM and New York Artists Equity Association in NYC present an exhibition exchange. Artist members from each organization are invited to apply to participate in a group exhibition at the partnering venue.
Selected Equity Association Artist Members will exhibit their work at WAAM from April 19–June 2, 2024.
Selected WAAM Artist Members will exhibit their work at the Equity Association from
June 20 – July 20, 2024. That call will be open to WAAM members March 15 – April 20, 2024.
Artists are invited to submit 1 piece for consideration.
All media will be considered. Submissions can range from, (but aren’t limited to), painting, sculpture, video, photography, drawing, sound and music. There are no size restrictions.
Artists must be able to transport or ship work to WAAM. Shipped work must contain a prepaid return label.
All work should be in good condition and ready to hang or install.
Any special installation needs must be supplied by the artist for the duration of the show and should be noted in their submission.
All work must be the original conception and execution of the artist listed. No reproductions.
WAAM reserves the right to reject works that do not comply with these guidelines or are otherwise found to be unsuitable for display.
WAAM takes a 40% commission on sales in support of its programs. Artists should consider this when pricing submitted work.
Hanging fee for selected artists: $10. WAAM members apply for free. All submissions are welcome. If you are unable to remit the full fee due to financial hardship please contact elizabeth@woodstockart.org.
There is no theme for this call.
Questions may be addressed to elizabeth@woodstockart.org
All reasonable care will be given to artwork in the custody of WAAM. However, we cannot assume full responsibility for loss, theft, damage or deterioration of a work. We reserve the right, in cases of loss or damage, to have our own independent appraisal done to assess the value of the work; and follow all recommendations in accordance with the WAAM’s insurance policy.
ABOUT EQUITY GALLERY:
New York Artists Equity Association was founded in 1947 to promote opportunities for artists and address economic issues affecting American artists. More than 160 leading American artists of the 1940s founded the organization, including Will Barnet, Thomas Hart Benton, George Biddle, Paul Cadmus, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Leon Kroll, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Louise Nevelson, John Sloan and the first President Yasuo Kuniyoshi, (who was also an early member of WAAM). These diverse artists were all clear on one point -- they had to band together to establish and protect artists' economic well-being. Originally a chapter of Artists Equity Association, the New York chapter split from the national organization in 1965 and opened its Broome Street Gallery later that year with help from a grant from the Robert Lehman Foundation.
Today NYAE continues to support the professional aspirations of unrecognized and emerging artists, particularly those from underrepresented groups, by providing them with exhibition opportunities, educational programming, and a vibrant community of artists, collectors, curators, and art educators.
NYAE opened Equity Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City in October 2015. Equity Gallery simultaneously serves as a gallery for artists to exhibit their work and as a community hub for staging professional workshops and innovative programming exploring critical issues of interest to artists and curators. As such, NYAE acts to counterbalance today’s increased focus on the art market by preserving an experiential space that privileges process over product and intent over style whereby artists and allied professionals may come together as trusted stewards charged with advancing visual culture.
ABOUT WAAM:
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, founded in 1919, is a not for profit membership organization. Its mission is to promote and foster the visual arts, art education, and artists through dynamic exhibitions and programs thus enriching and engaging the community. The WAAM is vital to the culture, history, and the economy of the mid-Hudson region and beyond; its Contemporary Galleries, Permanent Collection, Archives and Education Programs provide continuity, linking the past, present and future.
One of the oldest continuing organizations of its kind, the Woodstock Artists Association was founded by painters John F. Carlson, Frank Swift Chase, Andrew Dasburg, Carl Eric Lindin, and Henry Lee Mc Fee to provide much needed exhibition space for the numerous artists who had made Woodstock their home. Some had come as early as 1902 to live at Ralph Whitehead’s Byrdcliffe, while others studied or taught at the Art Students League’s summer programs. Still more visual artists found camaraderie and a place to call home “on the Maverick,” a progressive community founded by poet and writer Hervey White. Early members of the association included George Bellows, Lucile Blanch, Konrad Cramer, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, Leon Kroll, Eugene Speicher, Zulma Steele, and Eva Watson-Schütze.
In 1919, resourceful founding members of the Woodstock Artists Association organized the Artists’ Realty Company, a stock company that bought the land and constructed a building to “give free and equal expression” to the range of artistic styles apparent among Woodstock residents. A series of exhibitions were held each year and lithographer Grant Arnold ran a press in the basement, printing editions for Kuniyoshi, John Carroll, Karl Fortess, and others. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Woodstock Artists Association played a vital role in facilitating the efforts of the federally-funded Works Progress Administration in the region, while many members completed public murals or documented social conditions in paintings and photographs that continue to serve as testaments to this period in American history. In the late 1940s and early ‘50s, the association cosponsored a series of art conferences with Artists Equity Association, drawing some of the nation’s leading artists, curators, and museum professionals to the region. During the same period, members hosted festivals and balls as fundraising events for various humanitarian causes.
Questions? Email Elizabeth@woodstockart.org.