Aug 092024
August 9, 2024
UUSS artists’ group show in October
Posted by Kim Stoddard
Posted on August 9, 2024
All UUSS artists: We invite you to submit up to 5 pieces of art by September 8th. This will be a juried show. Our show will begin sometime in October and will continue for between 6 and 8 weeks. We are only accepting wall art for this show. Once the pieces are accepted, they will then be inspected to see if the frame will allow us to install it on our wall system. Questions? Contact Kim Stoddard here:
Great opportunity! I look forward to submitting!
How do we go about submitting art?
Hi Ellen,
Good question: The first step is to send photos of the piece or pieces you would like to submit to . Please include descriptions such as collage, oil, pastel, multi-media, watercolor, woodcut print, photography, etc. Also include the title and most importantly, the size. Thanks, we look forward to viewing it/them.
Hi, Also left question elsewhere.
What info do you want on back of artwork?
Where are artworks to be submitted.
Are. you going to have a submission sheet?
Hi Chuck,
All good questions. I responded to your email a short while ago. I’d also like to answer your questions here as well, and in a bit more detail. The first step is to send photos of the piece or pieces you would like to submit to . Please include descriptions such as collage, oil, pastel, multi-media, watercolor, giclee’, woodcut print, photography, post-processed-modified photography etc. Also include the title, price or NFS and most importantly, the size. Most buyers or art would like a signature on the front of the art piece. As to the back of the art, it will be important to have your contact information and optionally, a business card if you have one. If you are asking about hanging hardware, we ask for D rings attached to both sides of the frame and if it is a small piece. braided wire connected to the two D rings. Once a piece is accepted, we will show you a sample of the hooks, and some sample D rings, so you purchase and install D rings of enough size to accommodate the UUSS hanging system hooks.
A submission sheet might be a good idea. This is my first juried group show as a curator so I am open to ideas. Art works will be first viewed online through photos or web sites and then viewed in person by the jury before a decision is made. Artworks will be viewed at church with days to be determined, unless other arrangements can be made. The church is not available on Saturdays.
Can Giclees be unframed but with well wrapped corners ?
Hi Donna,
Giclee’s are accepted but your framing question is difficult to answer sight unseen. Please send front and side view photos to ? The backing has to be strong and thick enough to accommodate medium-sized D rings for hanging from our wall system. Our framing system hooks are stored at church so when I am at church I could show them to you. I can also purchase and carry samples of the D rings showing you the minimum size needed to accommodate our hooks
For previous oil and acrylic paintings a wrapped edge, called Gallery edge, was fine as long as the structure underneath the piece is sturdy and has some depth. Some Gallery edges of paintings arrived to church damaged by the artist while transporting them to church, so those edges are to be touched up by the artist before the reception.
This is good, but I would like it to be more inviting, also – to be specific about what ‘juried’ means in this case.
Hi Carol,
Since you are an art committee member, I received your email suggestions right away and asked for your edits. I have received your edits using more inviting wording and implemented them on the flyer to be handed out at next church service. Will also modify the language in the future blue sheet announcements and on the webpage tomorrow as I am booked up for the rest of the day and evening.