2022 Annual December Juried Show
State of the Art Gallery is a cooperative fine art gallery operated by its artist-members in New York’s upstate Finger Lakes region. We are open four days per week, and we host a new exhibit each month. As a not-for-profit organization, we seek to enhance the cultural and economic vitality of the community.
Entries are now being accepted
- All artistic media, both 2-D & 3-D, will be considered, except photography. (We hold a juried photography show every June.)
- The entry fee is $35.
- The submission deadline will be 11pm, October 29, 2022.
- The show will run from December 1, 2022 until January 1, 2023 .
- The jury will consist of 5–7 members of the State of the Art Gallery.
- Up to $1,000 in prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the prize judge.
- The prize judges will be Victoria Romanoff and Aaron Kather.
- Artwork will be presented both in our gallery and simultaneously on-line.
- Previous December shows for 2020 and 2021 can be viewed online.
Entry Requirements
All entries must be original art that has never been exhibited at our gallery. Current members of State of the Art and their family members are not eligible.
The entry fee of $35 covers three entries per artist. The fee is non-refundable and does not guarantee that your work will be accepted into the show. It must be paid by PayPal during the entry submission procedure at EntryThingy. (A PayPal account is not required to use PayPal for this.)
Each entrant may submit up to three works, 2-D works may have up to 2 additional images for detail and 3-D work may have up to 3 additional images for different views of the piece.
Entries may not exceed 48″ in width or 50 lb. in weight.
Submission of Work
All entries will be processed through our page at EntryThingy.
All image files should be labeled as follows: Year, month, last name, FIRST NAME (all caps), image number (01,02,03 etc.), title of work (or short title).jpg. For example:
2022 12 Doe JANE 01 Summer in Paris.jpg
Delivery of Work
If your work is accepted into the show, it must be hand delivered by you or someone you designate to the gallery between 5pm and 7pm on November 27 or between 10am and 6pm on November 28. If you live too far away to hand deliver your work, consider mailing it to someone in the area who could deliver it for you. Or contact Ileen Kaplan, one of our artist members, who has agreed to receive delivery of out-of-town artwork. Any work sent to her must be sent UPS only and have a prepaid return label included in the package.
All work hand-delivered to the gallery must be retrieved on January 2 or 3, 2023.
Our Judges
Victoria Romanoff is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has an MFA from Cornell University. She is long-time resident of Tompkins County. While pursuing a professional life in historic preservation, Victoria has also continued her love of the visual arts, participating in both national and international exhibits. Her work can be found in the collections of the Cornell Herbert F. Johnson Museum and the Worcester Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
Aaron Kather received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He teaches painting and drawing classes at Elmira College.
Show Design
Sales
The gallery will handle all sales, including appropriate sales tax. The gallery will charge a 30% commission on all sales
Exhibit Promotion
State of the Art Gallery will promote the show widely. It will be featured on the main page of our website for the month of December and then archived. We will post on social media and online newspapers, and there will be links to it on the Ithaca Gallery Night website. The show will open on December 1, 2022. We will hold a reception at the gallery on Gallery Night (First Friday), December 2, 2022.
Prize winners will be announced via social media and at the gallery. Winning art will be prominently featured on the State of the Art Gallery website along with information about the winning artists and links to their websites and social media pages, if they so desire.
Terms and Conditions
Submissions to the State of the Art Juried Online Exhibit shall imply an agreement on the part of each artist to all conditions of this prospectus. Permission for State of the Art Gallery to use images of accepted works for publicity, education, and reference purposes is assumed.
The Gallery will take a 30% commission in compensation for handling sales, including collecting and paying NYS sales tax.
While the State of the Art Gallery, its members and agents, will make reasonable efforts to protect the work of an exhibitor, the Gallery cannot indemnify the work against loss or damage. In submitting and agreeing to exhibit the work in the Gallery the exhibitor agrees that the State of the Art Gallery, its members, Board of Directors, or agents will not be held liable and will be held harmless should there be damage or loss of work.
Covid
Plans are subject to change as needed to abide by new Covid restrictions should they arise.
Questions
Send any questions to DecemberJuriedShow@soag.org
Calendar
| October | 29 | 11pm | Deadline for all entries |
| November | 12 | Notification of acceptance or rejection. | |
| 27 | 5pm-7pm | Accepted entries hand delivered to gallery | |
| 28 | 10am–6pm | Accepted entries hand delivered to gallery | |
| December | 1 | Exhibit opens | |
| 2 | 5pm-8pm | Gallery reception | |
| 3 | Notification of awards. | ||
| 2023 | |||
| January | 1 | Exhibit closes | |
| 2 | 12pm-6pm | Exhibitors remove all work from gallery | |
| 3 | 10am-12pm | Exhibitors remove all work from gallery | |
FAQ
All image files should be labeled with the following format to enable a variety of searches in the gallery’s online archive.
Year, month, Last name, FIRST NAME (ALL CAPS), Image number (01,02,03 etc.) title of work (or short title).jpg. For example:
2022 12 Doe JANE 01 Summer in Paris.jpg
Each entrant may submit up to three works for the base fee of $35.
All entries must be original work created by the artist, and the work should not have been exhibited at State of the Art Gallery in the past.
If you live too far away to hand deliver your work, consider mailing it to someone in the area who could deliver it for you. Or contact Ileen Kaplan, one of our artist members, who has agreed to receive delivery of out-of-town artwork. Any work sent to her must be sent UPS only and have a prepaid return label included in the package.
The jury will consist of 5–7 artist members of State of the Art Gallery.
Victoria Romanoff is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has an MFA from Cornell University. She is long-time resident of Tompkins County. While pursuing a professional life in historic preservation, Victoria has also continued her love of the visual arts, participating in both national and international exhibits. Her work can be found in the collections of the Cornell Herbert F. Johnson Museum and the Worcester Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
Aaron Kather received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He teaches painting and drawing classes at Elmira College.
After all the entries are in, a panel of members from the gallery decide what will be accepted for the show. After the show is installed, a prize judge, selected from outside the membership of the gallery, views the show and decides how the prize money will be awarded.
Yes! It has no bearing on whether or not the work is accepted into the show but we encourage everyone to offer their work for sale. It enhances the value of the show and helps to promote the idea that it is a relevant, professional offering. That being said, we will not reject a good work if the artist does not want to offer it for sale.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Decemberjuriedshow@soag.org.
