36th Annual Juried Photography Show
Call For Entries
State of the Art Gallery is a cooperative fine art gallery operated by its artist-members from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. We are open four days per week, and we host a new exhibit each month. As a non-profit organization, we seek to enhance the cultural and economic vitality of the community. The show, once hung in the gallery, will also be available on this web site.
Entries are now being accepted!
- The deadline is 5pm, Thursday, May 1, 2025.
- The exhibit will run from Thursday, May 29 through Saturday, June 28, 2025.
- Selections for the show will all be judged from the digital images uploaded to EntryThingy, our entry processing service.
- Up to $1,000 will be awarded at the discretion of the prize judge.
- The prize judge (TBD) will make award selections from the photos hanging in the show.
Entry Requirements
All work must be original art that has never been exhibited at our gallery. The work may be traditionally or digitally produced and printed. There are no restrictions on content, physical size, or creation date. Manipulation of images during a post-production process is acceptable so long as it begins with an original photographic process. Scanned images are acceptable. Images wholly produced with AI software are not acceptable. The gallery maintains the right to ask for additional information if necessary.
How the work appears when it is brought to the gallery for inclusion in the show is important. In general, standard gallery approaches to matting and framing should be followed. Narrow, black, wood and/or metal frames that complement the photograph are preferred. Photographs printed on paper should be under glass or plexiglass. Images can also be printed on metal, canvas, ceramic, wood, and glass. Frames need not be expensive, just simple and professional looking.
All work accepted into the show must be ready to hang, which generally means a wire or hanging device across the back or clearly identified secure attachments for hanging.
The entry fee of $35 covers up to four images per entry and must be paid via PayPal at the time of submission. (A PayPal account is not required.) Paying the fee is the last step in the entry process and must be completed before the entry will be considered. The fee is non-refundable and does not guarantee that your work will be accepted into the show.
No changes of any kind to the entry will be accepted after submission.
If your work is accepted into the show, it must be hand delivered and retrieved by you, or someone you designate, during the times noted in the calendar below.
Current members of State of the Art and their family members are not eligible.
Submission of Work
All entries will be received through our page at EntryThingy.
All pieces in your entry must have unique titles. Do not label more than one image with the same title. If you have duplicate titles, give each its own number. For instance, “Untitled No. 1”, “Untitled No. 2”, etc.
The image files size uploaded for your entry to EntryThingy must be between 750 KB and 2 MB.
Show Design
Sales
The gallery will handle all sales, including 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 June and then preserved for public viewing. We will post on social media and on-line newspapers, and there will be links to the show on the Ithaca Gallery Night website.
A reception for the show will be held on Gallery Night (First Friday, June 6) from 5–8
Prize winning art will be prominently featured on our 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 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 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.
Calendar
All times are PM.
| May | 1 | 5:00 | Deadline for all entries |
| 5–6 | Email notification of entry status | ||
| 25 | Noon–5:00 | Accepted entries hand delivered to gallery | |
| 26 | 9–11 am | ||
| 29 | Noon | Exhibit opens | |
| June | 6 | Reception and notification of award recipients | |
| 28 | 5:00 | Exhibit closes to the public | |
| 29 | Noon–5:00 | Work must be retrieved from the gallery. |
FAQ
You may designate someone else to hand deliver your work to the gallery. We do not accept artwork by mail, nor can we store packing material. You must also arrange for the work to be picked up at the end of the show
The jury will consist of 3–5 artist members of State of the Art Gallery.
The prize judge is To Be Announced and will be an artist or art professional from one of the region’s museums, galleries, or colleges. Previous prize judges have included art professors from Cornell and Ithaca College, other regional colleges, or staff members from Cornell’s Johnson Museum.
After the entry deadline, a panel of members from the gallery made up primarily of experienced photographers, decides what will be accepted for the show. After the show is hung, a prize judge, selected from outside the membership of the gallery, looks at the show and decides how the prize money will be awarded. We try to find experienced, respected, and successful photographers and/or teachers of photography and imaging arts in order to make the experience for the entrants a meaningful process.
Whether the work is for sale has no bearing on whether or not the it is accepted into the show. We do encourage everyone to offer their work for sale, which promotes the piece as a professional offering and enhances the overall value of the show. However, 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 David Watkins.
