Sign Up for U of A April-May Offsite Exhibit
Video of our Last U of A Exhibit
IF YOU PARTICIPATE, WE RECOMMEND YOU ADD THIS EXHIBIT TO YOUR ARTIST CV & YOUR ONLINE ART MARKETING. HAVING GALLERY EXHIBITS ON YOUR CV HELPS WHEN YOU APPLY TO GET INTO COMPETITIVE ART SHOWS.
Please Note: If you sign up for this Offsite Exhibit, you are also signing up to be on the Installation and De-Installation Crew. It takes many people to transport all the art and hang a Group Exhibit. Only those with legitimate scheduling conflicts (work, etc.) are excused from being on the Crews. Installation Day is Wednesday, April 17th (time TBD). De-Installation Day is Saturday, May 18th (time TBD). This is good experience to gain. If you get a Solo Exhibit, your past group exhibit Crew experience will have taught you what to do.
For those who do not know: A Group Exhibit goes up as a group and comes down as a group. There will be no coming in to take down just your own art. To do so would be considered unprofessional, both as a poor reflection on you and as a poor reflection on the our Gallery. You will be committing your art to hang in this Exhibit for its duration.
ABOUT THIS EXHIBIT:
EXPECT STRICT EXHIBIT RULES, SINCE THIS IS AN ACTUAL ART GALLERY
The Managers of the Faulkner Performing Arts Center have told us our Oct - Nov 2023 exhibit was the most professionally hung exhibit they have had in years! As recently as February, 2024 they have told us they are still receiving compliments on it.
We therefore plan on upholding our high professional gallery standards again, to hopefully keep them inviting us back. (Fyi, They have additionally invited our Gallery to apply for the competitive bidding on an Oct-Dec 2024 Exhibit there in both gallery halls.)
This means you should expect that Board Members Lennia Daulton and Melissa Milton will be kind of a pain in the neck enforcing strict Professional Gallery Exhibit rules and deadlines, like we were with the Oct - Nov 2023 U of A Exhibit.
This is an exhibit in an actual art gallery. It will not be informal like when we exhibit in spaces that are not actual art galleries (such as our Library exhibits). Exhibiting in an actual art gallery is like setting a table in a 5 star restaurant: People will notice if you place the silverware or the wine glasses incorrectly. They’ll think you don’t know what you’re doing if you don’t follow the protocols. As a Gallery, it enhances your art’s credibility for us to make the impression that we know how to professionally exhibit art. It also gets your art invited back for more exhibits. So yeah, we’ll be enforcing strict protocols.
Rule #1: We will again type your art labels as we did with the last U of A Exhibit, to ensure they are all identical in format. So you have to turn in the label info (and photos of your art) by the April 1st deadline.
Rule #2: The deadline for sending in photos of your art PLUS your art label info is April 1st. That is a hard deadline. Don’t wait until April 4th and say “Can’t you just add this one?” or “Can I swap that one out with this one?” The response will be no, sorry.
Rule #3: ART PRICES: The U of A has a rule against allowing us to put prices on our art labels. HOWEVER, this time they are going to let us put a QR code on each art label. That QR code will go to a website page we’ll build showing each U of A Exhibit Piece and its art label info, including PRICES. Yay! This was actually the U of A’s suggestion, to help us. Our Volunteer Webmaster will build the page.
Rule #4: You can’t change your mind after submitting your art pictures and art label info to us by April 1st. This is because our Volunteers will be doing a massive amount of behind-the-scenes work with all the art info that was turned in. April 2nd we’ll start pre-arranging a digital image of each art piece into its appropriate wall grouping on virtual images of the gallery; typing up all the art labels; and building the web page showing all the art and its art label info and pricing. The Volunteers doing this work cannot get it done on time if they have to stop and start over anytime somebody wants to substitute one piece of art with another. So the deadline will be firm, sorry no exceptions.
Rule #4: This also means you can’t decide on installation day that you want your art hung in a different spot than where we grouped it ahead of time. It would leave a “hole” in the art group it was placed in. When you’re in a formal Art Gallery Group Exhibit, individual artists don’t get to decide where their art is hung. As individuals, we only get to do that when we have Solo Exhibits that solely consists of our art.
Rule #5: You are committing your art for the duration of the Exhibit. You can’t come take your art down, or swap out your other art with the art that is on exhibit. This exhibit goes up as a group and comes down as a group. That’s how professional group art exhibits work.
Rule #6: If you had art in the recent Oct-Nov 2023 U of A art exhibit, don’t hang the same art in this exhibit. The U of A staff WILL notice. It would reflect poorly on our Gallery to being in “re-runs” of some of the same art. Bring in something new for them to love!
This Exhibit will hang in one of the two Galleries inside the University of Arkansas Faulkner Performing Arts Center. The Exhibit will run April 18, 2024 - May 16, 2024. We’re still working on an Art Reception Date, which might be Saturday, April 27th. Once we know it, you can invite your friends and family.
The Arts Center will host performances during the Exhibit, which means the attendees will be walking through the gallery in order to be seated. A very major performance that is anticipated to bring in large crowds will occur during our Exhibit on April 26 & 27: The NWA Ballet Theatre will be co-performing with the U of A’s premiere choir the Schola Cantorum, to combine ballet and song. Click here for details.
We don’t want to presume, but it’s possible they might end up offering us free tickets to the ballet/choral performance at the last minute like they did last time when they knew exactly how many spare seats they’d have. We’ll let you know if they do.