Fayetteville Public Library Offsite Exhibit Sign Up Form

  • STUFF YOU’LL WANT TO BE AWARE OF:

  • DEADLINES:

    • Deadline to sign up for the May-June show is April 26th.

    • Deadline to sign up for the July-August show is June 21st.

  • INSTALLATION CREWS: If you sign up to have your art in this exhibit, you’ve signed up to be part of the installation & de-installation crews. No exceptions, except for genuine scheduling conflicts (you have to work that day, etc.)

    • This is actually valuable experience. You will learn the ropes of installating a large art exhibit. This will serve you well when you have your own Solo Exhibit(s).

    • Installations & De-installations are also a great opportunity to get to know some of your fellow gallery artists.

  • RULES: Over the years, we’ve figured out the best system for quick and efficient installations. We’ve also figured out rules to prevent the art from being damaged. You’ll be required to follow these rules. Thanks.

  • ART LABELS:‍ ‍The Gallery will type up all the art labels for this show, so that they’ll all be professionally the same.

  • SALES: We usually get a few sales from these offsite shows. The Library is a taxpayer funded building so by Arkansas Law we cannot list prices on the art labels. That said, we are allowed to use QR codes and list ways to contact us. Your options will be:

    • We can place a QR code the lower right hand corner of your art label. It will say “To buy art point camera here”. Any sales will be made by a payment link we send your art buyer. It will be as if it got rung up on the gallery cash register.

    • If you’d prefer, instead of a QR code on your art label you may list your email or phone number on the art label so you can handle any sales yourself. It’s totally your choice. Probably 1 in 3 Artists prefer to handle the sales themselves. 2 in 3 prefer for the Gallery to do it. Either way is fine. Just notify the Coordinator immediately if your piece sells and you are handling the sale yourself. This is so they can make sure the vacant spot gets filled quickly.

    • If you have an art piece sell, it MUST be replaced immediately with another art piece. It’s not fair to the other Artists to leave an ugly blank spot on the wall The Artist whose piece sold will get first dibs on replacing it. If they don’t have another piece to replace it with, everyone else will be offered the chance to put one of their pieces in the newly vacant spot (it’s first come, first served for whomever gets back with the Coordinator first on that).

  • NO INSURANCE: As with the gallery itself, there is no premises insurance at the Library for covering damaged or stolen art. As always, we Artists are exhibiting our art at our own risk. Neither the Library nor the Gallery is liable for any damaged or stolen art. That said, in the 4 years we’ve been doing this we have not have any damaged or stolen art from any of our offsite exhibits (so far).

  • NUMBER OF ART PIECES: The Library Reading Room is large, with a hanging system similar to what we have at the Gallery. The walls hold up to 70 pieces, depending upon size. So we usually can accommodate 4-6 pieces from each Artist. It’s better to bring too many than not enough. We bring our own plinths for 3D pieces that need to sit on something. Board Member Margery Shore is always in charge of the plinths and has final say so on what goes on them. We may not set art on the Library tables.