Fayetteville Public Library Offsite Exhibit Sign Up Form

  • STUFF YOU’LL WANT TO BE AWARE OF:

  • DEADLINE: The 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. We need everyone’s vehicles and helping hands to haul and hang that much art. No exceptions, except for genuine scheduling conflicts. Try to avoid signing up to staff the gallery on installation days, thanks.

    • 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.

    • We always work as a team. Nobody leaves until all of the art is installed (or de-installed). When you get done with your current task, look for somebody else to help with their task. This makes it go pretty fast!

  • 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. However, we are allowed to use QR codes for art purchases. A QR code will be printed on your art labels.

    • There will be a QR code in the corner of your art label. It will say “To buy art point camera here”. We’ll contact you if you have an interested art buyer. You can either arrange for direct payment to you or the gallery can send a payment link to the buyer. If they pay by payment link it will be as if it got rung up on the gallery cash register.

    • You may deliver your art yourself to the art buyer or leave it at the gallery for them to pick up at their convenience during normal gallery hours. For gallery pickup, you leave it in the back room with their name on it and a note saying it has been paid for. The art buyer gets instructed to drop by at their convenience, and just tell the person at the front desk they are there to pick up their purchased art that’s in the backroom.

    • 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 4-7 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.