CCCA Juried Art Show 2008

HUDSON ARTSWALK 2008
CALL FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS SUBMISSIONS

Organizing for this year’s14th Annual Hudson ArtsWalk is already underway. The CCCA would like to take this early opportunity to inform its artist members of its plans in order for them to have advance notice of the criteria for submission, if they intend to participate.

Specific to this year’s Hudson ArtsWalk and its relationship with the dog-themed BEST IN SHOW Public Art Project, artists in the community are invited to develop and submit canine-themed projects in the visual arts, literature, theater, film, children’s art projects, and the like. Already proposed – by Walking the Dog Theater – who else? – is a parade of dogs through Hudson culminating in a special theater and/or multi-media project at the Basilica Industria on the Hudson waterfront.

Due to the BEST IN SHOW project, which will be installed in Hudson July 4 and come down Sunday October 12, the visual arts aspect of Hudson ArtsWalk will be focused on an open exhibition of work by CCCA members. THE MEMBERS OPEN SHOW will include a minimum of 1 piece to be shown from any member artist submitting. All artists submitting will be shown.

MEMBERS’ OPEN SHOW

1. Artist must be a current member of the CCCA.* (No artist has ever been excluded from ArtsWalk for lack of ability to pay.)
2. All work submitted should have been created within the last two-three years.
3. Work, as far as possible, should not have been shown in the previous two ArtsWalk exhibits.
4. Submissions must be received by deadline of Saturday JUNE 21
5. Artists may submit representations of up to 6 pieces of painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation or original works on paper in the form of digital / photographic prints, slides or CDs (which, due to popular demand, will be accepted for the first time this year.)
6. Each submission should be marked with artist's name, title of work, size, medium, price, and date.
7. All work should be ready for hanging or installation, and sale. N.B. The CCCA receives a 30% commission on all artwork sold through ArtsWalk.
8. Artists are responsible for delivering selected artwork to their designated exhibition location by dropoff deadline, to be determined.

THE PERFORMING ARTS AT ARTSWALK will again be a major focus, and will again by curated by multi-talented musician and performer Slink Moss at various venues. Proposals and questions concerning The Performing Arts at ArtsWalk may be directed the same as visual art submissions.

For more information, contact CCCA at 518-671-6213, info@artscolumbia.org, or stop by the office and gallery at 209 Warren Street in Hudson.

*A “hanging fee” of $30 or three-hours of volunteer time during ArtsWalk is also required. This is not a “fee”, but a correction of a situation in which some artists have donated uncountable hours of work and others have not. Some artists happily opt to pay the fee rather than to work. This allows us to hire young artists desirous of work to help out with the enormous logistical task of mounting ArtsWalk. Thank you for your understanding!

The ArtsWalk Committee