calls to artists
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Gallery Exhibitions:
We invite artists to submit their artwork for consideration for future shows. Emailed submissions should be sent to: [email protected] (Before submitting, please review directions for submitting artwork.) We are currently accepting submissions for the SPA exhibits and opportunities listed below. Check back for more shows and opportunities. Shows & Opportunities: THE BARD This exhibit will celebrate William Shakespeare, without a doubt the most influential writer in the English language. Though his plays were written well over 400 years ago, their themes of love, deception, ambition, madness, power, revenge, and honor still resonate today. Choose a phrase from his plays or sonnets or a character or scene from one of the plays to illustrate or respond to. Even abstract work can reference the passions of the scenes and people in Shakespeare’s plays. Please make a clear reference (in the titles of your pieces) to your submissions’ connection to The Bard’s texts. Looking for inspiration? Click HERE Deadline to Enter: March 22, 2025 Show Dates: April 30 – June 14, 2025 ---- Sharpen Your Pencils! This show is all about a tool that’s readily available to all and that has many tricks up its sleeve: The Pencil. The show would include 2-D works using graphite, 3-D assemblages using pencils and erasers, and printmaking using erasers, and possibly more. This extremely accessible tool makes abstract and figurative works – and detailed and loose works. (Yes, we will accept proposals in charcoal pencils and color pencils.) Deadline to Enter: May 17, 2025 Show Dates: June 25 – August 15, 2025 ---- Rock Solid Annual Stone Show For the 25th year, artists in the region are invited to share their most compelling stone sculptures and assemblages at SPA in Barre, a noted stone sculpture center of activity in the northeast. The show includes a small number of paintings and etchings that depict the beautiful qualities of stone. For info: www.studioplacearts.com To submit: [email protected] Deadline: August 2, 2025 Art Drop-Off/Installation: Sept. 2 & 3 Exhibit Dates: Sept 10 – Oct 25, 2025 ---- Solo Shows Inviting Solo & Small Group Shows: Calendar Year 2026 SPA uses its second and third floor space for solo and small group shows. We encourage artists to submit a proposal to SPA for consideration of such a show. (Please visit SPA to determine whether this space would be ideal for your show proposal.) Submit: A brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show with 8-12 images of representative work (please label this information carefully with the name, media, size, price and date of your work). If there is a time of year that you prefer, please note this on your proposal. You may make your submission via email to: [[email protected]] Subject Line: 2nd/3rd fl Galleries Exhibit Dates: SPA will fill various exhibition timeframes (typically 6-7 weeks in length) from late Jan-November, 2026 Deadline for Submissions: June 15, 2025 ---- Quick Change Gallery at SPA Calendar Year 2025 SPA has a small gallery made from a vintage telephone booth on its second floor called the Quick Change Gallery that is used for informal, short-term exhibits. Work exhibited in this spaces is unframed and pinned/clipped on a bulletin board-type surface. Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [[email protected]] and write this in the subject line of your email: Quick Change Gallery. ---- Other Opportunities: 2025 SPA mounts art shows in spaces outside the art center in Barre City, including "159 North Main" (the AR Market - Pearl Street Pizza address) and the Morse Block (Morse Block Deli site). Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [[email protected]] and write this in the subject line of your email: SPA Art Spaces. ---- Annual Studio Residency Program SPA invites emerging artists to submit a proposal for a 11-month Studio Residency Program at our art center A small private studio on the second floor of the visual arts center was provided at no charge to an emerging artist in the Barre/Montpelier area to build a new body of work for exhibition. The Studio Residency Program continues to receive significant interest and artists are selected on a competitive basis. The next deadline for applications is June 2, 2025. For information on the next application process, click HERE |
Directions for Submitting Artwork:
Group Shows Submissions should include the following:
How to Submit: Please email your submission materials to: [email protected] (Please Note: SPA will send an email to you within 3 business days to let you know your application was received via email. Sometimes there are issues with email service. If you do not hear from us, please call us or send another email.) Submission Fee: $10 Submission Fee for Non-Members (free for members) Pay Online: Other Ways to Submit Your Artwork and Payment: Physical materials (CDs & thumbdrives) and submission fees can be mailed or delivered to: Studio Place Arts 201 North Main Street Barre, VT 05641 *Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your materials returned after review. Checks should be made out to "Studio Place Arts". Art Delivery Art delivery days and times are typically scheduled for the Monday and Tuesday, the week before the new show starts. We understand that sometimes it's difficult for artists to deliver on the scheduled days; please let us know in advance and we will do our best to schedule an alternative day/time for art delivery. Freedom of Expression Policy at SPA Approved in 2004, the SPA exhibition policy is the only one of its type in Vermont. Click HERE for the SPA Freedom of Expression Policy. Questions? Call: (802) 479-7069 or Email: [email protected] 
Exhibit by Ann Young in 2023 at "159 North Main," one of the local sites near SPA where we present art shows.
Enjoying a granite sculpture by Sophia Bettman-Kerson on display in the annual Rock Solid exhibit.
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