528.0 refers to the length of the radius in miles of a circle with its center in Denver that approximately delineates the region involved. The juried exhibit will take place during the entire month of February, 2013 at Redline in the River North Arts District.
In the interest of avoiding triangulating every entrance address, the exhibition will admit participants from entire adjoining states as well of as parts of other nearby states. The entire states include Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Partial states include Northeast Arizona (including, Flagstaff), Texas West of (but, including) Wichita Falls and North of (but, including) Lubbock, Oklahoma west of (but, including) Tulsa. A 30 mile strip of Iowa immediately east of the Missouri River. (Including Council Bluffs and Sioux City); Southwest North Dakota (Including Dickinson); Southeast, Montana (including Billings and Bozeman); and South East Idaho (including Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Twin Falls).
Eligible artworks may include hand-pulled prints created with intaglio, lithography, relief, silkscreen, or experimental methods. No digital reproductions or photography will be accepted. Measurements may not exceed a maximum of 36 x 36 inches, framed.
The entrance fee is $30 and may be made through Café on the Western States Art Federations (WESTAF), website. No entry may exceed 36 x 36 inches framed and must be sent digitally to the website. Only 3 images per entrant accepted, and the images cannot be changed or supplemented after the original entry is made. The entrance must be completed by November 17, 2012, when the call will terminate. Accepted artists will be notified on December 15, or as soon thereafter as possible. Acceptance does not mean that more than one of your prints will be shown. Your ready to be hung prints must arrive at Redline on or before January 25, 2013. Costs and insurance of delivering and returning the artwork will be by the selected artists. However, during their stay at Redline, they will be completely insured by Redline.
$2400 in prize money will be awarded. The Sue Cannon award of $1000 for excellence in the art of printmaking is among them. Mrs. Cannon or her delegates will select the artist for this award. Each of the 7 jurors will select two artists as a juror's favorite, and each of those will receive $100 apiece-a total of $1400. No first, 2nd or 3rd places will be named.
The jurors include : Michael Chavez; Artist and Curator, Public Art Program Manager, Denver, Colorado Ivar Zeile, director and owner of Plus Gallery, Mark Mazuoka, director of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Jill Dawsey, curator at the San Diego Art Museum (formerly head curator of the Utah Museum of Art), Barbara O'Brien, chief curator and director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Shaurya Kumar, faculty member of the Art Institute in Chicago, formerly at NMU in Albuquerque and Vivianne le Courtois, well known local artist/printmaker, as the selectee of Redline.
All the Prints will be numbered and the artists names will not be attached to images during the jury selection process. The name/number file will be kept privately by Westaf until December 14, the day before entrants are notified. The information will also be available to officers and staff of the Invisible Museum.
This is the first such regional exhibition. If concluded successfully the hope is to make it a biennial event!
