Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery in South Bend, Indiana will host this year’s exhibition, to be juried by Golnar Adili. The show will run October 2–November 3, with a reception on October 12.
Submissions are now closed.
Read the complete entry instructions, expectations for accepted artworks, and exhibition timeline below. A print-friendly PDF prospectus is available here.
Questions? Write to info@midamericaprintcouncil.org with “2023 Member Show Question” in the subject line.
Sponsors
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About the Juror
Golnar Adili is a mixed media artist, educator, and designer with a focus on diasporic identity. She holds a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts in Bellagio, Italy, The Center for Book Arts, NY, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, The Lower East Side Printshop, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, among others.
Adili has shown her work at venues including The Victoria And Albert Museum in London, Cue Art Foundation, NY, and International Print Center, NY. She has received many grants, among them the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books; she is a Jameel Prize finalist. Her artist’s books live in the United States Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Rutgers University, Parsons School of Design, Yale University, Harvard University, and elsewhere.
Entry Instructions
- No more than three entries per artist are permitted.
- Payment for this entry is on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can. We suggest student members pay $10 and regular members pay $20.
- Original works in all printmaking media are eligible, and must have been created within the last four years. Digital work and video are not permitted.
- Images must be in .jpg format and sized under 2MB.
- The maximum height and width of both two- and three-dimensional work is 36 inches.
- Pedestals are available in a range of sizes up to 24 inches square; work requiring a vitrine must be smaller than 12 inches square.
- Work intended to hang from the ceiling is not permitted.
- Print-based installation (including non-permanent vinyl) and sculptural prints will be considered. If the work is accepted, the artist must provide clear instructions for installation and all necessary hardware for display—or to be on site to install the work themselves.
- Works accepted into previous MAPC Members’ Exhibitions are not eligible.
- Entrants must be current MAPC members. If you are not already a member, please purchase or renew your membership.
- Entrants will be notified of acceptance status at the email provided in the submission process.
- Entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Central Time on June 15, 2023.
Instructions for Accepted Entrants
- All work must be ready to hang with hardware and installation instructions included. Work must be framed with plexi rather than glass. Because the gallery walls are plywood-backed drywall, T-pins may not be used to attach artwork to walls.
- Works may be hand-delivered or shipped. Artists are responsible for all shipping charges. Artists who ship their work must utilize sturdy, reusable containers and provide prepaid return labels inside the package upon delivery. Artists are responsible for insuring their work while in transit. No weekend deliveries, please. Artists may use FedEx, UPS, USPS, or an art shipper as a carrier to ship their work.
- After acceptance, artists will sign an exhibition contract with Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery. This communication will occur via email with the gallery director, not MAPC. Work cannot be accepted by the mailroom unless the insurance and inventory forms have been submitted to the Gallery Director at least one week before works are scheduled to arrive on campus.
- Work must arrive at Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery September 11–18, 2023.
- Artists may not substitute another work for an accepted work, alter a work, nor withdraw a work after it has been accepted. Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery reserves the right to refuse any entry which does not match the image submitted or meet the criteria. Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery reserves the right to refuse work that is not appropriate for the space.
- Every precaution will be taken to handle artwork with the utmost care. Saint Mary’s College Moreau Gallery will not be responsible for damage or loss from any cause during transportation. Accepted works will be insured for the duration of the exhibition; however, artists are responsible for ensuring their work while in transit.
- Inquiries regarding sales will be referred to the artist.
- Several prizes will be awarded at the reception. Details for the prize amounts and sponsors are forthcoming. Stay tuned to MAPC social media and email communication for details.
Deliver work to:
Saint Mary’s College
146 Facilities Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556
ATTN: Ian Weaver, Moreau Gallery
Please include the artist’s name, e-mail, phone number, title of work, dimensions, media, year completed, and price (for insurance purposes) on a sheet attached to the back of framed work or the bottom of 3D work.
Timeline
Submission deadline: June 15, 2023
Tentative notification of acceptance: Late July 2023
Insurance / Inventory forms due: September 4, 2023
Delivery to the gallery: September 11–18, 2023
Exhibition: October 2–November 3, 2023
Reception: October 12, 2023
Return of Work: work will be shipped back to artists by November 20, 2023
Questions
Please email questions to info@midamericaprintcouncil.org with “2023 Member Show Question” in the subject line.