When we think of spring, we envision new beginnings and transformations; it’s a season that symbolizes starting fresh and starting over.
After months of frigid temperatures, spring reawakens us and our surrounding environment, bringing everything back to life. Animals become more active, snowdrops emerge from their slumber and we all feel a little more joy and hope. In the art world, spring art speaks of renewal, rebirth, beauty and love. Feel free to interpret this theme in your own creative way! ALL ENTRIES will be accepted and displayed. Art will be juried for PRIZES ONLY.
Juror Amy Bartlett Wright
Amy has worked for forty-five years as a professional artist: as a muralist, fine artist and natural science illustrator. Her paintings span the country while Portsmouth is home base.
Working as a scientific illustrator cemented the importance of drawing accurately and working from life. Learned in those early science lab days, she brings solid rendering skills into her murals and landscape paintings. Painting local areas from life continue to offer excitement and challenge to this prolific artist
On Aquidneck Island, you can see her murals at Save The Bay Hamilton Family Aquarium in Newport, at Sachuest Point Vistors’ Center, at Aquidneck Chiropractic, at Specs Eyecare, at Norman Bird Sanctuary, at Newport Animal Hospital in Middletown and at Portsmouth Middle School. She has recently created an animal sculpture series as outdoor exhibit features at Kettle Pond Visitors Center in Charlestown, RI.
For many years, Amy taught drawing and painting at RISD in the Department of Continuing Education. She currently teaches drawing as a Guest Professor in the Department of Botany at Brown University. She has her BA from University of Maryland.
Important Dates
Mandatory Online Submission
2/10 – midnight 3/16
In Person Delivery
MONDAY, 3/17, 2-7 pm
Opening Reception
Saturday, 3/22, 2-4 pm
Entry Requirements
As we are an inclusive and welcoming art community, ALL ENTRIES will be accepted and displayed. Art will be juried for PRIZES ONLY. Recognition will be awarded at the opening reception.
CASH PRIZES: 1ST PLACE $100, 2ND PLACE $75, 3RD PLACE $50, 2 Honorable Mentions, People’s Choice
Submission of Entries
All entries must FIRST be submitted ONLINE through Smarter Entry prior to the deadline above.
Artists may submit up to three works in any media – paintings, drawings, photography, digital, sculpture, and ceramics and more are accepted.
Entry Fees
Member Submissions – $20.00 for the first entry and $5.00 for each additional entry. Members apply Promo Code PAGMEM. Lifetime members use the code PAGLTM.
Non-members – $25 for the first entry and $7.50 for each additional.
Entry Fees are paid online through the Smarter Entry link below.
Payment for entries is entered FIRST in Smarter Entry, followed by uploading the photographs of your piece(s).
Requirements
- All artwork must be for sale.
- Work may not be the product of a hands-on class or workshop.
- Gallery sales commission is 25% for each work sold.
- Work previously shown at any Portsmouth Arts Guild exhibit may not be submitted.
Framing Requirements
Artwork must be professionally presented, ready to hang with D-rings and proper wiring. No sawtooth hangers, clip-on, scratched or damaged frames accepted.
- Work must be labeled on the back with artist name, phone #, and title of work
- Framed works on paper must be under glass or acrylic glazing
- Works on stretcher bars must be properly stretched and wired for hanging
- Framing is optional for gallery wrapped or cradled panels
PAG reserves the right to refuse any submission that does not meet requirements.
PLEASE NOTE:
Artworks are not insured by PAG. Artists should maintain their own insurance while work is on Guild premises. Although we take the utmost care of all works submitted, PAG is not responsible for any damage incurred after drop-off.
All packing material must be taken away by the artist upon drop off.
PAG retains the right to reproduce images of your work for publicity for the exhibition. By providing photographs of your art for this exhibit you grant the Portsmouth Arts Guild permission to use them for social media, promotions, newspapers and other media.
*Your entry in this exhibition constitutes agreement with the above terms.
New to Smarter Entry?
Portsmouth Arts Guild is now using online exhibition software Smarter Entry. You can read detailed entry instructions here.
Questions? Please contact gallery@portsmoutharts.org