The Gloucester Arts Festival committee is holding an open call for entries in an exhibition to be held in June. The show will be judged by Jeff Harrison, chief curator emeritus of Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum.
Artists will be juried into the show with digital images of 2D work completed in the last two years. The format will give the accepted artists the opportunity to curate their own 8’ x 8’ exhibit for judging and sale.
The show is open to artists 18 years of age and older, living within the mid-Atlantic region of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and Washington, D.C.
Acceptable two-dimensional media include acrylics, oils, pastels, tempera, watercolors, graphite, charcoal, original print, or pen-and-ink drawings.
The deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 6. The entry fee is $40 for an 8’ x 8’ display space. Over $5,000 in prizes will be awarded, including $2,000 for best body of work, three...