2025 National Juried Show

For additional criteria, please download the prospectus.

Entry fees are not refundable and must be paid by the entry deadline.

All accepted work must be displayed for the duration of the show.

Accepted work must be labeled with artist’s name, title, medium, and price on back of artwork in lower right corner. Artwork must be identical to the accepted image. No substitutions permitted. Digital entry is a good faith obligation and should be honored.

Paintings must be shipped via FedEx or UPS to the following agent and must be received by August 4.

Include name of artist, address, phone number, e-mail address. Also include a bar-coded, prepaid return shipping label. Please pack the work carefully and ensure adequately. Artists will be contacted if work arrives damaged so arrangements can be made to repair or reframe as needed by a local framing company. Artists will be responsible for the cost of repair/damage and will be billed directly by the framer. For any questions on shipping and handling, please contact: [email protected]

Artwork should be hand delivered to the Flick Gallery at the Arts Center, 127 Main Street, Penn Yan on Monday, August 11 between 9 am and 12 noon unless otherwise prearranged.

Artwork must be picked up from the Flick Gallery at the Arts Center 127 Main Street, Penn Yan, NY on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 10 am - 4 pm or Monday, Sept. 22 from 9 am - 12 noon unless otherwise pre arranged.

Due care will be taken with all artworks. However, the ACYC or any member thereof will not be held responsible for loss or damage to exhibited artwork. Artists may wish to acquire insurance to cover loss and/or damage.

Over $1000 in cash prizes will be awarded.

Work may be for sale; NFS is allowed.

Sales are strongly encouraged but artwork is not required to be for sale. Artists who sell their artwork in the show will be charged 38% commission to the Arts Center of Yates County to help defray their costs related to the exhibit.

By submission for jurying, artists whose submissions are chosen for the exhibition grant the Arts Center of Yates County the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, marketing the ACYC programs and subsequent display on the ACYC website of past exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their image(s) as stated without further contact or compensation from acyc.

Tate Shaw
Tate Shaw supports artists through publications, writing, and curating exhibitions. He is an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Brockport where he also directs the Tower Fine Arts Gallery. Tate programs a weekly radio show on the music of language called Mouth Sounds with wayofm.org. His own bookworks are in international art library collections including the Tate Modern, London, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection, Yale Special Collections, and the George Eastman Museum Library, amongst others. He is the author of a collection of essays on artists’ books, Blurred Library (2017) and his writing has appeared in the book Rereading

Empathy (2022), Afterimage:the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and other journals and catalog publications.

Artist Statement
As an artist I strive to be a learner who always initiates and integrates new concepts and strategies to my work which is ever-changing in style and approach as I continually study the images, language, ideas, thoughts, and beliefs that arise from the process of culture. One constant of my practice has been writing with embedded images often to make books which are a multi-disciplinary form that I find endlessly provocative. I appreciate books for their intimacy, touch, narrative or sequence, portability, affordability, and one-to-one engagement connecting the personal and the public.

For further information about the ACYC National Juried Show or if you have any questions, please contact Juried Show Co-Chairs:
Fran Bliek at [email protected] or Lana Grauer at [email protected]

See ACYC website at artscenteryatescounty.org for more information.

Additional Notification Information

Notifications will be emailed and posted in your ShowSubmit account by the end of the day on July 17, 2025.

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Note: Entries made prior to 2023 may not display the View Notification link.

Image and Filename Specifications

• File Format: Submit original, high-quality JPEG image files. Other formats (e.g., PNG, TIFF) are not accepted.
• Crop Your Image: Ensure only the artwork itself is visible in the image. Do not show any visible matting, frames, or background distractions.
• Orientation: Make sure your image is oriented correctly (right side up) so that the artwork appears in its intended viewing direction.
• Image Size: You do not need to resize your image files before uploading. The system will automatically resize them. Smaller images cannot be enlarged to meet the requirements, so ensure your images are high resolution before uploading.
• File Names: You do not need to rename your files before uploading them. The system will handle any file naming requirements.
• File Size: There is a 30mb maximum file size limit. Larger image files will take longer to upload and process.

Additional Entry Information

• You will pay for your entry by credit or debit card using our secure checkout system.
• After your entry is submitted and paid for, you may log back in to review your entry, edit artist and image information, and add or substitute images up until the entry deadline (June 30, 2025.)
• Entry fees are not refundable and must be submitted and paid by the entry deadline.
• Entries cannot be accepted or changed after the deadline. Incomplete entries will be disqualified.

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