American Women Artists
American Women Artists

2025 Annual Online Juried Show

April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 | Online
Deadline is March 17th. 6 weeks left to enter. Members Only.
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Deadline for entry: March 17, 2025

About the Online Show

The American Women Artists' annual online juried competition is open to all levels of AWA membership, with competition within and across categories. AWA will distribute over $10,000 in cash awards. Selected artists are also eligible for in-kind awards, including advertisements, art materials, and subscriptions from AWA’s generous donors. In addition to cash and in-kind awards - including a $2,000 cash Grand Prize award - approximately 120 works selected will appear on AWA's online gallery for an entire year, be featured in our monthly E-newsletters, and be promoted through AWA's social media channels. Selection and Award Jurors are award-winning artists, curators, and arts professionals including Anne-Marie Russell, Katherine Wagner, Amy Galpin, and Barbara Tiffany. AWA is dedicated to providing professional opportunities for women in the visual fine arts. If you are not yet an AWA member, we invite you to join as an Associate Member and enter our 2025 Online Juried Show!

Eligibility

  • Open to all AWA Members.
  • Pieces can be representational or abstract works, either 2D or 3D.
Applicants must be AWA Members of current standing with dues paid. If current dues are not paid by Monday, March 17, 2025, the applicant's work will not be considered.

If you are unsure whether your dues are current, please login to your member portal or email: [email protected].

To join as a new member, use the Join link on the AWA website.

Entry Rules

  1. The 2025 AWA Annual Online Juried Show is open to all AWA Members in good standing.
  2. Applications may be submitted from Friday, January 24, 2025–Monday, March 17, 2025 and finalists will be announced by Monday, March 31, 2025.
  3. Entries may be representational or abstract work(s): drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, as well as sculpture. All subjects and styles are eligible, from traditional to contemporary.
  4. Work(s) must be original. 2D works must have been completed within the last two years. There is no required timeframe for 3D works.
  5. Works do not have to be for sale. Sold works may be submitted. Enter NFS in the entry form.

    Please note any prices listed cannot be changed after entry.
  6. As this is an online show, there is no size restriction on the work(s) submitted.
  7. All work(s) entered must not have been accepted for a previous AWA national juried museum competition or online juried show.
  8. Acceptable mediums for sculpture include cast metal, fabricated metal, stone, glass, wood, and any fired permanent medium such as terra cotta, stoneware, porcelain, and earthenware.
  9. Acceptable mediums for painting include oil, acrylic, water media, pastel, egg tempera, encaustic, mixed media, and batik.
  10. Acceptable mediums for drawing include conte crayon, colored pencil, graphite, pen & ink, scratchboard, charcoal, and original hand-pulled prints.
  11. Mixed Media is acceptable only if created using acceptable mediums as listed above. Mixed Media cannot include any mediums deemed not acceptable, as listed below.
  12. Non-acceptable mediums include craft, jewelry, fiber, fabric, photography, video, digital prints including giclee, or any work containing computer-generated elements.
  13. Work(s) must have been created by the artist without supervision or as part of a class or workshop.
  14. Work(s) may not be a copy or imitation of another work. Any reference provided by an instructor is not eligible, including an instructor-provided photo, still-life setup, or model setup.
  15. Work(s) must be original and from your own reference, not copied from other artists or published materials.
  16. All artwork must be originally drawn and not created on top of any photographic image.
  17. Maximum entries: three (3)
  18. A maximum of one (1) piece of artwork per accepted artist will be juried into the online show.
  19. By submitting images to this juried opportunity, you understand and agree that accepted images will be displayed on the AWA website, Facebook or Instagram page, and other social and/or print media.
  20. By entering this show, artists acknowledge they own full copyright to the submitted work. If you are unsure about copyright and copyright infringement, learn more at Copyright.gov - What Visual and Graphic Artists Should Know about Copyright | U.S. Copyright Office. AWA is not liable for any copyright claim made against an entered work. Artists retain copyright to their image(s).
  21. By entering this exhibition, you agree that you have read and will abide by all rules outlined in this prospectus. AWA reserves the right to reject any work it deems to not comply with these rules or any work that AWA deems offensive. Failure to meet any eligibility requirements will result in the submitted artwork being disqualified. It may result in the artist's disqualification from participation in AWA's next exhibition at AWA's sole discretion.
  22. All membership and entry fees are non-refundable.

Application

The Annual Online Juried Show application process will begin Friday, January 24, 2025 and close on Monday, March 17, 2025. Finalists will be announced no later than Monday, March 31, 2025. The entry form must be filled out in its entirety. List sizes up to the nearest inch. Submitted images must not include matting or frame. Crop the photos to include only the artwork. Be sure your images are right-side-up. Artists may submit multiple images of 3-D work(s) to show different views of artwork.

Before uploading your images, make sure they are 1920 pixels or larger on the longest side. Images should be in JPEG format, with RGB color space. ShowSubmit will handle renaming and resizing the images for you.

Help in photographing your work and properly sizing your images can be found at showsubmit.com/photoprep. Please do not wait until the last day to ask for help!

Entry Fees

$45.00 for up to three pieces.

Deadline

Entries will be accepted Friday, January 24, 2025 – Monday, March 17, 2025

Selection & Awards Jurors

Anne-Marie Russell, Principal at The Rarus Group
  • Former CEO at St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
  • Former Founding Director at Sarasota Art Museum of The Ringling College of Art & Design
  • Former Executive Director & Chief Curator, Director Emerita at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

Katharine Wagner, Retired
  • Former CEO at Business Council for the Arts
  • Former Executive Director of Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX

Amy Galpin, Executive Director and Chief Curator at Museum of Art and Design Miami Dade College
  • Former Chief Curator at Frost Art Museum
  • Former Curator at Rollins College Museum of Art
  • Former Associate Curator at the San Diego Museum of Art

Barbara Tiffany, Artist and Curator
  • Director of Painting and Drawing at Crealde Art Center
  • Curator of Exhibitions at Crealde Art Center

Sales

Works do not have to be for sale. Sold works may be submitted.

Questions

For AWA questions or questions about the prospectus: [email protected]

For technical application questions see Support listed below.

Additional Notification Information

Notifications will be emailed and posted in your ShowSubmit account by the end of the day on March 31, 2025.

You may view the notification in your ShowSubmit account by logging in and tapping the Notifications at the top right of the screen, or in your Entry History.

If you do not receive your email, login and view the notification in your account. We cannot respond to inquiries regarding the status of notifications.

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 (March 17, 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.

Support

Need Assistance? For questions about the entry process or using this website, please check our Help Center or Entry Guide first for detailed guides and troubleshooting tips. Most answers can be found there quickly.

If you still need help, feel free to email ShowSubmit Support at [email protected], and we’ll respond between 9am and 6pm Eastern Time, Monday to Friday.