Chicago Pastel Painters
Tall Grass Arts Association
Strokin’ 10!
Tenth Biennial Member Juried Exhibition October 5 – November 9, 2024 |Tall Grass Arts Association
Deadline is August 19th.
13 weeks left to enter.
Members Only.
Self-Portrait by Anne Harris
Open Shows
or to submit.
Deadline for entry: August 19, 2024
Located in the downtown Park Forest Cultural Center
This year’s Member Show will again be open to creative uses of soft pastel with other media. Soft pastel must still be the dominant medium. Open to all current members of the Chicago Pastel Painters. To become a member or renew, visit the CPP website, chicagopastelpainters.org.
Alan Larkin received his BA in art from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1975 and his MFA in printmaking from the Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Though recently retired, he taught drawing and printmaking for almost forty years at Indiana University South Bend. He has won many prizes in regional, national and international competitions for his artwork, including the prestigious Founder’s Award in the 2016 Pastel 100 Competition sponsored by the Pastel Journal and the Best of Show Award at the 75th and 91st Annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition in Indianapolis. His works are in numerous private collections including the corporate collections of Pillsbury, NIPSCO, and Lincoln Life Insurance Companies.
An In-Person Show Hosted by the Chicago Pastel Painters and Exhibited at the Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL
Tall Grass Arts Association
367 Artists Walk,
Park Forest, IL 60466
Tall Grass Arts Association
367 Artists Walk,
Park Forest, IL 60466
Located in the downtown Park Forest Cultural Center
This year’s Member Show will again be open to creative uses of soft pastel with other media. Soft pastel must still be the dominant medium. Open to all current members of the Chicago Pastel Painters. To become a member or renew, visit the CPP website, chicagopastelpainters.org.
Awards
- Best of Show - $1,000.
- Additional cash and merchandise awards.
- Awards will be announced at the reception.
Sales
- All work must be for sale.
- Tall Grass Arts Association will receive a 30% commission.
- Artist will receive 70% of sale.
Eligibility
- Open to all current members, 18 years and older.
- Soft pastel should be the dominant medium.
- All work must be original, created and produced by the artist within the last three years.
- No compositions taken from published material or based on another artist’s work.
- No work created in a class, workshop or under any type of supervision.
- Photo references must be taken or inherited by artist or given permission to artist by photographer.
- No work painted over a mechanical print, copy or reproduction.
- No collaborative work.
- Work previously exhibited in any CPP Exhibition is not eligible.
- In the exercise of its sole discretion, CPP may reject work that appears substantially similar to a painting previously accepted into a CPP show.
- If an accepted painting is not delivered to the show, that artist will be denied eligibility to CPP shows for two years.
- All accepted work must remain on exhibit for the duration of the show.
- All work must be for sale.
- Once prices are submitted, they are final.
Paintings not honoring the criteria above will be disqualified and returned at the artist’s expense.
For additional criteria, please download the prospectus.
For additional criteria, please download the prospectus.
Entry Fee
- Artist may submit up to five images.
- Current members: $40.00, up to three images; $10 fee per additional image.
- Only ONE painting per artist may be juried into the show.
- All entries for this exhibition are submitted through ShowSubmit.com, beginning May 1, 2024.
- No refund of entry fees.
Entry fees are not refundable and must be paid by the entry deadline. Entries cannot be made past the deadline. No changes can be made after the entry deadline.
Incomplete entries will be disqualified.
Limitations and Framing Requirements
- Maximum outer framed dimension – 36” in any direction.
- All work must be professionally framed and ready to be hung.
- No screw eyes.
- No sawtooth hangers.
- No name plaques on the front of the frame.
- No signed mats.
- Plexiglass strongly recommended for shipped works. Glass at artist’s own risk.
Delivery
- Upon acceptance, artists will receive detailed information about hand-delivery and shipping to the Tall Grass Arts Association, handling and exhibition labels.
- A minimum handling fee of $40.00 per container will be charged for shipped work.
Juror of Selections
Anne Harris, Chicago artist and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC).
anneharrispainting.com
Throughout her career, Anne Harris has exhibited her expertise as not only a painter, but also as a curator and writer. She is largely known for her uncanny variations on self-portraiture and the development of The Mind’s I, a traveling drawing conversation that investigates the complexities of self-perception. Her portraits attempt to convey the experience of being both completely exposed, yet going unnoticed. There are faces, but they are depicted in ways that seem to cancel themselves out: a quick, semi-abstract mark, furtive smudges of paint, a collaged face cut out from another painting. Harris is not interested in creating an exact likeness, but rather the presence of an individual and the self-consciousness that lies beneath their skin.
Harris has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. She has exhibited at the Alexandre Gallery, New York; California Center for Contemporary Art, DC Moore Gallery, New York; National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Nielsen Gallery, Boston; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; and The Portland Museum of Art, ME. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, and The New York Public Library.
anneharrispainting.com
Throughout her career, Anne Harris has exhibited her expertise as not only a painter, but also as a curator and writer. She is largely known for her uncanny variations on self-portraiture and the development of The Mind’s I, a traveling drawing conversation that investigates the complexities of self-perception. Her portraits attempt to convey the experience of being both completely exposed, yet going unnoticed. There are faces, but they are depicted in ways that seem to cancel themselves out: a quick, semi-abstract mark, furtive smudges of paint, a collaged face cut out from another painting. Harris is not interested in creating an exact likeness, but rather the presence of an individual and the self-consciousness that lies beneath their skin.
Harris has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. She has exhibited at the Alexandre Gallery, New York; California Center for Contemporary Art, DC Moore Gallery, New York; National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Nielsen Gallery, Boston; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; and The Portland Museum of Art, ME. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, and The New York Public Library.
Judge of Awards
Alan Larkin, South Bend, Indiana
Alan Larkin received his BA in art from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1975 and his MFA in printmaking from the Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Though recently retired, he taught drawing and printmaking for almost forty years at Indiana University South Bend. He has won many prizes in regional, national and international competitions for his artwork, including the prestigious Founder’s Award in the 2016 Pastel 100 Competition sponsored by the Pastel Journal and the Best of Show Award at the 75th and 91st Annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition in Indianapolis. His works are in numerous private collections including the corporate collections of Pillsbury, NIPSCO, and Lincoln Life Insurance Companies.
Policy
The Chicago Pastel Painters retains the right to deny accepting any work that has been misrepresented through the online process. CPP assumes the right to use any work for catalog or publicity purposes.
Agreement of Entry and Liability
All reasonable care will be taken with paintings and submissions. However, the Chicago Pastel Painters (CPP), its officers or volunteers, and the Tall Grass Arts Association, its officers or volunteers, will not be responsible for loss or damage. CPP suggests that participants carry separate insurance for loss or damage in transit. All accepted work (no substitutes) must be delivered or shipped as specified in this prospectus. If accepted work is not available for the exhibition or for the entire time of the exhibition, the artist will be denied eligibility to CPP shows for two years. Artist will release the Chicago Pastel Painters and the Tall Grass Arts Association from any liability by entering this exhibition.
Questions
Mike Barret Kolasinski, CPP-M, Exhibition Chair
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Additional Notification Information
Notifications will be emailed by the end of the day on September 6, 2024. We cannot respond to inquiries regarding the status of notifications before that time.
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After notifications are sent, you may view the status of your entry in your ShowSubmit artist account’s Entry History. Accepted works will be notated by a green check.
If you do not receive your email, you may also view your notification letter using the View Notification link in your Entry History.
Note: Entries made prior to 2023 may not display the View Notification link.
Image and Filename Specifications
- Submit your original JPEG image files.
- Crop out all parts of the photo that are not the actual work; do not show mat, frame, etc, only the work itself.
- Image must be displayed right side up.
- You do not need to resize your image files.
- You do not need to rename your image files.
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 (August 19, 2024.)
- 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
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