Strokin’ 10!

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

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.

Paintings not honoring the criteria above will be disqualified and returned at the artist’s expense.

For additional criteria, please download the prospectus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Barret Kolasinski, CPP-M, Exhibition Chair
[email protected]

Additional Notification Information

Notifications will be emailed and posted in your ShowSubmit account by the end of the day on September 6, 2024.

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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 (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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