Open Juried Photography Exhibition

The 431 Art Gallery

Upper Merion Community Center

431 W. Valley Forge Rd.

King of Prussia, PA 19406

Hours
Weekdays: 5am–9pm

Weekends: 8am–5pm

Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He has taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and has been the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism. He was the recipient of the Sol Mednick Award for 2000 from the Mid-Atlantic region of the Society for Photographic Education, the first annual Vanguard Award from the Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image in 2007, and the Colin Ford Award for Curatorship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2012. He has been widely praised for his writing about the photography art market, including his detailed auction reports, and for his extensive reporting on major stories like the exposure of the production of fraudulent Lewis Hine prints. His articles have been reproduced in dozens of other journals — like American Photo, The Art Newspaper, Silvershotz, Photo News, Camera, and the website Le Journal de la Photographie — and he has been called on as an expert to comment on the state of the photography market for publications such as The New York Times, the Toronto Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Photo District News, and the New York Observer.

The entry fee entitles the entrant to submit two photographs for consideration.

*New membership to MCGOPA will not be considered at this time, since the application includes a jurying of the artist’s body of work.

Upon completion of your entry, you will receive a payment receipt and an Entry Completion Form with your submissions listed. Email notification of acceptance will be sent out from ShowSubmit on Friday, April 19, 2024.

Framed work must be wired and ready to hang – saw tooth hangers will not be accepted.

Framing must be professional in appearance with clean mats and no visible damage to frame, glass, or plexiglass. The back of the photograph must be secured tightly and sealed when possible. All work must be framed, wired and ready to hang - no saw tooth hangers or clip frames allowed. Exception: Gallery-wrapped canvases with a depth of 1 inch or more that do not require a frame.

Photographs must be hand delivered to 431 Gallery at the Upper Merion Community Center, 431 W. Valley Forge Rd., King of Prussia, PA, on Saturday, May 18, 2024 between 11 AM and 2 PM.

Photographers are encouraged to list their work for sale. If not for sale, then it should be marked as NFS. Once accepted, the price of your artwork cannot be changed. All photographs must hang for the duration of the exhibition. All sales will go through MCGOPA.

MCGOPA will receive 30% of the sale price with the remaining 70% going to the artist.

Photographers are responsible for insuring their work during this exhibition. Neither MCGOPA nor the Upper Merion Community Center and Upper Merion Township will be responsible for loss, fire, burglary or any damage to photographs entered. Accepted photographers will submit a signed Artist Agreement when photograph is delivered. The Artist Agreement form will be provided with the email notification of acceptance into the show.

Any work left after the close of the exhibition will be placed in storage at the artist’s risk. A storage fee of $5.00 per day will be applied.

For questions about MCGOPA or this prospectus, please send email to Deb Northey at [email protected]. For technical assistance, please see the Support section below.

Additional Notification Information

Notifications will be emailed by the end of the day on April 22, 2024. We cannot respond to inquiries regarding the status of notifications before that time.

Please add [email protected] to your email safe senders list.

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 (March 28, 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

For questions about the entry process or this website please contact ShowSubmit Support at [email protected]. We will get back to you between 9am and 6pm Eastern Time, Monday to Friday. You can also view the Support Center, Entry Guide, or our FAQ.