2025 International Juried and Judged Exhibition
February 1 – March 31, 2025 |SAKS FIFTH AVENUE gallery, Frontenac, Missouri
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Venue
Awards
- Best of Show $3000
- 2nd Place $2000
- 3rd Place $1000
- 4th Place $750
You MUST be a member of MOWS to enter. Membership is calendar. Anyone who joins during the exhibition entry period will be credited with membership for all of 2025.
Juror of Selection & Awards and Workshop Instructor
Entry Fees
- MOWS Members only: $50 for 1 or 2 paintings
- Lifetime MOWS members are exempt from entry fees.
- MOWS will accept up to TWO images per artist but only one entry per artist can be juried into the exhibition if selected.
Membership
Procedures
- Entry is through ShowSubmit.com.
- MOWS will accept up to TWO images per artist but only one entry per artist can be juried into the exhibition if selected.
- Lifetime MOWS members are exempt from entry fees.
- Entries will be juried from digital images only. Be certain that yours are of the best quality. Awards will be judged from the original paintings.
- MOWS reserves the right to refuse, on arrival, any painting of unacceptable quality or damaged in shipment. Paintings that do not match the digital image or meet the media or framing criteria will be refused.
- MOWS and/or its representatives will use the utmost care in handling the artwork but will not be responsible for damage or loss from any cause.
- Permission is assumed by MOWS to reproduce accepted artwork for promotional purposes including use on its website.
Exhibition Requirements
- Artists must be 18 years or older.
- Entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Digital images, prints, and art produced in class or workshops are not permitted. Source or reference material including photographs used by the artist must be those of the artist. Paintings previously exhibited in a MOWS International are ineligible and may NOT be reentered. Nude representations are not allowed.
- Accepted artists may NOT substitute another work for an accepted painting. Accepted and notified artists may NOT withhold work from the exhibit.
- It is expected that the artist will enter their BEST WORK. MOWS is unique among watercolor societies in allowing the entry of works painted at ANY time.
- Entries must be water media paintings on natural or synthetic paper or paperboard. No stretched canvas, canvas board, or clay board will be accepted. Collage or other media may be used but aqueous medium must constitute 80% or more of the work. All collage materials must be original designs executed on water media paper. YUPO is permitted.
- Unframed size cannot exceed 44” (111.76 cm) in either dimension or be less than 10” (25.4 cm) in either dimension.
Sales
- Entries may be for sale or marked NFS. Once entered, the price cannot be changed. A donation to MOWS and the gallery of 30% of the selling price will be deducted from the sales.
Workshop
Questions
Daven Anderson
[email protected]
314-241-2339
Additional Notification Information
Notifications will be emailed and posted in your ShowSubmit account by the end of the day on December 3, 2024.
You may view the notification in your ShowSubmit account by logging in and clicking tapping the Notifications at the top right of the screen, or in your Entry History (Accepted works will be notated by a green check.)
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
- 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 (November 8, 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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