Call for Submissions: Spring Arts Collective!

Call for Entries
IMAGINE

Juror: Susan Burnstine



Submission Deadline: February 7th, 2009

About the theme:
Reaching across boundaries, breaking rules, living on the edge,
dreaming the unknown,
envision all things possible. This exhibit will showcase diverse
perspectives portrayed by
photographer’s interpretation of the theme “Imagine”.

Eligibility:
This exhibition is open to all domestic and international,
professional and amateur,
photographers. Work derived from all photographic processes, both
traditional and digital,
are accepted, as well as mixed media work that is photo-based.

Exhibition and Awards:
Spring Arts Collective Gallery exhibits the work of contemporary
artists, both established and
emerging. Work will remain on exhibit for one month. Over 1200 people
attend SAC’s monthly
opening night event, held in conjunction with the LA Downtown Art
Walk on Gallery Row.
As a benefit of being selected for this exhibition, artists and their
work will be seen by an
audience of artists and collectors who appreciate photographic and
digital art forms.

• Selected images will be exhibited and available for sale at SAC
Gallery in Los Angeles, CA,
from March 12th - April 5th 2009.
• Selected images will also be prominently featured on the SAC
Gallery website and be
included in news releases to various local and web publications.
• A public reception for the artists will take place on Thursday,
March 12th 7-9pm to coincide
with the LA Downtown Art Walk on Gallery Row.
• First place winner will receive a one day workshop of Susan
Burnstine’s Visual Narratives
I or II or $100.00.
• Two honorable mentions will be awarded.

About the Juror:
Susan Burnstine is an award winning professional fine art and
commercial photographer based
in Los Angeles who builds homemade cameras and lenses primarily made
out of plastic,
vintage camera parts and random household objects. Susan is
represented in galleries across
the country, widely published throughout the world, and has written
for several photography
magazines, including Camera Arts and a monthly column for Black &
White Photography (UK).
www.susanburnstine.com

Submissions:
Submissions can be made online at: http://
www.springartscollective.com/docs/sac_submissions.html
JPEG SIZE: 900 pixels longest side @72dpi.
You may also download and print out an entry form (PDF located below)
and mail a CD with
your images and $35 processing fee (Made out to Studio 528) to:

Spring Arts Collective Gallery
Attention Artist Submissions
c/o Studio 528
453 S. Spring St. Suite 528
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Unless an SASE is provided, materials will not be returned.

Entry Fee:
Registration fee is $35US (six images).

If your work is accepted:
1. Send work framed and matted, ready for hanging. Max size of frame
is 28”
2. Include return postage or fed ex number for framed prints to be
shipped back to you
after the exhibition. Prints without postage cannot be returned.
Prints will be returned
in the container they were received.
3. When packing framed print, do NOT use Styrofoam peanuts.
4. The framed print MUST BE received by March 7th, 2009
5. Ship to:
Spring Arts Collective Gallery
Attention “Imagine Exhibition”
c/o Studio 528
453 S. Spring St. Suite 528
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Sales:
SAC Gallery encourages the sale of exhibited photographs. The
commission charged will be
50% of the sale price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers
(work and home), and
sales amount on a slip of paper and tape to back of frame. If your
print is Not-For-Sale (NFS)
please specify.

Calendar:
Deadline for entries: February 7th, 2009
Winners announced: February 16th, 2009
Selected entries must be recieved by March 7th, 2009
Exhibit Dates: March 12th – April 5th 2009

For more information go to http://www.springartscollective.com