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Please read carefully this entire prospectus as some details have changed from previous years.
About the Exhibition
This juried exhibition and competition is a project of the Avalon Foundation and culminates with an awards presentation and multi-day exhibition and sale at the Academy Art Museum, a museum accredited by the American Association of Museums. The competition is part of an arts festival which will include other fine art exhibits, workshops, lectures, theatre and music.
The Plein Air-Easton! event will run from July 19 until July 25, 2010. There will be an artist registration and reception Sunday evening, July 18. Artists may paint within specified areas from July 19-22. Possible scenes include village streets, historic structures, industrial areas, pastoral vistas and marine subjects. Artists must turn in two completed, framed and ready to be hung artworks. Two-dimensional medium with a 36” x 42” maximum canvas size is acceptable. Work must be done “en plein air” without the assistance of photography.
The sale and exhibit will be held at the Academy Arts Museum, Friday evening (ticketed Collectors’ Preview Party) and all day Saturday and Sunday. Artists must pick up work that is not sold at the end of the exhibition or make their own arrangements for shipping. Artists may provide up to eight additional plein air paintings from home or produced during the week to replace sold work.
Artists must submit 3 digital images of their original plein air work completed in the past two years along with a fee of $35.
Submissions
can be sent via mail or online.
| The Entry Jurist |
 The entry jurist is M.
Stephen Doherty(bio), Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of American
Artist, Watercolor, Drawing, and Workshop magazines. Doherty
graduated summa cum laude from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois
and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York. He has written dozens of magazine
articles and several art books. Doherty is an active outdoor
painter who travels around the United States and Europe. His
paintings of the south have been featured at the Bryant Galleries
in New Orleans, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi, and he was
included in a group exhibition of plein air painters at Tree’s
Place Gallery on Cape Cod. Two of his paintings are included
in a traveling exhibition titled “From Sea to Shining Sea” organized
by the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California.
Doherty serves on the advisory boards of several arts organizations, including
the New York Academy of Art, The Florence Academy, and the Portrait Society of
America, and he has been a judge in various national and international competitions.
He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York with his wife, Sara. |
| The Awards Judge |
The awards judge will be Mr.
Jean Stern, Executive Director of The Irvine Museum; Authority on California Impressionism as author, curator, lecturer and teacher; contributor to several books including Plein Air Painters of California. www.irvinemuseum.org
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Awards
Cash Awards total close to $16,000. 2010 Competition Awards:
Grand Prize Timothy Dills Memorial Award - $5,000
2nd Place Academy Art Museum Award - $2,000
3rd Place - $1,000
Vanishing Landscape Award, sponsored by the Bay Hundred Foundation - $2,000
Exceptional Work in Oil, sponsored by Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors- $1,000 & $500 product Easton’s 300th Anniversary Purchase Award - $1,000
Best Marine Award, sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - $1,000
Best Architectural Award, sponsored by the Historical Society of Talbot County - $1,000
Utrecht Award of Excellence, Best Use of Light - $800 worth of products
Artists' Choice Award - $500 & 1/2 page ad in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine ($1,927 value)
Troika Award, Best Painting by a Maryland Artist - $500
South Street Art Gallery Award, Best New Artist to Plein Air-Easton! - $500
Honorable Mention - $150
Honorable Mention - $150
Timeline:
March 6— ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5pm EST, either online or by mail at:
Plein Air-Easton!
C/O Avalon Foundation
40 East Dover Street,
Easton, Maryland, 21601
March 27 – List of Accepted artists and alternates will be posted at www.pleinaireaston.com. Accepted artists will be mailed emailed registration information with correspondence necessary to confirm participation in the competition. Housing is available for those who request it.
July 18 — Artists arrive, have all competition canvases stamped and register.
July 19-22— Artists paint.
July 23 — Collectors’ Preview Party at the Academy Art Museum opens to ticketed collectors at 7 PM with a preview hour for artists and spouses with voting for an Artists’ Choice Award beginning at 6pm.
July 24-25 — Exhibit continues and sold paintings will be replaced with other work from that artist. (Any artist has the option to register and participate in a Quick Draw Competition on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 10:00am, details to follow).
July 25 — Brunch and Auction - Artists who win awards (including Quick Draw Competition) are asked to participate in the paint-out and live auction at a lovely private waterfront estate, during the brunch on Sunday morning. All competition artists are invited to attend the brunch and auction as the competition’s guests. More details on this year’s brunch event will be coming soon.
The cost of shipping and insurance is the sole responsibility of the artist. All reasonable precautions will be taken to ensure the safety and careful handling of the artwork.
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