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Exhibitions

Main Gallery | Towbin Museum | Solo Show | Founders Gallery | YES!!


Main Gallery Shows

and Artist Submission Dates
Note for artists:  All jurying is from actual works, except Far & Wide: Woodstock Regional and solo shows.  Click here for submission guidelines.
WAAM juried and other member exhibitions are planned and jurors selected by a volunteer committee of artist members and Board members. 
Click here for 2010 Art Submission Calendar (printable PDF)

PAIRINGS
July 24 - August 22
Two for the show—pairs, connections, opposites. Artists were invited to submit one piece or two to illustrate the idea of “two-ness.”
Juror: Susan Jeffers is an artist, educator, and Gallery Coordinator of Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY.
Gerald Burke Award Winners: Penny Dell and Valerie Owen
Honorable Mentions: Art Murphy, Osi Audu, Eric Angeloch and Polly Law

Artists include: Sheryl Anderson, Eric Angeloch, Anonymousblonde, Osi Audu
Loel Barr, Lois Bender, Carol Pepper-Cooper, Steve Crohn, Chris Collins
Penny Dell, Yale Epstein, Kari Feuer, Lynn Friedman, Patricia Gibbons
Gail Giles, Diane Godfrey, Alan Goolman, Elaine Greene, Laura Gurton
Marilyn Hauser, Marianne R. Heigemeir, David Holt, Pat Horner, Ronnye Jai
Pat Kelly, Mark Kessler, Stuart Klein, John Kleinhans, Polly M. Law
Annette Lieberman, Lois Linet, Harriet Livathinos, Christine Livesey
Alan McKnight, Elin Menzies, Michelle J. Moran, Art Murphy, Paula Nelson
Zeev Willy Neumann, Joyce Nicol, Sandra Nystrom, Dion Ogust
Valerie Owen, Leah Rubenstein, Angela Schapiro, Nanette Shapiro
Sandra Palmer Shaw, Janet Siskind, Eleanor Steffen, Nancy Summers
Llyn Towner, Claudia Waruch, Paul Wiley, Nancy Winters
Ian Worpole, Peg Wright

Dates

Main Gallery

Founders Gallery 

February 13 – 28

Intake: Monday, February 8, 12-6 pm

Reception: Saturday, February 13, 4-6 pm

Pickup: Monday, March 1, 12-6 pm

Sketches

Pages from your sketchbook, written and drawn preparatory visions, old and new designs of form, rough-hewn images, the maquette: all are individual notes of our working lives and to future ideas. Non-Juried. Open to currently paid members only. All Media. Submit one or two works: two wall hung pieces (framed together or separately) or two 3-D works or one of each is acceptable. Size limitation for each wall hung piece: 24” X 24” maximum. Sculpture/3-D: 2 Maquettes, together or separate: 24” X 24” X 24” maximum per sculpture.

 

Small Works

Juror: Eleanor Steffen

Harriet Tannin Award ($100)

March 6-March 28

Submission: Monday, March 1, 12-6 pm

Reception: Saturday, March 6, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, March 29, 12-6 pm

Recent Work

Come out of hibernation and show your new work created within the past 6 months in any media. No size limit.
Juror: Carl Van Brunt: painter/digital artist and Owner/Gallery Director of the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY. The gallery promotes distinctly original work of contemporary artists who produce work relevant to today, in all media.

Juror’s Choice Award - Drawing or Watercolor ($50), Juror’s Choice Award - Landscape Painting Award (inter­pretive or traditional, $50), Andrée Ruellan Award ($300).

Small Works

Jurors: John Kleinhans and
Paula Nelson

Sidney Laufman Award ($100)

April 3-May 2

Submission by slide or jpeg due by January 12 (see prospectus).

Delivery of accepted work: Monday, March 29,
12-6 pm

Reception: Saturday, April 3, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, May 3, 12-6 pm

Far & Wide:  2nd Annual Woodstock Regional

Download and print full prospectus (follow link above).
Juror: Patricia Phagan: the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. She earned her PhD in Art History from CCNY and is a former curator at the Georgia Museum of Art and recipient of a Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art.

Sam Spanier Award ($150), Ulster Savings Bank Award ($150), Juror’s Choice Award - Drawing or Watercolor ($50), Juror’s Choice Award - Landscape Painting Award (interpretive or traditional, $50), and others to be announced.

Small Works

Juror: Alan McKnight

Lucile Blanch Award ($100)

Submission (actual work):
Monday, March 29, 12-6 pm
Pick Up: Monday, May 3, 12-6 pm

May 8-June 6

Submission: Monday, May 3, 12-6 pm

Opening: Saturday, May 8, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, June 7, 12-6 pm


Metamorphosis

The white walls of the WAAM will be transformed with your interpretation of the impermanent. Evolution, political change, climate change, change of heart, spare change…What does metamorphosis mean to you? No size limit.
Juror: Ellen Jean Keiter: Curator of Contemporary Art at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Previously she served as Curator of Exhibitions, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.

Helen Gilkey Award ($100)

Small Works

Juror: Ian Worpole

Anne Helioff /Benjamin Hirschberg Award ($100)

June 12-July 18

Submission: Monday, June 7, 12-6 pm

Opening: Saturday, June 12, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, July 19, 12-6 pm

Active Members Show

Open to currently paid, Active Members only.  All media, 1 piece only, 9 square feet size limit. Replaceable if sold. $10 hanging fee. Non-juried.

Sheila Getty Bloodgood Award ($100)
Holland Foster Award ($100)

Small Works

Juror: Tricia Cline

Amy Ylvisaker Award ($100)

Drop off: Monday, July 12, 12- 6 pm

Pick up: Thursday, July 15, 12-6 pm

Active Member Jurying
Submit 6 original works which together constitutes a body of work representing a single viewpoint. Jurying by actual work.

 

July 24-August 22

Submission: July 19, 12-6 pm

Opening: Saturday, July 24, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, August 23, 12-6 pm

Pairings

Two for the show—pairs, connections, opposites. Artists are invited to submit one piece or two to illustrate the idea of “two-ness.” No threes, please, that’s a crowd. No size limit.
Juror:  Susan Jeffers is an artist, educator, and Gallery Coordinator of Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY.

Gerald Berke Awards (two awards of $50 each)

Small Works

Jurors: Elin Menzies and

 Nancy Campbell

Alice Lewis Award ($100)

Due Date:
September 3

Submission by slides or jpegs

(see guidelines)

Jurying for 2011 Solo Exhibitions

Juror: Dr. Bruce Weber, Senior Curator, 19th Century Art at the National Academy Museum in NYC. Former Director of Research and Exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries in NYC.

 

Sunday, September 5
Preview: August 27-September 5

 

8th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction


September 11-October 11

Submission: Tuesday, September 7, 12-6 pm

(note Labor Day)

Opening: Saturday, September 11, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Tuesday, October 12, 12-6 pm

Recycled

Like the fabled Phoenix, new art can rise from the ashes of our throwaway culture. Stretch your imagination; bring in new objects fashioned from old, or depictions of the concept of recycling, any media. No size limit.
Jurors: Peter Bradford and Mary Anne McLean. Peter Bradford: writer, designer and producer of editorial, educational and corporate identity materials. Mary Anne McLean: painter, sculptor and author of books based on her botanical observations.

Doris Lee / Elfriede Borkmann Award ($100)

Small Works

Juror: Hy Varon

Alan Koff ($100)

October 16-November 14

Submission: Tuesday, October 12, 12-6 pm
(note Columbus Day)

Reception: Saturday, October 16, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, November 15, 12-6 pm

Behind My House

Your front porch is all cleaned and swept, but what “treasures” or secrets do you hide where the world won’t see them? Take the subject literally or metaphorically. What lurks behind your house? No size limit.
Juror: Sharon Bates: visual artist and founding Director of the Albany International Airport Art & Culture Program which has become a national model for public art, showcasing regional contemporary artists and cultural institutions.

Llyn Towner Award for Abstraction ($100)

Small Works

Juror: Katherine Gray

Harriet Livathinos / Rei Fraas Award ($100)

November 20-January 2

Submission: Monday, November 15, 12-6 pm

Reception: Saturday, November 20, 4-6 pm

Pick Up: Monday, January 3, 12-6 pm

Non-juried. Hanging fee: $10.

Price limit $500.  No NFS or POR.

The Holiday Show

Open to currently paid members only.  36”x 36” size limit (including frame), replaceable if sold. Work should be appropriate for viewers of all ages and sensibilities. Work deemed inappropriate by the Exhibition Committee for a family environment will be withdrawn.

Year-End Awards:  Sally Jacobs / Phoebe Towbin Award ($500), Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award ($500), Leilani Claire Award for Outstanding Photograph of the Year ($100) and Mary Wilson Award for Outstanding Landscape or Still Life of the Year ($100).

Small Works

Juror: Kathleen McGuiness

Juror’s Choice Award - Drawing or Watercolor ($50)

Juror’s Choice Award - Landscape Painting Award (interpretive or traditional, $50)

Exhibitions and programs are sponsored in part by the WAAM Founders Circle, other individual and business supporters, and our artist membership.

 

 

 

 
 
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