Exhibition: Poems and Song Lyrics: Inspiration for Visual Artists

Exhibition Terms

Applications:

All artworks must be original and submitted by the author. The artist is responsible for the submission.

For this exhibition, we accept all media.

We highly encourage all artists to accompany all submissions with a supporting statement that explains the relationship between the work and the theme of the exhibition. In making the final decision, the curator will be looking carefully at the supporting statements as well as the actual images.

Applications are accepted on our site until February 28, 2025.

Video: How to Apply to the People & Paintings Exhibition.

The House Artists are allowed to participate in exhibitions with independent curators.
The House Artists will not be able to receive the Gallery Award (where the Gallery is involved in selecting the winner).

Applications:

Applications period:  September 30, 2024 - February 28, 2025 - $10 first artwork ($5 for every additional artwork included in the same application).

Exhibition:

Exhibition dates: March 3, 2025 - March 14, 2025

The 20 artworks selected by the Exhibition Curator will be exhibited on the main page rotation banner on our site for the duration of the exhibition.

Within two weeks of the exhibition, each of the 20 selected artworks will also be posted on our main Facebook Page and other media accounts we curate:  Gallery Instagram, Gallery Twitter, Gallery Pinterest, Alignable

Prizes and Awards: 

1)      20 artworks will be chosen by our Exhibition Curator. Each selected artwork will receive a Certificate of Selection

2)      Curator’s Award (Monetary Prize $100) 

3)      Gallery Award (Monetary Prize $100) - awarded by the Exhibition Curator and People & Paintings Gallery

4)     Popular Vote Award (Monetary Prize $50) – will receive the artwork with the most “likes” on this page of our website during the exhibition (March 3, 2025 - March 14, 2025) 

We highly recommend posting all applied artworks to our  Facebook group “People& Paintings Open”. To help, we added the button “Share” to the application process.

Gallery reserves a right to choose the winner in this category if the numbers of likes in the sources above will be compromised or contested.

Results:

1)   The 20 selected artworks will be announced by Sunday, March 2, 2025

2)   The “Gallery Prize”, the “Curator’s Award” and the “Popular Vote Award” will be announced by Sunday, March 16, 2025

 Additional Information:

After you submit the application, we highly recommend posting each applied artwork to our Facebook group “People& Paintings Open”. To help, we added a button “Share” to the application process.

After the exhibition is over, we will keep the exhibition works available to the audience in the “Previous Exhibitions” section.

After the Exhibition Catalog is ready, you will be able to download it for free from the exhibition page on our site.

To support our growing exhibitions, auctions, and subscription services, a 10% commission will be applied to artworks sold through these channels, covering transaction costs (e.g., PayPal, credit cards).

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