Proposals for the 2024 Exhibit Season

Submission Guidelines

General Information

The Georgetown Art Center provides a welcoming environment for visitors to view, appreciate, create, and purchase art. Through innovative, intelligent exhibits and programs, we promote visual literacy in the greater community.

Dates

The 2024 Exhibition Season Proposals call opens on December 1, 2022, and is open through January 31, 2023. All artists will receive a notification in March 2023.

Timeline:

December 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023 - Proposals Received

February 15, 2023 - Panel completes review of submissions

February 16, 2023 - Recommendations sent to Exhibits Committee

Mid-March 2023 - Artists Notified

Late March 2023 - Finalist Interviews

April 2023 - Finalists/Alternates Identified by Exhibits Committee

May 1, 2023 - Contracts Due

Honorarium

Each accepted exhibit for 2024 is offered a $500 honorarium to help artists with exhibit expenses, travel, and supplies.

Curators

Each year, the Art Center will select a panel of curators, artists, gallery owners, and guest judges with considerable experience in the visual arts to review artist proposals.  For 2023-24, our judges are:

Jeffrey Dell - https://jeffreydell.com/

Felice House - https://felicehouse.com/

Madeline Irvine - https://glasstire.com/events/2022/01/24/madeline-irvine-holdfast/

Amanda Still - Arts & Culture Coordinator, City of Georgetown  https://arts.georgetown.org/

The panel recommends finalists to the GAC Exhibits Committee, where final selections are made.

Eligibility

Submissions are open to artists who reside and create their work in the United States.  The majority of work used for your proposal must have been completed within the last 3 years.  

Artworks may be in any media, providing the GAC exhibition space can accommodate the work. Installation or other work requiring special accommodations must be approved in writing prior to the exhibition.  

The application requires an Artist’s Statement, CV, Images of Artwork, Proposal Statement, and Image List. All submissions are received via Submittable.com and require a submission fee. Incomplete applications or applications which do not follow guidelines are subject to disqualification.  Submission fees are not refundable.

The Georgetown Art Center reserves the right to reject entries that contain any form of hate speech, gratuitous violence, or racism at its sole discretion.

Submitting a proposal confirms that the artist is the creator and copyright owner of the work.

Each accepted exhibit for 2024 is offered a $500 honorarium to help artists with exhibit expenses, travel, and supplies.  

Deadline

All submissions must be received before midnight, January 31, 2023.