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Juror selected artists will gain exposure by exhibiting their work in the famed Chelsea Art Gallery District and their work will be promoted both online and in print. Our fine art contests are juried by influential voices in the New York art world;
This year’s competition juror will be Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator of the Guggenheim Museum.
Eligible Artists
All visual artists above the age of 18 are eligible to participate.
Awards
Awards valued at Thirty Eight Thousand dollars ($38,000) will be distributed as follows:
- Exhibition - 15-20 Artists will participate in a collective exhibition at Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street , Chelsea , New York City.
- Cash - $1000 will be awarded to three (3) artists each receiving $500, $ 300 & $200 respectively.
- Internet Promotion-Six (6) artists will be awarded placement of 6 images on www.Art-Mine.com for a period of one year.
- Review by an art critic - One (1) artist will be awarded a one-page review with two (2) color images in ARTisSpectrum Magazine .
Megan Fontanella is an Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which she joined in 2005. She conducts collections research for the Guggenheim, focusing on institutional history and provenance. In addition to her research work, she has curated several collection-based installations for the museum’s Kandinsky Gallery and Thannhauser Gallery, as well as From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim and Selections from the Collection: Pop and the Art of Assemblage, 1960–1975. She likewise co-curated From Public to Private: Collections at the Guggenheim for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.
Entry Procedure
Download complete details and Apply-on-Line
All competition entries are processed through our online entry system. Printed Call-for-Entry forms are no longer used.
Before you begin the process of entering the competition, please have the following information and materials ready. This will make the process go quickly.
- Your contact information for registration and notification.
- Title, dimensions and medium of each artwork.
- High quality image files of your work in JPG format.
2010 Calendar
- March 14th, 2010 - Submission deadline
- March 26th, 2010 - Results announced
- August 17th through September 10th - Exhibition for the selected artists
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district, close to the Chelsea Museum of Fine Art and the DIA Center for the Arts (map and directions). Established in 1984, the gallery is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, and for providing quality and original art to a discerning collector base. Agora Gallery is located at 530 West 25th St., New York - Tel. 212-226-4151.
As part of our ongoing commitment to giving back to the community we live and work in, Agora Gallery donates 25% of its proceeds from the sale of artwork from the art competition exhibition to the non-profit organization Art Start. Through its innovative programs, Art Start brings together art, artists and children in need throughout the New York Metropolitan Area.
