call for art
Urban Green and Blue
in collaboration with Preservation Worcester
Submission Deadline: May 28, 2021
Urban Green and Blue is a juried exhibition of paintings featuring Worcester’s urban green and blue spaces: the city’s public parks, wildlife sanctuaries, nature reserves, publicly accessible reservoirs, lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds.
This exhibition gives ArtsWorcester artist members an opportunity to work outdoors in a plein air tradition, and highlights the importance of public green and blue spaces to the health and well being of city residents.
Urban Green and Blue will take place in Preservation Worcester's Park View Room in the fall of 2021, and is a collaboration between Preservation Worcester and ArtsWorcester, funded in part by the Worcester Arts Council.
To Participate:
You must be an artist member of ArtsWorcester to send a submission for this project. Artists will be asked to upload three photographs of previous artwork depicting the outdoors, and request three green or blue locations they would most like to paint. The submissions will be juried by painters Jennessa Burks, Ella Delayanis, and Robin Reynolds. Twenty-four artists will be selected to participate based on the skills and/or creativity demonstrated in their previous outdoor artwork.
Any publicly-accessible green or blue space within the City of Worcester is a qualified location. To ensure the exhibition highlights the abundance of outdoor public spaces in the city, we ask artists to consider some of Worcester’s smaller and lesser-known locations. Please see the links below for inspiration and all the possibilities.
For selected artists, their location to be painted will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, based on the time-stamp of their original submission. For their work, each artist will pick up a free 16 x 20 x 1.5” canvas from CC Lowell. Their final work may incorporate other mediums in addition to paint. Artists will have the entire summer of 2021 to complete their artwork before the exhibition this fall.
To be considered by the jury, please upload your previous artworks to this Submittable portal. The deadline for submission is May 28. For more details, visit ArtsWorcester's current list of artist opportunities.
Questions about this new process? Please email Luis Fraire at Preservation Worcester or call (508) 755-1383.
Artist Resources
Worcester Parks, courtesy of Park Spirit
The East-West Trail, courtesy of Park Spirit
City of Worcester Recreational Waters
City of Worcester Blue Space Initiative
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///// Pictured: A vintage postcard ca. 1930–1945 featuring Elm Park, a designated National Historic Landmark. Image courtesy of Digital Commonwealth.
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Sunday, March 14, 6:00 – 7:00 PM /// What You Need To Know About Exhibition Proposals
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