Monochrome: A Members' Exhibition in Collaboration with the Fitchburg Art Museum

CALL FOR ART- ArtsWorcester, Worcester MA

Monochrome: A Members’ Exhibition in Collaboration with the Fitchburg Art Museum

Registration Deadline: February 12, 2025

Drop off period: February 20 - 23, 2025

Exhibition run: March 6 - April 13, 2025

Reception: March 7, 2025, 6 - 9 PM

Pick up period: April 16 - 19, 2025

All ArtsWorcester Artist members are invited to participate in Monochrome: our thirteenth annual Call and Response collaboration with the Fitchburg Art Museum.

Color is an essential element of visual art. Color, or the absence of it, shapes light, communicates emotions, attracts attention, and references culture.

Artist members are asked to delve deeply into the dominant color of their choice, and respond to one (or more) of ten artworks on loan from the Fitchburg Art Museum. This year’s loan features artworks that each utilize a limited color palette, or are dominated by a single color. View the loan here and in-person at ArtsWorcester starting in January.
 

Your artwork’s color does not need to match the color of your inspiring work. For example, responses to the cyanotype could be another cyanotype; an artwork in which another color takes the place of the cyanotype’s blue, or an artwork made with a different chemical process that produces a specific color.

The Fitchburg Art Museum’s curatorial staff will select ten works from Monochrome by ArtsWorcester artist members to be exhibited at FAM alongside the loaned works. FAM will be looking for artworks that intentionally utilize and celebrate a limited color palette, and that connect to their loan.

Submitted artworks must correlate in some way to 1-3 artworks from the FAM loan. You will be asked to identify the work(s) that inspired your piece when submitting. All media are welcome, including but not limited to painting, fine craft, photography, sculpture, digital, and video.

Have a question about the call, or want to share what you’re thinking of submitting? Email alice@artsworcester.org or call the gallery at 508-755-5142.
 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Please read this list thoroughly before registering your work. Any works that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

• Current ArtsWorcester membership is required to submit. If membership fees are a financial obstacle to participation, please write alice@artsworcester.org or ask in the galleries about the Pay It Forward Fund.
• Each artist may submit one artwork.
• Submitted artworks must correlate in some way to 1-3 artworks from the FAM loan.
• All submissions must be made through this Submittable form. 
• All work must be original, created within the last ten years (2014 onward), and not previously exhibited at ArtsWorcester. 
• Two-dimensional or wall-hanging artworks must not exceed 36” in any direction, including frame.
• Three-dimensional artworks that do not hang on the wall are limited to 90” in height and 36” at the widest point.
• Artworks suspended from the ceiling are limited to 25 pounds.
• Works must be exhibition-ready with framing and wire as appropriate. Alternative hanging methods (suspended from the ceiling, installed with magnets, etc.) must be tested prior to submission to ensure successful installation, and additional required hardware must be provided.
• ArtsWorcester has limited tablets for screening video works. Artists submitting video works may be asked to provide their own screening device.
• All artwork submissions must include one high-quality image to be included on the exhibition website.
• Artwork must be brought to ArtsWorcester, 44 Portland Street, Worcester, MA during the designated drop off period. ArtsWorcester cannot accept or return artworks by mail.
• Artists receive sixty percent of each sale made through our galleries.