CALL FOR ART MENDINGS & MARVELS 2025 NCWCA MEMBERS' EXHIBITION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2025, 11:59 PM, YOUR TIME ZONE ALL NCWCA MEMBERS WHO APPLY WILL GET ONE WORK ACCEPTED!
NCWCA presents Mendings & Marvels a members-only exhibition. This theme centers around the reuse and repurposing of materials of any kind, even the reimagining of an older artwork. There is a profound and layered sensibility to artwork that reuses, repurposes, salvages, and reimagines materials, found objects, or previous projects.
Artists often reflect their ability to mend and their desire to re-make their emotions or experiences into the artworks they create. Mending or remaking ideas or objects also imbue them with a new life. It’s a mystical, alchemical process that has far-reaching results.
We seek artwork in various media that interpret the idea of mending, re-using, or reimagining. The concept of repurposing can be as literal as making art from found objects, including artworks about the environment or recycling, to a conceptual re-making of an idea, emotion, mending of the mind, a marvel of revelation as well as the transformation of old ideas and artwork into new ones.
Works might include, but are not limited to the following: •Representational works of humans or animals, or those magically metamorphosed into something new. •Landscape/Still life. •Abstract, Emotional and Conceptual Journeys. •Repurposed, Recovered, and Mended Objects, Items and Concepts or Artwork that Includes an Element that is Repurposed, Mended, or Found. •Reimagined and Transformed Older Artwork
VENUE ARC Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco
EXHIBITION DATES Saturday, June 14 through Saturday, July 12
EXHIBITION DATES (PART II) TBD. A second venue may be available towards the end of 2025, if needed.
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, June 14, 7:00-9:00 PM
ONLINE ARTISTS' TALK Thursday, June 26, 7:00-8:00 PM
CURATORIAL TOUR AND IN-PERSON ARTIST TALK Sunday, June 29, 1:30-3:30 PM PICKUP OF ARTWORK Saturday, July 12, 3:00-5:00 PM and Sunday July 13, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
JURORS Laura Abrams, NCWCA Professional Development Chair Marguerite Elliot, NCWCA Board Vice President Anne Giancola, Visual Arts and Education Manager Livermore Valley Arts, NCWCA Member
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR Elizabeth Addison, NCWCA Exhibitions Chair, Visual Artist, Educator, Curator Christine Cianci, Visual Artist
ASSISTANT CURATOR Tanya Wilkinson, Visual Artist, NCWCA Member
CATEGORIES Wall-hung two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in most media, including painting, drawing, photography, free standing sculpture, mixed media, and digital art. Venue does not accept works that require batteries or electricity. No reproductions.
ELIGIBILITY Submitting artists must be current NCWCA members in good standing. ALL NCWCA MEMBERS who enter will have one work accepted. We encourage you to submit 2-3 artworks. Depending upon the number of submissions, it may be necessary to split the exhibition into two parts with a second venue later in the year.
TO JOIN NCWCA The cost to join NCWCA for one year is $75. To join, go to https://nwca.memberclicks.net/login#/login Create an account and follow instructions to join. You will be joining the National Women’s Caucus for Art and then adding our Chapter. Be sure to add CAN (Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art) as your chapter.
ENTRY FEE, NON-REFUNDABLE $25 for NCWCA Members in good standing. You may submit up to three different artworks with your entry fee.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 11:59 PM your time zone.
NOTIFICATION Tuesday, May 6, by way of the email submitted in Entrythingy. Check your Entrythingy profile to ensure that your contact information is current. If notification is not received by the end of day, check your spam folder or contact, [email protected].
SALES OF ART 60% to the artist, 20% to NCWCA, and 20% to Arc Gallery. Works displayed solely on the NCWCA Online Gallery will not be sold.
EXHIBITION CATALOG An exhibition catalog will be published and available for purchase.
HAND DELIVERY OF ARTWORK Sunday, June 8, 1:00-4:00 PM, Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th & 9th Streets), San Francisco, CA. Hand delivery of accepted work ONLY. NO SHIPPED WORKS will be accepted. You may have a trusted friend or an NCWCA colleague drop off for you. Artworks selected by the jurors that cannot be hand-delivered or do not conform to artwork limitations can still be exhibited online and will be included in the catalog.
WALL HUNG ARTWORK LIMITATIONS 2-Dimensional Work, maximum dimensions: Height: 24 in., Width: 24 in, including frame 3-Dimensional Wall-hung Work, maximum dimensions: Height: 24 in., Width: 24 in, Depth: 6 in. Maximum weight for wall-hung art is 15 pounds.
SCULPTURE LIMITATION Pedestal Sculpture, maximum dimensions: Height: 24 in., Width: 15 in, Depth: 15 in. Freestanding Sculpture maximum dimensions: Height: 72 in., Width: 20 in, Depth: 15 in Maximum weight for sculpture is 15 pounds. Sculptors are encouraged to submit wall-hung works as there are very limited spots for sculpture.
GENERAL ARTWORK LIMITATIONS These media are not accepted for this exhibition: Jewelry Video, sound or film media Works that require an electrical outlet or run on batteries, such as illuminated works
ONLINE GALLERY If you have relevant artwork outside the physical parameters listed, you may still submit these works for inclusion in the catalog and online exhibition gallery, even though they cannot be displayed in the physical gallery. Artists selected by the jurors whose work cannot be hand-delivered, shipped, or do not conform to the specifications above will have their work exhibited with the gallery artists on NCWCA’s Online Gallery, Arc’s gallery monitor, and will be included in the exhibition catalog.
