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Eligibility
• The Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors is a competitive exhibition open to all living artists working with watermedia on paper; only water soluble media on unvarnished paper will be considered. Water soluble media include: acrylics, casein, egg tempera, gouache, inks, and transparent and opaque watercolor.
• Collage and mechanicals, including computer imaging and prints are not eligible.
• All entries must be original. Compositions from previously published photographs not taken by the artist, or from other artists' work are not considered original thus not eligible.
• Works must have been executed in the past two years, and never previously shown in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors.
• There are no size restrictions on entered artwork.
Entry Process
• All submissions to the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors are due by April 1, 2010.
• Each entry will be judged on its own merit.
• Images of selected entries will be kept in the permanent collection of The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Inc.
Selected Paintings
• Selection notifications will be mailed on May 3, 2010. Please, no phone calls.
• Selected Paintings must be received by June 9, 2010.
• Selected artists will receive a complete information packet and delivery instructions.
• Selected artwork must be suitably framed for exhibition. The Arts Guild may rescind the right of hanging to any work unsuitably presented or misrepresented.
• Selected paintings will be shipped to our shipping agent, Wrap City 'N Glue, LLC, 3071 Main Street, PO Box 671, Old Forge, NY 13420.
• No paintings will be shipped to the Arts Center. All shipping and handling will be handled by Wrap City 'N Glue, LLC.
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Juror of Selection
Carole Pickle, AWS, NWS
Carole Pickle has been winning prestigious awards in juried national art shows since 1990, including honors from the American Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition, Aqueous USA, and several others. Carole has also been honored with the Gurdon and Mildred Evans Memorial Award in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. Her work is in the permanent collections of colleges and universities including her alma mater, Millersville University. Carole was featured in American Artist Magazine article in August 2002 titled 'Intuitive Painting by Carole Pickle'.
Juror of Awards
Alan Wylie, AWS, df, SFCA, NWWS, CIPA, CWA
Alan Wylie was born in Scotland and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Mural Design and Mosaics. After immigrating to Nova Scotia in 1967, he began a career as a full-time artist and teacher. Alan has won numerous awards internationally for his paintings, including the Beechmont First and Gold Medallion at the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors as well as the Federation of Canadian Artists' Grand Prize. He has participated in innumerable solo and group exhibitions, and has created large murals in, and on the exteriors of public buildings.
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