36th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
March 25 - April 18, 2013
March 25 - April 18, 2013
The College's annual national juried exhibition highlights work selected from entries by artists from across the country. The show typically features a wide array of media ranging from photography and prints to painting and sculpture.
Download the 2013 Small Works Prospectus (PDF).
1/23/13 Postmark deadline for entries
2/28/13 Jury notification posted to website
3/11/13 Deadline for artwork to be received
3/25 - 4/18/13 Exhibition at Harper College
4/26/13 Return of works begins
For more information about Small Works, contact:
smallworks@harpercollege.edu
harpercollege.edu/smallworks
Juror for 2013 Exhibit
Staci Boris, Chief Curator, Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, Illinois, will serve as the Small Works 2013 show juror. Previously, Boris served as Executive Director of Art Chicago. She also served as Senior Curator at Spertus Museum in Chicago from 2004 to 2009, where she curated the inaugural exhibition, The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, and co-organized the exhibition A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, producing major publications for both.
Boris served for 12 years as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where she organized a series of noteworthy exhibitions including: the first U.S. retrospective of William Kentridge, the first survey of John Currin and the first solo museum show of Sarah Sze.
Ms. Boris holds an Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ENTRIES
All entries will be judged from digital files. Submit up to three (3) digital files in jpg form on a CD (CDs only. We cannot accept e-mailed files.) The files must be 1600 x 1200 pixels
(minimum file size), high resolution (fine quality), with RGB color profile. The file name should read: Artist’s last name_First initial_number of image.jpg (example: Smith_J_1.jpg). Use a maximum number of 15 characters not including the jpg tag. Use letters, numbers and underscore only (no spaces or other characters). The number of each image must correspond to the number on the Entry Card and Identification Tag on the application. Do not type your name into the actual digital image. Do not apply a label to the submitted CD. CDs WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
ENTRY FORMS AND FEE
All forms are available online at harpercollege.edu/smallworks. A nonrefundable fee of $25 entitles each artist to submit a maximum of three entries. Make check or money order payable to: Harper College Educational Foundation. Complete all the cards on the prospectus. Please type or print legibly. Retain the identification tags. Send fee, entry card and CD with digital files, postmarked no later than January 23, 2013, to:
Small Works
Art Department
Harper College
1200 West Algonquin Road
Palatine, IL 60067-7398
Selected artists' work will be on exhibit from March 25 through April 18, 2013, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Harper College Educational Foundation sponsors this exhibit.
