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Submissions 2024-12-01T22:28:48-05:00

DRAWING 2025

JUROR: KATHLEEN VAUGHAN

DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2025

All accepted artworks will be included in an online slide show with a playlist and a downloadable publication.

The John B. Aird Gallery is excited to announce the 26th edition of its annual juried exhibition, which showcases contemporary artists’ drawings from local and international contributors. For this exhibition, we define drawing as an art form that can either create a finished piece or serve as a draft for ideas that may be further developed using other media.

This broad definition aims to encourage various entries that reflect contemporary drawing materials, techniques, and practices worldwide. All accepted artworks will be featured in an online slideshow, with a playlist and a downloadable PDF publication.

JUROR

Kathleen Vaughan (MFA, PhD) is an artist and academic with a trans-disciplinary orientation to questions of place and belonging. In both studio and community projects, she balances her love for post-industrial sites, urban forests and green spaces, and waters and skies with critical engagement, and often uses walking and mapping as a method and form. Her work includes a variety of media (digital and hand embroidery, textile piecing, photography, painting, drawing, audio, video and text) and she considers drawing foundational to visual practice and thinking. Kathleen is developing two long-term interdisciplinary initiatives, one on the St. Lawrence River as an ecosystem and imaginary and the other on wool as a sustainable, ethical, and beautiful material for art and design. She is the Concordia University Research Chair in Art and Education for Sustainable and Just Futures and Professor of Art Education.

Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal
I would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of these lands and waters.

KEY DATES & DETAILS


DEADLINE
Sunday, February 2, 2025, by midnight

JURYING
March – April 2025

ONLINE EXHIBITION LAUNCH
May/June 2025

*Note: Due to the volume of submissions we apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused by our delays. Our juror(s) review every submission carefully and we ask for your patience during this process. Only selected artists will be contacted. Thank you for understanding.

APPLICATION DETAILS

  • Artists can submit up to two works.
  • Image files must be as follow:
    • File names must be labelled Last Name_First Name, Title.jpg
    • Example: Smith_Jane, Morning Doves.jpg
    • Images can be in jpeg/jpg/png format.
    • Image resolution should be 150 dpi max
    • File size cannot exceed 2MB
  • Submit original works only.
  • Please note that improperly named files may not be recorded or will be lost in our system.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is $50 and covers entry up to 2 works per artist. It is non-refundable and can be paid upon submitting your application. Funds collected go towards making this exhibition possible.

SALES
Artists will be informed of sales. The gallery asks for a 30% donation/commission on all sales.

The John B. Aird Gallery is not accepting submissions at this time.

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We welcome applications from local and international artists and curators.

PORTRAITS 2024

JUROR: BYRON ARMSTRONG

PUBLICATION COMING SOON!

All accepted artworks will be included in an online slide show with a playlist and a downloadable publication.

Portraiture is an ancient art form that dates back to at least ancient Egypt, where it thrived around 5,000 years ago. Portraits have historically served more than just as a record; they have been used to portray the power, importance, virtue, beauty, wealth, taste, learning, or other qualities of the sitter. Before the invention of photography, a painted, sculpted, or drawn portrait was the only way to capture someone’s appearance. The introduction of photography in 1839 revolutionized traditional portraiture, making it more affordable. Since the 1990s, artists have also used video to create living portraits. Nevertheless, portrait painting continues to thrive.

JUROR

Byron Armstrong is a freelance writer and award-winning journalist who writes about community, arts, and culture. His art writing appears in Esse arts + opinions, The Globe and Mail-Arts, Whitehot Magazine, The National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Arts Help, and The Artist & The Viewer, while also authoring curatorial essays for exhibitions at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation (Nassau, Bahamas) and United Contemporary Gallery (Toronto, Canada). He resides in Toronto/Tkaronto with his family.