25th Annual Juried Cover Art Show Applications Now Available!

Applications are now available for the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks 25th Annual Traveling Cover Art Exhibit and competition for the Cover Art of the 2012 – 2013 Northern Adirondack Arts Directory. This directory celebrates its 32nd year of distribution of arts services and information.

The Cover Art Show will be held at The Lake Placid Center for the Arts with an Opening Reception Friday, March 16, 2012, from 5 – 7pm. Deadline for entries is Friday, March 9th, 2012. Work can be dropped off at LPCA in Lake Placid on Tuesday March 6 through Friday from 1 – 5 pm, or at The Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks Main Office in Westport, NY. Please call ACNA at (518) 962-8778 before Monday, March 5, 2012, to make arrangements to drop off work in Westport, NY.

All awards and exhibits are open to any artist or craftsperson living in the Adirondack region, except the Directory Cover Competition. An artist must be a resident or summer resident of Essex or Southern Franklin Counties to be eligible for the Cover Art Award.

All media will be accepted, including photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, fiber, ceramics, woodcrafts, jewelry, prints and constructions. All work must be for sale, and must be portable and easily photographed. The 2012 first prize (purchase of the Cover Artwork) is $600.00. A Best in Show award of $100 is open to all artists. Applications are available by calling the ACNA office at (518) 962-8778, on our website www.artsnorth.org or email info@artsnorth.org.

The 2012 Juror for The Cover Art Show is Roger Hyndman, Artist and printmaker, Balston Spa, NY

Approximately 50 pieces will be selected of which 20 will comprise the traveling art exhibit. This exhibit will travel throughout the region for four months until August 2012. The exhibit is mounted for three to six weeks in various locations including (but not limited to) The Lake Placid Center for the Arts, The Depot Theatre Gallery in Westport, NY, The Hancock House in Ticonderoga, NY, The Adirondack History Center in Elizabethtown, NY, The Goff-Nelson Memorial Library in Tupper Lake, NY, Champlain National Bank branch offices, and other various galleries. The Cover Art Award and Developing Community Arts Grant awards will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, March 16th, 2012, from 5 – 7pm at The Lake Placid Center for the Arts.

ACNA is also requesting donations of one piece of work from artists or craftspersons for a Silent Auction Traveling Show. The Silent Auction exhibit will end when the Exhibit closes at lake Placid Center for the Arts. Interested buyers may enter a “silent bid” for each piece of artwork. At the end of the exhibit, the highest bidder will be rewarded with the piece. All proceeds from the Silent Auction support the Cover Art Program and The Arts Council’s future endeavors on behalf of the artists of the North Country.  The Cover Art Show winning piece will appear on the cover of 10,000 copies of the thirty-second annual “Northern Adirondack Arts Directory 2012-2013″ and Master Events Calendar.  The Directory will be available in June.  It has information and descriptions of over 140 cultural Organizations and over 1,000 dates of cultural interest. Organizations wishing to list a cultural event can do so on our website at www.artsnorth.org. Deadline for print is April 15th, 2011.

Forms can be downloaded here or at the home.