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CALL TO ARTISTS
PAC presents:
TRANSFORMATION Juried Show
April 21, 2021 through June 3rd, 2021
PAC understands this last year has been challenging, heartbreaking, and illuminating in many ways. Show us your TRANSFORMATIONS. Guest juror Francoise McAree will select the works and award the top prizes: $1000 for 1st Place, $500 for 2nd, and $250 for 3rd. The PAC Gallery Committee will award a $100 prize as well.
Digital submissions will open on 2/15/21 and run through midnight of 3/31/21. Click on this link to enter:
https://pawtucketartscollaborative.wildapricot.org/event-4164423
- Max 2 pieces. Please also send a brief artist bio to attach with your digital submission to membershippac@gmail.com
- SUBMISSION FEE: PAC Members $15 for 1 entry and $20 for 2/ Non-members $20 for 1 and $25 for 2. Interested in becoming a member? Join or renew https://pawtucketartscollaborative.wildapricot.org/Join-or-Renew
- Accepted work must be dropped off at the PAC Gallery 560 Mineral Spring Ave. Pawtucket, RI on Friday 4/16 between 4-7 and Saturday 4/17 from 10/12.
- We ask you to include written instructions if your work has specific hanging/display needs or to consider attending the art installation on Saturday 4/17 from 12-3.
- Work in any medium must not exceed 60”.
- Work to be on the walls must be properly wired to hang.
- PAC does have pedestals for 3-D work but they are limited.
- Digital and multimedia work must be insured separately from the gallery.
- PAC reserves the right to reject work that does not follow gallery standards.
- Visit our prospectus for more details https://pawtucketartscollaborative.wildapricot.org/Exhibition-Policy-And-Framing-Guidelines
ABOUT THE JUROR: Francoise McAree
Francoise McAree, born in Montreal, Canada, is a Providence based artist, independent curator, educator and arts administrator. Trained as a painter, she works across a wide variety of mediums and processes, including oils, acrylics, encaustic, photography, photo transfer, collage, textiles, sewing, embroidery, drawing and sculpture in her practice. The exploration of aspects of physicality and materiality—skin, membranes, body parts, portraits/heads, petals, masterwork, abstraction are among her ongoing visual references. In her work, she examines concepts of mortality, constructs of beauty, the underpinnings of masterwork paintings, and optical illusion. Working at the intersection of craft/making and painting, she considers how the attributes of painting-- surface, brushstroke, tactility, “skin”, rhythm and depth of color through layering, etc.--can be translated into other materials and techniques. This strategy of translation explores the expressive power of materials and is at the core of her process.
Francoise has exhibited her work in many shows locally including at AS220, Hera Gallery, Chazan Gallery/Wheeler School, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Yellow Peril Gallery and in the US and abroad. She has curated numerous shows including Paper Dolls, a 4-artist collaborative residency project in conjunction with the Providence Athenaeum and AS220, and Glue, Paper, Scissors at ColoColo Gallery in New Bedford, MA. Additionally as Chair/Exhibitions Committee of the Hive Archive, a feminist collective, she orchestrated many exhibits including In Your Face, a self-portrait exhibit of over 300 local and international female artists, Artists in the Archive, an artist residency project at the Providence Athenaeum with an exhibit at AS220 Project Space and Crossing Currents: Feminism Now, a 40 artist group show at the Feinstein Gallery of URI’s Providence campus. As an educator, Francoise has taught at Rhode Island College, RISD/CE, Parsons School of Design, both in Paris and NY, and until recently was the Fine and Applied Art Program Manager in RISD/CE. Prior to living in Providence, Francoise lived and worked in NYC, Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan. She received a grant to study calligraphy for 9 months in Japan and was awarded a teacher of excellence award from Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research. She earned her BA from Middlebury College in Vermont and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
ABOUT THE PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE
The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is a member-driven, fully volunteer-run organization dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing the highest level of the arts for the community and its artists by creating awareness, education, and involvement with our members and the public-at-large.
www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org
PAC MILL GALLERY:
560 Mineral Spring Avenue, Pawtucket RI 02860 in the Lorraine Mills Complex. It is on the first floor and is handicapped accessible from the front, behind the Miss Lorraine Diner.
Mailing address: Pawtucket Arts Collaborative PO Box # 966
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02862
Questions? Comments? volunteerpawtucketartsc@gmail.com
Contact membershippac@gmail.com with online submission/ payment/ or membership renewal questions.
Winter Show Prize Winners
The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Winter Show. They are:
Marjorie Ball, Farm in Winter, First Prize
Tim McCarthy, Make Denali Great Again, Second Prize
Susan Graseck, Waning Light, Third Prize
Beverly Silva, Stocking Stuffers, PAC Prize/Honorable Mention
Congratulations!
WINTER MEMBER SHOW
runs Thursday 1/14/21 thru 2/25/21
This year has been unexpected to say the least. Political upheaval, economic strain, and a relentless pandemic have been pushing people to their breaking point. PAC knows that art-making and the art community can be a healing salve during these hard times. PAC artists responded to the call; four won prizes of: $500 1st prize; $250 2nd prize; $100 3rd prize and $100 PAC Prize.
PAC Members’ Show: WINTER from the old Germanic meaning ‘The time of water’. Other notable elements of the coldest season: Winter Equinox aka the shortest day of the year, the Vernal Equinox where the day and night are equal in length. Cold and darkness. Rest and renewal. It’s a season of dormancy, of hibernation. Aurora Borealis. Yuletide greetings. The frozen worlds of Norse mythology. Yeti. Krampus. Migration. Hanukkah. Persephone and Hades. Scandanavian Hygge and coziness. Death and Rebirth. The Japanese snow ghost Yuki-onna. Gingerbread and Evergreens. Blizzards and ice skating. Snow days! The list goes on and on.
You can see the works entered into this wonderful exhibition at: https://pawtucketartscollaborative.wildapricot.org/page-18177
GALLERY HOURS FOR THE SHOW: Gallery will be open by appointment only. Contact davidaschiffer@mac.com to schedule viewing times. All guests must follow strict Covid guidelines including masking, social distance, and no more than 5 people in the gallery at one time.
Participating artists:Jerry Aissis, Wendy Anctil, Bradley Bailey, Marjorie Ball, Dan Borden, Mary Belden Brown, Peter Campbell, Barbara Canning, Kate Chute, Victoria Dalpe, Cynthia DiDonato, Devin Dugan, Robert Easton, Maureen Eckert, Jan Gendron, Ann-Marie Gillett, Susan Graseck, Marguerite De Lucia Hall, Carol Hansen, Joan Hausrath, Wendy Ingram, Bonnie Jaffe, Marc Jaffe, Frank Lally, George Lowell, Eveline Luppi, Michael Luzzi, Tim McCarthy, Joan McConaghy, Melanie Medeiros, Joanne Morrissey, Sara Nugent, Sophia Paliotti, Elvira Para, Mimo Gordon Riley, Frank Robertson, Joan Rollins, Ann Rozhon, Beverly Silva, Robert Snowden, Thomas Terceira, James Therieau, Elinor Thompson and Roberta Uhlmann
ABOUT THE JUROR- Founder & Executive Director, The Avenue Concept inc
Restorative – Adaptability – Deliberative – Self-Assurance – Responsibility
Founder and Executive Director Yarrow Thorne developed his passion for art and design in urban spaces growing up in a design-based family in Northampton, Massachusetts. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and for the last ten years has been learning how to support public art programming in the urban environment. While a student, Yarrow established RISD’s first public art policy to create revolving walls for artists to showcase their work.
In 2012, he was selected to receive one of twenty SEED Grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which he used to found The Avenue Concept, a platform for a scalable and sustainable public art programming in Providence, Rhode Island. Yarrow’s vision for The Avenue Concept is a private organization that leverages support for public art projects to get off the ground, to jump-start excitement and recognition for art and its value in Providence and everyday life.
Yarrow believes his dyslexia is his greatest asset because through it he has developed his ability to work outside the box in many venues, particularly in finding creative solutions to urban challenges using public art. Yarrow has installed over 150 pieces of public art since 2012.
Questions? Comments about the show? Email: volunteerpawtucketartsc@gmail.com Technical questions should be directed to: membershippac@gmail.com
UPCOMING PAC EVENTS
Drawing sessions hosted by PAC are back in business! Sessions are limited to 12 attendees who MUST wear masks and maintain social distancing. For more information, please contact Frank Lally at fjlstudio33@gmail.com Model fees are $12 for non-members, $10 for members. All sessions are from 10am to 1pm Saturdays. Sessions usually include a 20 minute warm-up with multiple short poses followed by 2/3 longer poses with breaks. Any medium except oil paints. Interested artists should contact Frank (401-486-0394 or fjlstudio33@gmail.com) with questions or to be added to the weekly reminder as well as any late cancellation notifications. Chairs are provided but we ask attendees to bring their own easels if possible. Materials are not provided.
(life drawing session at Cornell University, mid 20th century)
| Collage Workshops will continue (hopefully) in the fall of 2021.
Art by Lin Collette |
The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing the highest level of the arts for the community and its artists. We do this by creating awareness, education and involvement through our members. |
HistoryOn October 25, 2000, 25 artists led by Pat Zacks met at the Slater Mill for the first time to establish goals, bylaws, membership dues, a mission statement, a logo, and a web site and formed Pawtucket Arts Collaborative. To read more about PAC's history, year by year, click here. |
Gallery HoursStarting on November 7th, 2019, gallery hours are: Thursday 5:30 – 7:30 pm Saturday/Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 pm | Partners/SponsorsPlease support the sponsors that support us: PAC thanks the City of Pawtucket for the generous Arts Organizational Grant PAC Mill Gallery: |
