Update for Senior Art Show

Hey everyone! Senior Art and Craftsmen news!

The brochures are out from the Heritage and Cultural Commission and they look great. If you have not received yours by the end of this week, contact the Office on Aging at 609-989-6661. They will get one off to you because the registration form must be received by their office by July 22.

Important dates are:

July 22, registration forms completed and in MC Office on Aging for processing.

July 29, delivery of your entry to Meadow Lakes from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

August 2 to August 13, duration of show. Hours for visiting 10am to 4 pm. at Meadow Lakes, 300 Meadow Lakes, East Windsor.

August 13, Awards reception 1:30pm to 3:30pm.

August 13, Pick up entries after show reception is over. No earlier than 3:30pm. Winning entries are to be left in the custody of Mercer County Office of Aging and will be transported to the State Senior Art Show by Committee members.

Entry specifications are:

Must be original creation of the artist. No glicee or reproductions of other original art work or artists, no kits, no copies.

Dimensions of paintings and 2 dimensional work may not exceed the maximum 36 inches in any direction INCLUDING FRAME. Work must fit into a 36 " template. Any hanging over....sorry, not accepted.

Also there is a minimum for you miniature lovers...may not be smaller than 11 inches. If it does not measure up, it does not show.

Sculpture and 3 dimensional crafts may not exceed 18 inches in any direction including the base. This is to permit as many entrants as possible in our limited show area.

Please have your artwork ready for hanging. We are not framers and would not be permitted to do anything even if we could, so have your fishing wire all hooked up, or whatever you prefer. Artwork must be matted, mounted, framed with screw eyes and properly labeled on the back side. No saw tooth hangers. They just do not hold and we are not able to hang them in our gallery system.

If your water color or mixed media requires glass and is over 24 inches, plexiglass is suggested to protect it.

If you have a piece valued over $400, you must have private insurance.

If you are in the wrong category, the committee will move it to the correct grouping.

Categories this year are:

Acrylic

Craft. No kits or molds may be used.

Computer-generated Imagery. No digitally altered photos and images made with a scanner but there is a new grouping called "Computer-generated Imagery. You may use a pixel based painting or graphics program such as Photoshop, Illustrator or Corel Painter.

Drawing--pencil, pen, ink, graphite, markers

Mixed Media. A combination of two or more media, includes collage and assemblage, and no one of which predominates.

Oil.

Pastel, chalk, charcoal, oil pastel.

Photography created using a film-based digital or pinhole camera, scanner, including color, black and white or tinted or digitally manipulated photos, photogram.

Print. Etching, engraving, lithograph, woodcut, monoprint, monotype, silkscreen.

Watercolor, gouache.

There must be three entries or more in a category to be judged and qualify to go on to the State Show.

I think I mentioned previously that you can't show a work that was entered in a previous year, and works must be young. Artists have to be over 60 years of age, but sorry seniors, works must be less than three years old. One entry per artist...but look at all the categories. It is hard to pick out your favorite but only one per person, please.

This is the second year that Mercer has been able to offer first place awards to both professional artists and the hobby artist. That means two in each medium get to represent Mercer County in the State competition. And we have Meadow Lakes to thank for that because they have made sufficient gallery display area available that we can really present our Mercer County artists.

Don't forget, call Office on Aging for more info and brochures. 609-989-6661.

Seniors Rock!