Art: Pairings and Echoes

Description

THE BELVEDERE TIBURON LIBRARY                   ART GALLERY

1501 Tiburon BoulevardTiburon, CA  94920

Art: Pairings and Echoes

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Exhibition Dates: November 20, 2025 to January 7, 2026

ART: Pairings & Echoes will animate the viewer’s experience by revealing connections between artworks: another work in dialogue with your own. This exhibition shines a light on one aspect of you as an artist: how you see or interpret another work of art, and how that perspective translates into your own art making. We are asking to see part of your process, how your artwork’s conception begins with a known masterpiece or another source.
Selected works will be shown with wall labels that include your chosen pairing or echo. This companion piece illuminates influence, serves as homage, or references your study of another work. (As part of the submission process, you will be asked to upload an image of this secondary work that inspired your own.). Your secondary image—e.g. chosen work of influence—included on the accompanying enlarged wall label, will enable a deeper understanding of appropriations, starting points transformed, or simply artistic muses. These works in dialogue with your own and proudly hung together for Pairings & Echoes will serve to ramp up the conversations in building community through art by adding another dimension for comparison.
Submissions will be evaluated on engagement with the theme, technique, overall mastery, creativity, and originality. You will be requested to upload an image of your original along with an image of the work that inspired yours. Special consideration will be given to how thoughtfully and meaningfully the chosen pairing or echo enhances the dialogue with your own work. We hope to offer layered programming around this exhibit to introduce selected artists to a broad audience.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

OPEN TO BAY AREA ARTISTS 18 YEARS AND ABOVE

SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED: Friday, September 5, 2025, 12:01am 

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE: Saturday, October 4, 2025, 11:59 pm

JURYING: Submissions are first anonymously juried by a panel. If your signature is on the front of your artwork, please cover it when you submit the images of your piece(s). Exhibition Co-Chairs then curate to create a cohesive exhibition.

ARTIST NOTIFICATION: October 18, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, November 20, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

ARTWORK DROP OFF DATES: Sunday, November 16, 2025, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (preferred) or Monday, November 17, 2025, from 9:00am to 10:30 am (earlier is preferred)

ARTWORK PICK UP DATES: Friday, January 9, 2026, from 9:00 am to 10:30 am (preferred) or Saturday January 10, 2026, from 9:00 am to 10:30 am  (earlier is preferred)

COMMISSIONS: 70% to the Artist, 30% to the Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery

 FEE: $35 for up to 3 submissions (each individual submission must also include an image of the piece that inspired your art or photograph). 

ALL WORK SUBMITTED MUST BE FOR SALE – no exceptions.

WHAT TYPE OF WORK IS ACCEPTED

Two-dimensional original artworks, including but not limited to framed or stretched canvas, framed works on paper: including drawings, watercolors, pastels, photography, and fine art prints. Fiber and textile art, or mixed media are accepted. Art created using artificial intelligence will not be considered. For artists, reproductions of your art in another medium (e.g. an offset lithograph of your painting or a giclée print of your watercolor) will not be considered. 
Two-dimensional includes low-relief works (5 inches deep or less measured from the wall as hung). 

We cannot accommodate works that are suspended from the ceiling or free-standing three dimensional pieces (sculpture).

The library is a family destination and subject matter must be acceptable. 
The original images submitted must be the creation of and owned solely by the artist submitting. No copyright infringement of any artist, living or deceased, is permitted. 

SIZE / WEIGHT / FRAMING AND FINISHING 

Maximum dimensions of ready-to-hang pieces (including frame, if framed) are 60” x 60” and work cannot exceed 50 pounds. Minimum dimensions allowed are 8” x 10”.
Hanging hardware for accepted work: D-rings with wire (a braided stainless steel wire or multi-filament preferred). No sawtooth hangers are permitted. Most pieces hang well if the D-rings are placed 1/3 to 1/4 of the way down from the top of  the work. Please check to assure that a) the top of the artwork does not project out from the wall at an angle when hung and b) the wire is not so long that it shows above the top edge when hung.
Pieces delivered without appropriate hardware cannot be accepted.

REGISTER ONLINE AT ARTCALL & SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES

All entries are to be submitted digitally via ArtCall. If you do not have an account on ArtCall.org, you will be asked to create a profile by registering online. It takes just a few minutes, and then you can upload your images of your pieces.If you already have an account, sign on with your user name and password and click on "Add a new submission" to get started.You may submit up to three works of art for consideration. Each submission will need to be entered into ArtCall as a separate entry (click on “Add new Submission” for each entry) with one fee covering all three submissions. For each submission, in addition to an image of you piece, you must attach an image of the piece that inspired your work.Please submit images for each entry in JPG/JPEG format showing the full piece. Images must be in 72dpi resolution and a minimum 1920px on longest side (maximum: 4600 pixels). Photo files must not exceed 10MB.You will be asked to complete, as part of your submission, a short bio and a short artist statement (each 475 characters or less, about 70 words). In addition to information about your piece, you will be asked to include the title and artist of the secondary work. This information will be used in the exhibition materials for those artists accepted into the show and will also be included in the jurying process so please do not include your name in your artist statement.Please be sure your personal ArtCall photo is up to date before the end of the submission period as juried-in artists will be featured in the Artcall and the Library Art Gallery's "Meet The Participating Artists" web page.If you have a website and/or Instagram address, please be sure they are up to date so that they can be included in the exhibition materials. We urge you to please make a final review of your submittal (especially dimensions, price, bio and artist statement). Please help us minimize changes to your submission.
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DELIVERY AND DISPLAY

Accepted pieces must be labeled with the artwork’s title, the artist’s name and contact information (email and phone) securely adhered to the back of the piece in the lower right-hand corner.Wrapping materials must be removed upon Intake completion.Accepted work will be hung in either the gallery or the gallery hallway at the complete discretion of the exhibition committee. Work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibition.In addition to the physical gallery and gallery hallway, all accepted artwork may be displayed in a Web Gallery and exhibition album along with your artist’s statement, bio and ArtCall profile picture.By submitting the images, accepted artists agree the artwork, in whole or in part, may be used by the Library for publicity in various forms including print, online and social media.Any sales and sales tax will be handled through the Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation. Artists retain 70% of the purchase price; the Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery receives a 30% commission. The Belvedere Tiburon Library cannot guarantee sale of any artwork.Volunteers will handle your work with utmost care. The library has insurance coverage but strongly recommends that, in addition, exhibiting artists carry their own insurance.

Please contact Brenda Bottum at art@beltiblibrary.org if you have further questions.

Art: Pairings and Echoes Exhibition Co-Chairs: Katie Sutton and Diane Green.

Thank you for sharing your artwork with us!