Sleepless: Art From the Midnight Hour

Welcome to Sleepless: Art From the Midnight Hour- What keeps you up at night?

Deadline for entries: Friday, September 20th, 2024
This show will run Friday, October 4th, 2024 to Sunday, November 10th

Please read these instructions fully AND read through our general submission guidelines at https://metchosinartpod.ca/sub... as these go over important general information about copyright and originality, as well as where and when works can have previously been shown and other general information.

SHOW INTENTIONS   

What keeps you up at night? What scares you? What excites you? What art expresses your inner landscape that is accessed in the intimacy of the nighttime? We can travel to a different world at night in our dreams and awaken our imagination. 

For this exhibition, we are looking for art of any medium, 2d or 3d, realism or abstraction, that expresses art from the dark of the night and from our inner depths. Open Call: Aug. 16th-Sept. 20th. Show Runs: Oct. 4th-Nov. 10th. Gala Opening: Oct. 5th, 2-4pm

Please see our website for submission guidelines and link: https://metchosinartpod.ca

Our goal for 2024 is to enhance our visual art exhibits by asking our artists to suggest song pairings that inspired their work or speak to it in some way. We create the playlists on YouTube and make them available to the public via a link on our website. We are interested in listening to the playlist our artists choose of music which has influenced and inspired their investigation into the theme of 'Palimpsest: the not ~so ~blank slate’. Your participation in the music selection activity is optional and the juror will not see your choice nor description of why you chose it. 

The artist statement that is on your data page (email, phone number...) is just a short information statement about you as an artist.  This section only allows 300 characters. It is designed to say something about yourself. There is an opportunity later, in the submission form, to talk about what inspired you to create your submission(s).

For any sections that allow longer text we suggest you create it in a Word document and then cut and paste it into ArtCall as the website times-out in one hour and it's surprising how fast that can happen! Alternatively, be sure to update your submission frequently.

We charge a $10.00 submission fee per art piece.

If you are accepted to the show, there is an additional $10.00 per piece hanging fee which ArtCall calls the 'booth' fee, and which you will have to pay to be entered into the show. Please use the drop-down menu and request a  1x1x1 booth on the submission form. 

We charge 30% commission on art pieces sold. 

NOTE TO ARTISTS: ArtPod keeps participating artist information on file so that we can follow up with artists about this and other shows. We will not sell your contact information.  If you wish to be removed from this list, please email contact@metchosinartpod.ca with the title “Please remove me from ArtPod’s Participating Artists list".

ArtPod uses social media to promote your art. Please let us know if you do not want you or your work to appear on social media. 

We look forward to seeing your artwork! 

There will be a Show Opening Celebration on Saturday October 5th 2024  from 2pm - 4pm which is open to all, and especially to participating artists who are invited to briefly speak about their pieces in the show. That is also where the Juror is introduced and invited to speak about their work and selection process. The three Juror's choice awards are presented towards the end of the event!

User Entry Process Tutorial

Here is a quick tutorial for you to watch to help you with the submission process.