Show your work on Myrtle Avenue! The first opportunity listed below is not just for Pratt artists, it’s open to all local artists. See below, and contact drawingdemocracies@gmail.com with questions.

OPEN CALL for Exhibition Opportunities
Artists from the Pratt community including students, faculty, staff and alumnus along with professional artists who live and work near Pratt’s campus are invited to apply.

Deadline: September 1st, 2014
1) Drawings Along Myrtle Avenue in partnership with MARP (Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project): A series of month long exhibitions focused around drawing, both in a formal and the expanded field, exhibited at selected local businesses along Myrtle Avenue. Curators will choose artists to mount work for designated locations. The work can range in medium and scale as is appropriate for the locations. Please keep this in mind when submitting work that is appropriate for restaurants, shops, and other commercial locations. Related events and art walks will happen during the month as well.

2) “Drawings by the People” exhibition at Pratt Institute in Dekalb Gallery curated by the Drawing Club and faculty coordinator Nanette Carter. In its second year, the exhibition will be held from October 1st to October 25th in DeKalb Gallery. Each artist can submit up to 2 drawings no larger than 4’ x 4’ framed (plexi-glass preferred) or unframed, if possible matted or mounted, and ready to hang on the wall.

The exhibitions will culminate with the second Drawing Democracies event will take place on Saturday, October 25th, 2014 from 12-4pm. Drawing Democracies is an interdisciplinary collaborative project spearheaded by the Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts, Foundation and Art & Design Education departments. It serves as a community collaborative project designed to engage with all the departments on campus through our students, alumni, faculty, as well as the broader local community in Brooklyn.

Submission Guidelines:
1) Please send up to five images, no larger than 1200 pixels, 72 DPI, 2 MB, labeled with first initial and last name and numbered ex.) JSmith1.JPG.
2) Include in your email information for each image: Title, Date, Measurements, and Contact information.
3) Send images to drawingdemocracies@gmail.com

* Please note that you may submit for one or both; just specify in your submission header.
Acceptance Notification on or before September 15th
Work will be on view through October 25th.