Dates to remember:

• Notice of Intent ~ Friday, October 9, 2009 (pdf of 2009 entry form. with rules and entry forms)

• Art work due at McLean Community Centre ~ Sunday, October 25 – from 1 to 6 p m. (labels)

• Notice to accepted artists by phone ~ Monday, October 26, between 4 and 9 p.m.

• Pick-up for works not in the show ~ Wednesday, October 28, from noon to 3 p.m. and from 5 to 8 p.m. (please bring your receipt)

• Opening Reception ~ Friday, October 30, from 7 to 9 p.m.

• Show Closing and art pick-up ~ Sunday, November 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. (please bring your receipt)

Our Jurors for 2009

Maura Broadhurst is the Curator of the Latcham Gallery, the public art gallery in Stouffville, Ontario. Maura received her Master's in ArtHistory from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997 and her Bachelor's in Art History and Cultural Management at the University ofWaterloo in 1995. Prior to the Latcham Gallery, she worked in avariety of positions at a number of public galleries in Ontario including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the London Regional Art and Historical Museums and the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga. She has also taught courses in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at the University of Western Ontario in London and has sat on the National Advisory Council of the centre for Cultural Management. Shehas juried numerous exhibitions throughout southwestern Ontario.

Olexander Wlasenko has based his studio practice in Oshawa after earning a Master of Fine Art at The University of Western Ontario in 2000. Prior to this, he graduated with distinction from the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1994, going on to complete a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Guelph. In his final year at OCA, Wlasenko was awarded the Eric Freifield Award. In 2001, he won top prize at the national juried drawing exhibition organized at the John B. Aird Gallery. The artist was awarded Canada Council for the Arts Creation / Production Grants in 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008, also regularly receiving grants from the Ontario Arts Council since 2001. In 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 the artist won Best Drawing Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. A solo exhibition of his drawings premiered at Barrie, Ontario’s MacLaren Art Centre in fall, 2007. Wlasenko has exhibited extensively in Toronto, nationally in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Dawson City, Yukon, and internationally in Florence, Italy and Kyiv, Ukraine.

After completing his graduate studies in the fall of 2000, Wlasenko worked as Assistant Curator at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Ontario. There he organized over twenty photography exhibitions featuring vintage prints which document the historical development of his hometown of Oshawa. Wlasenko has organized four biennial exhibitions of early-career artists at the RMG. In the spring of 2007, he curated a traveling solo exhibition of artist Vera Jacyk entitled, Chysto, Chysto, Chysto. Wlasenko’s most recent curatorial projects include Broken Promises: Soviet Photography in the Age of Stalin, unveiled the MacLaren Art Centre’s recent Sovfoto acquisition in Barrie, Ontario. Olexander has been the Curator at Station Gallery in Whitby since early 2008.

Artists’ eligibility and responsibility

PineRidge Arts Council Terms of Eligibility (pdf version)

The Annual PineRidge Arts Council Juried Art Show is open to all members of PRAC and/or residents of Durham Region.
• Categories – Adult (19 years and up) and Youth (13 to 18 years)
• Due to limitations of space, a maximum of two pieces of work will be accepted from each artist, and explanations of the piece cannot displayed.
• Insurance coverage for the work submitted is the responsibility of the artist, PineRidge Arts Council or Town of Ajax are not responsible for loss or damage.
• Artwork should not be entered unless the artist can arrange for it to be delivered and picked up on the required dates and times.
Eligibility of artwork
• Art previously exhibited at a PRAC Juried Art Show will not be accepted.
• Only original work (no copies of works by other visual artists, whether paintings, photographs, illustrations or classroom works which have been demonstrated on by instructors) may be submitted.
• Artwork must remain in the McLean Community Centre until Sunday, November 29, when the show is completed.
All works must be appropriately presented
• Maximum size, including any frame is 102 cm x 102 cm (40" x 40"). Maximum weight, including glass, frame etc. 9.1 kg (20 lbs.)
• Each must have rings or screw eyes (no sawhooks) on both sides at the back of the entry, placed not more than one third down from the top of the frame.
• The wire must be taut and of sufficient gauge to hold the work properly when hanging from chains.
• Wet art, faulty or poorly wired frames, those with only sawhooks, will not be accepted for entry.

Publicity

The PineRidge Arts Council reserves the right to photograph the artists and work for publicity, web posting and other not-for-profit purposes.

townofajax.com • pineridgearts.org

Entry Instructions and Labels

Complete your entry/release form, attach fee and mail to PRAC.
• Please make cheque payable to PineRidge Arts Council.
• $20 entry fee for PRAC members for up to two entries
• $30 entry fee for non-PRAC members for up to two entries
• $10 youth entries for up to two entries.
• All entry fees are non-refundable.
• Entry changes or substitutions will not be accepted after Friday, October 9, 2009.
Attach a completed Identification Label to back of entry (see pdf entry forms).

Entry and Release Forms

Deadline for entry
Entry forms, accompanied by the appropriate entry fee, must be received at the home of the PRAC President by Friday, October 9, 2009 at:

• PineRidge Arts Council
  542 Rougemount Drive,
  Pickering, ON
  L1W 2C2

Entry form and identification labels (see pdf).

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