Call for Submissions: Eastern Edge Members’ Exhibition 2025
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It’s that wonderful time of year again, folks! We are now accepting submissions for our Annual Members’ Exhibition!! This is your opportunity as a member of Eastern Edge to showcase your work alongside other members of our talented community. We want to see what you have been making!
Additionally, we will once again be holding the Members’ Exhibition Silent Auction! The Silent Auction is a fundraiser which will run throughout the exhibition. Participating artists have the option to put their pieces up for auction, and will receive 50% of the sale price, while the remainder helps support Eastern Edge’s year-round programming.
The Members’ Exhibition has an open theme, and all mediums are welcome! If you are considering presenting new media, video, or kinetic work and require any technical assistance, please contact the gallery in advance to see if we can help accommodate your needs.
Where this show is open to our full membership, we could be showing upwards of 60 artists’ work. For that reason, we are limiting the dimensions of submissions to 2 ft in any direction. While this is not a juried exhibition, Eastern Edge reserves the right to decline works that do not meet submission guidelines, are submitted after the deadline, or dropped off without prior arrangement.
Submission Guidelines:
- Must have an active membership with Eastern Edge
- Limited to 1 work per member
- Artwork dimensions must not exceed 2 ft in any direction
If you are not an EE member already, you can sign up when you drop off your artwork, or sign up online by clicking here!
To submit work for this year’s Members’ Exhibition, please fill out this Google form!
If you cannot use the Google form you may submit via email to easternedgegallery@gmail.com. In your email, please include:
- Name, phone number, address, and membership status
- Artwork Title, Medium, Year, Dimensions, and any equipment needed for install (eg. plinth, shelf, etc.)
- 1-3 images of your artwork, or file of video work
- A starting bid if you are participating in the Silent Auction
Submission deadline: June 19
Artwork drop-off dates: Tuesday, July 2 – Saturday, July 12, 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Exhibition dates: July 18 – August 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
If you require a drop-off time outside of these hours, please contact the gallery in advance, and we will try our best to accommodate you. Work should be delivered ready to display with all necessary hanging materials (magnets, hooks, etc.)
Silent Auction – How it works:
- Artists will set the “starting bid” for their work.
- Artworks will be installed in the gallery, and each piece will be assigned a number, which will be on the piece’s label.
- Numbers will correspond to bidding sheets in a binder kept in the gallery for visitors to access.
- Anyone who wants to bid on an artwork can write their bid and their contact info on the bidding sheet in the binder.
- The bidding will continue for the duration of the exhibition.
- On the last day of the exhibition, EE will host an “auction closing” party in the gallery. This will be everyone’s last chance to bid on their favourite works.
- At the end of that event, whoever has the highest bid on any given piece will win that artwork.
- EE will contact the artist and the buyer. 50% of the sale price will go to the artist, and 50% will go to EE.