Pastel Panache

call for entries due: Feb 29, 2024

apply today: CallForEntry.org

Theme: Pastel Panache seeks to showcase any form of expression rendered by the medium of pastels, which includes soft pastels, chalk, hard pastels, oil pastels, ink pastels, water-based pastels, conte crayons or sticks, sanguine, and similar dry mediums including charcoal. Mixed media works are welcome where pastel or qualifying media is the primary medium.

Jurors: Pamela Comfort, Ed.D., President of Pastel Society of the West Coast (PSWC) and artist; Bonnie Zahn Griffith, Secretary of PSWC artist, art educator; https://pswc.ws/

Requirements abbreviated:

• San Francisco Bay Area artists only (artist must live within 100 miles from San Rafael, California).
• Open to most subject matter including abstraction.
• Open to visual arts media primarily using pastel and pastel-related mediums such as hard, soft, oil, pastel-pencil, and mixed media primarily using pastels.

Application fee: $40 for up to 3 entries. Discount provided to AWD Artist Members, become a member today!

Exhibit Calendar:

• February 29: Entries due via CallForEntry.org
• March 7, 8: Notification by email. Separate emails announce “invited” and “not invited” submissions.
• March 28–30, 12–6pm: deliver artwork
• April 5–May 25, 2023: Exhibition dates
• Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm: Public visiting hours.
• April 12 and May 10, 5–8pm: receptions and 2nd Friday Art Walk
• May 30-June 1, 12–6pm: Pick up artwork

See full prospectus details and apply today: CallForEntry.org