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Thanks to all participating artists!
You can view all submissions in our Web Gallery, accessible in the menu link from this page.
As many of you already know, the Small Stones Festival of the Arts for 2023 had to be postponed due to storm damage at our venue, the Grafton Public Library. The Small Stones Festival will now be taking place from Saturday, January 27, 2024 through Sunday, February 4 at the Brigham Hill Community Barn in Grafton, Massachusetts. The Community Barn is a wonderfully restored event space located off of Wheeler Road. It is the perfect location for an art exhibition. Please see our main website for details. We want to thank everyone at the Grafton Public Library and the Brigham Hill Community Barn for their support!
Welcome to the art call site for the 2023 Small Stones Festival of the Arts. The Festival is a collaboration of the Worcester County Camera Club and the Blackstone Valley Art Association, now in our sixth year. This year our exhibition of fine art painting and photography will be held at a new location, the Brigham Hill Community Barn, North Grafton, Massachusetts.
Work chosen for the juried in-person exhibition as well as prize winning entries will be selected by an independent panel of distinguished jurors. Our photography jurors are Shane Gutierrez, Tom Nault and Ron Rosenstock. Our fine art painting jurors are Glenn Murray, Michael Rose and Kim Morin Weineck. You can read about them at our main web site, at the link below.
Art work exhibited at the Festival will be selected from approximately 500 submissions and will include over 140 fine art paintings (including drawing, sketches, ink and other 2D productions) and photographs (including film based, digital, infrared and alternative processes). Please note that we continue to have strict restrictions on the size of the work we can exhibit, as you'll see in the detailed entry instructions below. Works chosen for the exhibition will be published in our annual hardbound catalog - a tradition we're continuing this year. All submissions will appear in our Web Gallery, available on this site during and after the exhibition.
You are invited to submit your original works of art for this exhibition through this website. Our jurors will select among the submitted entries to determine which to include in the exhibition and the printed exhibition catalog. Just prior to the opening of the exhibition, the jurors will also select prizewinners in the above categories.
All work submitted to the festival must be of publication quality, without reflections, abnormal color shifts, perspective distortions, etc. Not only will this help our jurors evaluate your work for their prize selections, but also will make the best presentation on the web and if your work is selected for our printed catalog.
Criteria include:
- Format: JPEG or PNG files accepted.If you are a photographer, this shouldn’t be a problem. If, however, you have paintings that you need to photograph, there’s an app for that: Google Photo Scan, available for iPhone/iPad or Android. This app guides you through taking a series of photos of your work, combines them, removes glare (from cover glass or reflections from varnish, etc.), and gives you a nice result. Just be certain your phone/tablet camera has sufficient resolution to meet the above requirement – an iPhone 6 probably will not, but a newer phone or tablet might be fine.
In order to submit your work for the festival, you must register on this ArtCall site by clicking on the Register button in the header above (if you already have an ArtCall.org login, you can simply log in using the green Login button instead). If you have a narrow browser screen (mobile, etc.) you may have to click on the three horizontal lines in the upper RIGHT to see the buttons. Fill in the necessary information on the registration form and create a password.
Although there is no registration fee, there is a nonrefundable submission fee of $10 per submitted work. While you may submit up to four works, a maximum of three works will be accepted into the festival per artist.
To submit work to the exhibition:
Watch the following video to learn more...