All Florida Competition and Exhibition

61st Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition
May 30 - July 8

The Museum's All Florida exhibition annually showcases the best prominent and emerging Florida artists working in all media today. As the state's oldest annual juried competition, the Museum's All Florida has introduced the work of thousands of Florida artists - emerging, under-recognized, and established younger and mid-career artists.

Representing a dynamic contemporary cross-section of our state's talent, the 61st All Florida Juried Exhibition reinforces the Museum's commitment to Florida artists, provides professional exhibition opportunities for emerging artists, and reveals a provocative glimpse - through Florida artists' eyes - of the state-of-the-art today.

The juror for the 61st Annual All Florida will be Valerie Cassel Oliver. Valerie is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston where she has been based since Fall, 2000. Prior to this, she was director of the Visiting Artist Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996-2000)  and program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1988-1995).  In 1999, she was selected as part of a team of curators that co-organized the 2000 Biennial for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She has lectured widely and has published extensively on contemporary art. In 2006, she received a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship and, was among the ten fellows selected for the 2009 class for the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York.  In 2010, she was the recipient of the prestigious David Driskell Prize which honors  contributions to the field of African American art and art history.

She is on the advisory editorial board of the journal, Callaloo and functions in an advisory capacity for RxArt (New York) and Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City). She is also on the board of directors for Project Row Houses Houston.
 
Cassel Oliver is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin where she received a BS in Communications in 1987 and; Howard University in Washington, DC, where she earned a MA in Art History in 1992. As a result of her Curatorial Leadership training through CCL, she received a certificate of Executive Education from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 200

The Museum once again utilized the electronic online web-service, CaFÉ, www.callforentry.org to accept all applications. This year over 1,800 artworks by 600 artists were submitted for consideration. The final exhibition entries total 101 works by the following artists:

DROP-OFF & PICK-UP OF ORIGINAL WORKS

Original artwork accepted for exhibition must be dropped off between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM on May 22 or 23, 2012, and picked up between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM on July 9 or 10, 2012. Artworks will not be released to any person other than the artist without written authorization from the artist to the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

STORAGE CHARGES

Unless prior written permission is arranged, artworks not picked up by 5:00 PM, July 10, 2012 will be subject to an initial charge of $20 plus $5 for each additional business day. If not retrieved by August 31, 2012, any artwork will be considered a donation to be sold in the Annual Auction to benefit the Museum. Artists will be liable for all additional expenses including packing, transportation, insurance and off-site storage. No exceptions will be made.

SALES

The Boca Raton Museum of Art does not participate in the sale of artwork. Neither will the Museum provide any documents of authenticity. All inquiries will be directed to the artist or their representative.

CONTACT

Address all general questions via email correspondence to kbodle@bocamuseum.org

Address specific questions regarding shipping and handling to mhanahan@bocamuseum.org

CASH AWARDS

$4,000.00 will be distributed as follows:

IMPORTANT DATES

TUESDAY, May 22 and WEDNESDAY, May 23 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Drop-off of works selected for exhibition

SATURDAY, May 26 and SUNDAY,  May 27

Juror selects award winners 

TUESDAY, May 29

Opening reception, 6:00  to 9:00 PM 

Awards Presentation 7:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, May 30 to SUNDAY, July 8

Exhibition open to public

MONDAY, July 9 and TUESDAY, July 10 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Pick-up of artworks