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Gallery
Artist Membership Information
The
SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER
offers a special category of membership for exhibiting artists.
We invite you to join us in a venture that benefits you
in exposure, referrals, and sales while enabling the Art
Center to serve the expanding cultural needs of the South
Shore and eastern Massachusetts.
QUALIFICATIONS
FOR MEMBERSHIP:
A Gallery Artist member must be a professional, consistently
working in his or her field, with a body of work large
enough to meet a frequent showing schedule. Gallery Artist
exhibitions are open to all genres and media.
APPLICATION
PROCESS:
Applicants submit portfolios to a selection jury meeting
in April or October. Artists should deliver seven or eight
original works, although framing and pedestals are not
mandatory for the critique. In addition, a slide sheet of
up to twelve different images is strongly suggested.
Slides should represent images, not presented as part of
the original works. Applicants should prepare a checklist
with artist’s name, title and year of work, medium and
dimensions. All slides must be clearly labeled with the
same information, and also marked to indicate front side
and top edge. The jurying is a blind process, but
applicants should include a resume and artist statement
for use by the staff.
ORGANIZATION:
The SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER is a non-profit educational institution
governed by a volunteer board of directors. The membership
incorporated in 1958, and a copy of the bylaws is
available on request. The Art Center serves as a focal
point for the arts on the South Shore of Boston and draws
its members and potential buyers from the entire New
England area. Since 1987 the Art Center has been housed in
a two-story modernist facility designed by Vcevold
Strekalovsky. The building is located in a high-traffic
area of Cohasset Center and consists on the ground floor
of an entranceway gallery and gift counter, a reception
area and office, the Bancroft Gallery and the Dillon
Gallery, with classroom studios, a photographic darkroom
and student gallery on the second floor. Satellite
locations for exhibiting artists include the Landmark
Building in Boston, the South Shore Conservatory in
Hingham, and the Paul Pratt Library in Cohasset.
PRIVILEGES
and RESPONSIBILITIES:
Membership as a Gallery Artist includes the opportunity
to exhibit in group shows in the Dillon Gallery or solo
or group shows at a satellite location on a rotating schedule;
and referral of buyers to the Artist as appropriate. These
opportunities are in addition to all privileges of individual
membership. The Artist will pay the annual dues designated
for Gallery Artists, which currently are $45 per year.
Gallery Artists are encouraged to donate a minimum of
ten hours per year to the Art Center, and those who do
so will receive a full rebate of annual dues applied to
the following year’s renewal of membership.
ART
SALES:
Gallery Artists receive 60% of the sale price of works
sold in Art Center galleries or satellite locations, with
the exception of the Paul Pratt Library where Gallery
Artists receive 70%. Gallery Artists pay to the Art Center,
as a commission, 15% of the price of any work sold to
a buyer when the sale occurs primarily as a result of
a referral from the staff or a member of the Board of
Directors.
GALLERY
ARTIST SELECTION JURY meets in
April and October. Please call the office for specific
dates.
Pick-up
dates will be scheduled by the Art Center office. Call
Sarah Hannan, Executive Director, with any questions.
SOUTH
SHORE ART CENTER – 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA 02025 – (781) 383-ARTS
www.ssac.org
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