Call for Artists: 2024 Annual Member Show

2024 ANNUAL MEMBER SHOW
March 1–31, 2024
Guilford Free Library, 67 Park St.

Special (Optional) Theme
“Chasing the Light”

Special Event
Poetry Reading by the Guilford Poets Guild

Receiving: Friday, March 1, 9:30–11:30 am, Community Room

Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 6–7:30 pm.
Please bring some yummy finger foods!

Poetry Reading: Sunday, March 17, 1:30–3:30 pm
Community Room

Pick up: Saturday, March 30, 9:30–11:30 am

Requirements:
One piece only • Maximum size 36” in height or width, including frame • No sculpture • $10 entry fee • NFS (not for sale) is acceptable • Membership dues can be paid at receiving • Subject matter should be appropriate for children • All work must be properly wired for hanging • Click here to get the entry tag • Tags also available at receiving.

NOTE — If you can’t drop off or pick up at these times, please find someone who can do it for you, or contact Brooke Sheldon to make other arrangements (contact info below).

“Chasing the Light”
All entries are welcome but we’d love you to consider submitting a piece that reflects a quality of light (or its absence). Light is fleeting, ephemeral, essential. Feel free to play with the idea of light. We look forward to your entries! 

Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens with
a love like that,
it lights the whole sky.
—Hafez

Poetry Event
On Sunday, March 17, 1:30–3:30 pm, members of the Guilford Poets Guild will read poetry inspired by our paintings in this show. GAL has held ekphrastic poetry readings—poems inspired by other works of art—in the past. They have always been very popular, and we are delighted to “collaborate” with the poets guild again.

We look forward to seeing everyone’s work in the show, and we hope to meet you all at the reception and the poetry reading! Questions? Contact Brooke Sheldon, sheldon1776@gmail.com, 203-745-7803