Thursday, January 08, 2009

Houston Center For Contemporary Craft: Asher Gallery Retail Sales

Deadline: Ongoing/Unspecified


Asher Gallery Retail Sales

Houston Center For Contemporary Craft
Houston, TX


Asher Gallery, within Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, is a retail showcase for acclaimed local, emerging, and international artists in all craft media. Asher Gallery accepts work based on a number of criteria:

Design: includes originality, creativity, use of color and suitability of materials

Craft Skills: finishing details, technical skills and experience with the materials, function and/or decorative merit

Sales: marketing, pricing and product presentation

Contact Asher Gallery Retail Manager Suzanne Sippel at ssippel@crafthouston.org or 713.529.4848 x202 to make an appointment.

Asher Gallery Submission Guidelines
  • Five (5) to fifteen (15) images in jpg format of your work with dimensions and materials listed.
    Please include a range of pieces to best assess your work.

  • Retail prices for the works submitted.
    Please take into account that Asher Gallery is a 50/50 split consignment gallery.

  • An artist statement under 200 words describing the processes used in the creation of your work and the ideas or concepts that you are interested in communicating.
The following categories of craft can be submitted to the Retail Coordinator:

  • Objects of clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass and other repurposed or recycled materials

  • Craft using manufactured parts, pieces or fabrics if these materials are subordinate to the total design and production of the end product

  • Kits, class or workshop projects will not be considered.
Please note that although work might meet all of the criteria at an acceptable level, the Retail Manager reserves the right to refuse work based on suitability to the atmosphere of the Asher Gallery spaces, the number of artists and available space.

Artists may continue to submit presentations to the Retail Manager as new bodies of work are created, as these will be considered separately from original submissions.

Visit website for complete guideline: Asher Gallery Submission Guidelines