OH + 5 '10

Deadline: OCTOBER 30, 2009 (RECEIVE)

OH + 5 '10
All-media, juried art exhibition
The Dairy Barn Arts Center
Athens, Ohio
January 15 - February 28, 2010


OH+5 is The Dairy Barn’s seventh biennial, all-media, juried art exhibition featuring artists from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. OH+5 was created with the goal of featuring a wide array of contemporary art that varies in size, style, and media. This year’s OH+5 exhibition will expand viewers’ awareness and appreciation of the variety of media, techniques and innovative trends in contemporary art.

Work may be created in any media. Innovative, contemporary work is encouraged.

AUTHORSHIP
Works eligible for consideration must be the result of independent effort. The work must be an original design, not a copy or a variation on the original design of another artist working in any medium.

DATE OF WORK
All entries must be NEW work – completed after Sept. 1, 2008. Work with any publication or exhibition history prior to Sept, 2008 is ineligible.

ENTRY FEE
A non-refundable entry fee of $35.00 must accompany the entry submission.
This fee entitles entrants to submit as many as three works. No artist may submit more than three works.

Jurors include:

Brian Harper (IN) - Assistant Professor of Fine Art and Ceramics Area Head at Indiana University Southeast. Additionally, he is the founder of Artaxis.org, an online network of artists that showcases the work of over 150 artists influential in the current development of contemporary ceramic art.

Dennis Harrington (OH) - Director of the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery.

Simone Osthoff (PA) - Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fulbright Fellow and a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad having participated in dozens of conferences worldwide. Osthoff is the author of Performing the Archive, Atropos Press, forthcoming 2009.

The judges will select works based on originality and innovation, design, technique, and craftsmanship.
Acceptances will be granted on the basis of digital images.

Click here for a printable entry form and rules: dairybarn.org/RULES_ENTRYFINAL [pdf]

website: dairybarn.org

DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS TO:
Jill Smalley, Exhibitions Director
Telephone: 740.592.4981
or e-mail: jill@dairybarn.org

THE DAIRY BARN ARTS CENTER
P.O. BOX 747
ATHENS , OHIO 45701 - 0747 USA