CALL FOR ENTRIES
Menino Arts Center, 26 Central Ave, Hyde Park, MA, 02136
Deadline for Entries: Monday, July 7, 11:59 pm, 2025
Exhibit Title: Stitch, Fabric and Fiber, 2025
artworks created whose primary materials consists of natural or synthetic fibers or textiles, and/or threads.
Does your work in 2D and 3D contemporary fibers push the boundaries of traditional forms?
Exhibition Dates: Monday, August 11th – Friday, October 24th (11 weeks)
Works will be curated and displayed both physically at the Menino Arts Center and online in a virtual 3D gallery where you can enter, stroll, and view at your own pace.
Artists Reception: TBD, Saturday, Sept 6, OR Sept 13, 3 – 5pm
Acceptance Notification: Thursday, July 10, 5pm by email and posted on the HPAA website at http://www.hpaa-mac.org/exhibits/.
Juror: L’Merchie Frazier
• Website: https://lmerchiefrazier.org/
• Halsey McKay Gallery https://www.halseymckay.com/artists/lmerchier-frazier
L’MERCHIE FRAZIER is a Boston based visual activist and artist /educator /consultant and currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative and Strategic Partnerships at SPOKE Art. She also serves as an art commissioner for the State of Massachusetts. She is a twenty-five year member of WCQN, Women of Color Quilter’s Network. She utilizes the healing power of art as Director of Creative Engagement for the Transformative Action Project to address trauma, crisis and violence.
L’Merchie has remained an active and pivotal member of the New England Community for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited in the public and private collections of numerous institutions— University of Vermont, the American Museum of Art and Design, New York, The White House, and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and appeared in numerous publications— A History of Art in Africa, by Monica Visona, International Review of African American Art, Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama and Spirits of the Cloth, by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. Boston-Art Review: Face to Face,2022
Her work is currently represented by Halsey McKay Gallery.
Curator: Sasja Lucas. You can visit Sasja's profile and artwork online at http://www.sasjalucas.com
Co-curator: Mary Harman. instagram@maryharman
The Menino Arts Center is run by the Hyde Park Art Association, a 501c(3) organization. The MAC serves the neighborhood of Hyde Park, Greater Boston and its suburban counterparts. With over 4000 square feet of space, the MAC is home to a large teaching classroom, seven affordable artist studios, three galleries, an auditorium and the organization’s offices. The mission of the HPAA is to support local artists, make cultural opportunities accessible to families, students, and seniors who may not otherwise have the means to participate; enrich community life, serve as a unifying force in the neighborhood; and help create a more vibrant commercial district.
Submission Fee:
HPAA Members: $30 for up to three pieces
Non Members: $40 for up to three pieces
Eligibility: This call is open to all artists
If you are applying as an HPAA member, your HPAA membership must be up-to-date. For info on HPAA membership please visit http://www.hpaa-mac.org/hpaa-membership/.
For Member discount, please update membership prior to filling out this form.
Size Requirements:
Wall hanging: 2D work (or work that can hang on a wall) cannot exceed 72" H x 72" W x 8" Depth
3D works: cannot exceed H 72” x W 30”. Artists must provide their own pedestal and materials to secure work to the base/pedestal.
Artworks exhibited at the MAC and/or HPAA in the last two years are not eligible.
Framing Guidelines: Ready to hang. Wall pieces must have either sleeves and artist-supplied dowels for hanging OR a securely attached wire, not visible when hung. If mailing in your work, you do not need to supply dowels. Artists must provide their own pedestal and hardware for 3D works which must be able to be secured to the pedestal at installation. If mailing in your 3D work, you do not need to supply a pedestal.
All work will be juried (with no reference to your name), using the jpegs submitted.
Image Upload Guidelines: The most important aspect of the virtual 3D gallery is that the artwork is ONLY displayed by the jpgs submitted so the quality should be the best it can be. It is understood that the size of the work might necessitate seeing a bit of the background in the jpg. This background may be digitally removed by the curator for the online presentation.
1. Save entries as a jpeg at 1500 pixels on the longest side at 72 DPI.
2. Entries will be juried with no reference to your name.
3. Label the jpeg with the Title only. Ex: The Green Stripe.jpg
4. This title must match the Title of Entry. Ex: The Green Stripe
Please retitle jpgs as needed.
Labels: The Menino Arts Center will make the proper Gallery labels. The labels/notecards you make are for artwork identification only.
1) Label/note card with Name, Email and Phone # must be securely fixed/pinned to the back of the artwork. Tape on all sides.
2) Label/notecard with Name and Title must be removable, fixed/pinned, to the front.
Drop-off at the Menino Arts Center:
Mon, Aug 4, 7pm - 9pm (2 hrs)
Tues, Aug 5, 8am - 10am (2hrs)
Mailed In Work: arrive any time before Monday, July 28
Send shipped work to Sasja Lucas, Curator, 46 Norway Park, Hyde Park, MA.
You must include a pre-paid return label from USPS, UPS or FEDEX with your shipment.
Please note, there are size restrictions using USPS. For example: A box 48” L x 36”W x 5” depth(to include packaging) is the MAX that can be mailed. Check https://postcalc.usps.com/ Please use a sturdy box that can be reused for return. Your work will be returned shortly after de-installation provided you have adhered to all instructions for their safe return.
Sales: All artwork may be for sale. The HPAA retains 30% of the sale price. Please price work accordingly. If not for sale, please write NFS in Price of Entry. Sales will be coordinated through the Menino Arts Center at www.hpaa-mac.org
Accepted artists will be asked to write a paragraph or two about why, how, with whom they make fiber art, and how they source materials. Please write in a 1 page Word document 12 pt type, Calibri.
Pick-Up at MAC:
Mon, Oct 27, 7pm - 9pm (2hrs)
Tues, Oct 28, 8am - 10am (2hrs)
Artwork not claimed will be considered a donation to the MAC.
Liabilities and Responsibilities: The Menino Arts Center will not be responsible for loss or damage of any artwork, no matter what the cause. By submitting artwork to this exhibition, each artist agrees to this statement. Artwork is not insured by HPAA-MAC during the exhibition. Adequate insurance is the sole responsibility of the artist.
No artwork (real or virtual) may be removed before the close of the exhibition.
Publicity: By entering this exhibition, the artist gives consent that the submitted images can be used by the Menino Arts Center for reproduction in print and on social media, for publicity and educational purposes, with artist credit given.
Questions: email hpaamacsubmissions@gmail.com