21st Annual Juried Exhibition CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas is accepting submissions for our Annual Juried Show.  As we move into our 21st year as a non-profit contemporary arts organization we are for the first time accepting digital entries. Our goal is to accommodate a larger spectrum of entries at the gallery.  Due to the enthusiastic response in years’ past, the gallery can no longer accommodate the high volume of physical work during the jury process.  Accepting digital media will also encourage trans-disciplinary artists to expand their potential entries for jury consideration. This year also marks the first national call for entries to the juried exhibition, as we broaden the scope of the work and support our mission to “connect with fellow artists within and beyond our own community.”  We look forward to your submissions!

Open to any artist 16 years of age or older.  All mediums will be considered. There are no size restrictions, though work must fit through our gallery door.

Jeff Gauntt was born in 1967 in Pasadena, Texas, where he grew up and received his BFA in painting from The University of Houston in 1992. In 1993 he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he resided through 2007. Upon moving there, he began working towards his MFA in painting at Pratt Institute until 1996, which was later completed in 2007.
In 1999 he received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, and in 2000 his work was included in the first Greater New York exhibition at PS1. Beginning in 2000, his work was represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, wherein he had his first solo exhibition in 2001. Since that time, Jeff has had two additional exhibitions with them. In 2005 his paintings, along with an installation, were included in Painting the Edge, a survey of contemporary painting at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul Korea. In 2006, Jeff’s paintings and an installation were featured in the group exhibition, Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, at the Visual Arts Museum in New York. During the same year, he also had his first solo exhibition at Inman Gallery in Houston, TX, which incorporated the gallery’s architectural space into a large-scale installation, which including paintings, drawings, sculptural elements and video. In the autumn of 2007, Jeff was the Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he installed another large-scale installation for the Artist-In-Residence Biennial Exhibition at Ewing Gallery. In late 2008, Jeff moved to Los Angeles where he has been balancing his time completing an ambitious new body of work, along with teaching art classes.  In 2009, Jeff was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Jeff’s work has been positively reviewed by Roberta Smith, of The New York Times, Jerry Saltz, of New York Magazine, and Andrea Scott, of The New Yorker, amongst others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Chambers Hotel, The Progressive Art Collection, and various private collections.
http://jeffgauntt.com/

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is and has always been an artist-centered organization. We achieve our mission to support exceptional talent by providing time and space for the creative life of artists and produce programs that catalyze their work to engage and challenge the public. Our programs seek to partner with artists working at the forefront of contemporary culture.

The Bemis Center provides time, space and monthly stipends to nearly 30 national and international artists annually through our Artists-In-Residence program, presents progressive solo and group Exhibitions free to the public, and coalesces the local arts community through our Community Arts programs. In the past seven years, we have made significant strides in public programming including large-scale public art projects, progressive education initiatives, adventurous music programming, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. The Bemis Center strives to serve as a cultural hub that exists in and of its city and empowers audiences to think differently about contemporary life.

The Contemporary Arts Center receives a 30% commission from all works of art designated for sale.  Clark County sales tax is 8.1%. 

Please read the Contemporary Arts Center’s shipping and insurance policies below.  By submitting artwork for consideration for the 2010 Annual Juried Show, the Artist acknowledges and accepts the stated terms.

Shipping and insurance
Please read the Contemporary Arts Center’s shipping and insurance policies.  By submitting artwork for consideration for the 2010 Annual Juried Show, the Artist acknowledges and accepts the stated terms.

SHIPPING/DELIVERING: The exhibiting artist is responsible for all applicable charged related to the preparation, packaging, insuring, and shipping of artwork to and from the Gallery. The Contemporary Arts Center is not responsible for packaging, shipping, or handling of artwork. Artist assumes all responsibility and holds CAC harmless for any damage to any artwork submitted by the Artist to the CAC during shipping of artwork to and from the CAC. Artist may choose his or her own preferred art shipper.

INSURANCE AND AGREEMENT TO HOLD HARMLESS: It is the Artist’s responsibility to insure all pieces submitted for exhibition, and the Artist agrees to obtain such insurance prior to shipping or otherwise delivering any artwork to The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC,) or the Artist agrees to hold CAC harmless and to waive all claims or causes of action against CAC for any and all damages, loss, or injury caused to any person or person’s personal property by the artwork submitted to the CAC or by the artist or persons affiliated with the artist.  The Artist waives all claims and causes of action against The Contemporary Arts Center, it’s officers, directors, employees, and volunteers, arising from or relating to the exhibition of his/her artwork at the CAC.


The CAC would like to thank Jim Stanford and Lynn Morris, Marty Walsh and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts for their sponsorship of our Annual Juried Exhibition.



The Contemporary Arts Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 art organization dedicated to presenting new, high quality, visual, and performing art, while striving to build, educate, and sustain audiences for contemporary art.  The CAC strives to provide a place where artists can learn about best practices, test new ideas in the public arena, and connect with fellow artists within and beyond our own community.  http://www.lasvegascac.org/