Prospectus
FORM + FIRE
A Juried Contemporary Clay Exhibit
hosted by Indian River Clay
Vero Beach, FL
March 7, 2025 to March 21,2025
Location:
Raw Space Gallery
Vero Beach, FL
This exhibition will highlight contemporary ceramic artwork and the artists working in this diversified medium. The show is open to functional, sculptural, decorative and experimental pieces that feature clay as the primary material.
Vero Beach is an elegant coastal city located along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Known to be a culturally rich town, it is home to a professional theater, art museum, world class resorts and Indian River Clay.
Indian River Clay is a 501C3 non-profit studio that has 60 working potters and a waiting list of over 100. We have fostered interest in and curiosity about ceramic art through our Outreach Programs and classes, and in turn our community has responded in resounding ways to support us. Bringing a high quality clay art exhibition to the area for the third year in a row has created much excitement and anticipation.
Juror - Bruce Helander
Bruce Helander is an internationally recognized artist-critic-curator based in Wellington, Florida.
His specialty is collage and assemblage and his work is in over fifty museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. His collages appear in The New Yorker and many other magazines.
He has a master’s degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he later became assistant Dean of Admission, then Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the college. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and has won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in the visual arts. He is an inductee member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, alongside Rauschenberg and Hemmingway. He has juried over 1000 events for museums including the Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Museum and many gallery and art center exhibitions.
Bruce is an in-demand arts writer and critic and some of his art columns in the Huffington Post have received over 1,000,000 views.
Raw Space Gallery
Located in Very Beach, Florida, the gallery provides an ongoing platform of exhibits, Artist-In-Residence programs, workshops and events that have made a strong impact in the community, strengthening the dialogue between artists and audiences. Founder Silvia Medina and her team believe in the power of art to inspire and transform lives.
Application:
-Application fee is $45 for up to 3 pieces
-Online submissions only through Juried Art Services
-Application fees are non-refundable
Size Restrictions:
There are no size restrictions. However if your piece needs installation or special handling, please contact us directly at formandfire@indianriverclay.org
Eligibility:
All artists working in clay are eligible to enter. All entries are welcome.
Submissions:
-All submitted pieces must meet the requirements outlined in the prospectus. Any accepted works that deviate from these parameters will be rejected and returned to the artist at the artist’s expense. While IRC will treat each piece with care and respect, IRC will be held blameless for any damage to the art. It is the responsibility of the artist to insure his/her work.
- The label, included in the acceptance letter, must be securely attached to each piece of art.
- Delivered art must coincide with the submitted digital files and must be in pristine condition, ready to install with an appropriate base if necessary. IRC will provide display pedestals.
-The jurying process will employ digital files provided by the artist.
-Upon acceptance into the exhibit, artists will receive instructions for shipping/delivering art to Indian River Clay.
Digital Format Guidelines:
Kindly review the Juried Art Services image format guide by clicking here.
-Submit two digital images for each work, one frontal and one detail
-File format JPEG, PNG, or HEIC
-File dimensions 750 pixels or greater on shortest side
- File size up to 10,000 pixels
-Maximum of 50MB per image
Special Note: Indian River Clay encourages you to send the best quality image files you can. The images you send are the only representations of your work the juror will see when considering your entry. These files are also the ones used in advertising and printed materials. Photos should be in sharp focus, showing all edges, well lit with correct color and no distortions. Again, the delivered work must match the digital files submitted or the work will not be accepted.
Sales and Commissions:
-All work must be for sale. IRC will collect and file sales tax for all sold pieces.
-IRC retains 35% commission from all sales.
Artists are responsible for delivery and pickup of all unsold art. Artists are responsible for shipping and insuring of accepted work, both to and from the exhibit. Details for shipping will be provided once the jurying process is completed. All packages must be shipped “Signature Required”.
By submitting your artwork to this exhibition, you agree to loan your artwork to Indian River Clay for the time period described in the event prospectus. You understand that the cost of insuring and shipping this artwork to IRC in Vero Beach, FL, as well as the cost to insure and ship it back to you at the end of the exhibition is your responsibility. You further agree to permit the images and/or detail images of your work as well as your artist statement to be used in media, including print and online to advertise the exhibition.
Please note: Indian River Clay collects and pays sales tax. Artists will receive 65% from the sale of their work and Indian River Clay/Raw Space receives 35% commission.
All art must remain on display through the duration of the exhibit.
Indian River Clay
1239 16th Street
Vero Beach, Florida 32960
772-202-8598
Timeline:
•Call To Artists opens – October 1, 2024
•Applications due – January 15, 2025
•Notification of Acceptance – February 7, 2025
•Artwork delivered to Indian River Clay – Hand delivered: March1, 2025 from 10 AM to 2 PM. Shipped: February 20 through February 28, 2025
•Exhibit Opens/Artist’s Reception – March 7, 2025 from 5 to 8 PM
•Exhibit Closes – March 21, 2025
•Unsold work picked up on March 22, 2025 between 10 AM and 2 PM at Raw Space, 1795 Old Dixie Hwy, Vero Beach, Florida
•Unsold shipped works packed and shipped by March 30, 2025
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