Monumental Washington

Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group & The American University Museum

Exhibit dates: February 8 - May 18, 2025

JURIED BY: Laura Roulet

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, December 9 (received by 11:59pm EST through the submission site EntryThingy)

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The Washington Sculptors Group is excited to partner with the American University Museum for an exhibition of outdoor work. For Monumental Washington, artists are invited to submit images of existing large scale, freestanding sculptures. All work must be suitable for display outdoors during late winter/early spring months without the need for maintenance. Works will be installed in the museum’s outdoor sculpture garden, which has concrete floors and walls—all work must be free-standing and require no anchoring.

Laura Roulet

Laura Roulet is an independent curator and writer, specializing in contemporary and Latin American art. She was one of five international curators chosen for the initial 5×5, a major public art initiative in Washington DC. She organized the 60th anniversary exhibition for the Washington Print Club at the Kreeger Museum, “The DMV Collects the DMV.” Other recent exhibitions include “The Human Flood,” “Landscape in an Eroded Field,” and “Foon Sham: Escape” (American University Museum, Katzen Center); “A Dark and Scandalous Rockfall” (Mexican Cultural Institute); and “Brian Michael Reed, In the Crosscurrent” (Huntington Museum of Art, WV). International exhibits include the OAS Art Museum of the Americas as well as exhibits in Mexico City and Puerto Rico.  She was a mentoring curator at the D.C. Arts Center and the first mentoring curator at VisArts in Rockville, MD. She is a regular contributor to Sculpture magazine. Her catalogue essay “Aglutinación: The Collective Spirit of Puerto Rican Art” is included in Relational Undercurrents, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Her other publications include many catalogue essays, articles in American Art, Art Journal, and Art Nexus, and the book Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: the Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse and the Termite. She worked on the Ana Mendieta retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2004, and contributed to that catalogue.

ELIGIBILITY

The exhibition is open to members of the Washington Sculptors Group only. Artists who are not already members may join WSG by paying annual dues of $45 ($15 for full-time students). Prospective members may download a membership form from the WSG website www.washingtonsculptors.org, and send checks, along with the membership form, to the WSG address, or may join online through PayPal on the WSG website. Existing WSG members must renew their dues for 2025 to be eligible for this exhibition.

Please contact exhibits@washingtonsculptors.org with any questions. Membership questions please contact membership@washingtonsculptors.org

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Monday, December 9 (received by 11:59pm EST)

Monumental Washington will be juried from digital images submitted through the EntryThingy site, and there is a $5 processing fee for uploading images. No entries will be accepted by mail or email.

Artists can upload submissions through EntryThingy

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Individual artists or teams may submit existing large scale, freestanding sculpture suitable for long-term, outdoor exposure without requiring anchoring or any maintenance. Work must be fabricated and installed in a viewer-safe manner.
  • Each artist or team may submit up to three (3) works, with two images per work (maximum of six images). Submissions must be made through the EntryThingy website (see instructions below).
  • Submissions MUST be anonymous—please remove any identifying labels from titles, file names, images, statements, etc. Submissions that are not anonymous will be disqualified.
  • Accepted work must be delivered in person on the dates listed in the calendar below. Artwork will be delivered to the Katzen Arts Center loading dock and Museum staff will assist in moving artwork through the building and into the sculpture garden for installation. Artwork must be adequately packed and ready for transport using dollies or carts through hallways and elevators.
  • All sculptures must fit through the loading dock entrance and museum elevator, maximum dimensions of 75” H x 46” W x 98” L.
  • Works should be free-standing and cannot be bolted into the concrete of the sculpture garden. There are no electrical outlets available. Sculpture should be suitable for outdoor exposure as well as fabricated and installed in a viewer-safe manner. Artists are responsible for any maintenance of the work.
  • Artists are solely responsible for delivery and installation of their accepted work on the specified installation date, and de-installation of their work on the pick-up date. Staff will be available on-site to supervise installation. All work accepted and exhibited must remain on display for the full duration of the show. WSG and the American University Museum cannot receive shipments of artwork or mail inquiries.
  • You can view a floorplan of the sculpture garden here. Please note that the doors that appear to open into the galleries from the garden here are emergency doors and are not thruways.

Download Sculpture Garden Plan with Measurements

 

INSURANCE, COMMISSIONS, AND SALES: American University insures works on loan after the work is delivered and the loan agreement is signed. Insurance during transportation is the responsibility of the artist. All inquiries regarding sales and sales must go directly through the artist. American University does not handle sales or take commissions on any sold work.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTRYTHINGY

Please view this instructional video on using EntryThingy if you need help and feel free to contact us at exhibits@washingtonsculptors.org if you have any questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvvRAM85ZAM

  • All submissions must be anonymous.
  • Submit all images with a resolution of 300 dpi and a maximum of 2MB each. Video files must be smaller than 50MB each (about five minutes).
  • Files should be named with only the title of the work (no first or last names). Use the actual title for each work. Example:

Title 1.jpeg

Title 1 (detail).jpeg

Title 2.jpeg

etc.

  • The EntryThingy platform allows you to submit a statement about how your work relates to the exhibition’s requirements. It also offers you a chance to provide a brief description of each work along with a title, dimensions, etc. To avoid being disqualified, do not include your name in either the statement or any of the description paragraphs.
  1. Applicants should go to http://www.entrythingy.com/ and click on the tab (at the top) “for artists”.
  2. Click on “list of current calls”.
  3. Scroll down and click on the Monumental Washington listing.
  4. Create a login account to http://www.entrythingy.com/ if you don’t have an account, or if you do, login to your existing account with the “Click here to login” button.  After logging in, select the Monumental Washington call and complete the entry steps.
  5. There is a $5 entry fee.
  6. All applicants will receive ‘accepted’ or ‘not accepted’ notifications via email.

Please contact exhibits@washingtonsculptors.org with any questions.

CALENDAR

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, February 8 – Sunday, May 18, 2025

Call for Entry Posted: Monday, November 4, 2024

Submission Deadline: Monday, December 9 (received by 11:59pm EST)

Jurying Period: Tuesday, December 10 – Sunday, December 15

Artist Notification: by Wednesday, December 18

Drop off & Installation: Monday, February 3 (10am – 4pm)

Alternate dates: Friday, January 31 (10am – 4pm)

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8, 2025

Artist /Juror Talk: TBD

Deinstallation/Pick up: May 19 – 21, 2025

Please contact exhibits@washingtonsculptors.org with any questions.

Submission Deadline: Monday, December 9 (received by 11:59pm EST through the submission site EntryThingy)

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The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

About The American University Museum

The American University Museum hosts rotating exhibitions of contemporary art from around the globe and the Alper Initiative, a dedicated research and display space for the art history of Washington, DC. The museum is located on American University’s main campus in the Katzen Arts Center.

The museum is a three-story public museum and sculpture garden located within the university’s dynamic and multidisciplinary Katzen Arts Center. The region’s largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum has a permanent collection that highlights our Corcoran Legacy Collection, Watkins Collection, and The Rothfeld Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art.

Rotating exhibitions emphasize regional, national, and international contemporary art. The museum’s collections enable us to present the art history of Washington, while our Kunsthalle style ensures constantly changing, highly relevant and provocative programming.

 

4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016