CALL FOR ENTRIES - NYC Urban Sketcher Art Exhibit - “Virtual Sketching in Time of Covid”

Where: New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007

When: August 15 - October 7, 2022

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022

Eligibility: NYC Urban Sketcher virtual art, i.e., artwork created from photographs or digital references, between March 2020 and the present

For this exhibit, digital photographs of all work will be submitted electronically to a Google Forms site. Technical specifications for the digital submissions are contained in the Google Forms links below. There are no entry fees and a limit of two submissions per person. A jury of three people independent of NYC Urban Sketchers will select the work. Like the exhibit at Grand Central Terminal in 2021, the art selected will be reproduced in large format and printed on paper for display at the library. Please be sure to select images for submission carefully. After submission, you cannot replace them. 

For more information and to enter your submission:

(a.) for gmail accountholders, use this link:    https://forms.gle/EuZG8N8v5b8oykkr6

(b) for non-gmail accountholders, use this link:     https://forms.gle/wkFN2ppmN5r4AHqQ7

Please note:  a second exhibit of NYC Urban Sketcher art will take place at the New Amsterdam Library, January 9 - February 27, 2023, featuring work created in 2022 on location (not from photographs), below 14th Street in Manhattan. A similar submission and reproduction process will be followed. Be sure to check out upcoming sketch locations by the weekend and weekday sketch groups. They will be visiting many sites below 14th Street in the next six months. Stay tuned for more information.