Fenimore Art Museum Now Accepting Artist Submissions for Its Annual Art by the Lake Event
Painters, photographers, and sculptors are invited to submit their work
Cooperstown, New York — Fenimore Art Museum is currently accepting artist submissions for its annual juried summer art invitational, Art by the Lake, taking place Saturday, August 10. Painters, photographers, and sculptors are invited to submit their work. Selected artists will have the opportunity to display, demonstrate, and sell their art during the event.
Awards will be presented featuring cash prizes.
The application deadline is May 31, 2024 (5:00pm).
Applications received after this date will not be considered. A non-refundable $15 application fee is required upon submission. To apply, please visit FenimoreArtMuseum.org/abtl.
Be sure to check out the Fenimore Art Museum’s Food For Thought Lunch and Lecture Series on Mohawk Valley Museums.
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.
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