BEDLAM IS BACK! This time, we’re celebrating Poetry Month!

Please join us for our latest Bedlam show, Poetic Bedlam. Let’s embrace the inner poet in each of us. A favorite poem might inspire you or simply enter a piece you feel “poetically” speaks to you. If inspired by a poem, feel free to bring a copy to hang alongside your piece.

Bedlam shows at the Guild are always popular. Our members come together and hang artwork anywhere in the gallery at any height, sideways or even upside-down! We supply the hammers and nails. Hanging this way is meant to cause a creative chaos…BEDLAM! It’s a fun and carefree way of showing your work, always enticing good conversation.

EXHIBITION PROSPECTUS

This is NOT a juried show.

This show is open to members only.

All work MUST be hand-delivered.

All work MUST be for sale.

FOR FASTER AND MORE COMPLETE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO GRACE AT:

exhibitions@ridgefieldguild.org

Easy Breezy instructions:

Come to Ridgefield Guild of Artists for receiving on either Friday, March 27th from 2-4pm or Saturday, March 28th, from 2-4pm. Bring your submission fee, fill out an entry form and wall tag for each piece, grab a hammer and nail, and hang it up on the wall. That’s where the bedlam begins! No equipment is necessary – the Guild has lots of tools and stepladders.

Entry Fees:

Members ONLY: $10 per piece.

To become a member, you can either do so before entering by going to our website www.rgoa.org or calling the Guild at 203-438-8863. Or, for this show, you can also join at drop off.

Important Dates:

Drop off to Gallery: Friday, March 27 or Saturday, March 28, both from 2 to 4pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 28, 4 to 6pm

Closed for Easter: Sunday, April 5

Last View: Sunday, April 12 from 12 to 4pm

Walk and Talk: Sunday, April 12 from 2:30 to 4pm

Pickup of unsold work*: Sunday, April 12 from 4 – 5pm and Monday, April 13 from 2 to 4 pm

*All work must be picked up during the pick-up periods or a $20 late fee will be applied. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you cannot be there yourself, please arrange with a friend or family member to pick up your work for you. The Guild cannot be responsible for works left behind.

Eligibility:

Artists 16 and older are eligible to enter. Original works are accepted in all media, created within the past 3 years and never previously exhibited at the Guild.

Details:

Bring your pieces ready to be installed by you!

Any size work accepted…large, small and anything in between, including diptychs and triptychs.

Works must be wired and ready to hang in a secure, professional manner.

All work must be for sale.

Submit as many pieces as you like, but not any already shown in our gallery!

Sculpture is welcome and should be secure on its base for safety reasons. The Guild does have pedestals if needed.

All work must stay in the galleries for the entire run of the show. No exceptions.

RGOA Policies/Sales and Indemnity

Terms:

1) Sales Commission: 60% to artist, 40% to RGA.

2) The Ridgefield Guild of Artists (RGA) agrees to handle all exhibitors’ work with care and caution; however, RGA is not responsible for damage to, or theft of any work brought for exhibit or left at the Guild after the duration of the show.

3) Sale of any work that is part of this exhibition in our gallery, or work commissioned because of this show, must be processed through the Guild for a period of sixty days following the conclusion of the show.