First Art Show Poster

CALL FOR ART IS CURRENTLY OPEN

If you are an artist that wants to get your artwork seen, the UDEAC Erotic Art Show is a great place to start! We want to hear from up and coming artists in the erotic art genre who want the chance to be part of something different, for exposure and to hopefully sell work. 

We will be posting about the call for art on this website, as well as on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. If you are on the mailing list, we will also send an email out about the call for art being open. Sign up below to get notifications to your inbox.

The UDEAC invites artists to submit their work for its fifth erotic art show at Lady's Wicked Playground, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. This will be a one-night art festival that will feature dozens of quality erotic works in all the art forms.

Before submitting, please read and understand the requirements for submitting your work.

Each artist may submit up to five works for consideration. There is no fee for submitting artwork.

Date of the festival is June 20th, 2020

Submission rules and guidelines

1. Online Submissions only
2. Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, March 31st 2020 – NO LATER!
3. Notification of selected work: on or around Tuesday, April 7th 2020.
4. Artists are invited to submit Erotic Artwork in any medium and subject matter
5. All artists 18 years or older worldwide may enter the competition by submitting their own original work.
6. Erotic Art Exhibition welcomes submissions from both emerging and established artists.
7. All art work must be of original design – collaborations are acceptable
8. Art that goes on the wall (drawings, paintings, photography, etc) –  Maximum allowed size: 150cm width x 280cm height.
9. Floor Art (installation and sculpture) – Maximum allowed size: 300cm height x 80cm depth x 80cm height. MUST is self-supporting or mountable.
10. For video and performance please send YouTube/Vimeo links to johnnylemuria@gmail.com 
11. Artists and performers must be at least 18 years of age
12. Artists must keep a signed model release form and a copy of a government ID stating that models were at least 18 years of age and be available at our request
13. Installations requiring assembly by UDEAC must have prior approval or be installed the artist. For info about this, email johnnylemuria@gmail.com 
14. Artists may submit up to 5 works.
15. Image files must be in jpg (jpeg) format
16. File size requirements: 5MB maximum per image.
17. A single image of each piece is required sent as SEPARATE ATTACHMENTS NOT EMBEDDED / PASTED IN THE EMAIL If you are unsure on this, please zip your images up and use www.wetransfer.com to send the to johnnylemuria@gmail.com email address.
18. All art for sale should be priced by the artist. The UDEAC charges a 20% commission on all sold work. Please be clear on submission if your work is for sale and state the price including our commission in the appropriate box on the form(s) provided.
19. All submissions received will be viewed and selected by a jury formed by the UDEAC.
20. Selected Work: The Jury will select the work after the deadline and if your work is selected, it must arrive presentation ready (framed or ready to be installed with rear hanging attachments) – consider these costs when pricing your work.  Please do not send work not framed and ready to hang – we simply won’t be able to exhibit the work.
1. If your work is accepted, shipping TO AND FROM the exhibition and the costs associated with it is the responsibility of the Artist. This also includes customs and tracking of art. Due to the high number of art work being sent to us before the festival, we will not have any opportunity to notify artists when we receive their artwork – it is the responsibility of the Artist to follow deliver right through to delivery.  Please do not ask UDEAC if artwork has been delivered – check your tracking.  Some artists from the USA may have work held by customs – please ensure you use YOUR OWN EMAIL ADDRESS when booking couriers so they can notify you of any customs messages.  If you follow our instructions on customs, you should be able to avoid customs fees or at least pay very little.  Further instructions will be sent to artists who are accepted.
2. Artists in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas are highly encouraged to deliver their work in person to the venue, and enjoy the show. Admission to the show is free for all featured artists. 
21. No entries will be accepted after the deadline of Tuesday, March 31st 2020, 11:59 PM. PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR AN EXTENSION – GET YOUR WORK AND SUBMISSIONS PREPARED IN GOOD TIME.
22. This entry also gives the Erotic Art Show the permission to use your artwork for marketing proposes.
23. All accepted artists will be notified by email on or about Tuesday, April 7th 2020 ONLY if you have been accepted will you be notified. If you do not hear from us, unfortunately this means you have not been selected. Please be sure to check your junk / spam folders.  Please do not email the UDEAC asking if you have been accepted – if you have been accepted, you will received an acceptance email from us with further instructions.
24. The jury panel’s decision is final – no correspondence will be entered into about submission selections.
25. The Erotic Art Show will take every reasonable precaution to ensure protection of selected work but will assume no responsibility for loss or damage from any cause including the show, installing, shipping to and from the event.
26. The Erotic Art Show reserves the right to withdraw work whose quality is not reflected in the images/videos submitted, or if the artist violates any requirements (model release form/ID if needed, not meeting subsequent deadlines etc)
27. The Artist shall hold the Erotic Art Show harmless from and against any loss, expense, or damage occasioned by any claim, demand, suit, or recovery arising out of the exhibition or sale of work, or for the use of the work by the Erotic Art Show in the promotion and advertising of the exhibition.
28. Submission of entry in to this competition automatically constitutes the entrant’s acceptance of all competition rules.

Please submit your images by e-mail to johnnylemuria@gmail.com 

Please indicate the theme / title of your set of art work in the subject line.

How to prepare your files for submission

File names:

lastname_title or lastname_title_number.

File names of maximum 40 characters should only contain letters of the English alphabet and underscores.

Titles may be shortened (please avoid very long file names), and they should be given without spaces in the file name.

No spaces in the file names please.

Example:

The image titled ‘A Red Day by Henry Hole’ would have this file name: ‘Hole_ARedDay.jpg’;

The third untitled image by Henry Hole: ‘Hole_Untitled_3.jpg’;

The second photograph of the series “Tea Tree” by Henry Hole: ‘Hole_TeaTree_2.jpg’.

In the body of your submission e-mail please include:

1. Your full name (and any alias name if required);
2. Your city and country (with the state abbreviation if USA e.g TN is Tennessee);
3. Your website address (if you have one);
4. Social media account handles (e.g. for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or other):
5. Titles of all included images with the corresponding file names (in case of a series, please number the photos of the series, and indicate the title of the series, if it has one or state if original, limited edition of x copies etc);
6. The actual or desired size of work when framed (in cm)

DELIVERY OF ART WORK:

The UDEAC will send notifications with instructions, dates and times for delivery and shipping of work to the exhibition to the artists that get their work chosen to be shown at the event.  PLEASE PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN YOU RECEIVE THEM.

IMPORTANT!

Make sure you read through the submissions guidelines and rules properly before submitting your work.             

Check list:

• Is all information we have requested in your submissions email?
• The size of your files are correct within our guidelines?
• Your file names have been named correctly as per our instructions above?

IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS, YOUR ENTRY WILL NOT BE PRESENTED TO THE JURY AND YOUR SUBMISSION WILL BE MARKED AS INVALID. Please do not email us asking about this – please read the above and make sure you do as required.

Thank you for considering the UDEAC Erotic Art Show.