The New City of Ladies: Discovering Artistic Gems
of New Mexico

Presented by the New Mexico State Committee
of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMC)

Hosted at Turner Carroll Gallery
March 1 to March 29, 2025

CALL FOR ENTRIES

 DATES

• June 15, 2024:  Submissions open 

• August 31, 2024:  Deadline for NMC membership and registry page

• September 30, 2024: Final date to submit 

• October 15, 2024:  Announcement of NMC Artists selected by the jury

• February 22 or February 23, 2025:  Deliver jury selected artwork 

• March 1, 2025, 5-7 pm:  Exhibition Opening and Reception 

• March 29, 2025:  Show ends

• March 30 or March 31, 2025:  Pick up unsold artwork 

COST
The submission fee is $40, all of which will go to the NMC. For that fee each artist may submit up to 3 digital images of artwork in any medium for jurors to consider.

DESCRIPTION
This exhibition is an awareness raiser, friend-raiser, and fundraiser for NMC and its esteemed artist members. Its goal is to bring awareness to some of the female artistic treasures in our state. Together, we will help the world discover the exceptional talent of New Mexican women artists.

NOTE: Read this Call for Entries carefully, prepare your work(s), images, and copy BEFORE clicking the register button.  

ELIGIBILITY
To apply, all artists must be women-identifying artists, residents of New Mexico, and NMC registry members by August 31, 2024.

If you don't yet have a registry page, follow the instructions and submit your page details prior to this registration.   Membership must remain current through April 1, 2025. 

Artworks must be entirely the artist's work, executed without an instructor's supervision.

Entries must not be copies or derivatives based in any way on other copyrighted or published paintings, photographs or other artistic work. Artists should have all the rights to present and publish the artworks internationally.

Otherwise, the only requirement for the artwork is excellence.  No size limitations.  No price minimums or maximums.  No limitation of creation dates.  All subject matters will be considered.

SALES
All artworks submitted for consideration must be for sale and permitted to be reproduced for advertising, marketing, and other promotional materials. By submitting, the artist grants a reproduction license to the NMC and Turner Carroll Gallery. When practicable, all reproductions of artwork will be accompanied by identification of the artist’s name and the artwork's title.

Artists selected by the jury for the exhibition should ideally have at least two additional works of art in a similar nature to the artwork selected. This innovative new biennial exhibition format is artist-centric and focused on drawing as much attention as possible to the exhibited artist's works. Thus, as artworks sell, each work can be replaced by a comparable work by the same artist (up to three works of art). 

Sales proceeds will be split as follows: 50% of net sales proceeds will be paid to the artist; 10% of the net sales proceeds will be donated to NMC; 40% will be retained by Turner Carroll Gallery. The gallery will send out a 1099 to the artist unless they’re incorporated or the amount of the sale is under $1,000.

In the event an artist is represented exclusively by another gallery, they can request that the Turner Carroll Gallery give their representative gallery a 10% commission from Turner Carroll’s share of each work of theirs sold, as well as acknowledgment on wall tags and the sale.

INSURANCE/LIABILITY
The Turner Carroll Gallery guarantees that all artworks will be insured against damage and loss under the gallery's fine art insurance policy while in the gallery's possession. Specifically, the gallery will insure this artwork for the artist’s net of up to 50% of consignment retail while the artwork is consigned to the gallery.

JURORS AND PROMOTIONS
Jurors will include Marisa Sage, Director of the NMSU University Art Museum, Barbara Stafford an independent writer, curator and speaker, and Tonya Turner Carroll, co-owner of Turner Carroll Gallery and CONTAINER. 

This event, the first of a women-identify-only biennial gallery show, will be promoted via press releases, advertisements in local publications, online event calendars, online digital catalog, social media, flyers distributed to local businesses, and additional programming TBA.

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Instructions to Register

When you are a member, have an active registry page, and have prepared your artworks and submission materials, you are ready to click the "REGISTER" button and make your entry to this exhibition.  

Submission materials to prepare include 

• A brief artist statement about this work (100 words maximum)

• Anywhere from one to three pieces of artwork:  A high resolution jpg image file, minimum 3000 pixels on the longest side.  The name of the file must be FirstinitialLastinitial-title.jpg, for example JN-Dawn.jpg.  

• Title of the work(s), dimensions, medium and sale price. 

Please have the images and information ready when you complete the registration and pay the $40 entry fee in one step. 

Cancelled registrations cannot be refunded.  You cannot go back and make substitutions or changes after you submit your registration. If you discover an error in your submission, send an email describing the error within three days to exhibition@newmexicowomeninthearts.org and we will attempt to make your correction.    

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EXHIBITION LOCATION
Turner Carroll Gallery is located at 725 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 and is a prestigious, internationally-known contemporary art gallery. It opened in 1991 in its original Canyon Road location. Turner Carroll is widely recognized for its commitment to furthering scholarship and exposure of women artists, and has placed works by women artists in many museum exhibitions such as artists Hung Liu and Judy Chicago in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Other museums include the Getty, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, and other numerous university museums throughout the country. Turner Carroll started its own museum venue, [CONTAINER], in 2022 in the Santa Fe Railyard, and its opening exhibition of work by Swoon has traveled to museums across the country and to Bangkok in 2025. Its exhibition of Nadya Tolokonnikova’s work will travel to the OK Linz Museum in Austria in 2024.

ABOUT THE NMC
The New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMC) was established in 1997 to support the mission of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, and to bring recognition to the achievements of New Mexico women artists in the visual, digital, performance, and literary arts. They engage NM women artists and allies with respect, inclusion, support, empowerment, and creativity. Through a variety of programs they empower women artists of New Mexico by amplifying their voices, celebrating their achievements, and recognizing how they enrich our lives.

CONTACT INFO

New Mexico State Committee of Women in the Arts
PO Box 31314 
Santa Fe, NM 87594
exhibition@newmexicowomeninthearts.org
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Turner Carroll Gallery
725 Canyon Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 986-9800
info@turnercarrollgallery.com
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instagram.com/turnercarrollgallery