New Minneapolis art gallery seeking submissions for first online-only exhibition

A brand new Minneapolis artwork gallery is searching for submissions for its first online-only exhibition.

In line with a Friday announcement, the ​​119 North Weatherly Artwork Gallery is searching for submissions for its inaugural “Broad Open!” exhibition. Two-dimensional artists for any medium are inspired to use by the tip of the 12 months to have their work featured.

Accepted artwork varieties embrace portray, drawing, images, digital artwork, printmaking and combined media. The gallery will be capable to be seen utilizing digital actuality beginning Jan. 9.

The brand new gallery, named after the fictional tackle featured in “The Mary Tyler Moore Present,” is predicated out of the Northside Artspace Lofts in Minneapolis. The curator, proprietor, and founding father of the gallery is native artist and musician Amanda Wirig.

“I’m extremely excited to make use of my twenty years of expertise as knowledgeable artist, in addition to my background as an arts nonprofit administrator and exhibition curator, to create alternatives for artists in my new hometown of Minneapolis,” stated Wirig, who lately positioned to the town from Mankato.

By charging $10 for submissions and giving all proceeds from gross sales again to the artists, the gallery goals to “degree the taking part in discipline for visible artists.”

And by making the artwork accessible to view and purchase on-line, the gallery hopes to “give artists entry to high quality, reasonably priced exhibition alternatives and attain artwork collectors anyplace on the planet, not simply within the Twin Cities,” Wirig stated.

Particulars on find out how to submit paintings may be discovered right here.