June 10 Deadline To Submit Images For Blanchet House Annual Show

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”Everyone has a kitchen table. Whether metaphorical or literal, it’s where you gather with friends. It’s where you break bread. It’s where you build and grow relationships that last an evening, a pandemic, or a lifetime. And in Portland, a city that celebrates its restaurant scene and prides itself on a cohesive social fabric, a kitchen table is a sense of identity. A sense of place. A sense of community.

Blanchet House, an organization offering aid to people experiencing homelessness, provides a kitchen table to people pushed to the margins. Not everyone has a roof over their head, let alone a physical space where you can eat, in safety, and without judgment.

Through the On the Ledge art show, Blanchet House’s Emerging Professionals Board seeks to provide a welcoming space to reflect and connect. This year’s theme is Comfort Food. For some, that’s a home-cooked meal. For others, that's a substance that nourishes the soul like music, art, or activism.  

With Comfort Food as its theme, On the Ledge invites artists to create original or submit existing works of art that bring attention to food insecurity and housing instability.”

(Web editor’s note: Deadline for submission is 6/10/2022, jurors should announce those accepted by 6/17. Digital assets to be printed by PushDot are due 7/1/2022. Gallery and marketplace is open all through August.)

“All sale proceeds will be split between artist and Blanchet House 50/50. For any original works sold, the split will be 70/30 in favor of the artist.

Artwork Submission Specifications

🎨 10”x10” and 11”x14” giclee prints of original art will be available for purchase.

🎨 Original works can be sold at a price set by the artist. Original must be submitted via form or email as a digital asset (.jpeg or .eps preferred) for high-quality reproduction as a giclée print.

🎨 Blanchet House and its printer PushDot Studios are not able to offer cropping or adjustments to the aspect ratio or other aspects of digital assets.

Submission Assessment Criteria

🎨 Proposals will be assessed and selected based on their ability to meet the outlined criteria and fit with the event theme.

🎨 Blanchet House welcomes all artwork but reserves the right to refuse submissions that do not align with its mission.”

Click here to see the artist submission page.

Featured art by @carmenquintos on Instagram