St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation is developing the virtual art gallery, as part of its ongoing efforts to open opportunities to create public art and to bring art into the community. “We see it as adding an art gallery to our already online Lex Park ArtsPark space,” said Viki Volk, president of St. Mary’s CDC.
Gallery-V is accepting submissions through June 26, 2020 for its “Quarantine Dreams” show. Anyone with art created during the COVID quarantine may submit now through June 26, 2020. Submissions may be uploaded here, where terms of entry are also included.
Selected works will appear in the exhibit, and the juror will make cash awards. There will be $400 in prize money to be awarded to artists in the exhibit. Submitting work does not guarantee acceptance.
The juried show will open for viewing August 1, 2020, via the St. Mary’s County Community Development’s website and the Lex Park ArtsPark Facebook Page. Awards will be announced at that time.
John Paradiso is the juror for “Quarantine Dreams,” and is currently the resident artist-curator at Portico Gallery and Studios in Brentwood, MD, part of the Gateway Arts District in Prince George’s County.
“Quarantine Dreams,” is sponsored by St. Mary’s County Arts Council, a partner with St. Mary’s CDC on other Lex Park ArtsPark events and numerous Lexington Park public art installations including two murals — Lexington Park, Live! and Artist Rainbow — and an Art Alley of Wings Across Lexington Park.
“During the current pandemic artists have been left without galleries, without our working artist community, and often without inspiration,” the CDC Arts Director Roz Racanello explained. “I was prompted to put a virtual show together because so many of us, trying to shelter in place and take care of ourselves and our families, are also using this time to create new work. This new online opportunity invites all who have been creating work to show it off. Or maybe we’re not creating work and this could be an inspiration.”