The Allegany Arts Council is excited to announce the next in its series of pop-up exhibitions, The Teeny Tiny Art Show, to take place March 1-22, 2025, at the Hazen Gallery, located on the campus of Allegany College of Maryland.
Why Pop-Ups?
In 2024, the Arts Council left its longtime home and purchased its first building, which is currently being redeveloped. While we are without an official gallery space, we are working with community collaborators to host a series of pop-up exhibitions.
The Hazen Gallery is located next to Allegany College of Maryland's newly-renovated theatre space, and is a very intimate gallery area. We decided to lean into the size of the space and showcase small works for this show.
Call for Entry
The call for entry is now open and information about contest rules and eligibility can be found via CAFE, our online entry platform. Entries are $20 each with a maximum of four per applicant.
The deadline to enter is January 21, 2025.
Our Juror
We are delighted to welcome Patrice Drago, Executive Director of the Maryland Federation of Art, as our juror for this competition.
Patrice is a prolific contemporary East Coast abstract artist. Originally from New York, she has lived all up and down the coast from Maine to Florida., and currently resides in Annapolis, MD. She's been creating art in one form or another all her life.
Her artistic roots are in abstract expression; winning her first award at age nine, and at 14 she started painting abstractly on sheets hung from the ceiling with house paint and huge brushes. She pursued studies in all types of media, creating both abstract and representational works while also working diligently to perfect her other passion of writing. Her corporate job of strategic instructional design provided the invaluable creative environment and opportunity to perfect both drawing and writing skills, enabling her to eventually exit the corporate world to switch careers and become a full-time artist.
She has worked to support the arts community through collaborative community art projects, board membership and participation with numerous local and regional non-profit organizations. For more than a decade she has been blogging about art and is the author of the full-page monthly Gallery column in the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. Her original artwork is exhibited in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Delaware, and her paintings have found homes all over the world in corporate and private collections. In 2024, she became Executive Director of the Maryland Federation of Art.
Prizes
We are pleased to offer the following cash prizes to winning artists:
Best in Show: $750
Second Place: $400
Third Place: $200
People’s Choice: $150
Gallery Hours
The pop-up exhibition will be available for viewing at the Hazen Gallery as well as our digital gallery found here.
The physical exhibit will be open Wednesday-Saturday, from 1:00PM-5:00PM daily, through the exhibition period.
The Hazen Gallery is located in the College Center Building with the red star in the image below:
