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Deadline for Submissions: Extended to December 31, 2011.

Maine Art Scene magazine is organizing its much anticipated third annual multi-disciplinary virtual showcase of contemporary Maine painters, fine art printmakers, fine art photographers, sculptors, potters (new!), furniture makers (new!), mixed-media, multimedia artists.

This statewide interactive showcase will be available online at www.maineartscene.com and maine-art-exhibits.com in February 2012.

Artwork will be selected by Suzette McAvoy (former curator of the Farnsworth Museum and current director at CMCA), Sam Mitchell, a passionate collector of Maine art who was recently featured in Maine Home + Design (read article), as well as Maine Art Scene's founders, Brenda and Thierry Bonneville. Works chosen will be displayed in a virtual format that resembles an actual gallery space, with various rooms to navigate, and artwork and labels to zoom in on. Exciting new virtual spaces will be created for our 2012 showcase.

> View our 2010 and 2011 virtual exhibits which have been seen by thousands of online visitors and continue to receive enthusiastic feedback. The virtual showcase has been used by gallery owners and publishers to find Maine artists for shows and feature articles as well as collectors.

The show is beautiful with many interesting pieces. I will be looking up a lot of new (to me) artists in the near future. This is a terrific resource.

I just wanted to show and share appreciation to Maine Art Scene, especially for its online virtual gallery. An image from one of my paintings is on the cover of (an art) magazine this month thanks to the selection being made by the editor after looking through the virtual online art gallery. Thanks to Maine Art Scene for all of its creative work.

(more testimonials on artTalk)

This showcase is designed to let professional Maine artists promote their work. Selected artists will have links to their website and/or to the art galleries representing them. This year we will also be adding links to artists' social networking pages such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, December 15, 2011 by 5:00 pm.

Open to: All professional fine art printmakers, fine art photographers, sculptors and mixed-media and multimedia artists who are part-time or full-time Maine residents. Fine art galleries may also make submissions on behalf of their artists.

ENTRY FORMAT
Images (of paintings, photography, sculpture):
Image files should be of good quality (minimum 800 pixels wide at 72 dpi or more).

Each work must be named as follows:
lastname_firstname_titleofwork.jpg
(for example: smith_john_bluedaisy.jpg)

In addition, please include:
- Medium and dimensions of work
- A short artist's statement
- Contact information (mailing address, phone and e-mail)
- Website information (your website or gallery representing your work)
- Links to social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)

To submit your work:
- Preferred method: Please mail a CD containing your JPEG images (or multimedia files) and text content electronically in a Word, PDF document or similar format. See mailing address below.
- Online uploads: Please consider using services such as mailbigfile.com, yousendit.com or yourfilelink.com when uploading your large files. Tip: to send everything as one big file, first create a folder containing your images and documents, then zip the folder and upload it using one of the online services listed above.
- Or by e-mail: media@maineartscene.com (maximum attachment size: 10MB).

Cost of submission:
Option 1: $25.00 per artist with a max. of 3 images / multimedia files.
Option 2: $35.00 per artist with a max. of 6 images / multimedia files.
Option 3: $50.00 per artist with a max. of 10 images / multimedia files.

Please be aware that regardless of the submission option selected, no more than three to five pieces of artwork per artist will be showcased. Submission of your work does not guarantee selection, and fees will not be refunded.

To submit your payment:

NOTE: If nothing happens when clicking on the above payment button, your e-mail client might be preventing the script. If so, please make your payment via this online page.

You can also send a check to:
Maine Art Scene, LLC. | 31 Congress Street | Belfast ME, 04915
- Please make checks payable to Maine Art Scene, LLC

Questions?
Please e-mail media@maineartscene.com

If you have not received an e-mail acknowledgment for receipt of your submission, please call us at 207-470-7437.

Maine Art Scene retains the right to not publish work that could be deemed inappropriate or does not meet our basic requirements. This showcase is reserved to professional artists.

PLEASE NOTE: By submitting files to Maine Art Scene, LLC you agree to our user agreement.

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