Click here to download the 2008 Membership Application

• Download, complete and return the enclosed application with your non-refundable application fee of $25.00 (please make check or money order payable to Silvermine Guild Arts Center.)
• All paperwork must be received by the date above - not a postmark date - no exceptions.

Send To:
Guild Artist Membership
Silvermine Guild Arts Center
1037 Silvermine Road
New Canaan, CT 06840

Please check-in to install your artwork at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center Auditorium at 9am. The doors will close promptly at 10:00am and jurying will begin. Artists may not be present during jury process.

• You will have approximately 4-5 feet of wall/table space to display your work. Please be flexible and accept the limits of our space. You may wish to bring 1-2 extra works to increase your installation options.
• Please bring artwork executed within the last 2 years.
• Jurying is by actual work only. (Slides, photographs or video tapes will only be accepted if your work is extremely large (over 5' wide) - then you may bring in 1original work and 4 slides or photographs.)
• Please bring your own tools and be prepared to hang your work. A committee member will show you where you are to hang or display your artwork.
• Please pick-up your artwork at 12:30 pm the same day. Artwork left in the Auditorium after that time is no longer Silvermine's responsibility.
• To reflect the professional standards of the Silvermine Guild of Artists, two-dimensional wall-hung works should be framed, unless an alternative framing technique is an integral part of the artwork.
• Pedestals will not be available; there will be tables to place 3-Demensional objects on. You may bring your own display system (boxes, pedestals, etc…)
• Artwork must be delivered and picked up in person on Guild Artist jurying day, Sunday, September 21, 2008. Mail delivery/pick up (such as UPS) of artwork is not allowed.
• Artists may apply for membership only once within a 12 month period (either in the fall or the spring).  To enter your artwork into Silvermine Guild means you understand and will comply with the above rules on jury day. It also means that you understand and accept the benefits and responsibilities of being a Guild Artist, should you be accepted into the Guild.

1. Overall creativity
2. Uniqueness or timeliness
3. Excellence of technique, mastery of methods and materials
4. Emotionally evocative or intellectually provocative
5. Compelling notion or idea
6. Cultural or social relevance
7. Professional presentation of work
8. Clarity and continuity of style
9. Professional accomplishment as seen through resume, statement, artwork, etc.

You will be notified by letter within 2 weeks of jurying. (No phone calls regarding your status, please)

Contact Erica Fabrizio, Gallery Associate at: (203) 966-9700 ext.26 or ericafabrizio@silvermineart.org

• Artists may apply for solo exhibition (after one full calendar year of membership).
• Artists may enter work for group exhibitions to be selected by the individual curator or jury committee.
• Artists may submit one entry per year, free of charge, for one of the following exhibitions: Art of the Northeast USA, National Print Exhibition, Spectra (National Photography Triennial) or Craft USA
• Artists may enter work in the New Members' Exhibition (takes place the January following their acceptance.)
• Artists may have work for sale in the Gallery Shop.
• Artists may be included in exhibitions in corporations, schools and museums arranged by the Gallery Director.
• Artists may provide 8 images of recent work to be included in the Galleries' online Artist Image Bank. (Image Bank is available to decorators, interior designers, architects, consultants, private and corporate art buyers.)
• Artists receive a 20% discount on Silvermine School of Art classes (excluding workshops & computer classes).
• Artists may receive discounts on Summer Concert tickets.
• Artists may receive a 10% discount off the price of a Gallery Shop item of $25 or more.
• Artists may speak about their artwork or give a demo at the Wednesday Lunchtimes @ Silvermine series.

• Gallery Committee Meetings: Artist Members are encouraged to attend Gallery Committee Meetings.
• Gallery Shows: ALL Guild Artists, in conjunction with the Gallery staff, are responsible for planning and staffing gallery shows and other activities. These include all exhibitions on the Gallery schedule: (one-person shows, juried exhibitions, invitational shows, Image Bank Gallery shows, and all shows using Gallery space) in addition to Guild sponsored fundraisers and events.

• Mentor students in our Community Outreach Program.
• Help out during our Signed, Sealed & Delivered annual fundraiser art sale.
• Act as a co-chair of a guild group exhibition.
• Receive, install, and remove artwork for exhibitions.
• Pour wine and/or bring food to exhibition Opening Receptions.
• Serve on committees for gala events: dinners, auctions, fundraisers etc.
• Provide services: graphic design, photography, computer & clerical skills, gallery repair & maintenance.
• Sell Silvermine concert tickets and serve intermission refreshments (and attend performance for free).
• And many more…

• Dues are $175 billed in January, due March 1. Dues may be partially or fully waived for artists with serious financial limitations.

• All work exhibited and kept for inventory must be for sale. Artists set the sale price for their work. When artwork is sold, the Artist receives 50% of the selling price and the Guild receives a 50% commission.
• If a client sees a work of art during a Silvermine sponsored exhibition and purchases same or other artwork from the artist within a six-month time period, a 50% commission is due.
• All sales that are referred and/or facilitated by Silvermine Guild Arts Center and/or its staff are subject to a 50% commission. Any Guild Artist who circumvents Silvermine where this commission is applicable will lose membership privileges.