Sign up and send us your self portrait. It will be included in one of the largest self portrait exhibitions and be published in an Art House book.
Pre-order the book AND sign up and send us your self portrait. It will be included in one of the largest self portrait exhibitions and be published in an Art House book.
SPECIAL: Until January 31st, we are offering specials on group and educational discounts of 20% off for groups of 10 or more and 10% off groups of 4 or more. Please email to receive your discount.
ANY group order qualifies for a discount. It does not have to be from an educational institution.
Be part of a massive exhibition of self portraits from artists all around the globe! All you need to do is sign up to get started. Create an 8x10 inch drawing, photo, collage, or anything that represents you. Send it back to us and we will cover our gallery walls with all of the portraits. We're not sure what the actual record is, but we think it will be one of the largest portrait exhibitions ever!
Sign up over to the left to participate.
After you sign up to participate in the project, you can start immediately. We will NOT be mailing you anything for this project. If you email us and ask where your info is, we will direct you here. These are your rules!
Afterwards, not only will we have the exhibition at Brooklyn Art Library, we will create a book that will document all of the submissions we get back.
Every self portrait that we get back will be included in the book.
Pre-order your book with your submission for a discount over to the left.
Art House is moving to Brooklyn in February and opening The Brooklyn Art Library. Art House has always believed that art should be accessible to everyone, and with the new library we are able to not only provide the opportunity to create art but also house it all.
The Brooklyn Art Library will archive artwork from artists all around the world. It's a gallery in a library format.
After you sign up to participate in the project, start creating your self portrait. We will not be mailing you anything extra for it. Simply follow these rules.
There will be an exhibition in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Art Library on April 23rd, 2010. Your self portrait will be included in this exhibition and will also be published in a book documenting the project. The books will be available at the show and will be mailed on that day.
Art House Co-op
C/o The Self Portrait Project
201 Richards St. #16
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Please note that we do not jury entries. We believe art should be accessible to the masses and we therefore included every entry submitted.
Please write your full name on the back of your piece.
If you want to receive your work back, you must include a check/money order/cash covering the cost to send your work back in a regular 9x12 inch manilla envelope. We are NO LONGER accepting SASEs. If you do not send a check/money order/cash your work will become a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library and will periodically be on display! If your check/money order/cash does not cover the cost of the package, we will alert you of what the extra cost needed is and will not send it back until we receive the remainder.
PLEASE ALLOW UP TO 4 MONTHS AFTER THE FINAL DATE OF THE EXHIBITION TO GET YOUR WORK BACK. We will do our best to make it quicker, but again, there are a lot of you and not many of us!
We will now have a "pick up" day on April 30th, 2010. You must RSVP by emailing and let us know you will be coming. We want to make sure that we have your work ready for you! You must pick up your work during the times stated. We will not be able to meet specific requests. You are also able to pick up your work during one of our planned events, however you must email us at least ONE WEEK prior to the event.
Remember back in kindergarten when you had to write your name on the back of everything you made? The same rules apply here. We will not accept any work that does not have your name written on the back. (We do understand this might not be possible in some circumstances and will look past it, but do your best to label it.) Plus, don't you want credit for your work?
If your work is for sale and is sold during an exhibition, please allow up to 90 days to receive a check from Art House. Please include the price of your work on the back of your piece. Please write NFS if it is not for sale. If you do not put a price on the back, we will assume it is not for sale. Please remember the gallery commission is 40%.
All the images in artists profile and the project photos section are uploaded by the artist. Art House does not and can not upload or take photos of your work. If you want to upload your own images make sure you take photos before you mail it off. If you need help with this we would be happy to help if you send us an email!
Art House does everything we can to keep your art work in great un-lost condition. However stuff happens. Unfortunately we can not replace your art work and are not responsible for lost, stolen, dropped in bin of water, ripped, destroyed, or anything else of that nature, artwork. We will try to make it better with what we can do, but again, we are not responsible.
Your work is your work. We will never ever sell your physical work without your permission or not give you your share. We will however use your work in promotional materials, web ads, print ads and the like. We will also from time to time publish your work in an art house book. We reserve all copyright ownership to the books published. Each project will specifically state if the art work will be sold or not at the exhibitions.
We will always do our best to respond to your email in a timely manner. However, remember if you have a question 100 other people are probably emailing the same question. Please read through our FAQ's, the project rules and the general rules before emailing us. We can not respond to all emails. At times especially around deadline times emails can be overlooked. We apologize and ask that you are patient with us. Most answers can be found on this website somewhere!
Currently we are only open by appointment. Please email us if you want to come see an exhibition while it is up. We can not extend the dates for any reason.
We will be posting the Brooklyn Art Library hours when it opens in February.
Exhibition photos can always be found on our flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/arthousecoop/ within one week of an exhibition.
By submitting artwork to Art House, LLC, you are giving Art House, LLC the right to use images of your work for any promotional materials, on our websites, and any other print publications we put out. Newspapers and other media outlets (including online blogs) are allowed to use images of your work in promotional material promoting Art House.
Your work is your work and you retain the rights to it. We simply want to be able to show it off. Also, please remember that in order to return artwork to you after the project, make sure to follow the instructions in the rules.
