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      • 2025 >
        • Right Now It's All Yellow
        • Material Wonder/Hatikvah Collective
      • 2024 >
        • The Big Small Show 2024
        • ONE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
        • Color, Shape, Line
      • 2023 >
        • The Big Small Show 2023
        • The Unbearable Lightness-Love of the Body
        • NJ & Me Imperfect Together
        • Tall Tales and Other Truths
      • 2022 >
        • Ani Rosskam and Bill Leech: A Wonderful World
        • Public Art Projects
      • 2021 >
        • Dvora p.2
        • Dvora p.1
      • 2020 >
        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C
        • Dvora
      • 2019 >
        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2010-2007 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
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    • The Art Project
    • Flat Files Project
    • Rewriting Herstory
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
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      • JC Library Project
      • Installment One
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      • The Can-Man Show Artworks
    • Victory Hall Press
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OPPORTUNITY:  CALL FOR ENTRIES
NO FEE TO SUBMIT OR PARTICIPATE
​Deadline for submission: 6/5/22

Victory Arts Projects in Partnership with the Jersey City Free Public Library Presents:
Installment One:  
A Community Engaged Summer Program of Public Art, 7/9/22 - 8/14/22
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OVERVIEW
Drawing Rooms invites artists to submit proposals for temporary site-specific public art projects. Artists will be selected to create and install a public art project, or develop a socially engaged project that will be worked on and installed at the same library site. Artists must be able to be onsite to install, deinstall, and adjust artworks as needed. Music and/or poetry will be at each site on specific event opening dates. In your site-specific proposal below, please consider the history of the library site and
surrounding area. 


SITES
Artworks are to be installed outside each of the library branches listed below (see Site List below). The works can be attached or projected onto the building, fencing or windows, or placed on the grounds.

Artists are encouraged to explore the library sites through the information provided, and visit the sites themselves to choose a specific library and method of installation. 

SITE LIST

Cunningham Branch: 275 Martin Luther King Dr, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Miller Branch: 489 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304
Five Corners Branch: 678 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Priscilla Gardner Main Library: 472 Jersey Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302

Check out the Resource Guide where you'll find photos, measurements and live view maps.


PROJECT TYPES
  • Single or Group Artist Project
  • Socially Engaged Project Involving Artist and the Community with Piece Made Onsite

MEDIA
All media will be considered including sculpture, experiential/interactive art, sound, projection, light installations, etc. 

COMPENSATION/OWNERSHIP
Artists will be awarded $250. Artists will retain ownership of their piece.
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INSTALLATION
Artists are responsible for transporting, installing artwork and removing artwork at the agreed upon dates. Installment One will be on view through the summer. Artwork will remain for the duration of the program and removed when it ends. Artwork should be made for outdoor weather, be durable and require no maintenance during the exhibition period. 

​IMPORTANT

All work must be suitable for outdoor NJ display during the dates of the program.

LIABILITY
Artists chosen and their artwork installations will be covered for liability (damage to people, public or property) by Victory Hall
Inc / Drawing Rooms.


SAFETY / SECURITY
Public works of art may be subject to wear and tear, or other loss and damage. The artwork will be considered temporary and is not insured against any of the aforementioned. The Libraries have security cameras and efforts will be made to care for the artwork, but neither Victory Hall Inc. nor the Jersey City Free Public Library can guarantee security for the artworks.   

IMPORTANT DATES
Installment One: 7/8/22 - 8/12/22
Deadline for submissions 6/5/22
Review Complete:  6/9/22
Notification to awardees: 6/10/22
Artist Acceptance/Commitment Received: 6/14/22
Payment to artists: 6/17/22
Installation of public artworks: 6/15/22 - 7/7/22

EVENT DATES
Friday July 8, 6-8p       raindate July 15,  6-8p
Friday July 22, 6-8p    raindate July 29, 6-8p
Tuesday Aug 2, 5-7p   raindate Aug 9, 5-7p
Friday Aug 5, 6-8p       raindate Aug 12, 6-8p

IMPORTANT
If your work is chosen, you must be available on an above date to be determined.


REVIEW PROCESS
The deadline for submission is June 5, 2022. All artists will be notified of the decision by June 10, 2021. Artists must confirm acceptance via email by June 14, 2022.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please fill out the form below by June 5, 2022.

QUESTIONS
If after referring to this information, you still have a question, contact Jim [email protected] with subject header:
Installment One

Anne Trauben, Exhibitions Director / Curator

James Pustorino, Executive Director
Drawing Rooms
926 Newark Ave
Jersey City, NJ, 07306

Drawing Rooms is a program of Victory Hall Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization producing exhibitions and classes in the NY/NJ area since 2001.

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This program Is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners

Location

DRAWING ROOMS
​Topps Building
​926 Newark Ave #T101

Jersey City, NJ 07306
Gallery Hours-
Th/Fri 4-7p, Sat/Sun 2-6p
Park in Topps/Mana lot free.
Enter on Newark Ave.

THE ART PROJECT
• 172 2nd St, JC
• Art House 148 1st St, JC
• The Oakman 160 1st St, JC
• Hamilton House:
   255 Brunswick St, JC

Ph: (201) 208-8032
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E: [email protected]
​W: www.drawingrooms.org
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Accessibility
Victory Hall Inc/Drawing Rooms is committed to providing programming that is accessible to all. We are working to ensure full accessibility at all our venues. Please contact James Pustorino with any questions at (201) 208-8032. 

​View our Accessibility page.

See our Grievance Procedure here