2024 Gold Medal Award Winner
Shelah Horvitz
Beyond
About the Exhibition
August 30 - September 27
The New England Regional Juried Exhibition is a juried show featuring the best of representational painting, drawing, and sculpture by regional artists who work in the realist tradition.
The exhibition will be on view in the historic President's Gallery at the Guild's Newbury Street location, which features a skylight to allow viewing of artworks in natural light.
Selected artists will have the opportunity to exhibit where the great artists of the Boston School showed their work. Please review the following information and if you have any questions, please call the gallery at 617.536.7660 or e-mail us at BostonGuild@gmail.com
Submission Guidelines
Artists must complete and submit the entry form by July 19, 2025
Work must be representational with a strong academic background*
Accepted painting and drawing media include oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pastel, graphite, charcoal, scratchboard, pen and ink, and pencil. Please check if using any other medium.
Prints (including giclées), kits, and AI generated artworks are ineligible. Using a print as an underpainting is also prohibited. The Guild has a preference for work done from life rather than from photographs. Although works done using photography are not excluded, preference is given to work done from life, especially when the jurors are making the awards.
The submission fee is a flat fee of $50.00 for non-members. Associate Artists are exempt from the fee. The fee is one amount whether one, two, or three images are submitted. Images files should be high resolution (at least 300 ppi) jpegs. Artists retain all copyrights to submitted images and represented artwork. By entering the competition, artists selected to exhibit grant The Guild of Boston Artists the rights to use the selected image(s) on social media, our website, and in printed materials for promotional purposes.
All submissions should be clearly labeled with the artist's name, title of the work, size, medium, and retail price. Prices of the work must be established at the time of submission; no changes are allowed after a work is accepted. All works must be for sale with a retail price included. If a painting is sold, artists receive 55% of the sale price.
(The director retains the right to exclude work that significantly differs from submitted images or is not appropriately framed. Metal frames and unframed works are not permitted.)
*Most of our applicants have had some level of academic training or preparation either through an atelier/studio or collegiate program, private lessons, or self-directed independent study.
Awards
First Place: Gold Medal & $750.00
Second Place: Silver Medal & $500.00
Third Place: Bronze Medal & $350.00
Glenn G. MacNutt Award & $250.00
New England Watercolor Society Award & $150.00
Robert Douglas Hunter Award & $100.00
Award(s) of Merit & $50.00
Jurors
Christina Mastrangelo
Pamela Pindell
Mark Shasha
Jurors select paintings for the show from the images submitted, but awards are determined after the paintings have been delivered to the Guild.
Important Dates:
July 19: Submission Deadline
Aug 2: Artists are notified if they are selected
Aug 19 - 23: Drop-off dates for selected artworks
Aug 30: Opening and Awards Reception
Sept 20: Award Winners Panel
Sept 30 - Oct 3: Pick-up dates