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Peggy and Dave, Co-Directors, have an announcement!
We’re going ONLINE for NJAS2020!

We have decided a few things in relation to COVID and the Newmarket Juried Art Show:

• We cannot depend on the Old Town Hall being available to us in October, and the Town is unlikely to be able to make a decision before September. We have therefore decided to hold the event online only. We have the website, where we would have a gallery of accepted images anyway, plus the ability to mount a 3D Virtual Reality gallery in ArtGateVR. The latter requires an Oculus headset for the full experience, but there are advantages. The high resolution images of works have the appearance of their actual size; you can view them from various angles; and ArtGateVR has a world-wide following.
• We are dropping our submission fee to $20 from $35, as we won’t have the expenses of venue & reception.
• We will create an event on a social media platform (or two) to replace the reception’s welcoming remarks and awards.

We feel better, now that we have been able to deal with the uncertainty, and we hope that you, our artists, will, too.
You can apply at our website by clicking here.

While you are there, you can check out NJAS2019 – images from the show and reception, our feedback survey and the financial statement.
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Dave & Peggy

Yes, we are a couple of months into the pandemic partial lockdown, and it looks like we’re setting up to have a bad round 2, but we are still planning on having an in-person, live Juried Art Show in October.

However, we do have to make other plans, in case the Show is cancelled. Here’s our current thinking:

• Artists will be offered the opportunity to enter a juried online version of the NJAS, hosted on our website and promoted on our social media feeds. We will try to have it promoted by other local partners, such as the Town of Newmarket. The fee will be reduced, of course, and the deadline extended.
• The Co-Directors, Peggy and Dave, are being trained by Whova in delivering online events. We hope that this will teach us how to host a Virtual Opening Gala (BYOB, for sure!)

You can read our initial COVID-19 statement in the blog post immediately prior to this one (just below).

We hope that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will be over before our show starts in October, not just for our show, but for all of us on this precious planet.

There is a chance that the pandemic will still be going on, though. For that reason, we have altered our refund policy: If the Old Town Hall is still closed in October due to the pandemic, artists’ jurying fees will be refunded in full.

We will also refund our sponsors and financial supporters.

We, the Co-Directors, are able to absorb any expenditures that will have been made by that point, and will start planning the 2021 Newmarket Juried Art Show then. (Actually, we have already :))

Until then, be well, stay well, pay attention to what the medical experts tell you. And let’s all spend time on our Art as we hunker down!

Here are some results from our followup survey of artists.

There were 607 visits to the first annual Newmarket Juried Art Show (NJAS 2019). There were 83 at the reception, and a troop of Brownies.

Starting from no mailing list, we got 81 artists sending 223 pieces of work.

We can’t wait to see what NJAS 2020 is like!