ABSTRACT: A Group show sponsored by the Salem Arts Association

Salem Arts has been invited to invite our professional photographers to participate in a show sponsored at Shetland Park. Work will be on view in the 2nd floor Atrium and in the Small Business Development Center from March 16 through June 13. An opening reception will be held by Shetland Park on March 16 and an artists reception will be held by Salem Arts Association during the Salem Arts Festival the first weekend of June.  **UPDATE:  Show dates and pickup have changed.  

  2nd Annual

Annual Artists & Authors Winter Exhibition
at the Hawthorne Hotel

February 23, 2012 from 5-9 p.m. 

click here for the call for art

SAA at the Winter Market

The Salem Arts Association will be open on Artists' Row from November 10th until December 22nd as part of the Winter Market.

Artists click here for the complete Call for Art
. 
Consignment contract and Inventory forms are available here

The Winter Market is a project being put together by the Salem Main Streets program and the City of Salem as an extension of their highly successful Farmers Market.

The new market will be held in the Artists' Row Buildings and will run from 2-6 p.m. on Thursdays, November 10, 17, Tuesday, November 22 (there will be no market on Thanksgiving), December 1, 8, 15 and 22. It will feature some of the summer vendors as well as many new ones offering fresh and organic foods that use locally grown ingredients, baked goods, crafts, festive holiday items and much more. For more information: http://salemmainstreets.org/

Not Your Average Self-Portrait


Artists, Click here for the call for art!

Who are you? What shows YOU in the best light for others to see? We aren’t looking for a brilliant Rembrandt style self-portrait, but something that really shows YOU and what you are about in this life.

Members are invited to bring in two works of art for the October exhibit on Artists’ Row.
Artwork must be ready to hang with a hanging wire. “Saw tooth” hangers or simple hanging loops will not work with our hanging system.
There is no size restriction, except that the pieces must fit through the door, and one must
remember that we have over a hundred members who would wish to submit their works, so space
is at a premium.
There is no fee for submitting, but exhibitors are asked to sit in the gallery for four hours during the month of October, making sales, interacting with visitors and answering the phone.

The exhibit will be juried for entry by Emily Trespas, Instructor in Art at Phillips Academy in Andover. Degrees: BA, Mount Holyoke College; MFA in Printmaking, Cornell
Interests: My fervor to ferret out things undefined from facts to fleece to photographs undefined manifests itself in collecting, recycling, and reinterpreting. I am inspired by potential exchanges between the representational and
nonobjective, ideas of absence and presence, and materials and techniques. I create to understand the
surrounding world, document discoveries, and reveal ties to places, things, and one another. In teaching,
I strive to instill my students with curiosity and confidence in their creative promise.

Contact gallery@salemartsassociation.org for more information.
TAKE-IN: OCTOBER 2, 2011 from 4-6 PM
OCTOBER 3, 2011 from 6-8 PM

Just Add Water
A compliment to the Peabody Essex Museum’s Ripple Effect: The Art of H2O

ARTISTS, Click here for the Call for Art!

Submit your art to the SAA’s Signature Exhibit. Think: water; lack of water; the effects of water; water in all its states; how to hold water; how water doesn’t want to be held; moving through water; water, water everywhere! The PEM’s curator of Ripple Effect, Jane Winchell, will jury this special exhibit. The exhibit will be located on PEM property, the Carriage Barn of the Andrew-Safford House at 13 Washington Square across from the Common and the Hawthorne Hotel in historic Salem, Massachusetts.

The exhibit will run September 3-30. Take in is August 28 and 29, 4-8pm at the exhibit location. TWO pieces can be submitted.