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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Prairie vs Meyers Gallery

As stated in the previous entry, the Prairie Gallery is a little gallery located about the Take The Cake Café in Northside.  The Philip M Meyers Gallery is located on the University of Cincinnati campus.
The Prairie Gallery is like a remodeled apartment, white walls, hardwood floors, while the Meyers gallery has two rooms, one bigger than the other.  It's more like an inhabited space, not really meant to be a gallery, but it works.
The Prairie Gallery is extremely homely, with the warmth of the hardwood floors.  The Meyers Gallery is cold, most of the walls being huge windows that you can look out at the busy passing students scrambling to get to class on time.  The Meyer gallery get's mostly students and faculty of the University, so it can be pretty busy.  Usually they exhibit student work, participating in DAAPWorks and several other student shows.  The Prairie Gallery exhibits well known and established artists, but has a commitment to Cincinnati artists, looking for many Northside artists.
The Prairie Gallery is also a more community based gallery, unlike the University born Meyer Gallery, in the way that it also has a darkroom onsite and has photography classes.
Anybody can submit art to the Prairie Gallery, but you have to be associated with the University to show at the Meyer.  However, the Prairie does seem to choose local artists over nationally known artists.
The submission process of the Prairie Gallery is posted on the website, but I will post here as well:
"Prairie seeks work from emerging and established artists in a variety of media consisting of projects, practices or performances which reinterpret traditional media-specific art. Prairie also has a commitment to community-based art involving collaborations between artists and the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati in which the gallery is located. Submissions are open to artists in all geographic locations. Proposals may be submitted for either solo or group exhibitions. Curated exhibitions may also be proposed. Submit a CD of no more than 10 images of your work. Label the files with your name and title of the work. Label the front of the CD with your name. Provide a separate sheet listing the images, media, dimensions, title, date and suggested sale price. Also provide a short artist's bio with your work. Enclose SASE for return of submissions. Submissions with no SASE will not be returned. Please allow 4-6 weeks for consideration of your work. E-mail submissions will be reviewed only if they contain all of the above information as attached and separate documents."
I'm still unsure as to how one submits work into the Meyer Gallery, because my experience with it was that my Installation art professor scheduled our class to have it for a week.

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