Become a Resident Artist

 

Selling your art at Crossroads Art Center can open up a world of possibilities for you, your family, and your art business/career. Here’s how:

Income Generation: Turning your passion into profit can provide financial support for you and your family. Whether it’s a supplemental income or the foundation of your art career, selling at Crossroads Art Center can help you monetize your creativity.

Exposure and Networking: Crossroads Art Center provides a platform to showcase your work to a wide audience, including art collectors, interior designers, and fellow artists. This exposure can lead to commissions, collaborations, and opportunities to expand your reach.

Professional Growth: Being part of a reputable art center like Crossroads adds credibility to your portfolio. It’s a step toward establishing yourself as a professional artist, which can open doors to galleries, exhibitions, and other prestigious opportunities.

Creative Fulfillment: Sharing your art with the world can be incredibly rewarding. It allows you to pursue your passion, while also contributing to the cultural landscape.

Family and Community Impact: Your success as an artist can inspire others, including your family and community. It shows that following your passion can lead to real-world success, which can be a powerful motivator for others.

Long-Term Growth: Crossroads Art Center isn’t just a place to sell art; it’s a community that supports artists. By engaging with the center, you can build long-term relationships that help sustain and grow your art business over time.

Turning your passion or hobby into an art career at Crossroads Art Center is a journey of creative and professional growth.

 

YOU CREATE THE ART...WE DO THE REST

• We run the cash register so you can sell items without being present.
• We hire and train the cashiers and staff.
• We pay all the store bills like water, electric, property insurance, etc.
• We even pay your sales tax to the state so you don't have to!
• We ask you to write your name on each price tag, and we credit your account for every item sold.  
• We promote and advertise the store with our full-time marketing staff.
• We create events and workshops to drive traffic to the store.
• We write you a check once a month for all of your sales. The checks are available for pick up on the 8th or can be mailed to you with a self-addressed stamped envelope. 

Vacancies are rare at Crossroads Art Center but every once in a while we will have one. Please check with staff for space availability.

We run a different business model for CAC then normal galleries. We rent space to the artists and do a commission of 17% on sales. Space rentals run from $55 - $1200 a month depending on the size of the space.   

Artists working in the fine arts and crafts are eligible to become resident artists at Crossroads. Acceptable craft forms include ceramics, textiles, jewelry, various types of sculpture, glasswork, and more.

Current Artists in Residence - Click Here to Pay Your Rent Online

How to Apply to Become an Artist-in-Residence:

Click Here to download our Prospective Tenant Sheet

The application fee is a non-refundable $50. Artists who are not selected are encouraged to apply again in six months. Please click below to pay the fee and fill out the application: Artist-in-Residence Application (pdf) and Click Here to Pay the $50 Jury Fee

• Submit (email) 5 pieces in each medium for which you wish to be juried.
• Please include a list of the pieces including Title, Medium, Size, and Price.
• Be sure each physical piece is tagged on the back with the artist's name, phone number, and contact information.
• Each digital file will need to be properly titled. See below for more detailed instructions and guidelines.
• Please provide an artist bio as well as your website and social media links.
• Call for an appointment to be juried-in as a tenant artist, we will have you on our calendar and contact a juror.

Please also include: 

Resume and Artist’s Statement:  A resume should include art-related education and experience, galleries that represent you and shows you have been in.  Please provide complete contact information, including website. An artist’s statement, in 3^rd person, is brief (1-2 paragraphs) that describes what, how and why you do it.

Website and Social Media Presence on Facebook: You must have a website to be an Artist in Residence at Crossroads. Once juried in, we will provide a page for you on our website that will contain a link to your website. 

Additional Supporting Materials: You may bring other materials such as other images of your work (print or CD), marketing materials (brochures, postcards), and a list of online links to your work. Work submitted should be your best, most distinctive, current work.  Think in terms of a body of work rather than a mixture of styles.  If you work in several different styles, pick one for review but please provide images of the others. Before bringing your work do your homework!  Look around Crossroads and other local venues and compare your work to others. Browse our website for samples of artist’s statements.

We review on the following criteria:

1. technical proficiency -- composition, understanding of color theory, overall design, use of medium
2. uniqueness – what makes your work stand out?  How is it different from what we already have?
3. presentation – appropriate and consistent framing, canvases gallery-wrapped if not framed, wires secure
4. professionalism – attitude, experience, flexibility
5. price – salability is a factor.  Pricing must be realistic for the venue and for the market.  We will be glad to help you price your work.

Our jury committee is a group of local instructors, artists, and curators.  Their identities are confidential.  The jurors provide feedback to Crossroads staff who will share this feedback, in as much detail as possible, with submitting artists.  The jurying process takes two to three days.  You will have to leave the work with us during that time.  You will be notified by phone of the jury’s decision as soon as it is made, and you will need to make arrangements at that time for picking up your work.  When you bring the work, we will show you spaces currently available in the center. If you find one that works for you and your artwork, we can hold it for you pending the results of the jury process.  We strongly encourage artists who are not selected to apply again in 6 months.

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One of our missions is to encourage and develop emerging artists, who may not have all the necessary skills but have a clear vision and a professional attitude.  Please don’t be intimidated by our expectations, use them as guidelines for presenting your work.  Again, do your homework, and don’t hesitate to call on the Crossroads staff for assistance.

A few extra hints: Try to avoid work that holds a personal meaning to you—often this is not particularly interesting to a viewer (i.e., potential customer). The committee will review it based on the above criteria, NOT on how special it is to you.  Avoid portraits of friends and family unless a) you want to be juried as a commission portrait artist and these are your samples or b) your specialty is the figure.  We will call you with the results of your critique as soon as the jurors have reviewed your work.

Do you need help properly naming the images you are sending to Crossroads? 

Artists' Image Naming Program:

You may now login at https://artistsinresidenceimagenamingprogram.artcall.org and submit up to 15 pieces at a time for your webpage on CAC website without naming them properly.  The program will rename them for you in the format that we need at Crossroads for our files. The Cost will be $10.00 per image and you will pay that fee online as you submit images.

So, if you have been hesitant about selling online with CAC because you can't name the files properly -- now you don't have to name them properly. This program will do it for you. We you will be notified via email when the art has been uploaded to your webpage on the CAC website for you to review.

 If you do not have your own website for your artwork and have been juried as an Artist in Residence, you can have your website be a part of crossroadsartcenter.com. This would allow you to have 30 products uploaded onto our website along with an artist bio and additional links. This service is $350 per year.  Click Here!

Renaming your digital images on your own:

How to Digitally Name an Image (.jpg) File on your iPHONE:

1) Open your photo
2) Hit the ‘SHARE’ icon.
3) Select ‘SAVE TO FILES’
4) A choice of apps will come up. Use the default (highlighted) selection and hit ‘ADD’
5) The image will appear, click on the home button to be to the home screen
6) Side swipe (from left)
NOTE: you are looking for the screen w/the ‘SEARCH‘ bar at the top
7) Click on the ‘FILES’ icon, you will see your photo
8) Long-press on the photo or name until choices pop up, select RENAME
9) Type in new file name (do not add ‘.jpg’ to the end of the name—it is already there).
Ex: Artist Name_Title_Size_Medium_Price_CROP • Tap ‘DONE’
10) Tap on the image so it comes up; Tap the ‘SHARE’ icon
11) Tap on the ‘EMAIL’ icon and email the file (actual size) to
cacamsentries@gmail.com
12) OR tap once one the ‘HOME’ button to get back to the home screen

 How to Digitally Name an Image File on your ANDROID:

• Open your photo app
• Go to gallery
• Select the image to rename
• Click on the top right-hand side vertical 3 dots
• Click on Rename
• Then type in what you want the name to be
• Click save

 

WATCH THESE VIDEOS FOR STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS ON DIGITALLY RENAMING YOUR PHOTOS: