Call for Artists

This will be a showcase personal collections, archives, treasures of all kinds. Marbles, Seashells, Stuffed Toys, Silver Spoons, String, Things from a special place, You-Name-It.

Don’t worry about HOW to show it-that’s why we have a crack exhibition team!

 

For now all we will want to know is what you collect and to see a few phone pix of what you are talking about. We have secure cases for fragile, delicate, and  small objects, and ideas for the large and cumbersome. We know you all have discerning eyes and like to surround yourselves with wonders and curiosities, and we would like to see!

 

FREE and OPEN TO ALL to participate
To send us an inkling of what you have:
Send an email with the header PRECIOUS to gallery@institutelibrary.org with a short text about what you have and why- a few sentences is fine.

For this exhibit we have the team of Martha Willette Lewis, Scott Schuldt, Maxim Schmidt and Kristin Cassidy. 

*A Special Note *
This is a fraught moment in time, difficult and stressful. 
We are trying to be responsive to that, and to offer timely and relevant events and activities.
Please stay in touch, and please feel free to pass on information about our programming to friends you feel might need and enjoy a break from all of this. Get off of your phones, devices and screens and join us for some collective community building!

 

The Gallery team is made up of Martha Willette Lewis, Maxim Schmidt, Scott Schuldt, Susan McCaslin and Ann Marlowe.  This core group keeps the gallery running smoothly. You may note that we are all practicing artists and creatively engage which is – we believe – the special sauce here. Along with the Library’s wonderful staff and volunteers, we all take great care to offer great exhibits and programming year round in our exhibition space.

Artists are crucial to what, how, and why we do. This gem of a library loves artists, and we love how contemporary art and our books can sing together in new and different ways. Your support and participation are what makes this place thrive as a site of culture, calm and welcome. I look forward to seeing you soon in the Gallery Upstairs at the Institute Library, a weird utopia, a homemade oasis, a place – we hope you will agree- like no other. for more information please visit the website here.

As we enter this stressful defunded year of 2025 I ask you to consider joining the library as a member, donating to the gallery– please specify that it is for us when donating: online here and giving what you can to keep us going strong. We NEVER charge to exhibit and we try to support artists at all levels of their careers by including them in exhibitions they can be proud to be part of. Our community is proof of the collective goodwill and joy for what we do, but we cannot run on that alone. If the Gallery and related events are meaningful to you, please consider contributing. We appreciate every cent and use it to make sure the creative party keeps on coming into the future.