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FINAL CALL TO ENTER AAP MAGAZINE SHAPES: PUBLICATION AND $1,000 CASH PRIZES
FINAL CALL TO ENTER AAP MAGAZINE SHAPES: PUBLICATION AND $1,000 CASH PRIZES

Yellow!

Close on September 25, 2021
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Yellow!
Territory: Other
Theme: Verde
Eligibility: Open to all photographers who live on the West Coast
Entry Fees: $30 for 3 images, $5.00 per additional image
Prize: Exhibition
We are interested in images that are about the color YELLOW.
Show us your photos of lemon yellow, yellow ocher, amber, gold, saffron, cream, mustard, mellow yellow. Yellow is the color of sunshine, hope, and happiness. It is associated with freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy. What does the color yellow mean to you? All photo-based work will be considered.

This exhibit is open to artists in the greater Bay Area*. Accepted work must be hand delivered and picked up. We can't accept shipped photos - * however if you live outside the Bay Area and have a friend who can deliver and pick up - we can accept those pieces.

Juror: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art; and Jan Watten, founder, Gray Loft Gallery This exhibit is open to artists in the greater Bay Area. Accepted work must be hand delivered and picked up. We can't accept shipped photos - however if you live outside the Bay Area and have a friend who can deliver and pick up - we can accept those pieces.

Submitting your work:
- Email digital files to: art.grayloftgallery@gmail.com
- All digital jpgs only: 72 dpi, image width not to exceed 1200 pixels on the longest side.
- Files should be labeled as follows: LastName_FirstName_Title.jpg
- All work must be the original work of the artist.
- In the body of the email, please include your name, phone number, titles of images submitted, photographic process/medium and size and price.
- List the images in the same order as they are attached.
- Accepted work selected must arrive ready to hang.
- Artists receive 60% of sales.

Entry Fee:
$30 up to three images, $5.00 per additional image, up to ten images total.
Send your entry fee check to: Gray Loft Gallery, 2889 Ford Street #32, Oakland, CA 94601 or PayPal: https://paypal.me/GrayLoftGallery
Venmo: @GrayLoftGallery
If you have any questions, please contact us: grayloftgallery@gmail.com

Show dates: : Saturday, November 20 - Saturday, December 18, 2021
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