TPAP: Honoring Tradition 2025 Exhibition

Teton Plein Air Painters: Honoring Tradition

On Display August 7 - September 30, 2025

Teton Plein Air Painters are invited to submit artwork for the Art Association’s annual exhibition and celebration of TPAP participants’ creativity. This year’s theme is Honoring Tradition.  Plein Air Painting has a long history beginning in Europe in the early 1800s (though there are records of Italian painters working directly from nature as early as the 1500s).  Plein air work has been instrumental in the development of the Western American landscape tradition, with artists like Thomas Moran, Charlie Russell, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Carl Rungius. Today’s plein air painters carry on that tradition and push its definition in new directions.  We want to show that long thread of artistic tradition and practice in this exhibit.  We will display artist statements along with the work to deepen the gallery visitor’s experience - please think about submitting work that can illustrate your artistic influences, your plein air practice, and the effect that the plein air movement has had on your artistic trajectory.

We are excited to see your creativity!

Requirements:

• Participating artists must be current TPAP and Art Association members at the time of the show’s display dates.
• Artists may submit up to three (3) pieces of artwork for consideration. There are no size restrictions. The show is not juried, but inclusion of work will be determined by available hanging space. Every artist who submits work for consideration is guaranteed a minimum of one (1) piece to be displayed in the exhibition.
• Submitted artwork should have been finished during 2024 - 2025 and never before displayed in an Art Association exhibition.
• All works must be for sale - no NFS.  The artist/gallery split is 60% to the artist, 40% to the Art Association.  Please price accordingly.
• All artists are required to submit an artist statement including an explanation of how their work relates to the theme, Honoring Tradition.
• Work must be ready to display - framed and wired, freestanding, or otherwise ready to hang/display.
• Artists should submit their work and artist statements through Eventeny.com, the platform the Art Association uses to manage art applications and exhibitions.  There is no charge to submit work for consideration.

Deadline for Application: Friday, July 11, 2025  at 5 PM

Digital Image Requirements:

• Please submit up to 3  images of the actual pieces that you will be submitting for consideration, including title, image size in inches (height x width for 2d works, height x width x depth for 3d works), medium, and price.

• Images should be high enough quality to be a good representation of your work on a digital computer screen.  Please try to keep files under 1 megabyte in size.  (A good rule of thumb is 72 psi, 1200 pixels on the longest side).

Notification of Inclusion:

• Email notifications of which piece(s) have been selected for the show will be sent out on Friday, July 18 by 5 pm.

Delivery of Work:

• Work must be clearly labeled with your name and email/phone, as well as title, year completed, medium, size, and price. A piece of paper taped to the back of your work with masking tape will suffice. This is for clarity and tracking purposes only. Your contact information will not be shared with buyers unless you choose to do so.  You are welcome to include a business card or other contact information attached to the back of your work if you want to share that information.

• Work should be delivered to the Art Association Gallery (240 S. Glenwood St) July 31 - August 1, 2025 between 10 AM and 5 PM.  Please make arrangements with a friend to deliver work during this drop off period if you are not able to do so yourself.

• Out of town members may ship their work to arrive July 31 - August 1. If you are shipping work, you must pack your art in a reusable box or shipping container.  No packing peanuts, please.  A prepaid return shipping label is preferred for returning work, but we can also charge a credit card for return shipping. 

Important Show Dates:

• Soft opening of show: Thursday, August 7.

• Opening reception: Friday, September 5, 5pm to 8pm, during the Fall Arts Festival Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk.

• Show closes Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 5pm.

Pickup of Work:

• All work may be picked up from the Art Association Gallery on October 1-3 from 10 am to 5pm. Please arrange for another person to retrieve your work if you can’t be here on those dates.

• Shipping of work will take place within the two weeks following the closing of the exhibit.