Pick-Up & Drop-Off

We schedule our drop-off and pick-up events well ahead of time. Please note those times on your calendar. We cannot accept work at other times, and we insist that you pick-up your work at the scheduled time.

Gallery Ready

When you drop-off your artwork with us, it needs to be “Gallery Ready”. We want our exhibits of your artwork to look professional, and we need to be able to install your work easily. Work that does not meet our standards will either be rejected, or we will work with you to fix it on site if the deficiency is something that can be easily fixed. The idea is that you learn what you need to do for next time. We don’t want to be helping the same people at every exhibit. Our requirements for two-dimensional works include:

• Most works need to have a strong-enough braided picture hanging wire securely attached to the back of the work with screws and D-rings. The wire should have enough slack that it is easy for us to use a hand behind the work to guide it onto a standard picture hook. However, the top of the wire when pulled up should be at least 4 cm or 1.5 inches from the top of the frame so that the hanging hardware is not visible when your work is on the wall. D-rings are preferred since they lay flat and do not cause your work to stand out from the wall.

• Very large works (more than 1.5 meters or 5 feet wide) can be hung with just D-rings directly onto an anchored screw at each edge. Very heavy works can be installed using a French cleat (you supply the hardware).

• Alligator clips are only acceptable for very small and light works that can be hung on a nail head. By very small, we mean less than 25 cm or 10” in height and by very light, we mean less than 100 grams or just a few ounces.

There will be exceptions to the above for things like quilts and rugs or odd shaped or multi-part works. For these, we need you to work out how we will be able to install the work securely inside of a few minutes effort. If installation is going to involve more than that, please get in touch with us to explain before drop-off (or at drop-off if you are confident that your plan will be acceptable).

We need you to clearly label your work on the back so that it is easy for us to keep your works together while we curate the exhibit and to get the right artist statement sheet installed with it. Your label needs to:

• Clearly include the following information:

  • Your full name (matching what you submitted with your entry).

  • Your phone number.

• It needs to be securely attached to the back of your work. It’s no good to us if it falls off! Staple or tape it to the frame or the hanging wire. If it’s taped, do it in such a way that it stays put. If it is on the wire, make sure that it will not interfere with us hanging the work or slip to an edge and be visible when the work is on the wall.