2025 Expressions! Exhibit
 

February 14-21 at Tracy Community Center, 950 East Street, Tracy, CA
 
Eligibility to enter:

• Open to artists over 18 years of age   
• Work must be original and completed in the last 24 months
• Work must be conceived and created entirely by the entering artist
• Work shown in previous Tracy Art League exhibits is not eligible
• 2D work cannot exceed 48 x 48 including frame
• 3D work cannot exceed 30w x 20d x 60h
• Artwork must be valued/priced at $5,000 or less

Conditions of Entry:

• Limit six entries per category per artist
• Entries must be wired and the wire ends taped for hanging
• Entries with multiple parts need to have a single mounting
• $25 per entry/$20 per entry for Tracy Art League members
• Artwork to be hand delivered
• Suggested donation to Tracy Art League is 15% of any sales

File submission can be no greater than 8Mb.  

One of the missions of the Tracy Art League is to educate school age children.  Because of this, we are not accepting any works depicting whole/partial nudity or extreme violence.

Art work is accepted in the following categories:

• Sculpture & 3 Dimensional (weight limit 50 lbs)
• Oil and Acrylic
• Watercolor
• Pastel and Drawing
• Graphics and Mixed Media
• Glass
• Photography (photos must be ready to hang – mounted or framed)

Awards:

• Best of Show $450
• Five GOLD awards at $100 each
• Five SILVER awards at $75 each
• Five BRONZE awards at $50 each
• One Peoples’ Choice award at $50

Calendar of Events:

December 9- January 10 – Online entries accepted at www.SmarterEntry.com/CallsForEntry/TAL

Jan 18  – Artists notified of accepted works

Feb 7 4pm – 6:30pm Receiving of accepted artwork 

Feb 8 10am – 2pm Receiving of accepted artwork

Feb 14 6:30 – 9pm Artists’ Reception

Feb 15-16 10am – 5pm Public Viewing

Feb 18-21 4pm – 7pm – Public Viewing

Feb 22 10am-1pm – Pick up of Artwork

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2025 Juror:  Robert Stevenson

Dr. Rob Stevenson is a California-based artist who is the Dean of the School of Arts, Performance, and the Humanities at Modesto Junior College where he has been for 23 years. Previous to that was a Professor of Art History and Studio Art. He received his Ph.D. from The University of the Cumberlands Leadership with an emphasis in Instructional Technology, a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, a Master of Arts in Humanities with an emphasis in Art History from California State University at Dominguez Hills, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. His work has been shown throughout the United States as well as in South America and Europe, with recent solo shows at the Carnegie Center for the Arts and University Art Gallery in Turlock.  His works can be found in public collections including the Morrison Library in Berkeley, CA, McNeese University in Lake Charles, LA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY.  Robert has also worked as a printer or as master printer with such noteworthy artists as Peter Voulkos, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Terry Allen. Recent scholarly awards include National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Fellowships to study South Asian culture in New Delhi, India; to Study Islam in Asia at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; a Korea Society Fellowship to study Korean culture at the Academy for Korean Studies in Seoul, South Korea, and a Dar al Islam Institute fellowship.

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City of Tracy to issue Purchase Prize Award(s) up to $500 for inclusion into the City Art Collection.