The Art Call for the 2025 Small Stones Festival of the Arts is now closed.
Welcome to the art call site for the 2025 Small Stones Festival of the Arts. The Festival is a collaboration of the Worcester County Camera Club and the Blackstone Valley Art Association, now in our seventh year. Our exhibition of fine art painting and fine art photography will be held at the Brigham Hill Community Barn, 37 Wheeler Rd., North Grafton, Massachusetts.
Work chosen for the juried in-person exhibition as well as prize winning entries will be selected by an independent panel of distinguished jurors. Once they are announced, you can read about them at our main web site, at the link below.
Art work exhibited at the Festival will be selected from approximately 500 submissions and will include 144 fine art paintings (including drawing, sketches, ink and other 2D productions) and fine art photographs (including film based, digital, infrared and alternative processes). Please note that we continue to have strict restrictions on the size of the work we can exhibit, as you'll see in the detailed entry instructions below. Works chosen for the exhibition will be published in our annual hardbound catalog - a tradition we're continuing this year. All submissions will appear in our Web Gallery, available on this site during and after the exhibition.
You are invited to submit your original works of art for this exhibition through this website. Our jurors will select among the submitted entries to determine which to include in the exhibition and the printed exhibition catalog. Just prior to the opening of the exhibition, the jurors will also select prizewinners in the above categories.
All work submitted to the festival must be of publication quality, without reflections, abnormal color shifts, perspective distortions, etc. Not only will this help our jurors evaluate your work for their prize selections, but also will make the best presentation on the web and if your work is selected for our printed catalog.
Criteria include:
- Format: JPEG or PNG files accepted. Size limit of 4 MB.If you are a photographer, this shouldn’t be a problem. If, however, you have paintings that you need to photograph, there’s an app for that: Google Photo Scan, available for iPhone/iPad or Android. This app guides you through taking a series of photos of your work, combines them, removes glare (from cover glass or reflections from varnish, etc.), and gives you a nice result. Just be certain your phone/tablet camera has sufficient resolution to meet the above requirement – an iPhone 6 probably will not, but a newer phone or tablet might be fine.
In order to submit your work for the festival, you must register on this ArtCall site by clicking on the Register button in the header above (if you already have an ArtCall.org login, you can simply log in using the green Login button instead). If you have a narrow browser screen (mobile, etc.) you may have to click on the three horizontal lines in the upper RIGHT to see the buttons. Fill in the necessary information on the registration form and create a password.
Although there is no registration fee, there is a nonrefundable submission fee of $10 per submitted work. While you may submit up to five works, a maximum of two works will be accepted into the festival per artist.
To submit work to the exhibition:
Watch the following video to learn more...