The Pattern Project

Project overview

After you sign up to participate in the project, start creating your artwork. We will not be mailing you anything extra for it. Simply follow these rules.

The Exhibition

There will be an exhibition in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Art Library on June 5th, 2010. Your pattern project will be included in this exhibition. We do not jury entries. We believe art should be accessible to the masses and we therefore include every entry submitted.

Where to mail your completed pattern proejct:

Art House Co-op
C/o The Pattern Project
201 Richards St. #16
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Art work/Paper Size/ Materials

• Your work must be pliable and fold down to 8x10. It can be larger though. But due to space restrictions, we must be able to store it at that size.
• Your work must use a pattern, repeat, or some sort of repetition.
• Your work must be 2d.
• We recommend putting your work in a frame (and having it READY to hang). If in a frame, the frame MUST be black. The final outside dimensions of the frame must be 8x10 inches.
• The work can not be thicker then 2 inches.
• You are free to use any material you want.

Your full name MUST be written on the back of your piece.

Mailing your work to us:

• Please postmark your work by May 15th, 2010
• If you want your work back, please see below.
• Please do not send something that requires us to be there or requires signature. If you do, we will do our best to receive the package, however we are not responsible for packages sent back to sender if we are not there.
• We try to check in work as fast as possible. However it is a long process especially close to the deadline. Even though your submission does not say we received it, it does not mean we didn't. We will check in everything at least one week prior to the exhibition date.

If you want your work returned

If you want to receive your work back, you must include a check/money order/cash covering the cost to send your work back in a regular 9x12 inch manilla envelope. We are NO LONGER accepting SASEs. If you do not send a check/money order/cash your work will become a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library and will periodically be on display! If your check/money order/cash does not cover the cost of the package, we will alert you of what the extra cost needed is and will not send it back until we receive the remainder.

PLEASE ALLOW UP TO 4 MONTHS AFTER THE FINAL DATE OF THE EXHIBITION TO GET YOUR WORK BACK. We will do our best to make it quicker, but again, there are a lot of you and not many of us!

Your name on your work

Remember back in kindergarten when you had to write your name on the back of everything you made? The same rules apply here. We will not accept any work that does not have your name written on the back. (We do understand this might not be possible in some circumstances and will look past it, but do your best to label it.) Plus, don't you want credit for your work?

Work sold

During this exhibition, NO artwork will be sold. We do sell artwork from time to time, but we care more about showing it and getting it out there and creating a venue where people can come to get inspired.

Images on the site

All the images in artists profile and the project photos section are uploaded by the artist. Art House does not and can not upload or take photos of your work. If you want to upload your own images make sure you take photos before you mail it off.

Lost/stolen/other unforeseen stuff

Art House does everything we can to keep your art work in great, un-lost condition. However stuff happens. Unfortunately we can not replace your art work and are not responsible for lost, stolen, dropped in bin of water, ripped, destroyed, or anything else of that nature, artwork. We will try to make it better with what we can do, but again, we are not responsible.

Copyright rules

Your work is your work. We will never ever sell your physical work without your permission or not give you your share. We will however use your work in promotional materials, web ads, print ads and the like. We will also from time to time publish your work in an art house book. We reserve all copyright ownership to the books published. Each project will specifically state if the art work will be sold or not at the exhibitions.

Emailing

We will always do our best to respond to your email in a timely manner. However, remember if you have a question 100 other people are probably emailing the same question. Please read through our FAQ's, the project rules and the general rules before emailing us. We can not respond to all emails. At times especially around deadline times emails can be overlooked. We apologize and ask that you are patient with us. Most answers can be found on this website somewhere!

Hours of operation

Currently we are only open by appointment. Please email us if you want to come see an exhibition while it is up. We can not extend the dates for any reason.

We will be posting the Brooklyn Art Library hours when it opens in February.

Exhibition Photos

Exhibition photos can always be found on our flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/arthousecoop/ within one week of an exhibition.