2018 Bobcat Art Show

Sponsored by the UC Merced Library and Arts UC Merced Presents Co-sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts and UC Merced Chancellor’s Office

DEADLINE: APPLY ONLINE BY FRIDAY, MARCH 16 AT 5:00 PM
bit.ly/BCASapply2018

It's time to get creative Bobcats! Enter your artwork in the 2018 Bobcat Art Show. All UC Merced students, faculty, and staff are welcome to enter their paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, mixed media pieces, and digital media.

“A Wall is a Wall”

The 2018 Bobcat Art Show is inspired by the 2017 song lyric “a wall is a wall”1; we invite participants to respond to, engage, or reflect on this theme. A physical wall may define space while a psychological wall might present a barrier or obstacle—something to break through. Walls are used as tools of oppression, for defense, or to hold back pressure. An empty wall in a gallery, city, or library offers up a place of possibility for the creation of art. Metaphorical walls ask us to think about inside and outside, boundaries and borders—whether actual or imagined. The theme is meant to be read and interpreted broadly: From wallpaper to Wall Street; from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China; from seawalls to prison walls; Facebook walls to internet firewalls; from backed against a wall to “another brick in the wall”; from climbing walls to wallflowers—or The Wallflowers for that matter! Drive us up the wall or go off the wall.

Students participating in the show are also invited to compete for the social media based “People’s Choice Awards.” The winners will be announced at the Artists Reception on Friday, April 6th and on the Arts UC Merced Presents Facebook page.

Terms and Conditions

Artists are required to acknowledge that:

• Art must be delivered Thursday, March 22nd, between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the UCM Library (2nd-floor Services Desk, Room 255). No late entries will be accepted.
• Art must be less than 12 months old
• Art must be no more than 84 inches high and 40 inches wide
• Art must weigh no more than 25 lbs
• Art must be delivered completely dry
• 2-D artwork must be framed and wired at time of delivery*
• 3-D and assembled work must be stable and safe for viewing at time of delivery
• The art show organizers have the right to not display any work felt unsuitable for display
• Art will be installed on the UC Merced campus at a location selected by the organizers
• Art will be documented in photographs and/or videos that may be displayed on the internet
• Organizers will do their best to protect the art but cannot be liable if it is lost, stolen or damaged
• Art not picked up by the deadline will become the property of the organizers and will be disposed of as desired

*Framing Requirements For 2-D Artwork

• All two-dimensional art must be framed and wired

Acceptable hardware for wood frames

• Screw eyes acceptable
• D-Rings acceptable
• No saw tooth hangers, no spring clips, no pop-in frames

Acceptable hardware for metal frames

• Hardware that screws secure in the track

1 Downtown Boys, "A Wall," Cost of Living (Sub Pop, 2017).