Dairy Arts Center 2020

The Dairy Arts Center invites applications from individual artists and arts organizations, as well as curated group exhibition proposals. The Visual Arts Jury, a ten-member committee comprised of artists, curators, university faculty, and art collectors, will review applications to select artists and groups to exhibit in the Dairy's four galleries. If selected, the Dairy's Curator of Visual Arts will determine the most appropriate gallery or galleries for the display of invited artist work.

Founded in 1992, the Dairy Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary, not-for-profit cultural arts organization housed in the historic Watts-Hardy Dairy building in Boulder, Colorado. Since 1997, the Dairy's visual art program has grown in recognition throughout Colorado and the United States. A major renovation from August 2015 to August 2016 added a fourth gallery with improved lighting and exhibition facilities. The Dairy also manages three live performance spaces, an art house cinema, and rents office and rehearsal space to local arts organizations.

Entry fee is $35.00. Applicants may submit 2 applications and must provide 4-6 images, with optional audio (maximum 1) and video (maximum 1) files, for a total of 4-7 work samples. Artists may not bring an exhibition to the Dairy that has been shown in the Boulder area within 12 months prior to a Dairy exhibition, though individual works shown at other venues may be included in a different Dairy exhibition within a 12-month period. Work exhibited at the Dairy should be no more than two years old at the time of exhibit, though exceptions may be made by the Jury and/or Curator. The Dairy Galleries are not equipped to exhibit art jewelry. For questions, contact Jessica Kooiman Parker, Curator of Visual Arts, at [email protected] or 303-440-7826 ext 107.