Call For Work: Members’ Juried

Each year PAAM mounts upwards of 5 members’ open and juried exhibitions in which participants display their work alongside some of America’s most noteworthy artists.

These exhibitions represent the work of PAAM’s contemporary artist-members, many of whom live on Cape Cod either full-time or for part of the year. While the work varies greatly in media and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 100 years. There is no submission fee for members’ exhibitions, but membership must be up to date.

Juried exhibitions at PAAM represent a smaller cross-section of member artists whose work has been chosen by a guest curator after being submitted. Each show reflects the aesthetic judgment and curatorial eye of the invited curator. Any member in good standing may submit their work for consideration. Except in special circumstances, Juried exhibitions do not have themes or size restrictions.

THE JUROR

Josephine Halvorson (she/her) paints from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking.

Halvorson received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended Yale Norfolk in 2002. She is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships, including a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Halvorson’s work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. She has presented work internationally at such institutions as the Storm King Art Center, the ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was the Museum’s first artist in residence. In 2024 she presented a solo exhibition at James Fuentes, Los Angeles, accompanied by a paperback monograph.

Her work and practice have been written about widely and she is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She has been interviewed by the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Artforum, and appeared in such publications as Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson, Vitamin P2 edited by Barry Schwabsky, and Prints and Their Makers by Phil Sanders.

Since 2016, Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She has also taught at The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Columbia University, and Yale University. She lives in western Massachusetts, and works wherever and whenever a subject draws her attention.

Artist Guidelines

DROPPING OFF WORK

Drop-Off Day is Tuesday, January 14 from 12-4pm. This is also Pick-Up Day for the current Members’ Juried and Members’ Small Works exhibitions.

There is no size restriction for this exhibition, and no theme. Artwork must be dry and equipped with a hanging device upon arrival. We recommend that you submit your Artwork Receipt online (below)–it will save you the time of filling out the receipt at Drop-Off.

Membership must be valid through April, 2025–anyone can join or renew online here or at Drop-Off. Our Membership List is updated the morning of Drop-Off, so if you need to renew on that day it’s typically best for you to take care of that at Drop-Off instead of online.

Dropping Off Early: If you can’t make it on Drop-Off Day, you may drop off the prior week when the Museum is open: Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm. Due to the quick installation turn-over we cannot accommodate late submissions, so consider 1/14 your absolute deadline.

We’ll announce selected artists by email and on our Facebook page by Thursday, 1/16 at 3pm. If your work is not selected, please come pick up your piece during Museum hours: Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm.

SHIPPING WORK

Shipped works must arrive by Tuesday, January 14. Please either submit the online Artwork Receipt (below) or include a printed copy.

PICKING UP WORK

If your piece was not selected for this exhibition, the Pick-Up Days are Thursday, January 16; Friday, January 17; and Saturday, January 18 from 12-5pm.

Pick-Up Day for included works is Tuesday, April 15 from 12-4pm.

We are happy to ship your piece back to you, please fill out the Return Shipping Form (published in April) to begin the process. We use USPS, and charge a $15 handling fee in addition to the cost of shipping, which includes insurance determined by the price you list for your piece. PAAM cannot ascertain the shipping costs prior to packaging and weighing the artwork for return. 

Alternatively, you can send us a prepaid label from your preferred shipper (FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc.) and a check for the $15 handling fee, or simply send us a blank check that we will fill out when we have determined your shipping charges.

Artwork Receipt