El Paseo Sculpture Exhibition: Palm Desert Looking For Artists

From the City of Palm Desert:

January 22 2020

PALM DESERT, CA (January 21, 2020) – The City of Palm Desert invites all artists, galleries, museums, non-profit arts organizations, and private collectors to participate in the 2021/2022 El Paseo Sculpture Exhibition. The deadline for entries, which must be submitted electronically at www.callforentry.org, is February 21, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. MST.

The City’s Art in Public Places Commission will select 18 sculptures and up to four alternates from submitted entries on March 11. The City Council will review the selections and artists whose works have been approved for the Exhibition will be notified beginning April 13.

Installation is expected to take place between October 19 and November 5 with a dedication to take place in January 2021. Artists who participated in the 2019/2020 El Paseo Sculpture Exhibition are not eligible.

Selected sculptures will be showcased on the medians of Palm Desert’s world famous shopping thoroughfare, El Paseo, where they will be seen by thousands of residents and Palm Desert visitors. Southwest Magazine has identified Palm Desert and the exhibition, which has been featured repeatedly in national art journals such as Sculpture Magazine and Art in America, as one of five art destinations in the United States.

The City of Palm Desert provides a $5,000 honorarium for each selected artwork. The exhibition also presents a unique opportunity for artists to display and potentially sell their work. The City has purchased pieces from previous El Paseo exhibitions for its permanent public art collection and exhibition sculptures are sold to visiting collectors every year.

City of Palm Desert – 73510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert CA 92260-2578

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