To enter a project for consideration for 2011, pick up a form at the Library during the summer OR download the application and guidelines below. The deadline for 2010 application process is September 1, 2010. 

If you would like to have an application and gallery guidelines mailed to you, please send a legal-size SASE to the Benicia Public Library, 150 East L Street, Benicia, CA 94510 (or download the guidelines and application form) and mail the completed form to the library - ATTN: Art Gallery Committee at - Benicia Public Library, 150 East L Street, Benicia, CA 94510.

Those people or organizations selected for exhibition will be notified by November 30, 2010.

Here are some suggestions for shows in the Gallery:

• painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, books (as art objects)
• crafts
• fabric art, weavings, tapestries, textiles
• photography - artistic, historical, natural subjects
• children's art
• collectibles - dolls, miniature books, etc.
• theater art - costumes, scenery, props.
• sculpture - wood, metal. plastics. light & neon
• special themes; competitions
• lapidary, jewelry, metal works
• natural science art & illustrations
• cartooning
• film, video and animation
• folk art
• commercial illustration, graphic design