1965-2025
You are invited!
Sun Gallery 60th Anniversary Celebration Exhibit Call for Art Entries.
The Sun Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition entitled:
Sun Gallery: Celebrating 60 Years of Building Community Through Creativity 1945-2025.
What were you doing 60 years ago? Were you still just a twinkle in your mother’s eye, or were you already making art? Whatever the answer, we invite you to join us to celebrate our 60th Anniversary Celebration!
A little fun background on who we are, and where we came from:
In 1965 the Hayward Area of Festival of the Arts, Inc. had a Board of Directors including:
- John O’Lague
- Mrs. Douglas Morrison
- George Oakes, Jr.
- Dr. Karl Ernst
- Mrs. Nicholas Roukes
- Mrs. Robert Travis
- Mrs. Robert James
- Mrs. John Chilton
- Mrs. George Phillips
In 1975, the Hayward Festival of the Arts, Inc. became the Hayward Area Forum of the Arts, Inc., aka the Sun Gallery!
BTW, this is important, if any of you know the founders, families of our founders, prior Board of Directors, or people who have contributed to the Sun along the way (staff, artists, friends, or teachers) please send them our way! We would love to talk to and include them in our year-long festivities!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
We have a new Facebook page: Sun Gallery and Makerspace. Please follow us there and also at our website: www.sungallery.org. Your new admins there right now are Dorsi Diaz (new President), Carl Gorringe (new Treasurer), Cristina Deptula (long-time member), and Veronica Phillips (new secretary) Please feel safe messaging us here or there!
IMPORTANT: Our old FB page Sun Gallery is no longer being used. SEARCH for Sun Gallery and Makerspace on Facebook to find us!
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The details on our exciting exhibit:
For THIS SHOW Sun Gallery artists can submit a medley of work: any theme, subject matter, and a variety of media – just keep it decorous. Let’s celebrate who we are!
NOW is your chance to submit your artwork that did not fit previous Sun Gallery show themes. Contribute to our show variety and answer our Call for Art! Help us create a tasty ragout of colors, forms, shades, shapes, moods, messages, and meanings at the Sun Gallery Member’s Show……. Sun Gallery: Celebrating 60 Years of Building Community Through Creativity 1945-2025.
The show dates will be March 27 to May 10, 2025 at the Sun Gallery in Hayward. Artwork will be juried for entry digitally or by photo at no cost to the artist, but you must be a member of Sun Gallery to participate.
Not a Member? NO PROBLEM!! Pay our nominal membership fee for 2025 and you’re IN! PLUS, ALL MEMBERS GET TO DISPLAY THEIR FIRST PIECE FOR FREE!! (See below for added pieces $)
Artwork can be any media including, but not limited to painting, sculpture, glasswork, ceramics, drawing, and assemblage.
The final deadline for consideration of your work in the show:
Monday, March 10th.
Submission of Works:
Please email your contact information along with the jpeg images of your submissions. JPGs should be no larger than 8” in height and 300 dpi maximum. Please name your files as follows: firstinitial.lastname.title.jpg.
We need 300 dpi images for press releases and postcards, so if you have digital images that size, please send them.
Please send us your photos by email to the new Sun Gallery President Dorsi Diaz at dorsi@sungallery.org, subject line: 60 Years or by regular mail to 1015 E St., Hayward CA 94541. If you have any questions, please contact us by email at the same address, subject line: ATTN: Dorsi
We will follow up with you with a contract and inventory list:
* Show Fee: Your first piece is FREE and it is $10.00 each for up to 2 additional pieces of art not to exceed 25 sq. feet of wall area (as space allows) You can pick up postcard invitations at the gallery for your use. If you are not already a Sun Gallery member, you may join the Gallery for this show for our normal membership dues.
All donations to the gallery are tax-deductible.
Types of Memberships:
Individual Membership
* Individual memberships are for working professionals under the age of 65. Individual membership can be upgraded at any time. Individual memberships are for one person in a household. This membership is $40.
Family Membership
* Family memberships are for person(s) living in the same household, including up to four persons. For example, two parents and two children. Family memberships are $60.
Student Membership
* Students of CSUEB or local colleges and High Schools qualify for a Student Membership with ID (verified at first check-in). This allows younger members to afford membership and all its benefits.
Senior Membership
* For any person over the age of 55 we offer a membership at an affordable rate of $25. This includes all membership benefits and free submissions to our Senior show in August.
* Our memberships expire on 12/31. There will be at least 3 more shows in 2025 in which you may be interested in participating: The 2nd Annual Art Meets Tech Exhibit, The 13th Annual Climate Change exhibit, and 1 other (tbd)
* Artists must identify their work with a label attached to the front of the art with: the name, the title of the art piece, medium, and price. This information will be used for the wall labels. All wall-mounted work must be wired and ready to hang, matted and framed, or edges gallery wrapped and finished. No special installation requirements and no ceiling-mounted works are eligible. We reserve the right to refuse to accept work that arrives damaged, is too fragile to be exhibited, or was misrepresented in submission.
* You will need to bring or mail a completed inventory sheet with the same information as above, and a signed contract with your fees.
Please make your checks out to: Hayward Area Forum of the Arts
(not Sun Gallery!)
* A one-page artist statement or biography will be displayed in a show binder if you supply us with one.
* Sun Gallery does not provide art insurance on your work. The Gallery will take every precaution to ensure the safety of your pieces, however, we cannot be held responsible for theft or damage to your work while on the gallery premises. Each artist, if they wish to have it, needs to provide their own insurance.
* Sun Gallery will keep a 30% commission on any sale of artwork.
* No artwork will be removed from the exhibition during the show.
* Local Artists: Deliver uncrated artwork, ready to hang with wire, to the Sun Gallery on Sunday & Monday, March 9 & 10 (11 am – 1 pm)
* Art Pick Up at the end of the show will be on Sunday May 11, 11 am – 1 pm.
* Be sure to join us for the ARTIST RECEPTION planned for Saturday, March 29, from 1 pm – 4 pm. Please note: The participating artists will be providing finger foods or beverages for the event (and Sun will provide the main)
Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your submissions and celebrating with us!
~ Dorsi Diaz, President of the Sun Gallery and Makerspace (as of 11/17/2024)
Sun Gallery
1015 E St
Hayward, Ca.
94541
510-581-4050
www.sungallery.org
* The Sun Gallery is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization supported partly by the City of Hayward, HARD, ACAC ARTSFUND Grant, Patra Rae Nesseth-Steffes, and Carpenters Union Local 713.
* The Sun Gallery
Building Community Through Creativity
www.SunGallery.org
* 510.581.4050
1015 E St. Hayward
* WINTER HOURS: FRIDAY – SATURDAY 11-4