Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Bedford

July 25, 2025 to October 19, 2025

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Selection Juror: Nicole Elliott

Award Juror: Skip Allen

Selected artists will be notified by May 2, 2025. Thank you for participating!

$2000 First Place Award

$1000 Second Place Award

$750 Third Place Award

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Timeline:

Application ​deadline: February 23, 2025

Notification: Friday, May 2, 2025 via mail and email

Awards Celebration: Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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Entry Requirements:

• $25 application fee

• Application form

• Work media: photography

• Works must fit through a door that is 78” h x 32” w in size

• Artistic statement regarding conceptual insight to the work 

• Work should be from the past 2-3 years and should not have been exhibited at previous juried exhibitions in the area​​​

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​​Apply online via email to submissions@sama-art.org

• Submit payment online with Pay Now button

• Subject line “2025 DMR Biennial Application”

• Attach completed application form

• Attach 3 jpegs of work to the submission email of 300 dpi resolution or higher

• Email text must include the following information: artist’s name, address, phone number, email address, titles of works being submitted, date created for each artwork, insurance value for each artwork, type of photographic print, dimensions of each artwork, and conceptual artistic statement.

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Apply by mail: 137 E. Pitt St., Bedford, PA 15522

• Check for $25 made out to Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art

• Include completed application form

• CD or USB drive of 3 jpegs of work 300 dpi resolution or higher

• Paperwork to include the following information: artist’s name, address, phone number, email address, titles of works being submitted, date created for each artwork, insurance value for each artwork, type of photographic print, dimensions of each artwork, and conceptual artistic statement.

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Applications due February 23, 2025.

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Completed submissions will be followed by an acknowledgment email from SAMA

within one week to confirm that the application has been submitted in full.

Questions: call (814) 589-3020 or email submissions@sama-art.org.

See details of loan conditions upon acceptance such as insurance, liability, and sale of work.

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 The exhibition and events are sponsored by the Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation

and Benzel’s Bretzel Bakery Inc.