Eric Burkard

APG > Airport Exhibition 2025

Dr. Sarah Kennel

Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and
Director, Raysor Center for Works on Paper
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Dr. Sarah Kennel joined VMFA in 2021 as the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper. A photography historian, she has curated and co-curated major exhibitions such as Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings (2018), Olivia Parker: Order of Imagination (2019); Underexposed: Women Artists (2020), Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist (2023) and A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 (2024). Her work explores topics from 19th-century French photography to modernism and women photographers. Kennel has held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the High Museum of Art.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond is one of the largest comprehensive art museums in the United States. VMFA’s growing encyclopedic collection houses more than 50,000 works of art spanning 6,000 years of world history.

Their holdings include the largest public collection of Fabergé outside of Russia, the finest collection of Art Nouveau outside of Paris and one of the nation’s finest collections of American art. VMFA is also home to important collections of Chinese art, English silver, French Impressionism, Postimpressionism, British sporting art, and modern and contemporary art, as well as renowned South Asian, Himalayan, and African art.

Recently named the 11th-best art museum in the United States by The Washington Post, VMFA is the only US art museum open 365 days a year with free general admission.

Website: https://www.vmfa.museum/

ENTRY INFORMATION

CFE Dates: October 17 – November 17, 2025
All submissions must be made by November 17, 2025, Midnight ET

Early Entry: October 17 – 24, 2025
2 works: $35, 4 works: $50, 6 works: $60, 8 works: $75

Regular Entry: October 25 – November, 14, 2025
2 images: $40, 4 images: $60, 6 images: $70, 8 images: $85

Late Entry: November 15 – 17, 2025
2 images: $50, 4 images: $70, 6 images: $80, 8 images: $95

Student Submissions: October 17 – November 17, 2025
2 images: $30, 4 images: $45, 6 images: $55, 8 images: $70

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION FILE PREPARATION

(These Specifications are for Submission Uploads Only. Please see below for details on files to be printed for exhibition)

• Juror will be selecting exhibition images from all entries submitted by midnight ET on November 17, 2025.
• PLEASE SEE THE SIZE INFORMATION IN THE SECTION BELOW (Airport Printing and Installation Details) – the size ratio of your images must be able to fit the final print size.
• Export images as .jpg. Resize to 2100 px on the longest side.
• Rename files to the titles of each work exactly as you wish it to appear (example: My Great Photo.jpg) Your name will be automatically prepended to the file upon upload.
• Create a text file with your Personal Info (name, email, phone, website/social media), Artist Statement (500 words max), Bio (250 words max), and Image list (in this order: Title, Year piece was created, Medium (archival pigment print, inkjet print, silver gelatin, cyanotype, etc.), and save this file as a Word doc or PDF.
• Once you have paid the Entry Fee, you will receive an email with a link to upload your files

In order to submit your work you must be a current APG member. Join or Renew Now!

All entries must be completed ONLINE. Do NOT email any image files

• Complete Online Registration & Payment
• Upload Files to the Dropbox link found in the payment confirmation.
• Once you get this link, you must be logged into the website in order to successfully upload your work.
• If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact – gallery@AtlantaPhotographyGroup.org

Airport Printing and Installation Details

• APG along with Hartsfield Jackson Airport will handle the framing and installing of the artwork.
• Artists can have work printed through APG Airport Print Services. In this case, artists will supply high-resolution digital images to APG, and pay a nominal fee for APG to produce a high-quality archival pigment print. (see details for more information).
• Artists can also provide their own prints. However, the prints MUST MEET THE AIRPORT’S PRINT SPECIFICATIONS, or they will not be included in the show.

PLEASE NOTE – For this exhibition ALL PRINTS (or FINAL IMAGE FILES submitted for APG printing) MUST meet these specifications:

• All selected work will be printed on 20”×26” paper size. The Airport uses their own frames, which are 20″ x 26″. Your work will be centered on the paper, either landscape or portrait, whichever makes sense for your image and white space around your image will be determined by the aspect ratio of your image.
• All images must be printed with a WHITE border all the way around the image.
• The border must be a minimum of 1″ at the narrowest point, but can vary in size between top/bottom and left/right margins in order to maintain the aspect ratio of the actual image.

Details for Print Through APG

Printing fees through the APG Airport Printing Service are $44.00 for each print. An APG Airport Print Services link will be sent to all artists chosen by our Juror, Dr. Sarah Kennel to request and pay for APG Airport Exhibition Printing Services. Once paid for, artists will then receive a link to upload images to be printed through APG. The work will be printed by the same printer who has done the last four APG>Airport Shows for APG.  After the exhibition the prints will be returned to the APG Gallery and you may pick them up. If they are left beyond 60-days they will become property of the gallery.

• The cost to print through APG is $44 for each print
• All images will be printed full image, no cropping.
• All images will have WHITE border around the image.
• The border will be approx. 1”, but will vary based on the size and aspect ratio of the actual image.
• APG Airport Print Services will accept JPEG images only.
• Image files need to be a minimum for 4,500px on the longest side
• and 300 dpi for printing.