How to Submit

Submit your art for the 2012 show. Submission deadline, show date and location will be announced soon

We are open to all styles of art, photography and design – as long as it’s original. You can submit art created digitally, provide us with a photo of your work, or give us an original piece to scan (no larger than 8.5”x11”). It’s really up to you.

It’s free to submit and we only accept one submission per artist. If you send two or more, we’ll email you to ask which one. We usually receive about 100-150 submissions for our shows and only choose 50. If you’re one of the 50 artists chosen, you’ll receive 20 copies of your trading card for free!

File Setup:

• 2.5″x3.5″ + 0.125″ bleed on each side (so your art should be 2.75″x3.75″ total and will be trimmed by the printer to 2.5″x3.5″)
• CMYK (full colour; no Pantones or spot colour)
• minimum 300 dpi @ 100%
• psd and ai files are preferred but pretty much any file format can be submitted
• if your art includes a font, be sure to “flatten” any fonts in Photoshop or “outline” fonts in Illustrator
• use your name as the file name (eg, Jane_Doe.psd)
• email files up to 10mb; we’ll confirm receipt within 72 hours. If you don’t hear from us, try again.

Info to include for the back of the card:

• your name
• “Title” of your art
• a very brief artist statement (20 words max)
• your city
• your education
• media of the art (eg, mixed media on canvas)
• date of work
• your website
• Note: Your stats may be edited for length to fit our template for the back of the card. Please include this info in the body of your submission email.

I’m sad, I didn’t get in the show.

Don’t take it personally, it’s all about the fun times at the event. Try again next year and don’t worry about it.

A note on copyright

All submitted artwork must be original and free of copyright restrictions (ie, you must be the original creator of the work and willing to let us reproduce your artwork as necessary). By submitting artwork to CARDED, you are giving us the right to use your art for publicity, display, and sale as a one inch button. Publicity includes this website and any fair public use related to the CARDED including sale at the show or other events, on this site, and in promotional materials.