The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 will coincide with the grand reopening of the National Portrait Gallery (scheduled for July 1, 2006) and will run for seven months. The exhibition will comprise the jurors’ top 50-60 selected portraits, including the prizewinning entries.
The artists who have received awards will be expected to attend the presentation ceremony, and they will also be expected to attend the press preview. The Gallery will reimburse these artists for travel costs, subject to prior approval by the Gallery.
Those artists whose works will be exhibited will be invited to attend the opening reception.
All exhibiting artists and prizewinners will be required to sign a consent to the use of their name, image, and artwork in connection with the Portrait Competition, exhibition, and all related advertising, marketing, publicity, and promotion for the exhibition.
Work brought to and from the National Portrait Gallery for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 will be handled by professional art movers and installers. Arrangements for those movers and installers will be made by the Gallery.
Insurance in the amount of the value determined by the lender shall be placed on all loans and carried in force from the time when the materials to be lent are removed from their normal places of exhibition or storage, until the materials are returned in satisfactory condition to such places of exhibition or storage. This shall be an all-risk, wall-to-wall policy subject to standard policy exclusions carried by the Smithsonian Institution, and all costs shall be borne by the National Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006.
Should the lender, however, prefer to insure the loan under his or her own policy, he or she must forward to the Gallery, prior to the shipment of the work of art, a copy of his or her certificate of insurance, naming the National Portrait Gallery (of the Smithsonian Institution) Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 as an insured. Please notify the Gallery of the estimated costs of such coverage in advance of the exhibition.
Works selected for exhibition cannot be removed before the end of the exhibition and may not be offered for sale during the course of the competition or the exhibition.
