Call for Artists
Join Us at the 12th Annual Uptown Art Expo
Award artists section limited to 140 carefully juried artists and crafters from across the USA
Jury Artist Booth Space: $335; $30 application fee - spaces: 31 - 161 - Electric is available for $15 for locations 31 - 143 only.
Non Competitive Artist Space: $285; $30 application fee - spaces: 1 - 23, 162 - 200. No electric is available for these locations, spaces many require to dolly to booth space, Double booths are available, contact us!
Application Deadline on Zapp is March 22, 2025.
Art Awards present by independent judges
Drive up load-in and load-out at; free adjacent parking, overnight security
Sunday morning artist brunch
Highest household buying income in the region
Major advertising and promotion: TV, newspaper, radio, social media
World-class entertainment/high public attendance
Abundant, affordable accommodations and restaurants
Uptown Art Expo Artist Hotel Special!
Hilton - Altamonte Springs if offering our artists a special room rate of $159 with buffet breakfast for 2 per room. For more information: Click Here!
Our judging team will consist of two independent judges.
Awards are presented solely at the discretion of the judges and will be presented at the winning artists’ booths at about 5pm on Saturday.
Charon Leubbers
A stone carver, painter, installation artist, independent curator, and teacher, Charon Luebbers earned her BA, cum laude in Psychology from Northwestern University. She pursued studio art after studying abroad at Sussex University in Brighton, England. During the mid-eighties, Charon worked in health and youth social services in New York City and studied sculpture and painting
at the Art Students League and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Since moving to Florida, Charon has participated as a four-time Associate Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts. She also participated in the MacNamara Foundation six-week artist residency in Westport Island, Maine, and the BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show in Brooklyn, NY. Charon is a recipient of the Florida Artist Enhancement Grant and the Volusia County Individual Artist Professional Development Grant. Charon served two years on the board of the VCCA. She has been an independent curator for more than a dozen exhibits at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona, organizing, installing, and writing about those, as well as others in Central Florida. Charon has served on the Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens and the Museum of Art DeLand exhibitions committees, and as judge for indoor and outdoor art shows throughout Central Florida. An art educator, Charon has facilitated workshops for children and adults at several Florida museums and art organizations.
Jay Spalding
Jay Spalding is a native Floridian hose art emphasizes the natural beauty of the state. Drawings, paintings, woodblocks are in his repertoire, but his medium of choice is clay. Spalding’s award-winning wheel thrown sculptures, both innovative and creative, have been shown internationally and nationally.
As a Distinguished Professor of Studio Arts, Spalding’s love of the creative processes and integrity of aesthetic academics is passed on to his students. Thirty-five years at Seminoles State College, then years at UCF, Spalding immerses his students in the practice of aesthetic literacy and the joy of meaning of making.
Hi BFA is from Ringling School of Art and Design and his MA is from the University of Central Florida. Spalding’s work is shown regularly in a variety of local galleries as well. (Alice William Jenkins Gallery, Fifth Ave. Gallery, Gallery of First, The Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, Harris House, Made By Gallery, OVAL Galleries, Orlando City Arts Factory, Orlando City Hall, The Potter House, FAVO.) In addition, he has given workshops and lectures, featured in the Orlando Sentinel , and has judged several other Art Festivals.
