Grants
Remastered
Cortland, New York
Entry Fee: $20
Additional Artwork Submission: $20
Contact Information
Ake Gallery
Contact Email: theakegallery@gmail.com
Requirement Overview
- Location Eligibility Type: National
- Eligible Applicant Types: Artist
- Submission Limit: 1
Media Requirements
- Images | Min: 1, Max: 3
- Audio | Min: 0, Max: 0
- Video | Min: 0, Max: 0
- Total | Min: 1, Max: 3
Opportunity Summary
Remastered is a fun, original art show featuring copies, forgeries, ill-conceived restorations and imaginative misinterpretations of famous artworks, artists and art movements.
Accepting
- Illustration, sculpture, paintings, collage, found objects
- Parodies, mashups, and gloriously inaccurate tributes to anything canonically famous
- Human-generated art only. No Neanderthals or AI.
About the Ake Gallery
The Ake Gallery is located in the historic Crescent Commons building at 165 Main Street in Cortland New York. Ake Gallery’s mission is to take the stuffiness out of the art gallery experience and offer affordable, fun fine art and to encourage and promote talented artists.
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General Information
We’re seeking irreverent, creative, and joyfully blasphemous takes on famous artworks for our Fall 2025 group show, Remastered. Think “Dogs Playing Poker” but it’s the Last Supper. Or What if Mona Lisa had a mullet? Or if American Gothic featured a pitchfork-wielding alien and his influencer daughter?
Remastered is an original art show featuring copies, forgeries, ill conceived restorations and imaginative misinterpretations of famous artworks, artists and art movements.
We’re looking for the paint-stroke perfect to amateur best try.
This exhibition challenges the solemnity of the art world by asking: What if irreverence is the sincerest form of flattery?
Categories
- Masterpieces Reimagined – Famous masterpieces with an extra helping of inspiration.
- Time-Traveling Portraits Historical figures redressed or reimagined in modern (or absurdly futuristic) style.
- Mashups & Collisions Combine two or more famous works, movements, or artists into one delightfully confusing piece.
- Art School Dropouts Purposefully bad or beginner versions of famous paintings (childlike renderings encouraged!).
- Movement Misfits Works that explore or satirize an artist or movement.
- Show Offs This category is for works that are genuinely well-rendered copies of masterpieces that might fool even the most seasoned art inspector.
Prizes will be awarded in each entry category. There will also be a “People's Choice” visual-art award for the artwork that gets the most votes from visitors to the Remastered exhibit. All prize money will reflect current forged art market value.
Exhibition Schedule
The Ake Gallery
165 South Main Street
Cortland NY 13045
Show Dates: November 7 – December 5, 2025
Submission and Prep
Now Open – Call for Artists
Saturday, October 4 – Submission Deadline
Friday, October 17 – Notification of Accepted Works
October 31–November 2 (Fri–Sun, 12–6 PM) – Art Drop-off & Delivery
(Venue location and delivery instructions will be emailed to accepted artists)
November 3–6 – Installation (Closed to Public)
Exhibition Events
Friday, November 7 – 5 to 9 pm Opening Night Reception. Includes: Live music playing bad cover songs, snacks, questionable wine
Friday, November 14 – 7 to 9 pm - Kara-akey. 3 Hotdog Night hosts an ear splitting evening of karaoke.
Saturday, November 22 – 7 to 9 pm The Art Of Improv - an all art related improvisational show by Ake Gallery resident improv Group, The Comedy Flops
Friday December 5 – Closing Party & Awards
Post-Exhibit
Saturdays December 6 and 13 from 12–6 PM – Artwork Pickup
Postage-paid return package is also acceptable if you cannot pickup your piece at the gallery.
Eligibility Criteria
Accepting
- Illustration, sculpture, paintings, collage, found objects
- Parodies, mashups, and gloriously inaccurate tributes to anything canonically famous
- Human-generated art only. No Neanderthals or AI.
Terms to Apply
Entry Fee: $20
Additional Artwork Submission: $20