Fenimore Art Museum Now Accepting Artist Submissions for Its Annual Art by the Lake Event

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Fenimore Art Museum is currently accepting artist submissions for its annual juried summer art invitational, Art by the Lake, taking place Saturday, August 9, 2025.

Painters, photographers, and sculptors are invited to submit their work.

Selected artists will have the opportunity to display, demonstrate, and sell their art during the event. Awards will be presented featuring cash prizes. The application deadline is Sunday, June 1, 2025 (5:00pm). Applications received after this date will not be considered. A non-refundable $20 application fee is required upon submission. To apply, please visit FenimoreArtMuseum.org/ABTL.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.