PESTO
PARTY!

Many folks feel the holidays are time for celebration.  I think the secret to a happy life is finding cause for celebration everyday.  It won’t surprise you that my family celebrates with food.  One of my favorite celebratory foods is pesto…on just about anything, especially pizza.  This next Call gives you reason to celebrate…women, just in time for Women’s History Month.

Check out this Call for Entries from the Tall Grass Arts Association called Half the Sky in celebration of Women’s History Month (March).  The entry fee is low, and you don’t have to be a woman to enter…just celebrate them.

CALL for ENTRIES:  Half the Sky

Chinese proverb: “Women hold up half the sky.” Women’s History Month grew out of a small-town school event in Sonoma County, California in 1978. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women’s History Week. 

In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month and March was declared Women’s History Month.  Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society.  In 2011, Tall Grass Arts Association will host a national, juried exhibit celebrating Women’s History Month.

ELIGIBILITY:  All artists ages 18+ are eligible.  All media will be considered.  Original work only.  All work submitted must reflect the theme of the exhibit – the contributions of women to history, culture or society.  All work must be for sale. 

Work over 75 pounds must be hand delivered, installed and picked up by the artist or representative.  Work that requires more than 1 hour to install must be installed by artist.  Work may not have been exhibited previously at Tall Grass.

DEADLINE:  Postmark by January 12, 2011 or hand-deliver by January 14, 2011

ENTRY FEE:  There is a $35 non-refundable jury fee required, per artist. Please make checks payable to Tall Grass Arts Association.

JUROR:  Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography.  Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (Rüsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), Artbots 2005 (Dublin), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz, ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia).

Raaf is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields (2002) and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2005 & 2001).  Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Contemporary, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Leonardo, www.lab71.org, The Washington Post, and New Art Examiner.  She received an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

ABOUT THE TALL GRASS ARTS ASSOCIATION: The mission of the Tall Grass Arts Association is “to promote public education and appreciation of the arts; to encourage artists; and to support high quality art through exhibitions, sales, classes and special programs available to the public of all ages.”

To that end, Tall Grass Arts Association: operates a gallery that exhibits regional, national and international artists. Recent exhibits have
included “Worlds Imagined: the Art of Children’s Books” which featured the original illustrations of 11 children’s book illustrators, “With These Hands,” a sculpture exhibit which included 7 works by the world renown sculptor Richard Hunt, “The Sacred, the Spiritual and the Sensual” which included the works of Javier Chavera whose works hang in the permanent college of the Mexican Museum in Chicago and “Here and Now,” an exhibit of the current works of our gallery artists.    continues below

The Association provides space for artists to offer their works of art for sale, invites school groups into the gallery for docent-led tours and projects, and operates a school that offers classes to children and adults and fundraises to provide scholarships to low-income students, including classes taught off-site at Glenwood School and the Jones Center in Chicago Heights and more.    

For all the details, Download the Prospectus!