ORANGE
YOU
GLAD?
While in Phoenix recently, I discovered that our hosts were lucky to have an orange tree in their back yard. Every morning I went out back to the sweet smell of orange blossoms and the overwhelmingly loud buzzing of bees. I am inspired by the smell and sound. I wonder if I can get an orange tree to grow in my Smoky Mountain yard? This next Call is from California — where they have no problem getting orange trees to grow either.
Check out this Call for Entries from Sebastopol Center for the Arts (in California) for Bibliophoria II. The entry fee is a little high for non-members, but you’ve gotta love book shows. Book shows are less common than you think so the risk could be worth it. Take a chance…
CALL for ENTRIES:
Bibliophoria II – Art of the Book
ELIGIBILITY: Sebastopol Center for the Arts invites artists living in the U.S.A. to submit work to Bibliophoria II.
MEDIA: We are looking for artwork created in the form of handmade artist’s books—using traditional bookmaking methods, or contemporary, unconventional structures, or made by altering existing books. Open to any method, in any media, on any subject.
DEADLINE: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
NOTIFICATION: June 3, 2011 – posted on their website. Editor’s Note: If you hate the notification by post to website as much as I do, make sure you tell them AFTER they post results. This practice will become more and more common if you don’t speak up.
ENTRY FEE: SCA members, $15 per entry or 3 entries for $35 (membership is $40 annually). Nonmembers, $20 per entry, or 3 entries for $50. Maximum, 3 entries per artist.
JUROR: Sas Colby has more than forty years of experience making, exhibiting and teaching art. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. She made her first artist’s book in 1972 and is considered a pioneer in the field. A survey exhibition, Sas Colby: Twenty Years of Book Thinking, was shown in numerous venues in 1995. Colby has been a visiting artist in Australia and colleges throughout this country. She currently teaches workshops in Taos, New Mexico; Mallorca, Spain; and at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
AWARDS: $200 Best of Show; $50 Coordinators Award, and Merit Awards.
For complete details, Download the Prospectus!
My Italian grandmother grew potted miniature orange trees in her kitchen. She also had a fig tree outdoors that she dug up & brought indoors for the winter months in St. Louis, Mo.
Go for it! “The risk could be worth it. Take a chance…”
This call might be right up my alley! Thanks for posting such a wide variety for all of us out here!