RAIL road trip
Don’t you want to have a Club sandwich in the Club Car of a long-distance train? It it just me? Admittedly, I just watched White Christmas again. I just watched them all sing “Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow.” Now that I think about it, we never do SEE those sandwiches…just the aftermath. Hmmm… While I ponder the snowy landscape of napkins in that train car, you ponder the “metaphoric landscape of place” in this next Call. Go ponder…
Check out this Call for Entries for Right Here Over There brought to you by the Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY). This is an all media show with NO ENTRY FEE! Don’t miss this rare opportunity…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
Right Here Over There
Right Here Over There is an exhibition exploring the physical, mental, and metaphoric landscapes of place and their indelible link to memory. Throughout our lives we are surrounded by a world punctuated by varying spaces, climates, geographies, buildings, and cultures. Accumulating in layers over time, pieces of our physical world provide visual reference points for how we understand one another and ourselves.
THEME: Including (but not limited to) the following may be integrated into the final exhibition: mapping, topography, architecture, nature, distance, home, exile, travel, and personal/social/political geographies.
ELIGIBILITY: All artists, age 18 and older.
MEDIA: All media and styles will be considered.
DEADLINE: January 31, 2012
NOTIFICATION: February 17, 2012
ENTRY FEE: No entry fee.
JUROR: Becky Alley, LAL’s Exhibitions & Programs Director, will select all artwork for exhibition. Alley earned a BFA in studio art from Washington University, and an MFA in studio art from the University of Kansas. Before joining the LAL staff in January 2010, Alley was the Director of University Galleries at Murray State University. She has organized over 100 shows and has curated several major projects including Think Tank, an international show of political art, Creatures Great and Small, a touring exhibition of contemporary art featuring animals, and Love and Things Like Love, an LAL project.
SALES: Not all works need to be for sale, but LAL retains a 30% commission on the retail price of all works sold in the gallery. The artist must determine retail price, which is sent with the application materials.
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