space to
GROW
I have been searching for my place–in art, in music, in food, in the world. I have a long history of wanting to do everything at all times. I want to get it all right, experience it all, eat it all, see it all, do it all. As a result, I often get none of them quite right. Silly to some, I believe the answer is geographical. I continue to seek smaller spaces and places–one town smaller than the next. Now I seek space, acres inside the next smallest town. Not isolation so much as controlled interaction. Space to think. Space to choose. Space to grow. Where is YOUR space? Your place? The next Call wants your answers–or questions. What do you have to say?
Check out this Call for Entries from Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (Solomons, MD) for Finding Our Place: The Geography of Art. $25 entry, epic jurors & great art, time & time again. Take a look…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
Finding Our Place
“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
–Wendell Berry
A sense of place can be an essential element in artists’ creative life, and frequently informs their subject matter, materials, style, approach, studio location, and more. Whether it be ones childhood “primal landscape,” full of memories of home and family, or the pull of a dramatic landscape, or a connection to a particular place based on historical and cultural events, geography calls to the imagination. As the world shifts to a focus on the virtual, how has this impacted artists’ work? Has it resulted in a weakening of a sense of place, or has the meaning of place simply adjusted to this new reality? This exhibit invites artists to explore this issue from either or both sides, and to celebrate what place means to them. What informs your work? A physical location or a virtual world? Do you know “where you are?” — from annmariegarden.org
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists
working in the US
MEDIA: Open to all media
DEADLINE: August 14, 2015
NOTIFICATION: August , 2015
ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 4
JUROR: The exhibit will be juried by a 1-2 member panel; typically, one member of the panel is drawn from the Smithsonian Institution.
AWARDS: Annmarie will present cash awards to outstanding work. Jurors will review installed works (not application images) for award selection. Award amounts are contingent upon sponsorship; typically there are at least three awards each about $250. All award winning artists will receive an invitation for a solo or group show.
SALES: Annmarie will retain a 40% commission of the listed sale price.
For complete details, Read the Full Call!
I share the same tendencies with you, and that has brought me from ocean to ocean and desert to desert. In all, my sense of place is with each little life that skitters, crawls and flies around me.