CALL for ENTRIES: Wet Paint

Posted on July 19, 2017July 20, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

EATING the rainbow

I love grocery day. My husband did the shopping this week, without a list. S, my house is full of gorgeous vegetables in all the colors of the rainbow –from red bell peppers to yellow bananas and purple-tipped turnip roots. I have this almost irrepressible need to eat ALL of it today. It is an exercise in self-restraint, ha. This next Call is open to all the colors, no self-restraint needed. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from Colors of Humanity Art Gallery (online) for Wet Paint. $20 entry fee, website back links & cash prizes make for a great opportunity, plus 10% of fees go to Habitat for Humanity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Wet Paint from
Colors of Humanity
Art Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to 2D painting of any subject matter

DEADLINE: August 15, 2017

NOTIFICATION: August 22, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 2. 10% of all entry fees will go to Habitat for Humanity.

JUROR: Artist & teacher, Janelle Cogan

AWARDS: Cash prizes will be given. The “Best of Show” will be featured on the cover of the show & it will be largely displayed with an article about the winner & their work. Other winners will be featured & have similar recognition. All accepted works will be displayed with the artist name, title of work, and a link back to their website (or email if no website).

SALES: All sales are conducted solely between the artist and the buyer. Colors of Humanity Art Gallery does not handle any part of the sale & will collect no commission.

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ARTIST of the DAY: Jasper Finn Behrends

Posted on July 18, 2017July 18, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

"Pansy" (digital art) by Jasper Finn Behrends — *“Pansy” (digital art) by Jasper Finn Behrends*

“bullying has left marks on my life” —Jasper Finn Behrends

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Ever had something you needed to let loose into the world, but fear has held you back? Me too. I’m trying to take a deep breath and be brave and know that someone else in the world has the same secret; someone else is afraid or confused or feeling alone. Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Jasper Finn Behrends, is brave in a way most of us will never have to endure. I am proud to feature his work & hope you’ll carry it with you in your heart today.

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CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Artist Grant

Posted on July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

a personal END

A grocery budget surplus comes around rarely in my house, but alas, it magically appeared this week. I was tempted to be practical and buy a back-stock of staple items. But at the last minute, I came across tamarind pods and decided to splurge. I’ve always wanted to make my own tamarind paste just to know if would be better than what I could buy. It isn’t, but I can now say I’ve done it, ha. The next Call could put a surplus in your art budget or at least help you meet your budget. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Submissions from Create! Magazine for their $1000 Artist Grant. You can donate any amount in lieu of an entry fee and a new winner is picked each quarter. Don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
$1000 cash award
from Create! Magazine

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media, i.e.: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film, fiber arts, mixed media, installation, embroidery, photography & more.

DEADLINE: August 15, 2017

ENTRY FEE: Donate any amount

JUROR: Create! Magazine staff will select the artist from the pool of submissions.

AWARDS: One winner will receive the grant each quarter. $1000 cash prize (must have PayPal in order to receive award). Artist profile on the Create! Magazine website and social media coverage.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Madness

Posted on July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

patchwork PROVISIONS

The weirdness of my lunch is directly proportional to how badly I don’t want to go to the grocery store. I spend most of my working hours in my home office/studio. As a result, my work clothing standards are sometimes (often) not how I’d like to be seen in public. So to avoid the extra work of dressing and driving and shopping, I create food collages of sorts –often disparate ingredients composed into pasta salads, casseroles & almost anything sauteed & stuffed into a corn tortilla. This next Call is for traditional & digital collages; I don’t think food collage counts. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for the Collage & Digital Madness exhibit. Sales commission is only 25%. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Collage & Digital
Madness from
Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to traditional or digital collage

DEADLINE: August 6, 2017

NOTIFICATION: August 12, 2017

GUEST ARTIST: Bobbi McMurry

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $1 ea. add’l

SALES: The Las Laguna Gallery will retain 25% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Bareback

Posted on July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

yea or NEIGH

What do you consider local? And which is more important? Today I listened to someone at my grocer complain that the “locally grown” carrots were from 125 miles away. Local first, organic second for my family –even apples (which often top the dirty dozen list). Know the methods & practices of your local farmers when possible. Are you happy with your carrots & apples? Be kind to yourself. This next Call is all about horses, who, by the way, love their apples & carrots too. Investigate this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Studio C Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) for Bareback 2: Symmetry in Motion. $27 entry & open to all media. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Bareback 2 from
Studio C Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media as long as it interprets the theme “Bareback 2: Symmetry in Motion”, honoring the horse.

DEADLINE: August 31, 2017

NOTIFICATION: November 4, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $27 for up to 4, $5 each add’l

JUROR: All entries are submitted to a guest artists & art professionals. Each year new jurors are selected for the process.

SALES: Studio C Gallery takes a 20% donation from each artwork sold during the duration of the exhibition. 80% of sales will go directly to the artist. The gallery asks that each artist make a donation to the Wild Horse Sanctuary or Dream Catcher Therapeutic Riding Center.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Sugar Rush

Posted on July 5, 2017July 2, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

a SWEET treat

I’ve been hired to write a series of budget dessert recipes that encourage local, organic sourcing. I try to limit my personal intake of sugar because I am so easily addicted. As a result, I am struggling to balance the sweetness in these concoctions. I don’t want to use artificial sweeteners. Honey is a flavor, not a just a sweetener. Stevia can come with a bitter aftertaste. Agave nectar has the same glycemic impact as a sugar, so why not just use sugar? At what point is sweet just sweet? This next Call is all about the sugar. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Sugar Hills Art Commission (Sugar Hill, GA) for the Sugar Rush Juried Art Show. No fee to enter…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Sugar Rush Juried Show
from the Sugar Hills
Art Commission

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. . . a juried art show that will run
in conjunction with the annual
“Sugar Rush” Fall Festival on
Saturday, October 21, 2017.

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: July 15, 2017

NOTIFICATION: July 31, 2017

ENTRY FEE: No fee to enter. $35 fee per artist only if accepted.

AWARDS: $1000 Best in Show, $500 2nd Place & $250 3rd Place.

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CALL for ENTRIES: New Directions 2017

Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

pass the SALT

Did you know there is a proper direction to pass food around the table? It dates back centuries to men, mostly right handed, who were armed at the dinner table. If you passed food from the right, you ran the chance of bumping in to a weapon or worse yet, causing a spilled drink. So these days it is still considered proper to serve or pass from left to right. After all these years, you’d think there would be a better reason or a new direction, but, no. This next Call is a new direction, more than 3 decades old –an exhibit now in its 33rd year. Don’t miss this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for New Directions 2017. This venue is spectacular, and the juror is always great. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
New Directions 2017
from Barrett Art Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, installation art, glass, ceramics, fiber & mixed media.

DEADLINE: July 24, 2017 (midnight MT)

NOTIFICATION: August 9, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $50 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($40 for members)

JUROR: Ruth Erickson is Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She co-curated the major exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” with Helen Molesworth and has organized exhibitions of the work of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Ethan Murrow at the ICA/Boston. She is currently at work on the first U.S. survey of Mark Dion’s work to open in 2017. Erickson received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and has published and presented her writing widely. She serves as a visiting critic at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

AWARDS: Juror’s Prize $1,000, 2nd prize $250, 3rd Prize $175 & two honorable merit awards.

SALES: Barrett Art Center will retain a 30% commission for sales (20% for members).

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CALL for ENTRIES: FL3THC3R 2017

Posted on July 2, 2017June 30, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

hot POTATO

Food is political; I repeat it regularly. Whether it is the origin of food, the growing method, the harvesting practice or the politics of the person preparing it. How you spend your money affects both the availability of the variety, the acceptability of the practices & the relative financial success of the corresponding farmers, vendors & restaurants. If you don’t support a food’s associated politics, don’t lend it your financial support –regardless of how good it tastes. Food is political. It is a hot potato, and it matters because WHAT WE EAT MATTERS. This next Call is also political. This is an opportunity to make space for matters to you. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Reece Museum at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for the 2017 FL3TCH3R Exhibit. Never in history has this show been more relevant. I’m entering; are you?

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CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2017

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The FL3TCH3R Exhibit is focused on work with strong social and political content. Work entered in the exhibit should reflect current issues that affect contemporary culture and investigate societal and political concerns. Diverse media and approach to the theme are encouraged.

ELIGIBILITY: U.S. artists age 18+

MEDIA: All 2D, 3D, performance & installation & video art are eligible. Due to space & logistical considerations, large-scale & complicated installation is not encouraged.

DEADLINE: August 22, 2017 (late deadline August 31, 2017)

NOTIFICATION: September 16, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l (by August 22). OR $45 for up to 3 & $10 ea. add’l (from August 23-31).

JUROR: Painter Anita Kunz has work in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musée Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. She received the Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada. She has received an honorary doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and a second from Mass Art College of Art and Design. Kunz was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, and recently received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Honor. Additionally, she will be inducted in the Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in New York in 2017.

AWARDS: Best of Show $300, 2 Awards of Excellence $100 ea., Sammie L. Nicely Appalachian Artist Award $100 & Reece Museum Award $100. Other awards TBA.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Figures & Faces

Posted on June 30, 2017June 28, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

i taste FLORIDA

I have a friend that claims every pack of Chicken McNuggets has one shaped like the state of Florida. I followed the comment thread white people disputed that shape of the figure from bunnies to revolvers to other states and countries. It devolved into what words appearing in soup & crackers and saints on toast. People often see what they want to see. It is like the culinary version of Rorschach ink blot test. Fascinating. This next Call wants to know what figures and faces you see. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for the Figures & Faces exhibit. Sales commission is only 25%. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Figures & Faces from
Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to all* media, including (but not limited to) assemblage, collage, digital art, drawing (graphite, charcoal, colored pencil), encaustic, fiber art, illustration, mixed media, new media, painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor, airbrush), pastel & photography (traditional or digital). No jewelry, video or sculpture.

THEME: Art that explores the human figure or faces. Open to a full spectrum of work and interpretation.

DEADLINE: July 6, 2017

NOTIFICATION: July 12, 2017

GUEST ARTIST: Christine Duarte

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $1 ea. add’l

SALES: The Las Laguna Gallery will retain 25% commission on all sales.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Create September

Posted on June 29, 2017June 27, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

en PAPILLOTE

I’m on week 3 of no dishwasher. It isn’t that bad. I was dreading it before the move, but I knew downsizing was important enough to get over the inconvenience. The only real difference I have noticed is the increased use of parchment paper, ha. I don’t mind washing dishes, but cleaning baking pans is to be avoided when at all possible. This next Call doesn’t require your work be on or in paper, but one artist will get a bonus prize of beautiful papers from the Awagami Factory. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine for the September 2017. Just wait until you get your hands on this gorgeous magazine. Don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
September 2017
of Create! Magazine

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media, i.e.: painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, mixed media, photography, installation & more.

DEADLINE: July 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $30 for 5

JUROR: Brock Brake is a co-owner & curator of Athen B. Gallery, the curator & director of First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco / Oakland, and is the latest addition to the curatorial board at Pro Arts in Oakland. His passion for photographing graffiti gained him publication in outlets such as Brooklyn Street Art Blog, Graffiti Art Magazine & Juxtapoz. Once in Oakland Brock worked as an intern at Hamburger Eyes and as an art handler at White Walls & Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. As a supporter & facilitator of the Bay Area Art community, Brock continues his “extended” art education by working as an art handler at various galleries and museums both locally and out of state.

AWARDS: Artists selected by the guest juror will receive a 2-page spread including a brief bio, website, and 2 images in print and digital formats. Published artists will receive a complimentary digital issue and will be listed on Create! Magazine’s website/social media. One artist selected by the guest curator for the September issue will also receive $250 worth of Japanese papers from Awagami Factory, Japan.

SALES: The September Issue will be available at McNally Jackson Books in NYC, Charlotte Street News in London & online.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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Category: Art Blog

EATING the rainbow

CALL for ENTRIES: Wet Paint from Colors of Humanity Art Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

“bullying has left marks on my life” —Jasper Finn Behrends

Discover more work from AAAD Artist of the Day, Jasper Finn Behrends!

a personal END

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: $1000 cash award from Create! Magazine

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

patchwork PROVISIONS

CALL for ENTRIES: Collage & Digital Madness from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

yea or NEIGH

CALL for ENTRIES: Bareback 2 from Studio C Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

a SWEET treat

CALL for ENTRIES: Sugar Rush Juried Show from the Sugar Hills Art Commission

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

pass the SALT

CALL for ENTRIES: New Directions 2017 from Barrett Art Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

hot POTATO

CALL for ENTRIES: FL3TCH3R 2017

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

i taste FLORIDA

CALL for ENTRIES: Figures & Faces from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

en PAPILLOTE

CALL for ENTRIES: September 2017 of Create! Magazine

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Wet Paint from
Colors of Humanity
Art Gallery

CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
$1000 cash award
from Create! Magazine

CALL for ENTRIES:
Collage & Digital
Madness from
Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Bareback 2 from
Studio C Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Sugar Rush Juried Show
from the Sugar Hills
Art Commission

CALL for ENTRIES:
New Directions 2017
from Barrett Art Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2017

CALL for ENTRIES:
Figures & Faces from
Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
September 2017
of Create! Magazine