CALL for ENTRIES: IACA Mini-Grant

Posted on February 6, 2018February 7, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

winter SEEDS

When I can find decent greens, salads are winter food in my house. The secret? Toasted walnuts. This glorious fruit & seed in one shell produces this beautiful aroma when toasted that adds a nutty warmth to the crunchiest of greens. This next Call is offering seeds of its very own to add a little warmth to your art production. There are definitely worse ways to spend seven dollars. Give it a try.

Check out this Call for Entries from Integrity Arts & Culture Association (Rock Island, IL) for a $250 Mini-Grant. The application is simple & only costs $7. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Mini-Grant from
the Integrity Arts
& Culture Association

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to literary, visual & performing arts

DEADLINE: February 21, 2018

NOTIFICATION: Mid March, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $7 per applicant

AWARDS: IACA Mini-Grants generally average $250, and are intended to assist with such things as: art supplies, recording studio time, exhibits, performances, project related expenses, etc. This is our way of planting seeds that we believe will continue to grow.

ABOUT IACA: Integrity Arts & Culture Association is a non-profit Christian arts organization, which was founded on June 25, 2002 by an artist for artists. “We are passionate about the literary, performing and visual arts, and we welcome your involvement. We are dedicated to producing high quality programs that educate, inspire and entertain. We also reach out to youth and provide education, grants, field trips and a venue for artistic creativity.” *Editor’s Note: I cannot find any indication that content of proposed projects are required to have religious content, nor any indication that it is a criteria in judging.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Is there a Mother in the House?

Posted on February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

finger FOOD

I have a soft spot for mothers in restaurants. I remember that struggle eat, feed the child that wasted all their good behavior in the waiting area, try to manage the mashed up mess and smile at the wait staff and hope they think you’ve got it all under control. I don’t know why so many mothers feel the need to sustain the illusion that being a mother is easy. We know better. We are better. It is hard. We are up to the task. This next Call wants all the facets of “mother” we can conjure. Up to the task?

Check out this Call for Entries from Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL) for Is There a Mother in the House? $30 entry & only open to female-identifying artists. There is nothing more widely-open to interpretation than the concept of “mother”. Show them your viewpoint…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Is There a Mother in the House? from Woman Made Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Female identified artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: Mother –work that explores the multiple facets of Mother—political, personal, comic, symbolic, historic, biological, idealized or actual—and her impact on their own lives or on the wider world.

DEADLINE: February 9, 2018

NOTIFICATION: Week of March 1, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3, plus one detail if necessary

JUROR: Janet Bloch is an artist, administrator & author. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bloch has had several solo exhibits nationwide, and her work is in numerous collections which include the South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Illinois State Museum, Deloitte and Eaton Corporations. After co-directing Woman Made Gallery from 1993 to 2000, Janet Bloch is now the Executive Director at Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana.

SALES: WMG will retain a 40% commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Facing the Wall

Posted on January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

GREEN walls

While on vacation recently, I was having dinner in a restaurant only to see the chef come out and clip herbs off a wall planter in the dining room. I have a friend that has installed a decorative green wall in their livingroom. And I know several others that are making vertical gardening plans. It seems planting vertical not only makes the best use of space, but it is more physically accessible for lots of people for whom bending and stooping are not an option. Walls of food, how lovely. This next Call is looking for your work surrounding the idea of walls.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art League Rhode Island for Facing the Wall at The VETs Gallery (Providence, RI). $25 entry fee, a great juror & a timely curatorial theme add up to a great opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Facing the Wall
from Art League
Rhode Island

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all 2D & 3D media (no video)

THEME: Walls have delineated nations & cities throughout human history. Walls define what is inside as separate from what is outside, and while this definition . . . invariably includes a defining of identity. Whatever the motivation, walls identify what is within them and what is outside them, placing limits on both. We are now in an era of new walls – walls built on the borders of nations, ideologies, cultural and personal identities. Whether attempting to break through, climb over, dig under, circumvent, use as a canvas, or decorate, artists respond to the walls that confront them.

DEADLINE: February 14, 2018

NOTIFICATION: February 27, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3. Note: If accepted, a $15 ALRI handling fee will be required for each box shipped.

JUROR: Julia Samuels of Overpass Projects. Overpass Projects was founded in 2015 by Julia Samuels and Henry Felton Brown, after the two completed their MFAs at the Rhode lsland School of Design. They practice all forms of intaglio, etching, engraving, photogravure, relief printing, screen printing, lithography and letterpress. Connected to a wide community of artists and designers, they are innovating new ways to bring other disciplines into the print shop and ways to push printmaking out into the world.

AWARDS: 1^st Prize $300, 2nd Prize $200 & 3rd Prize $100

SALES: Art League Rhode Island will retain 30% (members), 40% (non-members) commission on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Monsters

Posted on January 21, 2018January 22, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

toe-mate-OH

Winter is bearing down on my culinary sensibilities; it does every year. In need of tomatoes for a recipe, I ventured into the produce section of my local grocer on a mission. I was greeted with $4/lb. hot house tomatoes shipped in from a climate that should not require a hot house for them to flourish. The most amazing part is that I only had to buy one. Why? Because the one tomato I bought, while beautifully folded like so many of my favorite heirloom varieties, was dense like a cannon ball and nearly three-quarters the size of my head. Monster tomatoes are in a store near you. (Spring can’t come soon enough.) In the meantime, your monstrous work is welcomed by this next Call. It is the first Call for this online publication; don’t miss out…

Check out this inaugural Call for Entries from N.Y. Photo Curator (online) for the Monsters exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping, plus art publication for ALL entrants. $20 entry for this unique call. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Monsters
from N.Y. Photo Curator

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Monsters. “Teratology. Cryptozoology. Therianthropy. All of these terms are related to the study of monsters. Monsters are at once foreign and familiar, and they take on a good deal of cultural work, reflecting back to us our own monstrous side as well as representing “otherness”. Protectors or destroyers, they elicit reflection on the complexities of our nature . . . As a society, we consume monster-centric media in mass quantities, from volumes of fairy tales to horror flicks to serial killers presented on screen and in podcasts. From Totoro to Pan’s Labyrinth, be they gentle or malicious, monsters demonstrate a broad and intensely creative diversity of form, and there is a rich art historical archive of images and sculpture dating back centuries and reaching across cultural boundaries.“ –Anne Eder

DEADLINE: January 31, 2018 (Midnight PST)

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3. 20% of artist fees go to 2 charities –½ to the curator’s choice of charity & ½ goes to the 1st place winner’s choice. Anne Eder has chosen the Fleisher Art Memorial.

CURATOR: Anne Eder is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design where she studied with Christopher James and has been employed as an adjunct professor. Eder teaches courses in alternative and material processes in photography and in interdisciplinary projects, and will be joining the roster of educators at Harvard University and at Penumbra Foundation in NYC this spring. She is also a reviewer for Lensculture.

AWARDS: The curator chooses 1st place, 2nd place & 3 honorable mentions. The 1st place winner will receive a review by one or more curators including a Q&A about the photographer’s work. In addition, their image will be on the home page for a month. 2nd place & honorable mentions will have their image shown along with their bio, artist statement, C.V. and a link back to their website.

SALES: All sales are conducted between the artist & buyer. There is no commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Recycle 2018

Posted on January 20, 2018January 21, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

makeOVERs

Partial boxes and bags and cans of food drive me crazy. I am too “thrifty” to get rid that extra half cup of evaporated milk or quarter box of pasta. As a result my menu has become a litany of recipes that recycle the odds and ends that happen as a result of making the foods I actually intended to make. This next Call wants your art make from all things recycled. This is a great show. Don’t miss the early bird deadline just days away!

Check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Recycle 2018. Take advantage of a discount for early entry, a distinguished juror & significant cash awards. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Recycle 2018
from BWAC

“Recycle, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s national juried show of art crafted from cast-off, discarded & re-purposed materials, will be a celebration of ingenuity and imagination.” –from bwac.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

ENTRY FEE: $45 up to 3, $5 ea. add’l (early bird) or $65 up to 3, $5 ea add’l after Feb 26

DEADLINE: January 23, 2018 (early bird) or February 20, 2018 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 12, 2018

JUROR: John Cloud Kaiser is the Director of Education at Materials for the Arts, one of the largest reuse centers in the U.S and a program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Through art shows he curates at MFTA Gallery and his work with his art group Free Style Arts Association, he has been championing reuse‐themed art in the museums, streets, and schools of New York City since 2000. These works have appeared broadly, from The Metropolitan Museum, to the NYC Parks Dept., to The New York Times. Kaiser graduated from New York University and is currently working on a series of temporary sculptures for Storm King Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Most Innovative Use of Materials $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten $100 Certificates of Recognition.

SALES: BWAC will retain a 30% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tangible Photograph

Posted on January 6, 2018January 9, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

not a HUNGRY holiday

I’ve been on vacation for a few days. It might be more accurate to say I’ve been eating for a solid three days. Before we set out, every restaurant was planned, and the challenge became how to fit in all the additional little eateries and diners that popped up en route. I was reminded, again, that fancy presentation & ingredients don’t make food more filling, more tangible, than the classics. I enjoyed the 7″ layer cake from the 24-hour diner just as much as the gatrique-dotted gastropub fare. This next Call wants your tangible, in the hand (not the stomach) photographs. I love this call…

Check out this Call from L.A. Photo Curator (online) for the Tangible Photograph exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping, plus art publication for ALL entrants. $20 entry for this unique call. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Tangible Photograph
from L.A. Photo Curator

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: The Tangible Photography. “One of my favorite pastimes is exploring old junk shops & antique stores. I love vintage books, old photographs, ephemera, boxes, trinkets, weird oddities, games etc. I suppose I’m a nostalgic person, but the timelessness of these objects inspires me to create things myself that have a timeless physicality to them. I enjoy artwork that have visual impactfulness & a certain contextual materiality. I practice this in both my own art making as well as my publishing projects of other artists’ work. For this call for art I’m hoping to present works of photo-based art that truly transcend the notion of the 2-d (or screen) photograph. My hope with this exhibit is for viewers to expand their understanding of what photography is – or can be.” –Blue Mitchell

DEADLINE: January 14, 2017 (Midnight PST)

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3. 20% of artist fees go to 2 charities –½ to the curator’s choice of charity & ½ goes to the 1st place winner’s choice. Blue Mitchell has chosen the Caldera Arts.

CURATOR: Blue Mitchell is an independent publisher, curator, educator & photographer. Based in Portland, OR, he has been involved with many facets of the photographic arts. After Mitchell received his BFA from Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2005 he founded One Twelve Publishing. One Twelve focuses on photography based projects in both print and online gallery formats. Aside from his publishing endeavors, Mitchell has also curated & juried exhibitions for a number of galleries and organizations. He has been a juror for Critical Mass & a reviewer for numerous photo festivals across the U.S.. Mitchell teaches workshops as well as presents lectures & panels discussions on hand-crafted photography. Most recently, he was the keynote speaker at the 2016 Northwest Symposium for Alternative Process Photography in Vancouver, BC.

AWARDS: The curator chooses 1st place, 2nd place & 3 honorable mentions. The 1st place winner will receive a review by one or more curators including a Q&A about the photographer’s work. In addition, their image will be on the home page for a month. 2nd place & honorable mentions will have their image shown along with their bio, artist statement, C.V. and a link back to their website.

SALES: All sales are conducted between the artist & buyer. There is no commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Nat’l Native American Veterans Memorial

Posted on December 28, 2017December 29, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

vintage FOOD?

While on my way home from Virginia through North Carolina and on to Tennessee, I stopped in a number of “antique malls”, or junk stores as my mother would cal them, in search of frames for my own work. But I was struck by the number of meals ready-to-eat (MREs) for sale. I understand the attraction to un-expired MREs for survivalists & doomsday preppers, but why would anyone buy vintage beans? You can’t eat them. You can’t really open the package. Is it kitsch value? Someone please enlighten me. In the meantime, here is a Call celebrating Native American veterans. I am looking forward to seeing the winning design. You don’t have to be an architect or sculptor to apply.

Check out this Call for Design Submissions from The National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.) for National Native American Veterans Memorial. There is no entry fee, and designs need only be preliminary. Take a look…

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CALL for DESIGN SUBMISSIONS:
Nat’l Native American Veterans Memorial
from The Nat’l Museum of
the American Indian

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“Despite . . . . distinguished legacy spanning 2 1/2 centuries of American history, no national memorial yet exists—Native veterans & those serving today remain unrecognized by any landmark. With your participation, however, this will soon change.” — NMAI

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all

DEADLINE: January 9, 2018

NOTIFICATION: January 25, 2018 (Announcement of Stage II Participants)

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: A blue-ribbon jury of Native and non-Native artists, designers, scholars & veterans will judge the design submissions. Don Statsny, architect, urban planner and community facilitator, will oversee the competition.

AWARDS: Stage I will be an open call to submit design concepts. The jury will select up to five finalists to participate in Stage II. The second stage will require finalists to refine their concepts. At the conclusion of Stage II, the jury will review the submittals & select a design concept for the memorial. Semifinalist Honorarium—$25,000; Projected Design/Construction Budget—$8 million.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Courage Kenny Cards 2018

Posted on December 27, 2017December 28, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

screaming GREENS

As we approach the New Year, I keep having flashbacks to a screaming pressure cooker preparing collard greens each New Year’s Day. The sounds & smells have been spurred on because of my new electric pressure cooker, a gift from my mother for Christmas. Yes, I know that I normally shy away from large, trendy gadgets, but I just couldn’t resist. This one does more & replaces other small appliances, so I’m giving it a whirl. I’ve had two successful attempts in a row — Swiss steak then pork chops with apples. Maybe collard greens next. This next Call wants your reflections on the holidays. You likely have work for this one…

Check out this Call for Entries for 2018 Artists for Courage Kenny Cards. You can enter up to a dozen images for only $10. Artists are paid licensing fees & given credit on the back of every card. Proceeds help support rehabilitation & services for people with disabilities. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2018 Cards
fm Courage Kenny

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“Courage Kenny Cards are high quality holiday cards . . . . Proceeds from the sale of these cards support rehabilitation, independent living & recreational services for people with disabilities.” from couragecards.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to two dimensional drawing, painting, illustration & photography.

THEMES: Holidays: Thanksgiving, Symbols of the Season, Winter City Scenes, Religious Christmas, Winter Landscapes & Winter Wildlife.

DEADLINE: January 7, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $10 for up to 12 entries

JUROR: A panel of judges from the greeting card industry reviews all entries.

AWARDS: Approximately 30 pieces of art are selected each year for reproduction on holiday cards. Artists receive a license fee, nationwide recognition through the distribution of more than 300,000 catalogs, promotional pieces, web site and other marketing. An artist photo, profile and web site link are featured on the Courage Kenny Cards web site.

The artist retains ownership and copyright of the artwork. The artist grants Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the artwork on a Courage Kenny Card for five years. The artist’s name, copyright notification and title appears on the back of each card. Courage Kenny may change the title and/or add a border, design element or title to the art to create an appropriate marketable holiday card.

SALES: A license fee of $400 is paid to the artist for selected art.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Drawing 2017

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

CABBAGE to go

Coleslaw is everyone’s holiday party potluck go-to, right? Ha. I didn’t think so. My husband’s work party involves barbeque & fried chicken, so we decided to forego the standard veggie/fruit trays, layered dips & jello desserts. My husband makes a mean coleslaw –rough chop, lots of vinegar & a touch of horseradish. Now what do we bring as a gift? You gotta love drawing random names. This next Call is a much better version of drawing for the holidays. Investigate even if traditional drawing isn’t your thing…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Drawing 2017 & the Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant. $25 entry & no shipping. The theme is open to more than pencil & charcoal drawing, and one artist now receives a $500 grant. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Drawing 2017
from Art-competition.net

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ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+ (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to drawings in any medium including digital and experimental mediums

THEME: Drawing “The curators are looking for drawings of any subject that are created traditionally or experimentally. Drawing is the original art and language of man and continues to allow us to communicate what we see and feel. A drawing can be formal and refined or expressive and energetic; it can capture our thoughts with doodling, marks, lines or shaded areas expressing our external world and our individual thoughts. It is a record of who we are as humans and our need to connect with each other.” –art-competition.net

DEADLINE: December 30, 2017

NOTIFICATION: January 22, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS: 20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “DRAWING 2017” at Gallery25N; the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 26,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, etc. One artist will be selected to receive the “Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant“ of $500. That artist’s work will become the image of the exhibition and will be used on the invitation, video title screen and on all online marketing.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: P/N 33

Posted on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

There are benefits to only having to feed two people again. It is cheaper, and our menu is more diverse without a teenage palate with which to contend. But it has also been an adjustment. We eat a lot of leftovers because I still haven’t completely adjusted to smaller portion sizes. (Tip: One zucchini per person.) Pros & cons, as always. This next Call wants your positives and negatives. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Slocumb Galleries at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for the Positive/Negative 33, a nat’l juried exhibit. Open theme considers most media. Don’t miss it…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Positive/Negative 33
fm ETSU Slocumb Galleries

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to 2D & 3D media & video

DEADLINE: January 25, 2018

NOTIFICATION: February 5, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $36 for up to 3

JUROR: Margaret Winslow has curated exhibitions for the Neuberger Museum of Art & The Delaware Contemporary and assisted with exhibits for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. In 2010, she attended Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive in New York and in 2015, she served as juror for Art of the State: Pennsylvania at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Hunting Art Prize in Houston, Texas in 2013. Winslow holds a BA in Art History from the University of Mary Washington and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism from SUNY Purchase College.

AWARDS: Up to $1,000 in cash prizes ($500 for Best of Show, $100/ea Honorable Mention) and exhibit opportunities.

Category: Art Blog

winter SEEDS

CALL for ENTRIES: Mini-Grant from the Integrity Arts & Culture Association

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

finger FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: Is There a Mother in the House? from Woman Made Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

GREEN walls

CALL for ENTRIES: Facing the Wall from Art League Rhode Island

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

toe-mate-OH

CALL for ENTRIES: Monsters from N.Y. Photo Curator

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

makeOVERs

CALL for ENTRIES: Recycle 2018 from BWAC

For full details, Read the Full Call!

not a HUNGRY holiday

CALL for ENTRIES: Tangible Photograph from L.A. Photo Curator

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

vintage FOOD?

CALL for DESIGN SUBMISSIONS: Nat’l Native American Veterans Memorial from The Nat’l Museum of the American Indian

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

screaming GREENS

CALL for ENTRIES: 2018 Cards fm Courage Kenny

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CABBAGE to go

CALL for ENTRIES: Drawing 2017 from Art-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Positive/Negative 33 fm ETSU Slocumb Galleries

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Mini-Grant from
the Integrity Arts
& Culture Association

CALL for ENTRIES:
Facing the Wall
from Art League
Rhode Island

CALL for ENTRIES:
Monsters
from N.Y. Photo Curator

CALL for ENTRIES:
Recycle 2018
from BWAC

CALL for ENTRIES:
Tangible Photograph
from L.A. Photo Curator

CALL for DESIGN SUBMISSIONS:
Nat’l Native American Veterans Memorial
from The Nat’l Museum of
the American Indian

CALL for ENTRIES:
2018 Cards
fm Courage Kenny

CALL for ENTRIES:
Drawing 2017
from Art-competition.net

CALL for ENTRIES:
Positive/Negative 33
fm ETSU Slocumb Galleries