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ARTIST of the DAY: Mauro De Giorgi

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Ocean Code detail (Vintage obi, silver leaf, burnt rice paper, glazing colours and resin) by Mauro Di Giorgi
“Ocean Code” detail (Vintage obi, silver leaf, burnt rice paper, glazing & resin) by Mauro De Giorgi

“No, I don’t want to be absolument moderne.” —Mauro De Giorgi

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I struggle with modern definitions of success & ambition.  My desires of and contributions to this world do not often equate a standard path in a world driven by capitalism.  This isn’t a political statement about capitalism.  It a personal statement of awareness of both my talents and my shortcomings.  And, I’m okay with that.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Mauro De Giorgi, finds his conflict with modern unwavering faith in technology.  That conflict has driven him deeply into connection through process.  I appreciate the lessons taught & learned.  Thank you, Mauro.

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Take a journey through process with the work
of AAAD Artist of the Day, Mauro De Giorgi!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Knox Photo 2017

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Learn more about Knox Photo 2017 from the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville!green PROMISE

My papaya won’t ripen; it has been in my kitchen window for a week.  Ahhhh.  I try to eat mostly locally sourced/grown food; however, I am not going to commit myself to a lifetime of no bananas or papaya or mango because I live in the wrong grow zone.  As a result, some of the tropical fruits I buy are vastly under-ripe.  I usually just gross my fingers and hope for the best.  But when you know how fantastic something will the be, the anticipation can be a overwhelming.  This next Call is for a show I anticipate every year, both as a participant and a viewer.  Don’t miss this chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from Arts & Culture Alliance (Knoxville, TN) for the Knox Photo 2017. I have shown here.  I have juried here.  I teach here.  I would love to see your contribution here. Take a look…

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Learn more about Knox Photo 2017 from the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville!CALL for ENTRIES:
Knox Photo 2017
from Arts & Culture Alliance

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ELIGIBILITY: Artists 18+ living in the US

MEDIA: Photography

CATEGORIES: The Human Experience (street/land scapes, enviro/human portraiture), Our Earth (nature), Still Life (other inanimate objects), Travel (away from home) & Digital Imagination (digitally enhanced)

DEADLINE: April 23, 2017

NOTIFICATION: May 23, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l. Members $20/$4.

JUROR:   Baldwin Lee received his undergraduate degree from the M.I.T. & his graduate degree from the Yale School of Art. Lee’s work has been shown widely including venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has been recognized by the award of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation & 2 fellowships from the N.E.A. Lee teaches photography at UT & his efforts in the classroom have been honored with the University’s two highest teaching distinctions: the UT National Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award and the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

AWARDS: $500 Best in Show, (5) $100 Best of Category & an award for best work by a member

SALES: 25% commission (20% for check/cash)

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville!

CALL for ENTRIES: Human Relationship to Water

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Learn more about the Human Relationship to Water exhibit from LA Photo Curator!drip drip DRIP

Do you take water for granted?  Despite the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing reality of Flint, Michigan, and the horror of #NoDAPL protest conditions, among a hundred other examples, I am guilty of taking for granted that when I turn the handle, the water will be clean and abundant.  Until the wildfires.  It only took a week of boil conditions to make me realize how precious water is.  While we were under boil orders, I second guessed every utensil, every plate.  Did this get washed with boiled water?  Will this spoon make me sick?  Every meal. Every snack. Every day.  How would living without clean water affect your life?  I’m not the only one asking.  Take a look at this next Call questioning your relationship to water.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from L.A. Photo Curator for the Human Relationship to Water exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping, plus art publication for ALL entrants & an opportunity to support a great cause WITHOUT donating work.  For those who struggle justifying entry to online opportunities, I always suggest you start with the juror.  Explore…

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Learn more about the Human Relationship to Water exhibit from L.A. Photo Curator!CALL for ENTRIES:
Human Relationship to Water from
L.A. Photo Curator

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“. . .man’s relationship with water has become estranged. As ports closed and moved outside of the city, as planes and cars took over the role of the seas, and as the individual came to expect their cargo at their doorstep, so too did human interconnectivity lose its relationship to water and the natural elements.” –from Adriaan Van Der Plas via laphotocurator.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: April 5, 2017 (Midnight PST)

NOTIFICATION: (and opening date) April 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3. 15% of artist fees go to 2 charities per competition. 7.5% to the curator’s choice of charity and 7.5% to the first place winner’s chosen charity.  Adriaan Van Der Plas has chosen the charity Clean Water Action.

CURATOR: Founder Adriaan Van Der Plas was once himself an outsider, having left his hometown of Vienna, Austria in 1973 to immigrate to New York City. Around this time, artist Konstantin Bokov was preparing to make the same transition. Inspired by the works of Van Gogh and unable to show his art in the political climate of the USSR, he decided to leave the Ukraine for New York city. The two became acquainted in 1993, when Bokov approached Adriaan at his former art pushcart concept in the South Street Seaport district, “Art a la carte”.

Adriaan became an avid collector of his work, recognizing the sincerity by which the work was able to portray New York’s spirit and materiality. With the opening of the Van Der Plas gallery on 156 Orchard Street, Adriaan made it the gallerys mission to bring contemporary outsiders  into the public eye.

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Grace Summanen

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Waves (cardboard, fabric, enamel & acrylic) by Grace Summanen
“Waves” (cardboard, fabric, enamel & acrylic) by Grace Summanen

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“We need to see the magic that surrounds us.” — Grace Summanen

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Some days it is easier to see the bad and harder to see the good.  That doesn’t mean that the bad is more prevalent, it just means you may not be well equipped to see it that day.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Grace Summanen, uses the most common of found objects and supplies to create her own magic.  The result is hypnotic.

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Find the magic in the mixed media work of
AAAD Artist of the Day, Grace Summanen!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Home

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Learn more about the Home exhibit from the Lubeznik Center for the Arts!glug, glug, GLUG

I’m that person that always has a drink in her hand.  And, because I spend so much time on the road, I drink lots of water and more soft drinks that I care to admit.  When I finally get home, I just want a tall, cold glass of unsweetened, decaf black tea.  How odd that it would be a simple glass of tea that would remind me so much of home.  This next Call wants your thoughts on ‘home’ –person, place, feeling.  What’s home to you?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Lubeznik Center for the Arts (Michigan City, IN) for Home, a national juried exhibition.  Two artist will also have an opportunity for an additional future exhibit at LCA.  Take a look…

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Learn more about the Home exhibit from the Lubeznik Center for the Arts!CALL for ENTRIES:
Home from
Lubeznik Center for the Arts

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“Artists are the authors of culture and history. The theme of Home is provoking enough, and for some takes on a whole new meaning within the current political discourse. I look forward to the broad response this show will evoke.” — Carol Ann Brown Curator of Exhibitions, LCA

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to U.S. artists 21+

MEDIA:  Open to all media

THEME:  Home.  “The exhibit will include artists whose work investigates a variety of interpretations of the theme, such as shelter, family, immigration, homelessness, nostalgia, architecture, domesticity and the home planet we all share, Earth!” –LCA

DEADLINE:  April 17, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  May 1, 2017

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for up to 3

JUROR: Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist & independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin and a founder of the arts and culture magazine Jettison Quarterly. Aguilar serves on the board of ACRE Residency.

Julia Fischbach is a director and co-founder of PATRON, contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice, and working in Chicago, IL. Previously she was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin for seventeen years.

AWARDS:  Selected artists will be invited to show their work in an exhibition at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts.  From the artists selected to exhibit in Home, two will be chosen for a future exhibition at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts.

SALES:  Sales are encouraged with a 35% commission benefiting Lubeznik Center (LCA).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: 8 Bit

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Learn more about the 8-Bit Exhibit from Whitdel Arts and Hatch Arts!that’s a-PEEL-ing

What are the most used tools in your kitchen?  Aside from knives, mine are the vegetable peeler, 2 sizes of whisks & measuring cups/spoons.  In my head, I can’t imagine not having a food processor & an immersion blender, but I don’t really use them that much.  The newest tech isn’t always the best tech for the job.  This next Call is a reflection on a the evolution of tech through art.  You’ll love this one…

Check out this Call for Entries from Whitdel Arts (Detroit, MI) for 8-Bit, an exhibit at Hatch Arts in (Hamtramck, MI). $15 Entry & 33% commission, plus investigating the organization will make you WANT to enter. Take a look…

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Learn more about the 8-Bit Exhibit from Whitdel Arts and Hatch Arts!CALL for ENTRIES:
8-Bit from Whitdel Arts
& Hatch Arts

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“Ever since Pong took the world by storm, video games have been a rapidly growing and evolving art form.  Earlier video games, limited by the technology of the time forced designers to think of new ways of rendering figures. However as the technology evolved so did the art form, with modern games limited only by the imagination of the developer.  8-Bit examines this evolution through the lens of visual art and how style, technology & art interact & influence one another, channeling inspiration from “retro” technology into art.” –from whitdelarts.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE:  April 17, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  April 26, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $15 for up to 3 (non-members); free to members.

SALES: Whitdel Arts takes a 33% commission fee of the sales price, regardless of gallery affiliation.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Time Will Tell

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Learn more from the Coburn Gallery at Ashland University in Ashland, OH!years of WINE and art

I eat a lot of food, so do you, it is how we survive.  I also see a lot of art; it is also how I survive, quit literally, since it is my occupation.  I rarely know much about an artist personally before I see their work, and I am intrigued how many of the artists behind the work I love end up being in their 40s or 50s or older.  It isn’t exclusively that, but it is far more common that would seem coincidental.  Maybe art, like wine, cheese & beef, ages well.  Show off your maturity with this next call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Ashland University for Time Will Tell, an exhibit of work by artists at least 50 years old at the Coburn Gallery. This is an uncommon opportunity…

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Learn more about the Time Will Tell Exhibit from the Coburn Gallery at Ashland University in Ashland, OH!CALL for ENTRIES:
Time Will Tell
from Ashland University’s
Coburn Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 50+, residing in the U.S.

MEDIA:  Open to any media

DEADLINE:  April 12, 2017 (postmarked – NO ONLINE ENTRY)

NOTIFICATION: May 8, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3

JUROR:  Shari Wilkins grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and received her BA from Kent State University. She has worked in NYC & CA as promotions/marketing director. She completed her second BA in community organizing at Cleveland State University’s Social Work Department. With a life-long appreciation for photography, Wilkins created a forum to share her affinity for the photographic image & educate others on the process of developing film in the community darkroom, education center & gallery at the Cleveland Print Room.

AWARDS:  Cash Awards will be given to “Best in Show” and two “Honorable Mention” award winners.

SALES: 25% Commission on all work sold

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Coburn Gallery at Ashland University in Ashland, OH!

CALL for ENTRIES: Abstractions

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Learn more about the Abstractions exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!comfort, hold the BREAD

Peanut butter & jam used to be my go-to comfort food, back before wheat allergies took my family down with a thud.  So I’ve been trying out abstractions of the PB&J.  Peanuts & raisins, dried cranberries & sunflower seeds, and my favorite, pumpkin seeds and raspberries.  It is the same comfort, but without the structure.  I’m a fan.  This next Call wants to test your comfort with abstraction.  Take a look…

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

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Learn more about the Abstractions exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Abstractions
from Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to many media, including acrylic, airbrush, assemblage, charcoal, color pencil, collage, digital art, drawings, encaustic, fiber art, graphite, illustration, mixed media, new media, oil, painting, pastel, photography & watercolor.

THEME:  Abstraction “Las Laguna Gallery is seeking unique abstract works in a variety of mediums.” — from laslagunagallery.com

DEADLINE:  April 2, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  April 7, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $2 ea. add’l

SALES: The gallery will retain 25% commission on all sales

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Las Laguna Gallery!

ARTIST of the DAY: Margaret Fitzgerald

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"End of the World" (oil on canvas) by Margaret Fitzgerald
“End of the World” (oil on canvas) by Margaret Fitzgerald

“Painting, for me, is a journey into the unknown.”
 —Margaret Fitzgerald

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I’m a planner.  I like structure and process and, well, control.  And this holds true for my art, my food, my life.  But, here I am faced with opportunities for which I can never really be fully prepared.  So, what to do?  Let go, that’s what. So, I am embracing the unknown, and the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Margaret Fitzgerald, has helped me on my way.

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Embrace the journey found in the work of AAAD Artist of the Day, painter Margaret Fitzgerald!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Megan Klim

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Elemental #1 (encaustic, gauze, wire, rust, shellac on paper, dim var) by Megan Klim
Elemental #1 (encaustic, gauze, wire, rust, shellac on paper, dim var) by Megan Klim

“This body of work speaks to simplicity,  the inherent beauty of the materials…” — Megan Klim

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In preparation for an international move in 2018, we are downsizing to a one bedroom apartment (approx. 450 sq. ft) from a 2 bedroom cabin (850 sq. ft.).  As we purge, I find that I make decisions on whether things stay or go based on their usefulness, simplicity & aesthetic, in that order.  The simple beauty of the work of today’s Artist of the Day, Megan Klim speaks to me.  It is a beautiful calm.

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Find a calm space with the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Megan Klim!