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: Wide Open 9

Posted on January 8, 2018January 9, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

completely CRACKED open

I don’t have an electric can opener. Any time someone cooks in my kitchen, they are puzzled by my lack of this appliance. (Insert obligatory I-don’t-buy-single-use-gadgets explanation here.) In my defense, I don’t eat that many foods that come in cans, and a large percentage of the few canned foods I do eat come with pop tops –even my guilty secret canned salmon. The most commonly “opened” foods in my house are eggs and nuts… and fortune cookies. This next Call wants to see your wide open work, and the juror is fantastic…

Check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Wide Open 9. Discounts for early entry, a distinguished juror & cash awards. This is one of my favorite venues & the early bird deadline is just around the corner. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Wide Open 9

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: Wide Open “encompasses all the possibilities of knowledge and freedom & love – wide open spaces…arms wide open…eyes wide open ‐ but as with all things, there is the inevitable opposite ‐ wide open to attack…corruption…failure. What kind of fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show looks to explore the idea of “wide open” in all the hidden niches of our collective psyche.” –bwac.org

ENTRY FEE: $45 up to 3, $5 ea add’l (early) or $65 up to 3, $5 ea add’l after Jan. 19th

DEADLINE: January 19, 2018 (early bird) or February 16, 2018 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 19, 2017

JUROR: Carmen Hermo is the Assistant Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She has organized several of the initiatives &exhibitions celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Center. She is currently organizing the Brooklyn presentation of the Hammer Museum exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985. Previously, Carmen was Assistant Curator for Collections at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2010-16), where she served on the museum’s Young Collectors Council acquisition committee, and co-curated Now’s the Time (2012-13) and Storylines (2015). She has previously worked with the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Best of Show Silver $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten (10) $100 (ea.) Certificates of Recognition.

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

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 27th Nat’l OPA

Posted on December 29, 2017August 21, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

Learn more about the 27th National Juried Exhibition from Oil Painters of America!

swirl & DRIZZLE

Kitchen creativity is all about the art of substitution. I find that I am okay with juice instead of syrup in many dishes, but in savory dishes, I find oil replacements frequently leave me missing something. Have you had an olive packed in oil versus an olive packed in oil? There is no comparison. I’ll take a drizzle of sesame oil over almost anything. This next Call is all about the oils. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 27th Annual National Exhibition (link disabled) from Oil Painters of America to be exhibited at the Steamboat Art Museum (Steamboat Springs, CO). $100,000 in awards including $25K Best of Show. Make us proud…

CALL for ENTRIES:
27th Nat’l Juried
from Oil Painters of America

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists residing in the U.S., Canada & Mexico

MEDIA: Representational oil painting

DEADLINE: January 26, 2018

NOTIFICATION: February 23, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $30 for 1 or $45 for 2 (plus membership fee of $70). More membership information can be found on the OPA website, under the Member Services tab. Out of Town Artists must pay a $25.00 fee online prior to their painting being hung. This fee covers the expense of uncrating, storage of crates, re-crating and contacting your shipper for return.

JURORS: James Bruce, Signature Member and OPA Board Member, will serve as chairman of a Jurying Committee consisting of five Master Signature and/or Signature members of OPA.

AWARDS: The total awards will be approximately $100,000, including a $25,000 Best In Show.

SALES: Commission of 40% is required by the gallery for all paintings sold.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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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.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Acts

Posted on December 4, 2017December 4, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

Eating local is a tiny act that can have a huge impact. It isn’t a possibility for everyone, but I advocate eating local-ish. Chose the food that came from the place closest to you. Sometimes that is all you can do. Your taste buds will thank you, and it does reduce the emissions of the transport to your table. Right now, I can still get cherry tomatoes from not too far away, and I am eating them on everything. This next Call wants to you to explore tiny acts of rebellion. This is a great curatorial theme.

Check out this Call for Entries from the Woskob Family Gallery (State College, PA) at Penn State for Tiny Acts Topple Empires. This is another great academic opportunity, and entry is only $20! Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Acts Topple Empires

from Woskob Family Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to any practicing artist creating work in the United States, with the exception of those currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree-granting program, is eligible to submit.

MEDIA: All media considered. The gallery is best-suited to displaying 2-D work, but can consider smaller and/or wall-mounted sculptural work & video. No size restrictions, but please note that wall height from ceiling to baseboard is 100”.

THEME: Rebellion. Bhandari invites artists to consider the manifold expressions of rebellion, and how they might be manifested in contemporary art. The exhibition takes its title from a quote in a 2004 essay by Danusha Goska, in which she writes, “when we study the biographies of our heroes, we learn that they spent years in preparation, doing tiny, decent things before one historical moment propelled them to center stage and used them to tilt empires.” The curator will consider work that engages with all types of rebellion: formal, material, political, and otherwise. Artworks engaging with notions of rupture, disruption, and change are sought.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3

CURATOR: Heather Darcy Bhandari is a New York City-based curator, writer, and arts advocate. Her book Art/Work, written with Jonathan Melber, will be published in its second edition by Free Press this month. Bhandari was a Director at Mixed Greens gallery in New York City from 2000 to 2016 before becoming Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Bhandari is currently developing independent curatorial projects, teaches at Brown University, and serves on the board of directors of visual art at Omi International Art Center.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

ARTIST of the DAY: Elizabeth White

Posted on November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

"Migration", a site-specific installation of concrete life-cast leaves, by Elizabeth White — **“Migration”**, a site-specific installation of concrete life-cast leaves, by **Elizabeth White**

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“In view of the current economic disasters, political conditions, military actions & climate or earth changes I see immigration as the new normal. What may be them today is us tomorrow.” — Elizabeth White

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Many people spend a lifetime without ever having to consider the need to emigrate from their homeland. Many others spend their lives learning what it means to always be an immigrant, never feeling quite at home. And then there are others, never quite at home regardless of where they are. When I saw the “Migration” installation by today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Elizabeth White, I marveled at the simple symbolism of leaves separated from their roots. It is precisely how many of us feel, like leaves strewn about, seemingly at random. Disconnected.

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Investigate more work from AAAD
Artist of the Day, Elizabeth White.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Sanctuary

Posted on November 18, 2017November 19, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

now i’m COOKING

My kitchen is sacred; all of them have been. Studio space is sacred, all of them are. I have had them in every size, and every quality –both kitchens & studios. Now, my studio is attached to my kitchen, separated by a counter in my tiny new apartment. I cannot create art outside of the view of my stove, nor create food outside of the view paint tubes & Mason jars of brushes. It has been the most productive of marriages, compact, comfortable, safe. This Call wants to know more about YOUR sacred space. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA) for the Sanctuary. $25 entry & all media considered. Investigate this space…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Sanctuary
from Gallery 263

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“Sanctuary is a place, a feeling, where harmony, beauty, and stillness are shielded and allowed to flourish. A sanctuary can lift us up and make us feel big. Or, it can shrink us down and show us humility in the face of infinity. We find sanctuary in the presence of awesomeness. It posts up in supportive communities and makes itself known when the impossible becomes reality.” –from gallery263.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. artists

MEDIA: All media will be considered

THEME: Sanctuary. Work that explores, depicts, criticizes, or creates safe havens & sacred spaces.

DEADLINE: December 3, 2017

NOTIFICATION: December 22, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $40 for 4-6.

JUROR: Maria Molteni is a multimedia & performing artist, educator & organizer. Her practice sprung from formalist roots, and has grown to incorporate research, social engagement & trans-disciplinary experimentation. From fiber to found-object sculpture, textile to movement, performance to publication, she employs processes per their ability to manifest elaborate conceptual orchestration and formal satisfaction. Her works introduce original or absurdist processes as applied aesthetic solutions & launched the international collective New Craft Artists in Action.

SALES: All proceeds from art sales go to the artist. Gallery 263 acts as the liaison between the artist & any parties interested in purchasing artwork. However, they do suggest a 30% donation to the gallery from any sales made.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Raw

Posted on November 5, 2017November 4, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

raw FOOD

In a world where so many people are vegetarian or vegan, steak tartar was once the most controversial food conversations one could have. Now we have so many more choices of things with which to disagree. If we just stick to raw foods, there are still subgroups like fruitarians, juicearians, or sproutarians which cause heads to metaphorically explode. The bottom line is that people have the right to determine what goes into their bodies, and what we choose to eat says something about who we are. We are what we eat, right? This next Call wants to know the raw truth about you through your work. This one is personal…

Check out this Call for Entries from IU Kokomo Art Gallery (Kokomo, IN) for Raw: The Exhibition. There is no entry fee, the media is wide open & the commission rate is low. If you’re willing to let it hang out, this could be a great opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Raw: The Exhibition from
IU Kokomo Art Gallery

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“Raw” calls for any work which begs the question what is public vs. what is private, work that is auto-biographical in nature, work which functions as confessional, revelatory, cathartic. We are seeking a divulgence, unbosoming, or unburdening; that which you have always wanted to say, to share, to let go.” — IU Kokomo Art Gallery

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all fine art media are accepted including: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, glass, printmaking, photography, collage, pastel, video & mixed media.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2017

NOTIFICATION: December 15, 2017

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee

CURATOR: Mary Ade, 2018 IU Kokomo Art Gallery intern

SALES: Sales are encouraged. The gallery will retain 30% commission on all sales, giving the artist 70%.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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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!

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 9

For full details, Read the Full Call!

swirl & DRIZZLE

CALL for ENTRIES: 27th Nat’l Juried from Oil Painters of America

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: Tiny Acts Topple Empires

from Woskob Family Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

“In view of the current economic disasters, political conditions, military actions & climate or earth changes I see immigration as the new normal. What may be them today is us tomorrow.” — Elizabeth White

Investigate more work from AAAD Artist of the Day, Elizabeth White.

now i’m COOKING

CALL for ENTRIES: Sanctuary from Gallery 263

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

raw FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: Raw: The Exhibition from IU Kokomo Art Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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:
Wide Open 9

CALL for ENTRIES:
27th Nat’l Juried
from Oil Painters of America

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Acts Topple Empires

Investigate more work from AAAD
Artist of the Day, Elizabeth White.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Sanctuary
from Gallery 263

CALL for ENTRIES:
Raw: The Exhibition from
IU Kokomo Art Gallery