CALL for ENTRIES: Food

Posted on January 10, 2018January 11, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

GREEN filler

I am the queen of comfort food. I know that the secret to award-winning mac ‘n’ cheese is Dijon mustard. I know that a light coat of olive oil under the sauce prevent pizza crust from getting soggy while baking. I know a dust of cayenne makes the chocolate sauce on your sundae sing. But this week, my only comfort is salad. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and then vacation. I have eaten everything that won’t run from me –none of it on the light side. Different food for different feels (and fills). This next Call wants your take on food and sustenance. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Passporte (online gallery) for Food Photography. There is no fee & submissions are limited to a single entry. Take a look at this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Food Photography
from The Passporte

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Food – “Food in art can be a celebration of culinary joys, an exploration of society and culture, and, of course, a fascinating aesthetic exploration. Whether mass-produced or home-cooked, an elaborate restaurant affair or a meal-for-one over the kitchen sink, food means more than just sustenance.” –passporte.com

DEADLINE: January 28, 2018

NOTIFICATION: February 18, 2018

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: Photos from eligible submissions will be selected for a group exhibition & displayed on ThePassporte.com & highlighted through social media to over ten thousand viewers.

For complete 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: 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 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!

Learn more from Oil Painters of America!

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: 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.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Spoken Word

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

figgy PUDDING?

How often do you read a recipe and think it sounds delicious only to be disappointed be either the process or the outcome? How often do you order something that sounds just okay but turns out to be fantastic? I find the proof is always in the present, in the right now, in the out loud of it all –the pudding, if you will. This next Call wants to hear what you have to say OUT LOUD. What do you have to say?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Todd Art Gallery at MTSU (Mufreesboro, TN) for Spoken Word Performance & Video. There is no entry fee. Take a look at this opportunity….

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Spoken Word from
MTSU Todd Art Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to proposals from students, emerging & mid-career artists

MEDIA: Open to all performances that relate indirectly or directly to text, communication, education, socio-economic inequities, literacy, or spoken word.

DEADLINE: February 11, 2018

PERFORMANCE: February 24, 2018

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: The performances will be scheduled between 11-2 pm on the 24th, around the Todd Building on MTSU’s campus, with videos playing on monitors concurrently.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Brutal Beauty

Posted on December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

OVERCOOK me not

The worst crime against food is over-cooking, in my opinion. Meat gets tough; veggies get mushy. It all ends up tasteless. Plus, the longer you cook food, the more nutrients are lost. Vitamin C is particularly sensitive to heat. I keep finding more and more benefits to a raw food diet. This next call wants to see your view of the human form, the nude in raw form. I like this twist on a figurative call, AND they pay return shipping…

Check out this Call for Entries from Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY) for Brutal Beauty. No entry fee, and this show has a 30-year history. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Brutal Beauty
from Lexington Art League

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: A contemporary exhibition of the human figure that speaks to our innermost instincts for satisfaction, pleasure, and comfort through work that invites us to examine the qualities that we are unable to avoid, but often hide from others. This exhibition seeks to convey a rawness that is universal while revealing our desires and limitations in a boldly honest approach to the way we experience the human form.

DEADLINE: December 17, 2017

NOTIFICATION: December 21, 2017

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee for 6 works (10 images). Please note that if shipping, you are responsible for the cost of shipping TO the gallery, but Lexington Art League will pay for return shipping.

SALES: Lexington Art League will retain 30% commission on all sales.

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.

Category: Art Organizations

GREEN filler

CALL for ENTRIES: Food Photography from The Passporte

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 9

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!

swirl & DRIZZLE

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

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!

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!

figgy PUDDING?

CALL for ENTRIES: Spoken Word from MTSU Todd Art Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

OVERCOOK me not

CALL for ENTRIES: Brutal Beauty from Lexington Art League

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!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Food Photography
from The Passporte

CALL for ENTRIES:
Wide Open 9

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

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

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

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

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
Spoken Word from
MTSU Todd Art Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Brutal Beauty
from Lexington Art League

CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Acts Topple Empires