CALL for ENTRIES: Dreams 2

Posted on May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

scrambling your EGGS

I dream about hollandaise sauce pretty often. I’m not sure why. Ive looked into what dreams about food symbolize, and while I can find lot of references to the symbolism of eggs, the main component of hollandaise sauce, but nothing sauce-specific. Anyone have suggestions? In the meantime, this Call is an opportunity to investigate your own dreams. Great theme…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Dreams 2. $20 Entry & great marketing perks. Field of winners narrowed to 18 artists. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Dreams 2, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Dreams 2 from ART-competition.net

“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”
-– Man Ray

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to all still media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital, etc.

THEME: Dreams are a window into an alternative reality that we all experience. The memory of a dream can be fleeting or can haunt us for a lifetime. Art can help us connect to our dreams.

DEADLINE: May 23, 2016

NOTIFICATION: June 7, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $10 each add’l

AWARDS: Eighteen artists/photographers will be selected for a group exhibit, “Dreams 2” at G25N’s online gallery, the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

We are happy to have Art-Competition.net as a sponsor of AAAD.

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CALL to ARTISTS: Moving Forward

Posted on April 15, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

HUNGRY? me too

Because we live 20+ minutes to the closest grocery store, it can be very frustrating to start dinner and realize we’re out of onions or potatoes or eggs or whatever. So, we are all about menu planning at our house. This next Call is about planning as well, but it requires your input, your participation. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from AAAD for 2016-17 Planning & Progress. We have a lot going on, and I need your guidance an input to make sure that AAAD heads in a direction that works for all of us. I even formatted it like our normal calls to be certain that I don’t shake up the routine too much, ha. Keep reading…

CALL to ARTISTS:
Moving Forward from AAAD

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists. You may notice that we have eliminated the Featured Artist program in an effort to publish more of the ART in our name, Art & Art Deadlines. If you have an interest in being an Artist of the Day, we want to hear from you! Look in the juror section for an add’l bonus!

MEDIA: Are we including all the media Calls you want? Am I missing something? Am I under-representing your media? Please tell me. I largely post at the request of jurors and gallerists, so sometimes I unintentionally wear blinders.

DEADLINE: April 18, 2016. AAAD has a #smallworks (9×12 or smaller) Call out with an April 18th deadline, SMALL PLATES: A Response to Hunger. $5 Entry & open to prints. Please enter so that we can provide more show opportunities in the future!

NOTIFICATION: Now. Tell me what you need from AAAD. We have incorporated a lot of changes over the years based on readers’ suggestions. And, I am open to more. The site will undergo some dramatic aesthetic changes and alterations to the formatting of posts and subscriptions, and you can help shape that process. The resources will remain the same, and you’re simply stuck with the food references. But, I’m open to hearing you. Email me, leave a comment on the post (link to comments at top) or reply to your subscription email. Any way you wanna…

FEE: None. I am maintaining my commitment to NOT charge artists for use of this site. Ever.

JUROR: R.L. (Rachel) Gibson, continues to be the Editor. Me. Publication has been a bit sporadic lately because of events that left my family stranded in rural Virginia for a while. Dramatic, I know. I try not to publish personal posts often. But you were so kind when I lost my father a few years ago, that I thought I would share. Here’s the whole #saveERNIE story. So many of you ask me if there is anything you can do to help out at AAAD. There is. Instead of paying a $5 Artist of the Day fee or the $15 Artist to Love fee, donate $10 to #saveERNIE, I will enter you for FREE in both the Artist of the Day competition & Artist to Love directory. Plus, you have a chance to win a house concert. Time runs out Monday, August 18th, so hurry.

SALES: Selling art? Yes? YEAH! No? Maybe I can help. I will be travelling the country this summer giving career development seminars at Arts agencies and collectives. If you have a ideas for someone that I should approach with seminars, including “How to Price Your Art”, “Creative Branding” & more, let me know.

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Thanks for the love.

CALL for ENTRIES: Figure in Landscape

Posted on April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

fragile
FOOD

Time for planting decisions has arrived. We’re probably clear of the last frost where I live, but now it is time for mama black bears and their cubs to begin wandering out of their dens. In fact, critters all seem to be ready to get the season started. So, how do I choose to what to plant? I need hardy veggies that aren’t overly attractive to foraging wildlife. Then there is what we have dubbed the fern-factor. There seem to be some things, I simply cannot grow; tomatoes & ferns are on the short list. Funny how gardens differ based on the gardener. Thumbs definitely come in different shades of green. This Call for photography wants to see your interpretation of how the figure influences the landscape. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from L.A. Photo Curator for the Figure in Landscape exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping, great prizes & exposure for ALL entrants. Great opportunity…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Figure in Landscape, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Figure in Landscape
from L.A. Photo Curator

The relationship between a figure & the landscape context can be powerful. Landscapes are often presented as pristine places, without human presence. However, figures within landscapes can play dynamic roles as scale elements, protagonists in a narrative, or mysterious presences. Sometimes figures can ask more questions about a place than they can answer. For this exhibition photographs that extend beyond documentation of place to bring a human element into the natural or urban landscape are sought. –from laphotocurator.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: April 15, 2016 (Midnight PST)

EXHIBITION: April 23 – May 23, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3

CURATOR: Emma Powell received her MFA in Photography from the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology & is currently an Asst. Professor of Art, with a focus in photography at Colorado College. Powell brings a varied & full background to L.A. Photo Curator, which includes awards, residencies & fellowships.

AWARDS: The curator will still choose one 1st place winner, one 2nd place winner & 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 our home page for a month. 2nd place & honorable mentions will have their image shown along with their bio, artist statement, CV & a link back to their website.

Plus, ALL entrants’ work will be exhibited online in a group on-line exhibition. In keeping with the mission of creating exposure opportunities and PR, L.A. Photo Curator is proud to offer this feature. In addition to your work being seen, there will also be a short artist statement and bio about you plus a link back to your website.

SALES: All sales are conducted between the artist & buyer. L.A. Photo Curator does not handle any part of sales. There is no commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Land & Seascapes

Posted on March 16, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

north south
east west
CORN

I have such reservations about corn but none about corn pudding. We had it for dinner tonight. I always think of corn as hailing from Iowa. (I am clearly like a marketing sponge.) But as I spent hours on the back roads of Ohio last year trying to avoid the nightmare that is I-75 South, I drove through miles and miles and miles of corn fields, intersected only by the occasional two-lane or gravel road. Dazzling. Beautiful. Waving both “hello” & “goodbye”. A landscape of corn. In Ohio. This next Call wants your landscape or seascape, or even your corn. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Land & Seascapes. $20 Entry & great marketing awards. Interpretation of the theme is liberal…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Land & Seascapes, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ART ENTRIES:
Land & Seascapes from ART-competition.net

“I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I’ve accomplished something useful.”
— Wolf Kahn

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to any still medium: painting, collage, photography, drawing, digital art, sculpture, fiber art, etc.

THEME: “Land & Seascapes” – Present your vision of a landscape and/or seascape in a unique way — emotional expression, symbolic interpretation or precise representational views.

DEADLINE: March 21, 2016

NOTIFICATION: March 30, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $35 for 3 and $60 for 7

AWARDS: First place $1000 cash + $5,000 marketing value, 2nd place $150 cash + $1,500 marketing value, 3rd place $125, 4th place $100, 5th place $75, 6th place $50, & 7th place $25. The 1st through 7th place winners’ work + 10 Honorable Mentions will have their work featured in Art-Competition.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

We are happy to have Art-Competition.net as a sponsor of AAAD.

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ARTIST of the DAY: Mark Castator

Posted on March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

cooling OFF

My brain spins. And my mouth usually keeps up. I turned to my husband recently & asked, “Are your ears tired? I can’t seem to shut up.” I struggle to quiet my mind, hence twenty years of insomnia. Some days I require a sole project or a single object upon which to focus to have a more solitary soundtrack in my head. I find the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Mark Castator, requires me to concentrate on the forms within the form which is oddly calming. (continues below)

Learn more about AAAD Artist of the Day sculptor Mark Castator! — *Leda: Moons of Jupiter by sculptor Mark Castator*

“Engage the eye. Quiet the mind. Open the heart.” —Mark Castator

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Calm your mind with the work of
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Mark Castator!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Jylian Gustlin

Posted on March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

abstract math PORTRAIT

I have a well-known soft spot for portraiture. A significant part of my own work has revolved around facial expression, but abstract art calls to me. I buy abstract work. I find that my interpretation and feelings about this work evolves as my time with it increases. I am always delighted to find a marriage of the abstract and the figurative. Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Jylian Gustlin gives me just that marriage. (continues below)

Hera 3 (left) and Zues 1 (right) by Jylian Gustlin — *Hera 3 (left) & Zeus 1 (right) by Jylian Gustlin*

“I knew that if I finished [a degree in computer science & mathematics], I would never make art.” —Jylian Gustlin

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Delight in the math with the work of the
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Jylian Gustlin!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Pure Abstraction 2

Posted on February 26, 2016March 3, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

fuzzy
FRUIT
boundaries

I believe the concept of “edible” is abstract, not just subjective. Technically, anything that doesn’t kill you is edible. Well, really, you can still eat things that WILL kill you. So, I suppose if you are physically able to consume something, it is edible. So, maybe the notion of “eatability” is the abstract one. Why would someone pay a fortune to eat a fertilized duck egg? Because they are yummy? Doubtful. But, the precedent for eating eggs and eating ducks has been set, so I understand why it would occur to someone to try. But coconut? Green or furry, how did someone look at a coconut and say, “let’s eat one”? Abstract. This next Call is also purely abstract. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Pure Abstraction 2. $20 Entry and great marketing awards. Is this one right for you?

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Pure Abstraction 2, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ART ENTRIES:
Pure Abstraction 2

“What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles… It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.” — Hans Hofmann

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to any still medium: painting, collage, photography, drawing, digital art, sculpture, fiber art, etc.

THEME: The work should be purely abstract with little to no depiction of the real world. This work must rely on color, form and line to create an abstract work of art with little or no reference to the external world.

DEADLINE: March 7, 2016

NOTIFICATION: March 16, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $35 for 3 and $60 for 7

AWARDS: Up to 15 artists will be selected for a group exhibit, “Pure Abstraction 2” at G25N’s online gallery, the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

We are happy to have Art-Competition.net as a sponsor of AAAD.

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ARTIST of the DAY: Laurie Freitag

Posted on February 8, 2016February 9, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

balls balls BALLS

February is a building month, a building, re-building, structuring, restructuring month for me. Some of the balls that I am supposed to keep in the air can sit idly on the ground for a few weeks in February while I throw the other balls a little higher hoping they gain air. That’s the dream —an illusion, really. Most days I feel like all the balls are on the ground, piling up around me. Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Laurie Freitag has clearly been lurking in my psyche. (continues below)

"Balls" by photographer Laurie Freitag — *“Balls” by photographer Laurie Freitag*

“‘The Lost Years’, of which ‘Balls’ is a part, focuses on the years before five in which most people cannot remember. I look at photographs of myself before five and see how happy I was and wish I could remember those times. Does the mind remember sad times more than happy times? Was I posing for the camera with a smile? What was real?”

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Discover more work from
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Laurie Freitag!

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ARTIST of the Day: Helen Green

Posted on January 11, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

a legend LOST

David Bowie influenced so much of the world — music, fashion, design. He died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Helen Green may have captured his sense of life and change and joy the best. Thanks, Helen, for the bright spot in a dark day.

Fabulous Bowie by Illustrator Helen Green

“It’s become somewhat of a tradition for me to create something to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday – a little token of appreciation for someone that has inspired me so much over the years.” — Helen Green

Enjoy more work by Helen Green!

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue

Posted on November 28, 2015November 24, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

holiday
BLUES

I have broken my own blue-food rule. I have ranted & raved for years about food coloring. I have forever sworn off any faux food colored any shade of blue, but I have given in. This year will be my very first time in my life that I will have a “real” Christmas tree (living, as opposed to artificial). So, I decided that all the ornaments and decorations should be “real” too (read handmade or homemade). I couldn’t resist the most beautiful electric-blue gum drops I have ever seen. I am testing them out as a sweet garland. Forgive the hypocrisy, but I promise not to eat them. This next Call is another non-edible use for all things blue. Maybe this one’s for you…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net and G25N for Blue. Only $20 to enter. This Call is open to seven different media including digital & fiber art. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Blue, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue

“The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness & becomes white.”
— Wassily Kandinsky

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to all still media: painting, drawing, collage, photography, digital, etc.

THEME: BLUE. The art created of any subject that is enhanced by the use of the color blue, whether it is a single dot of blue or a completely blue image. The color blue should enhance the narrative of the works subject as Blue can imply many emotions, symbolism or feelings, from blue marble to Blues music. Blue can express the future, good feelings, happiness, prosperity, ocean or sky, and we can feel blue, etc. It can be used to enhance, emphasize or be a focal point in the art.

DEADLINE: January 4, 2016

NOTIFICATION: January 13, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $10 each add’l

AWARDS: Up to Fifteen artists will be selected for a group exhibit, “BLUE” at G25N’s online gallery opening on January 22, 2016.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

We are happy to have Art-Competition.net as a sponsor of AAAD.

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Category: Online Art Gallery

scrambling your EGGS

CALL for ENTRIES: Dreams 2 from ART-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

HUNGRY? me too

CALL to ARTISTS: Moving Forward from AAAD

Thanks for the love.

fragile FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: Figure in Landscape from L.A. Photo Curator

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

north south east west CORN

CALL for ART ENTRIES: Land & Seascapes from ART-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

cooling OFF

“Engage the eye. Quiet the mind. Open the heart.” —Mark Castator

Calm your mind with the work of ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Mark Castator!

abstract math PORTRAIT

“I knew that if I finished [a degree in computer science & mathematics], I would never make art.” —Jylian Gustlin

Delight in the math with the work of the ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Jylian Gustlin!

fuzzy FRUIT boundaries

CALL for ART ENTRIES: Pure Abstraction 2

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

balls balls BALLS

Discover more work from ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Laurie Freitag!

a legend LOST

Enjoy more work by Helen Green!

holiday BLUES

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Dreams 2 from ART-competition.net

CALL to ARTISTS:
Moving Forward from AAAD

fragile
FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES:
Figure in Landscape
from L.A. Photo Curator

north south
east west
CORN

CALL for ART ENTRIES:
Land & Seascapes from ART-competition.net

Calm your mind with the work of
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Mark Castator!

Delight in the math with the work of the
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Jylian Gustlin!

fuzzy
FRUIT
boundaries

CALL for ART ENTRIES:
Pure Abstraction 2

Discover more work from
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Laurie Freitag!

holiday
BLUES

CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue