My true goal with food is the same with art: to see you be brave. But being brave has to be based on knowledge, not whim. This is true of both food AND art. I would never have you enter a show without doing at least some preliminary research into the venue, gallery, organization or publication. So I want to encourage you never to let a food enter your mouth without a little preliminary research into ingredients or origin. Do me a favor, if I can’t get you to quit eating food with labels, at least read the label. There are scary things hidden in lots of foods. This next Call wants to explore the hidden as well. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from ArtAscent(online) for Hidden. Only $15 to enter. Our Featured Artist Sima Schloss, was featured on the cover of the Dark issue in December. Are you next?
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Unseen, unknown, mysterious, cryptic, masked, clouded, puzzling, esoteric. Show them what hidden means to you.
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists 18+
MEDIA:All media except video, sound & performance. Some examples: Painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, digital, printmaking, installations, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and other 2 & 3-D media.
DEADLINE:June 30, 2014
ENTRY FEE:$15 for one image, $25 for up to 3 & $45 for up to 8
AWARDS:Gold Winner: Featured in ArtAscent Magazine Gold Winner section with an art writer review, bio, artwork & website link. Add’l publication & exposure includes ArtAscent website & social media.
Silver Winner: Featured in ArtAscent Magazine Silver Winner section with an art writer review, bio, artwork & website link. Add’l publication & exposure includes ArtAscent website & social media.
Bronze Winner: Featured in ArtAscent Magazine Bronze Winner section with an art writer review, bio, artwork & website link. Add’l publication & exposure includes ArtAscent website & social media.
Distinguished Artists (17-27): Featured in ArtAscent Magazine Distinguished Artist section with artwork & website link. Add’l publication & exposure includes ArtAscent website & social media.
SALES:No commission. Any purchase inquiries will be referred directly to the artist.
I don’t eat food I can’t identify. I love it when readers send me foods, but one of you clearly has it out for me. A couple of weeks ago, someone sent a handful of chiltepin peppers–extremely hot, measuring between 50,000-100,000 Scoville units(jalepenos are3,500–8,000). It took several days to research it. Rest assured, I have dried them for use in chili or Thai food sometime soon. I’ll keep you updated. This next Call hails from Texas where the chiltepin is the State native pepper. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Four Points Contemporary(Texas) for their 3rd Bi-annual Open juried online international art competition. I love that the juror is an electrical engineer/poet. Increase your online exposure…
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JUROR:Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author & translator. She has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. She has published 35 books of poetry, narrative & books for children. Her work has been represented in numerous anthologies in various countries & languages.
AWARDS:1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $300, 3rd Place $150, 4th Place $50, Awards of Excellence, Special Merit Awards & Honorable Mention Award. Winning artists will also have their work archived and their website linked to the Four Points Contemporary Site.
It is ramp season in the Smoky Mountains. I am thrilled to have a locally-grown, fresh vegetable of any sort after the winter of snow & ice we just endured–even if it gives us all dragon breath. If you aren’t familiar, ramps are spring onions with a strong garlic smell and onion flavor. They are called “spring leeks” elsewhere. We’re using them in salads, soups, casseroles and atop nearly every dish consumed in my house right now. You name it, we’re finding a way to eat them. Another sign of Spring is this next Call. Maybe this one is for you…
Check out this Call for Entries from Oil Painters of America (OPA) for their Spring Online Showcase. $14 entry & huge awards. You DO have to be a member ($60), but great benefits exist for oil painters. Take a look…
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ELIGIBILITY: You must be an Associate Member. Artists must reside in the United States, Canada or Mexico.
MEDIA: RepresentationalOil painting
DEADLINE:May 15, 2014
NOTIFICATION:May 22, 2014
ENTRY FEE:$14 per painting
JUROR: Tim Deibler has had a life-long passion for art. After studying with many of the local artists during high school, he chose to go to the Art Institute of Colorado. After graduating, he worked in the commercial art & video production fields until going full time as a fine artist in 1992. He has won 5 Awards of Excellence at the OPA’s National Juried Show.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Deibler’s passion for landscapes, mountains in particular began after seeing the 1956 movie The Mountain as a young boy.
“Every time I look out the window or walk outside I’m in the mountains, making it much easier for me to observe the constant moods and nuances of nature. My goal is to portray what I’m experiencing in nature, I want the viewer of my work to say ‘I’d like to be there’.”--Tim Deibler
AWARDS:$3,000 for 1st place, $1,500 for 2nd place & $500 for 3rd place along with 10 honorable mentions
Only a very small handful of my friends will abide long debates about varietal olive oils. My favorite varietal is made from Frantoio olives. Frantoio olives are widely used in Tuscan olive oils–peppery and bitter and pungent and a bit grassy. Just a few of my food freaky friends will stick around for these debates because we are peas in a pod. This next Call is for peas of the painting pod. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society(NOAPS) for their On-Line International Spring 2014. This entry fee may seem a little high, but you don’t have to be a member. AND, the prizes are spectacular…
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JUROR:Cheng Lian was born in 1955 in Shanghai, China. Part of a close-knit, highly-talented family, he learned art since he was a little boy from his father, a famous artist and professor. He graduated from China Academy of Fine Art (a famous art school in China known as Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art), and he was an honored student in the art school.
As an artist Cheng has traveled to many places in China, Asia, United States, North America, Europe and South America; he uses his artist eyes observing things that he has seen like people and scenery, and he created eye catching, breath taking portraits, landscapes, and still lives with his unique style.
AWARDS:Best of Show : $1000, 2nd Place: $500, 3rd Place: $400, Additional Awards Include: Best Landscape: $100 Best Still Life: $100, Best People: $100, Best Use of Light & Color: $100, Most Innovative: $100, Narrative Excellence: $100.
Ten artists will receive non-monetary Awards of Excellence recognition. 10 artists will receive non-monetary Merit Awards. The TOP 150 artists will be given recognition on www.noaps.org with Name, website link and image selected.
SALES: Selected work will post on www.noaps.org to promote sales. Requests relating to artist information or sales will be forwarded to the artist.
One of my favorite places on the planet is my local apple orchard. The landscape is made of meandering rows of trees as far as the eye can see in each direction. More types of apple than I even knew existed can be found from be green perfection of the Granny Smith to the dark and cloudy pungency of the October Black. This next Call wants to know about your favorite scape, be it land, city, sea, or in your mind. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net(online) for Scapes. Competitions support free lessons at DrawingAndPaintingLessons.com. If you are looking to increase your web exposure, this one might be for you…
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MEDIA:Paintings in any medium, representational to abstract.
The visual narrative of the artist’s work should transport the viewer to experience the beauty, uniqueness, or fantasy of the place.
“Artists see the land untouched or touched by man, so strong is their connection and vision that they must express it back to the world as art.” –Edward A. Burke
DEADLINE: April 6, 2014
ENTRY FEE:1 Entry for $15, up to three entries for $30, up to five entries for $60
AWARDS: 1st Place$400 in cash and $2,825 in prizes. 2nd Place$100 in cash and $175 in prizes. 3rd Place$125 in prizes. All winners‘ art will be featured on Art-Competition.net with links to their individual websites.
I am fat obsessed–not with the fat ON me but with the fat IN my food. In October of 2013, I threw away my weight scales. I’m done. My familial relationship with diabetes and my allergy to wheat has forced a reduction of many of the starchy treats I have always loved. But, beautiful, luscious fats like butter and coconut oil have increased to help ease the transition. As a result, MY figure is changing–from the texture and tone of my skin to slow but steady reduction of my double chin. This next Call wants to know all about your figure, of sorts. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Raebec Gallery(online) for Figuratively Speaking. This is a monthly art competition that could serve as great art publication and provide web back links to help increase your web traffic. Investigate…
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“For this exhibition, we’re looking for art that represents strong portraiture and any style of figurative art. All pieces submitted will be judged on originality and the overall artistic quality of the work, including compositional excellence.” –from Raebec Gallery
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists
MEDIA: Open to all media including: paintings, drawings, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, sculpture, photography and CGI works. Ineligible media includes: Wearable art, jewelry, artwork in frames.
DEADLINE:February 10, 2014
NOTIFICATION: Approximately 2 weeks after the deadline
ENTRY FEE:$35 for 3 entries and $5 per every entry thereafter
AWARDS: Cash prizes, Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitionswill be awarded to the top 3 and honorable mentions.
I live with culinary diplomats. Never ones to forsake a food altogether, my family tries to find the silver lining to every food basket. They have mastered words like “earthy, piquant, herbaceous & grassy” to avoid speaking ill of my food experiments. As a result, I cook with a sort of anything-goes-abandon that produces both masterpieces & snacks turned down even by the dogs. This next Call wants the masterpieces that come from your anything-goes, devil-may-care, art abandon. Give it a shot…
Check out this Call for Entries from Exhibitions Without Walls for Anything Goes II. As the name indicates, there are no media restrictions. Take a look…
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MEDIA:Open to all photographers, digital artists, graphic designers, or illustrators
DEADLINE:February 8, 2014
NOTIFICATION: February 16, 2014
ENTRY FEE:$25 for up to 5 images, $4 each add’l up to 10
AWARDS:BEST in competition $300 USD plus add’l prizes, 2nd Place $175 plus add’l prizes & 3rd Place $125 plus add’l prizes. Up to 10 Awards Of Excellence will be awarded. Editor’s Note: The additional prizes are of significant value to some, be sure to take a look.
If I had to give my cooking an art style, it would probably be collage. I used to be a purist, a menu maker, a list writer. Somewhere along the way I began the little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that method. Dinner is now determined on whichever protein I thought to thaw out and whichever veggies were freshest, in-season and/or on sale. When I try to make a plan, it never fails that whatever I had planned ends up not sounding like what I really want. So, collage dinners are what we do now; it works for us. This next Call is also about collage. I like this one; take a look for yourself…
Check out this Call for Entriesfrom Tymutopiyapres(Lviv, Ukraine) for Collage Art. There is no entry fee, and if you’re looking for a brick-and-mortar show to add to your resume, this one is all hung. Take a look…
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MEDIA: “Collage & Assemblage Art (newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or handmade Papers, Other Portions of artwork or texts, photographs and Other Objects found, glued to a Piece of Paper or Canvas).” –from the original call. Size 14.8 X 21 cm (approx. 5.5″x 8.25″)
Editor’s note: This was sent to me under the subject line of “Mail Art”; however, I think this is more-accurately an all-hung collage exhibit, but because the expectation is that the majority of exhibitors will be from outside Ukraine, it is being dubbed a Mail Art show. I couldn’t find anything that indicated a postmark requirement or address requirement.
While reviewing work, I searched through entries for something contemplative but with a sense of humor to feature this month. A little something that would spice up my winter, combating the inevitable doldrums, as well as help me find a different angle on my the serious nature of my own current work. We are proud to Feature the work of A. Laura Brody. I find this work organic but mechanized, self-evident but not obvious. Inspired…
A. Laura Brody is a costume creator by trade and a functional artist by design and desire. You’ve seen her recent work for designer Michael Schmidt on LMFAO at the Superbowl 46 halftime show, the last 2 Black Eyed Peas tours, in Fergie’s LEGO dress and on Rhianna’s bottom.“I love bringing out discarded items and materials and making them the center of attention. Zipper teeth become lace edgings, ball bearings act as pendants and centerpieces, remnant snap tape becomes footlights and old tablecloths are reborn into upholstered cushions and deconstructed finery. My creations help people tap into childhood dreams of becoming heroines, kings, rock stars and super villains.” — A. Laura Brody
Rocking Duck Boat by Featured Artist A Laura Brody and Alan deForest – photo courtesy of Heidi Marie Photography
Are you self taught or formally instructed?“I’m both. I’m a costume maker and designer by trade, and my years of costume craft work have really made it possible for me to make the art. The upholstery is self taught and so is the carpentry. But I’ve got a longtime habit of tinkering. I get to use my technical skills in really different ways when I construct my artwork. It’s also pushed me to learn to weld and curve metal, how to refurbish stainless steel and silver plate, a little about wiring… Mostly, it’s teaching me patience, which I’m not so good at.”
The work for which many artists know you is mobility-centric. What brought you to that passion? I don’t self-identify as disabled. I have friends who do, though, and I’ve worked around quite a few folks who use disability and mobility devices. When a former boyfriend had a stroke, I spent a lot of time with his recovery and got really fascinated by all the devices you can get to help with food prep and getting around in the bathroom and such, but I was shocked at how uniformly ugly they all were. 3 years ago, I cracked my tailbone and then went through a nasty bout of tendinitis, which started me working on my own posture issues and thinking about what I would do if I couldn’t use my hands. It was pretty terrifying, since my hands are a large part of how I make my living.
Those tendinitis braces
are hideous.
Re-making a wheelchair into something amazing was in the back of my mind for a long time, and I finally got the guts to approach a wheelchair using friend of mine about redoing his old electric one. (Thank you, Peter Soby, for kick starting this idea!) One of the responses I get with my mobility artwork is how impractical the pieces are. People will go on at great lengths to tell me why they won’t and don’t work. But then, they start thinking about what might work. This is the whole point. How else do we get that conversation started? If we’re lucky enough to live through age and injuries and infirmity, wheelchairs or walkers or crutches or prosthetic limbs are going to be in our future. For some people, these devices are a part of their everyday lives. Why not make them amazing? And who said design was only about being practical?
Le Flaneur by Featured Artist A Laura Brody – photo courtesy of Heidi Marie Photography
Is sustainability a purposeful choice in your work or a by product of what you do?It’s a flat-out fascination and a longtime practice. I grew up in Alaska and was surrounded by people who took a lot of pride in figuring out how to make and fix things themselves with whatever they had around. I compost, I reuse in my artwork and everyday life, and I’m finding ways to do better with reducing my waste. I just read Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter (all about his travels in the global trash trade)and was fascinated and horrified. Check it out. You may never use another plastic water bottle.
Part of it comes from how much waste I see in the entertainment industry, which I’m a little horrified to be a part of. Yes, I know, this is biting the hand that feeds me. But you should see the waste that comes out of a TV show. Truthfully, though, it’s hard for me to go past a salvage yard or a thrift store or a junk pile without some piece calling out to me and begging me to take it home.
Talk to me about what media you consider the mobility-inspired work? “I call it over-the-top functional art. The works aren’t conveniently functional, which is kind of the point. The wheelchair and the walker’s GPS unit works (as long as I’ve charged all of the batteries), the walker rolls and the rocking chair rocks. They’re even pretty comfy. ”
What style or school of art do you think your mobility-inspired work fits into? And why do you think so? Apparently I fall into a Steampunk category. I guess I see why, even though a lot of Steampunk seems to be about smacking a gear or goggles onto your clothes and calling it Art. But I like to think of my work as being like a mad scientist, poring over old junk and fitting it together in odd ways to bring it new life. Is that Reconstructivism?”
Driven by Featured Artist A Laura Brody – photo courtesy of Heidi Marie Photography
I can’t wait to hear about your favorite food. “There are so so many of them! Truffle oil on cooked veggies is a recent find (so good), so are bison burgers and home-cured bacon (both pork and lamb) and just about anything in spicy coconut cream curry. I love fresh herbs and berries and almost all veggies. I cut out wheat a while ago. It was hard at first, and now I feel a lot better.” Editor’s Note: Spicy coconut cream curry? That sounds so good I could take a bath in it. I vote we make that the food of the year. Yum.
What style or school of art do you think your work fits into and why?“I’m comfortable with the surreal label, since Surrealism is an effective umbrella term for unusual artwork. I also feel that certain artworks of mine have Abstract and Visionary elements to them, though I don’t align myself with those movements.”
What about snack foods? “All things crunchy. I could eat a whole bunch of celery. Hearts of palm, cheese of many kinds and pickles and olives of many kinds, especially the spicy Sicilian blends. Mmm. Pickled foods.”I have a newly acquired addition to pickled foods–beets, in particular.
So, what’s coming up next for you? “I’m looking for a gallery to put up a 2014 Opulent Mobility, together with many more artists who want to re-imagine mobility. If anyone knows of a space that’s really chair and walker accessible, I’d love to hear about it! I’m also putting together a piece to submit to the World of Wearable Art in New Zealand. I want to make expanding nebula wings come off the back of a wheelchair (idea in process), and I just shot some video to put together into online tutorials for staple draping. At some point I may get it all done.”
Laura,thank you for being our mad scientist!
You have probably worsened my desire to salvage beautiful discarded treasures. My husband calls it hoarding. I’ll send him to this post for a better understanding of how it all works. I am inspired.
Being hungry is my nightmare. Some people are afraid of snakes or the dark or being a victim of a crime. I fear hunger. To my knowledge, there is no deep-seated hunger issues in my childhood. I just scares me. Hunger isn’t just prevalent in rural areas or third-world nations. People are hungry every where, every day, from the country to far more urban areas. I’d like to see a little more attention-getting street artists focus their work on the people in the shadow of their work that are hungry. This next show is an opportunity…
Check out this Call for Entries from EWNS Art Project (France)for the Tamed Urban Art exhibit. Selection for this show gets you into an online gallery, and you may additionally have the opportunity to participate in the Paris gallery exhibition. Take a look…
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THEME:Street & Graffiti Artists from around the world are invited to unearth their creativity and unleash their imagination in any domesticable surface.
MEDIA:Painting, drawing, stencil graffiti, mixed media (including pasted poster art, sticker art, etc) and sculpture.
DEADLINE:February 17, 2014
NOTIFICATION:March 1, 2014
ENTRY FEE: €15(Approx. $20.37 US)for up to 3 images. Add’l images €5 each, up to 10 (including the first 3).
JURORS:Final selections for the exhibition will be made by the Artists’ Committee.
AWARDS: All selected images will appear in their online gallery for a duration of one year minimum. Selected artists may be invited to participate to a future physical collective exhibition in Paris.
SALES:All entries must be labeled for sale with price indicated. Keep in mind that EWNS Art Project receives 30% commission of works sold.
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CALL for ENTRIES:
AWARDS: Gold Winner: Featured in ArtAscent Magazine Gold Winner section with an art writer review, bio, artwork & website link. Add’l publication & exposure includes ArtAscent website & social media.
