ARTIST of the DAY: Alice Wellinger

Posted on April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

The Envelope by AAAD Artist of the Day Alice Wellington! — *“The Envelope” (acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 40cm) by Alice Wellington*

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“Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit” — Karl Valentin

“Art is beautiful, but it does a lot of work.” — Karl Valentin

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I was on a flight from Chicago to Atlanta recently when the pilot announced it was going to be a very bumpy ride. I’m not a bad flyer, but it doesn’t stop me from white-knuckling the armrest everytime we drop a few feet. But sharing my flight was a 3-year-old girl, traveling with her father, all full of energy & curiousity. Everytime we would hit turbulence and drop a little, she would giggle & laugh & hold her stomach. For me, turbulence is a chance I’m going to die, for her, it is a stomach drop in the elevator or over the top hill of a rollercoaster. I will never experience airplane turbulence the same way. Perspective.

When asked (frequently BTW) about my favorite artist or style of art, my immediate reaction is to reject being backed into a corner by that sort of reductivism, but eventually my answer boils down to “perspective”. I want to be shown a different way to see, feel or be with something in the world, or not in the world as the case may be. I’ll take irony, sarcasm, absurdism, realism, surrealism or any other work that makes me better, or worse, for the experience. The wit of Austrian-based artist & illustrator, Alice Wellinger, today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, drew me in immediately. Take the time to click any of the links in this feature to explore more of her work. “Beneath her editorial work she develops her personal art, which is surreal,ironic, dealing with the troubles of daily life and childhood memories.” You won’t be dissapointed.

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Gain a new perspective with the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Alice Wellinger!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Content Matters

Posted on April 8, 2019April 9, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

SPRING greens

It is time for my seasonal obsession with ginger. I love ginger all of the time; however, about 4 to 6 weeks at the beginning of Spring, I am obsessed. I find ways to work it into every salad, entree & dessert. My family just smiles & nods, knowing that the ship will right itself soon. I think it happens because the weather has just warmed up enought to inspire thoughts of light and fresh fare, but our local harvest hasn’t quite made it to summertime bounty yet. High-quality ginger is available year ’round, and content matters.

This next Call has a deadline just around the corner (sorry for that), and it meets my resume criteria for this year (museums, publicly-funded galleries, collections or libraries). But the theme of “Content Matters” is what really pushed me to want to enter — achingly relevant. I am finishing a piece now that I think would be perfect, but, you know… jurors. We’ll see. If you are interested in a museum show and have work to offer, take a look at the details.

Check out this Call for Entries from Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Novato, CA) for Content Matters. $35 entry, 40% commission. Delivery is nearly a month after notification, making shipping easier. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Content Matters from
Marin MoCA

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. resident artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEMES: Content Matters ” ‘Content’ is the meaning conveyed by a piece of artwork – a message portrayed through images, symbols, marks, or stylistic treatment. Content communicates the artist’s point of view, their thoughts, beliefs and experiences, and it creates a response on the part of the viewer. “ MarinMOCA

DEADLINE: April 18, 2019 (PST)

NOTIFICATION: May 1, 2019 (posted on website)

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3; $50 for 4-5 ($30/$45 for members)

JUROR: This exhibit will be juried by well-known San Francisco gallerist Jack Fischer, who has been exhibiting artists for over 15 years. According to Mr. Fischer, “The work I exhibit is from the heart and the gut.” Jack Fischer Gallery shows work from a diverse group of artists working in many genres including contemporary, visionary, self-taught, and intuitive.

AWARDS: 1st Place $500, 2nd Place $300 & 3rd Place $100.

SALES: Marin MOCA will retain 40% commission (30% for members) on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: On the Easel Magazine

Posted on March 18, 2019March 17, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

don’t paint with FISH SAUCE

Every week I manage to make a handful of Insta-worthy, perfectly staged lunches & dinners, completely by accident. More often, I conjure tasty dishes that are weirdly, mostly shades of brown due to carmelization, excessive de-glazing and a love for soy, fish, Worchestershire & all other sauces, brown & salty. As you might imagine, the brown food pics, outside of coffee & walnuts, aren’t really winners on social media, ha. My work is not brown or salty, but similar & not…

A few times per week I manage to pull off a perfectly Insta-worthy image of my work in progress –always at an off-kilter angle with short focus to blur unresolved issues and just the right light to allow a contrast-y filter to make me look like a rock star. It is deceptive and born out of equal measure of insecurity and social media pressure to look like I always have everything effortlessly under control. I have guilt, but not. I don’t like feeding into the notion that studio life needs to be glamourous, but I also don’t like exposing my vulnerability underbelly to nameless, faceless critics. Then enters this Call. As you might imagine, I read A LOT of Calls, and I like options for art publication. But THIS call is different. This call wants to see the mess. Finally, there is an option to show studio life, work-in-progress specifically. I think that this is the kind of aspirational we can feel good about –always real, likely messy & unresolved. Seeing yourself represented as an artist is important. This Call is the brainchild of one of our previously Featured Artists, Robyn Thompson. It is a project of her course work while working toward her Master of Arts in Social Practice, making this a great opportunity to lift up ourselves AND one of our very own.

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Easel Magazine (digital/print) for Works In Progress. No entry fee for this aspirational call for work in progress. There are no cash awards, but this Call is all pros, no cons for me. Take a look, and please contact me personally if you have concerns…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Work in Progress
from On the Easel Mag

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“On The Easel (OTE), a new hybrid digital/paper magazine is seeking submissions of works in progress. We want to see the mess. We want to show the struggles.”

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media. Despite the name, this Call is not restricted to painting. They “want to show work during its awkward teen years in the hopes that it will inspire folks to push through to bring it to fruition.”

DEADLINE: Rolling. April 15, 2019 or until all spots have been filled.

NOTIFICATION: 1 week post submission.

ENTRY FEE: None

EDITOR: Robyn Thompson, visual artist who is working toward her M.A. in Social Practice program at the University of the Highlands and the Islands. This project is a part of Thompson’s course work. Your participation would be appreciated.

AWARD: Each page will include a full page image of your work in progress or a detail from it. We welcome submissions of either. Your name, links to your work and a paragraph about your process will also be included. The publication will be available for free online and you will be able to order print copies at cost if you wish.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: 2019 Annmarie AiR

Posted on March 17, 2019March 16, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

for the love of DAIRY

I did NOT eat haggis in Scotland while in residency. No one offered it to me. It wasn’t on any menu that I saw. No one suggested that I should make or order it –except every person I know in the United States, ha. I did, however, give in to hot tea, drink liter after liter of unhomoginized, “gently pasteurized” local milk and ate a shameful number of all-butter Scottish shortbread biscuits. I ate boatloads of Dutch gouda and an embarrassing amount of brie from the local cheese shop. And the spinach quiche and sun-dried tomato bread from the local bakery was sinful. You do Scotland your way, I did it mine. The biggest news is how I approached my work differently…

I went to another continent, worked 80+ hours a week and came home with three small pieces of completed work. I spent 8 solid hours of work on an area the size of a silver dollar. I could NEVER do that at my home studio uninterrupted. I spent thirty hours over 3 days working & re-working a 2″ x 4″ section of stitching. I could NEVER do that at my home studio without massive frustration. Residency is the hardest thing to do. It is undistracted, unobstructed time to experiment and succeed and fail without excuse (that’s the hard part). Residency time is priceless. THIS residency is a working residency that requires working with the public on a project. If it lights you up, if you can envision the project and can’t wait to get started, please don’t miss this chance. Don’t let doubt or all the things you think you need to be get in the way. Just submit the project. Don’t worry about what happens if they say “yes” or if they say “no”. Take the chance because it could change the course of how you work and of how you approach your work forever.

Check out this Call for Submissions from Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (Solomons, MD) for 2019 Summer Residency. There is no entry fee, plus there is a stipend, project funding, housing and more. This is one of those rare opportunities. Please investigate to see if it is the right fit for you…

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Summer Residency
from Annmarie

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“The summer residency program provides a serene place on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay for visual, musical, and literary artists to design and produce a community arts project. Most artists run their project through Annmarie’s creative reuse center, called the artLAB, where artists are encouraged to incorporate recycled or repurposed materials into their project. Residencies are meant to focus on community arts projects; those that merge arts and the environment are particularly desirable. ” –from annmariegarden.org

ELIGIBILITY: All artists 18+ living & working in U.S. Professional & emerging visual artists, musicians, and literary artists may apply.

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: April 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: Selection is made by an internal panel.

AWARDS: A modest stipend or honorarium — typically $225 per week for the summer residency; a modest project budget, typically $500-2000, depending on the project; housing (optional), the artLAB, studios, bicycle, kayak, a beautiful sculpture garden, galleries, program administration & more!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 2019 Juried Waterloo

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

working for FOOD

And, we’ve returned. I have been working as an artist in residence in Scotland for the past month, so I made the decision to shut us down for a few weeks. I’ve been back for three days –stuffing my face with all those foods one associates with home. Yours may be pasta or cheese, and mine is ALL foods, ha, but what I really missed were salads and vegetables and marinades, all the foods that I was too lazy or too time-pressed to enjoy making for myself. So many red peppers.

We need to talk about residency experiences, but let’s say hello with an exhibit to start. I have been crafting my resume to serve my current goals, and that includes public and non-profit art galleries, organizations & museums. Waterloo is one of my favorite non-profits, dedicating its resources to bringing quality programming to Cleveland, Ohio. This particular exhibit has a low entry fee and offers a small honorarium to all accepted artists ($5 less than the entry fee) while still offering thousands of dollars in awards. And to top it all off, the show’s run is during an arts festival, offering increased foot-traffic & pubicity. There are a lot of pros. Lets celebrate the good ones…

Check out this Call for Entries from Waterloo Arts (Cleveland, OH) for the 2019 Juried Exhibition. This is a unique opportunity for artists to exhibit work in the Waterloo Arts Gallery. For the third straight year, the Juried Exhibition will take place in three locations in the Waterloo Arts District: Waterloo Arts, Praxis Fiber Workshop and Brick Ceramic + Design. Artists’ work will also be to the more than 5,000 attendees of The Waterloo Arts Fest that is scheduled during the run of the show. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Juried Exhibition
from Waterloo Arts

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to 18+ artists residing in the U.S. or Canada.

MEDIA: Open to all* 2 & 3-D media. *Time based, electronic media, performance art, and installations will NOT be accepted.

DEADLINE: April 7, 2019

NOTIFICATION: April 30, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3

JUROR: TBA

AWARDS: Best of Show $500, 2nd Best of Show $250, Honorable Mentions: $100, NEOH Artist CAN Journal Prize: Cash Prize $250 and Artist feature article in fall edition of CAN Journal*, Brick Ceramic + Design Prize $150, Praxis Fiber Workshop Prize $150, tap Prize for Wearable Art $150, Waterloo Arts Trustee Prize for Painting/Illustration $150, Zygote Press Prize for Printmaking $150, Outstanding Work in Sculpture $150, Outstanding Work in Paper $150. All accepted artists will receive $25 honorarium. Artists who receive another cash award will not receive an additional honorarium.

Category: April 2019

“Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit” — Karl Valentin

Gain a new perspective with the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Alice Wellinger!

SPRING greens

CALL for ENTRIES: Content Matters from Marin MoCA

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

don’t paint with FISH SAUCE

CALL for ENTRIES: Work in Progress from On the Easel Mag

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

for the love of DAIRY

CALL for ENTRIES: 2019 Summer Residency from Annmarie

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

working for FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: 2019 Juried Exhibition from Waterloo Arts

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Content Matters from
Marin MoCA

CALL for ENTRIES:
Work in Progress
from On the Easel Mag

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Summer Residency
from Annmarie

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Juried Exhibition
from Waterloo Arts