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Category: August 2015

CALL for ENTRIES: Nocturne

Posted on by R.L. Gibson

Learn more about the Nocturne exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery!a-maze-ingly
CORNY

Popping corn is an art.  We consume bowls and bowls and bowls of popcorn at my house every night–organic, non-GMO cooked on the stove the same way it was done when I was little.  As a matter of fact, I believe my craving for popcorn is actually triggered by sunset.  I adore it toped by finely grated Parmesan & a sprinkle of chile powder.  My husband craves it with huge doses of freshly ground black pepper.  My son prefers it with just a sprinkle of sea salt.   That’s our nighttime popcorn trifecta.  This next Call is open to whole different kind of nighttime imagery.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Nocturne. $24 entry. We’re proud our readers have been both shown & awarded at Darkroom. Join their ranks…

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Learn more about the Nocturne exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL
for ENTRIES:
Nocturne

 

“Photographers have long embraced the literary and artistic tradition of the night as theme and subject in their work. The romantic notions and sense of mystery associated with the night, and the transformation from the mundane world to the unknown provide ample material for photographers to explore through their work.

“Darkroom Gallery is calling for nighttime imagery that conveys mystery, surrealism, isolation, loneliness, and time/timelessness.” –darkroomgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: August 12, 2015

NOTIFICATION: August 21, 2015

ENTRY FEE: 4 for $24 (online)/$29 (email)

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Learn more about the Nocturne exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery!JUROR: Lance Keimig is best known for his night photographs–often made at the juncture of the built & natural environments.  Keimig has taught at the New England School of Photography in Boston since 2000, has also taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, The Houston Center for Photography & leads independent workshops across the country.

Keimig continues to teach night photography & light-painting workshops and leads photo tours to Iceland, Ireland, Scotland & Cuba. His photographs are held in numerous collections including The Art Complex Museum In Duxbury, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, and the Grace Museum in Abilene, TX.

AWARDS: Selected entries are included in a full color exhibit catalog & gallery exhibit. Plus: Juror’s Choice: 30×48″ image banner; People’s Choice – a free future entry; Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition.

SALES: Free matting & framing of accepted entries, subject to standard sizes. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submissions page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Nocturne exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Violet

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Learn more about the Violet edition from ArtAscent!eat my
BOUQUET

Are you eating flowers?  I do occasionally, but only when I can buy them directly from the grower or grow them myself due to pesticides.  One of my favorite edible blooms, second only to zucchini blossoms, may be sweet violets.  I like to make a simple syrup infused with violets then make a subtle glaze for sugar cookies or a vinegar for a salad of bitter greens.  The next time you’re at the Farmer’s Market, consider the flowers edible too. This next Call want YOUR view on all things violet–not just the flowers.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from ArtAscent (online) for Violet. Only $25 to enter. Our Featured Artist Sima Schloss, was featured in a past exhibit.  YOU could be next!

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Learn more about the Violet edition from ArtAscent!CALL for ENTRIES:
Violet

A bluish-purple shade, a flowering plant, the name of a woman. Violet is even associated with royalty, the unconventional, and ambiguity. Violet can be expressed in a symbolic, literal, modern, traditional, abstract, or other way. Colour your canvas & notepad with violet, and share your vision with the world.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA:   Writing & visual art including: paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media, digital, printmaking, installations, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and other 2 & 3-D media and written art – fiction, poetry, short stories and other written explorations (up to 900 words).

DEADLINE:  August 31, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $45 for up to 8 or $10 for one article

Learn more about the Violet edition from ArtAscent!AWARDS:  One each:  Gold Artist, Gold Writer, Silver Artist, Bronze Artist will be featured in ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal with an accompanying professional review and profile written by ArtAscent by art writer discussing you & your art, and selected work.

Distinguished Artists (17-27) & Writers (2-6): Featured in ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal with selected piece(s) of your artwork. (At least 17 distinguished artists will be published, but depending on entries, ArtAcent may select & publish the work of up to 27. At least 2 distinguished writers will be published, but depending on entries, they may select and publish up to 6.)

SALES: No commission. Any purchase inquiries will be referred directly to the artist.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from ArtAscent!

CALL for ENTRIES: At Home

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Learn more about the At Home exhibit from Don't Take Pictures!your
KITCHEN
or mine?

Home is where the kitchen is.  Yes, I know–where the heart is; I simply disagree.  Anyone can leave, move & travel, but we all have to eat.  Whether it is a hotel kitchenette where a sandwich is a welcome relief from fast food or a pop-up camper where popcorn made has never tasted better, they are all home.  This next Call wants your thoughts on being at home.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Don’t Take Pictures (art publication) for At Home.  NO entry fee & they are a AAAD sponsor, too.  Make us proud & enter today…

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Learn more about the At Home exhibit from Don't Take Pictures!CALL for ENTRIES:
At Home

 

Don’t Take Pictures exists to showcase the work of emerging photographers.  In addition to publishing photographers in print & online in their monthly columns, they are now publishing online quarterly exhibitions.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Photography

THEME:  “The meanings associated with the word ‘home’ are as varied as dwellings themselves.  For some, home is a place to put down roots, a place of safety and comfort; for others, it is simply a place to hang their hat.  A home can extend beyond structural walls to include yards, streets, and the culture of a whole town.  Everyone, for better or for worse, has a place they think of as home, a place where personal histories are shaped and life is lived.  For ‘At Home,’ Don’t Take Pictures seeks photographs that explore the wide array of environments that people call home.” –donttakepictures.com

DEADLINE:  August 23, 2015

PUBLICATION:  August 26 – November 24, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  None

AWARDS:  Inclusion in the upcoming At Home exhibition

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the At Home exhibit from Don't Take Pictures!

CALL for ENTRIES: Color

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Learn more about the Color exhibit from the R Dixon Gallery!don’t be
BLUE

I survived another holiday without eating blue food.  Why do people eat the blue food? Blue iced cookies & cakes are everywhere this time of year, so I am going to say this again… step away from the blue food.  The closest thing to naturally occurring blue food is squid ink.  Eat all the squid ink your heart desires, but please stop buying blue Jell-o, Koolaid, popsicles & icing.  You’re only encouraging them.  If you need to experience ALL the colors of the rainbow (including blue), try this next Call instead.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the R. Dixon Gallery (Seneca Falls, NY) for Color: vivid, vibrant & vital. Great space, good juror, low commission.  We know you will make us proud…

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Learn more about the Color exhibit from the R Dixon Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Color

 

“I think the way we perceive color is our sixth sense.  I can taste lemon yellow.  I can feel the inherent nobility in imperial purple.  A pop of color?  Too tame …during this exhibit, the gallery walls will come alive with explosions of color!  As an artist, you likely have a special relationship with color.  Are your colors complementary or diametrically opposed?  It’s a question that we’re looking forward to seeing how you answer.” –from rdixongallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists w/ a valid U.S. mailing address

MEDIA:  All media considered

DEADLINE: August 8, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  August 16, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for 3 images; $5 each add’l

JUROR:  Ellen Gordon is a Connecticut-based mixed media artist. Her art training is from the Greenwich Art Society Silvermine Arts Guild and the Rowayton Arts Centre, and she holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and a Master’s degree from Baruch College, NYC. Gordon has exhibited regionally and is the recipient of many grants and awards, including the National Faber Birren Color Award Exhibition at the Stamford Art Society; Best in Show 2013 in the 96th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Center, as well as the 2011 George W. McClellan Award for Watercolor from the Greenwich Arts Society at the Flinn Gallery.

AWARDS: $250 for “Best in Show” & $250 for “People’s Choice” recognition.

SALES: 35% commission on sales

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the R Dixon Gallery!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Niche Awards 2016

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Learn more about the 2016 Niche Awards!HERBS
only smaller

Niche market foods abound.  Don’t you ever wonder who decided, “I want to grow lavender mint microgreens when I grow up”?  But someone grows lavender mint microgreens.  I used to wonder if there was a place for me in the market to make goat cheese for a living, but I have dismissed feeling like the market was too small to support my goat cheese obsession.  But now the idea of raising goats and making cheese sounds like I want to be an agricultural giant by comparison to lavender mint microgreens, eh?  This next Call is all about the niche market.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from NICHE Magazine for the Niche Awards 2016–a celebration of fine craft.  Many of you are producing both fine art and fine craft; maybe this one for you…

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Learn more about the 2016 Niche Awards!CALL for ENTRIES:
NICHE Awards 2016

 

Sponsored by NICHE magazine, the NICHE Awards program began in 1989 to celebrate excellence and innovation in American and Canadian fine craft.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists age 21+ residing in U.S. or Canada. All work must have been made and finished in the United States or Canada.

MEDIA: Categories include: Basketry, Ceramics, Fashion Accessories, Fiber, Furniture, Glass, Home Furnishings, Jewelry, Judaica, Metal, Mixed Media & Miscellaneous, Polymer Clay, Recycled & Wood

Learn more about the 2016 NICHE Awards!DEADLINE: August 21, 2015

ENTRY FEE: The cost to enter is $40 for professionals for up to 3 images (only 2 allowed per category)

JUDGING: Images are judged on the following: 1) Technical excellence, both in surface design & form, 2) A distinct quality of unique, original and creative thought and 3) Market viability (pro entries only)

AWARDS: Finalists receive an awards certificate, a listing in NICHE magazine (pro only), and a listing in the Buyers Guide of the American Made Show.  Winners will receive an awards certificate, trophy, a listing on the NICHE Awards website and a listing in NICHE magazine.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the NICHE Awards!

CALL for ENTRIES: Finding Our Place

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Learn more about the Finding Our Place exhibit at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center!space to
GROW

I have been searching for my place–in art, in music, in food, in the world.  I have a long history of wanting to do everything at all times.  I want to get it all right, experience it all, eat it all, see it all, do it all.  As a result, I often get none of them quite right.  Silly to some, I believe the answer is geographical.  I continue to seek smaller spaces and places–one town smaller than the next.  Now I seek space, acres inside the next smallest town.  Not isolation so much as controlled interaction.  Space to think.  Space to choose.  Space to grow.  Where is YOUR space?  Your place?  The next Call wants your answers–or questions.  What do you have to say? 

Check out this Call for Entries from Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (Solomons, MD) for Finding Our Place: The Geography of Art.  $25 entry, epic jurors & great art, time & time again. Take a look…

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Learn more about the Finding Our Place exhibit at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Finding Our Place

“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
–Wendell Berry

A sense of place can be an essential element in artists’ creative life, and frequently informs their subject matter, materials, style, approach, studio location, and more.  Whether it be ones childhood “primal landscape,” full of memories of home and family, or the pull of a dramatic landscape, or a connection to a particular place based on historical and cultural events, geography calls to the imagination.  As the world shifts to a focus on the virtual, how has this impacted artists’ work?  Has it resulted in a weakening of a sense of place, or has the meaning of place simply adjusted to this new reality?  This exhibit invites artists to explore this issue from either or both sides, and to celebrate what place means to them.  What informs your work?  A physical location or a virtual world?  Do you know “where you are?” — from annmariegarden.org

Learn more about the Finding Our Place exhibit at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center!

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists
working in the US

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: August 14, 2015

NOTIFICATION: August , 2015

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 4

JUROR: The exhibit will be juried by a 1-2 member panel; typically, one member of the panel is drawn from the Smithsonian Institution.

AWARDS: Annmarie will present cash awards to outstanding work. Jurors will review installed works (not application images) for award selection. Award amounts are contingent upon sponsorship; typically there are at least three awards each about $250. All award winning artists will receive an invitation for a solo or group show.

SALES: Annmarie will retain a 40% commission of the listed sale price.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Finding Our Place exhibit at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center!

CALL for ENTRIES: FL3TCH3R 2015

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Learn more about the FL3TCH3R Exhibit!BLANK

Normally my cup runneth over, but lately my plate has been empty.  I am an eternal optimist.  But with all the violence with which we have been confronted in our lives and via media in the past few days, I find myself paralyzed to find a quirky food segue for art posts.  I am pretty grateful to have received the next Call that allows me to give you an outlet for YOUR voice amongst all the violence.  I needed the opportunity, and I am hoping that you will seize it as well..

Check out this Call for Entries from the Reece Museum at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for The FL3TCH3R Exhibit.  Here’s your chance to speak your mind without media restriction.  Don’t miss this chance…

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Learn more about the FL3TCH3R Exhibit!CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2015

 

The theme of THE FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT is focused on work with strong social and political content. Work entered in the exhibit should reflect current issues that affect contemporary culture and investigate societal and political concerns. Diverse media and approach to the theme are encouraged.

ELIGIBILITY:  U.S. artists age 18+

MEDIA:  All 2D, 3D, performance & installation & video art are eligible. Due to space & logistical considerations, large-scale & complicated installation is not encouraged.

DEADLINE:  August 26, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  September 14, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3, $7 ea. add’l if rcv’d by August 19th. Extended deadline for August 20-26 requires a fee of $40 for up to 3 & $7 ea. add’l.

Learn more about the FL3TCH3R Exhibit!JUROR: Joyce Ogden is an artist based in Southern Indiana whose work explores dialogues between sustainability, the importance of water to local agriculture, nature, time & space.  She received an MFA from  Indiana University & has exhibited throughout the southeastern U.S., including: the Speed Museum in Kentucky & Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta.

Ogden has been the recipient of grants and awards that include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant Program & Kentucky Foundation for Women Sallie Bingham Award. In addition, she is a founding member of ENID, a Louisville based women sculptors organization.  Her work has been reviewed in regional and national publications.  Ms. Ogden is currently Professor of Art at Spalding University & the Kentucky School of Art at Spalding in Louisville, KY.

AWARDS:  Best of Show $300, 2 Awards of Excellence $100 ea & Appalachian Artist Award (TBA)

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the FL3TCH3R exhbit!