CALL for ENTRIES: 2019-20 Solo Exhibits

Posted on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

COCO-nutty

Most of my secret foods are trashy, throw-away garbage foods, but occasionally a decent one sneaks into the mix. I’m not going to lay claim to avocados because they are, when applied to toast, apparently the damnation of an entire generation. It does seem, however, that coconut milk makes into into all my favorite dishes from tom kha gai, Thai coconut soup with chicken, which is in the slower cooker for tonight, to two-ingredient, decadent dark chocolate pudding, mango sticky rice or peanut chicken Buddha bowls. I use it in everything. Its presence in my pantry represents opportunity.

One month from today, I’ll be spending my first full day in residence in Cromarty, Scotland, giving me the time and space to pursue a work direction that I might never otherwise get an opportunity to try. (I will do my best to post at night when my work days are complete.) And, by the time I return, my husband will have completed some portion of the renovation work on my new 10’x20′ storage shed studio. Again, opportunity. I am shoving aside the pressure to produce and the expectation of a certain look of success, and I am concentrating solely on appreciating the opportunity. The rest, I will figure out as I encounter it.

This next Call also represents opportunity on a larger scale. This is a tiny application fee for a Call from a publicly-funded, non-profit venue for multiple gallery spaces in a range of sizes (diagram provided in Call). They only ask for 5 to 10 images to consider, and the commission rate for sales is very reasonable. This is an active venue for arts-programming, so you’re assured a certain level of visibility. The catch? You have to deliver and install the work in Durham, NC. So, for many of you, this would be considered a regional call. I think it is worth the drive, so don’t dismiss the idea until you’ve fully read the Call.

Check out this Call for Entries from Durham Arts Council (Durham, NC) for Annual Call for Artists 2019-2020. $15 entry fee & 30% commission. This is a great venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Annual Call for Artists 2019-2020
from Durham Arts Council

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+. Artists from all geographic locations are eligible to apply, however artists are responsible for transporting their work to the DAC and installing it. Work must be dropped off – SHIPPING IS NOT PERMITTED.

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: January 31, 2019 (Editor’s Note: Deadline is 9pm EST, not midnight)

ENTRY FEE: $15 application fee

AWARD: Selected artists will generally receive one entire gallery for a solo exhibition sometime between July 2019-July 2020. Durham Arts Council’s Artist Services Department coordinates and promotes exhibition receptions in our historic downtown Durham facility, produces and distributes media promotion, and creates wall labels and text panels for the galleries.

SALES: The Durham Arts Council will handle artwork sales on behalf of the artist. DAC’s commission is 30% for any sold works.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Scapes 2019

Posted on January 8, 2019January 5, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

WATER you up to?

It feels like it has been raining forever and may just never stop. Ever. I’ve never had a green thumb, but my grandmother tried to teach me the basic. I remember almost nothing she taught me except leaves turn yellow when you over water, and nothing is more exciting than the burst of the seed pod of a touch-me-not. So, while I can grow herbs on a windowsill, my dream of having a sustainable farming endeavor is a lost cause. But many of my friends are out there trying only to eat what they grow.

Realistically what do you grow end the land of never ending rain? Apparently taro thrives even in water logged conditions for up to weeks at a time. I could live on taro chips, right? Maybe not. Luckily I can still canoe to my local grocer. The rain is also making me hyperbolic, ha. I could paint the rain, I suppose, or gather rainwater to feed my watercolors for this next landscape call. I then I could use the prize money to buy aquaponic supplies.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Scapes 2019. $20 entry & no shipping. In addition to cash prizes, there are also marketing benefits. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Scapes 2019
from Art-competition.net

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ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to still media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage, etc.

THEME: ‘Scapes “…original interpretations of different types of landscapes, seascapes, or mindscapes from representational to abstract. The visual narrative of the work should transport the viewer to experience the beauty, uniqueness, or fantasy of these special places..”

DEADLINE: January 14, 2019

NOTIFICATION: January 18, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $10 ea. add’l

AWARDS: $8,125 in cash & marketing prizes. (e.g. 1st place $500, 2nd Place $400, 3rd Place $300, etc) + helpful marketing. There will be 7 Winners and 10 Honorable Mentions.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Dairy Arts Annual

Posted on January 7, 2019January 5, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

you’re the ZEST!

The hourglass on citron is running low. Citron (aka Buddha’s hand) is that freaky-looking fingered citrus fruit that is commonly found in fruitcake and other holiday baked confections. It is lovely candied and turns a gorgeous shade of lemon yellow. Not panicked about the days slipping away? You’d better be certain, because it is only available a few months of the year, and January is the last of them in most places. So what happens if I need it in June? I wait; that’s what. If you miss this next call, YOU will also have to wait.

That’s the problem with waiting until you’re ready. Artists are often, by nature, too busy or too focused or too single-minded to be looking forward by months, much less years. So, we are cast as procrastinators even if the part doesn’t quite fit. I am you; we are all you. It is easy to say “next time” when you feel unprepared, or worse yet, suffering from a reliable case of impostor syndrome. But we’re never ready enough or prepared enough or qualified enough.

This next Call is for solo exhibit opportunities in 2020 at a public art center in Boulder, Colorado, a popular arts location. Why this call? First, they only ask for 4 to 7 images, not 20. You’ve got 4 images, right? Next, they offer a map of their galleries. Why is this important? Because their galleries are numerous and of varying size, including some lobby and corridor spaces that are manageable, regardless of how prepared you feel right now. You can’t wait until you re ready because then you’ll have to wait 2 years. And, what if you don’t get in the first time? You’ll feel more prepared and less nervous the second time, not “next time”. I get that not every opportunity is right for every artist, but if you’re going to NOT enter, be certain you’re CHOOSING not to enter, not letting the fear or insecurity choose for you.

Check out this Call for Entries from Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO) for 2020 Exhibition Opportunities. $35 submission fee with as few as 4 images. Is this your next step? This is a great venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2020 Exhibition Opps
from Dairy Arts Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: January 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35

JURORS: A ten-member committee comprised of artists, curators, university faculty, and art collectors. A floor plan of the Dairy’s exhibition spaces has been provided for review by potential applicants, however, if selected for exhibition the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts will select the gallery or galleries that are most appropriate for the display of invited artist(s) work.

AWARD: Following the close of this call, applications will be reviewed by the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts and the Visual Arts Jury to select individual artists and groups of artists to exhibit in the Dairy’s four galleries.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue 2019

Posted on December 31, 2018January 5, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

CUCUMBER and berries

Between granola and smoothies, I am on a constant hunt for decent fruit. This time of year, it is a challenge. The strawberries are horrific, fibrous little lumps. Bananas are great for smoothies but don’t dry well without sulfites. Cucumbers & pineapples are rocking my smoothies, but FRESH fruit is a struggle. (Yes, I can hear how that sounds.) Blueberries have saved me lately. They are relatively cheap and work in cereal and for pancakes & smoothies. If anyone has recommendations on how to dry them, I’m open to ideas. This next Call wants your blue solutions…

So why do you consider this online gallery, art publication opportunity? Well, here are some questions: Do you need a low risk, low cost way to test new, experimental work? Are you looking to drive traffic to your website and create organic content for social media posts? And, there’s the grant money. Do you want the opportunity to be awarded grant money? ha. Is this opportunity right for you? Only you can know. The deadline looms VERY CLOSE — January 7th.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Blue 2019. $25 entry & no shipping. Do you have work in blue? You know you want the $500 grant. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue 2019
from Art-competition.net

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ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+ (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to still media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, fiber art, collage, 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, symbolisms or feelings, from the blue marble we call earth to our emotions expressed in 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.” –art-competition.net

DEADLINE: January 7, 2019

NOTIFICATION: January 14, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS: 20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “BLUE 2019” 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: Women Artists

Posted on December 29, 2018January 6, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

COLD complication

As winter approaches, I am more & more distracted. I buy a handful of pantry items for single recipes. For example, I use canned cream-style corn in one indulgent corn pudding recipe and buttermilk only in cornbread. But, the problem arises because they look like similar items in the cupboard –anything canned or my regular milk. You only have to put buttermilk on one bowl of cereal to not want to make that mistake again. My solution? Organization. A simple letter or two scrawled on the container top has stopped me from wasting time and food over and over again.

In the studio, I am always walking the line between organized and over-planned. My instincts run toward scheduling, pre-planning, color-coding and efficiency. But, I also know that when I over plan, I have guilt when I stray from my original design that sometime keeps me on a path (that often isn’t really working) longer than I should. But if I don’t schedule at all, I end up procrastinating, the stereotypical downfall of beret-wearing artists in movies everywhere. This next Call is a perfect example. I love this publication. It is gorgeous. The art is phenomenal. Even their Insta feed is fun and inspiring. I keep thinking that the right work to submit will speak to me. As a result, here we are a year or two later, I’ve managed not to enter yet. So, let’s make a plan, be organized; enter early…

Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine (print publication) for the Women Artists March Edition. $30 entry for this gorgeous magazine. Don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
March Women Artist Edition
of Create! Magazine

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all women artists. “We are passionate about highlighting work by contemporary female (identifying as female) creatives and are dedicating the entire march edition to this group.” –Create! Magazine

MEDIA: Open to all media, i.e.: painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, mixed media, photography, installation & more.

DEADLINE: January 27, 2019

NOTIFICATION: December 20, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3, $35 for 5, $40 for 10. *There is also an optional $20 for online review, if selected by curator.

JURORS: Ekaterina Popova Artist, Curator, Podcaster, Editor and Founder of Create! Magazine, Alicia Puig Curator, Art Historian and Director of Business Operations at Create! Magazine, Shelby McFadden Artist, Designer and Editor of Pikchur Magazine, & Christina Nafziger Arts Writer, Journalist and Gallery Assistant.

AWARDS: Artists selected by the guest juror will receive a 2-page spread including a brief bio, website, and 2 images in print and digital formats. Published artists will receive a complimentary digital issue and will be listed on Create! Magazine’s website/social media & will be listed with images, details and information on their website/social media for life. All featured artists will automatically be considered for any upcoming curatorial projects & exhibitions organized by the Create! team.

SALES: The March 2019 Edition will be available online, in global retail locations in London, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Wilmington (DE), Philadelphia & more.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 28th Nat’l OPA

Posted on December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

celebratory EDIBLES

Do you make food resolutions? No, I don’t mean diets. Do you make promises to eat healthier or cleaner? Or maybe to cut some food that makes you itchy, grouchy or gas-y? Yeah, me neither. Not anymore. My eating habits go with the flow. I eat a lot of whole, fresh foods, punctuated by occasional, terribly-crappy junk food, and it seems to work for me, ha. This year, I am resolved to drink more bubbly. I love Prosecco. I like the sense of celebration, and I want to spend more time celebrating the little stuff. What is your go-to drinkable or edible celebratory treat? Chocolate? Guac? Join me for my year of Yay! We deserve it.

My last major change was the abandoning of all dairy except whole milk options, and a complete, mid-career left turn in media. Yikes. Until my change of media a couple of years ago, I was working, almost exclusively, as a xerographist. There is no Xerography Association, locally, nationally or internationally, to my knowledge. So, I never had the ability to take advantage of media-specific membership. Now that I am a watercolorist, I have more options. However, because I embroider over my paintings, my work is typically considered mixed media by painters and painting by fiber artists. I’m not sure if I’ll ever find a watercolor or fiber art society to call home. Do you have a media association that you love?

One of the benefits of association shows is the prestige. Because they are almost always juried by working master artists, the recognition of your work is meant to be a stamp of approval on your dedication to developing your skills, plus, they often have large cash prizes. There are frequently multiple show opportunities throughout the year as well as educational & critique options that can’t be found anywhere else. THOSE are all great arguments for the next Call, but I’m not an oil painter. If you are, this is a great show.

Check out this Call for Entries for the 28th Annual Nat’l Exhibition from Oil Painters of America to be exhibited at the Illume Gallery of Fine Art (Saint George, UT). $100,000 in awards including $25K Best of Show. Don’t wait…

CALL for ENTRIES:
28th 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 25, 2019

NOTIFICATION: February 22, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $30 for 1, $15 ea. add’l (plus membership fee of $70). More membership information can be found on the OPA website, under the Member Services tab.

JURORS: OPA Master Signature member Kenn Backhaus OPAM

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!

CALL for ENTRIES: New Contemporary

Posted on December 15, 2018December 16, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

real SMOOTH

I have pureed everything today. I made black bean soufflé early in the day to go with the slaw-topped taco my husband made later. I cooked & pureed extra beans to put up in the freezer as a soup base for next week. Lunch was delivery pizza. Our mid-afternoon snack was a mango-peach-guava-banana smoothie. While my husband made apple-pepper slaw for our tacos, I processed a half-bushel of apples for applesauce. I have washed my food processor four times today. (Just a reminder, no dishwasher in my house.) I am trying to keep busy.

I mean, I did finish framing a commission while I am waiting for THREE past-due notifications. I need mindless busy. How do venues take our money and not notify on time? Why not just under-promise? Why not five themselves and extra week then surprise us all with an early notification? Of course, my imagination and insecurities ramp up to a 14 & I begin to assume that I haven’t gotten an email because I have been rejected, or, that I was so bad that I didn’t warrant a response. When left with too much time to dwell on it, I start to become paranoid like an 1990s sitcom and wonder if my phone is working or if email is out-of-order. Ridiculous. So, soufflé, soup, smoothie & applesauce. Noisy. Delicious. Busy.

This next Call is screaming my name. I’ve not been interested in a lot of galleries lately because I am looking to build a very specific profile for my resume. I am trying to patiently wait for the academic & publicly funded shows I really want. But I am digging this space. There are a number of great art hot spots in New Mexico, like Satan Fe. In fact, New Mexico is on my new short list of relocation possibilities. This gallery supports a reassuringly diverse art aesthetic and range of media. I like the unapologetic nature of this Call too. I’m hoping to get my crap together & enter. Let me know how it sounds to YOU.

Check out this Call for Entries from Keep Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM) for New Contemporary. This is a great looking venue that also includes “….artists who have a limited voice in an otherwise conservative art market”. I want to show here; how about you?

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CALL for ENTRIES:
New Contemporary
from Keep Contemporary

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“We are looking for art that pushes the boundaries in a variety of genres including but not limited to: High Brow, Low Brow, Pop Surrealism, Hyperrealism, Graffiti Art, and Abstract Art.” –keepcontemporary.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to painting, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, digital, collage, sculpture, & photography.

DEADLINE: January 14, 2019

NOTIFICATION: January 28. 2019

ENTRY FEE: $40 up to 3, $5 ea. addl

JUROR: Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo is an artist and the gallery director at Keep Contemporary. He has curated exhibitions and public programming for a diverse set of art institutions across the US. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in private and institutional collections.

SALES: The gallery will retain a 35% commission on all sales.

Category: January 2019

COCO-nutty

CALL for ENTRIES: Annual Call for Artists 2019-2020 from Durham Arts Council

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

WATER you up to?

CALL for ENTRIES: Scapes 2019 from Art-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

you’re the ZEST!

CALL for ENTRIES: 2020 Exhibition Opps from Dairy Arts Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CUCUMBER and berries

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue 2019 from Art-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

COLD complication

CALL for ENTRIES: March Women Artist Edition of Create! Magazine

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

celebratory EDIBLES

CALL for ENTRIES: 28th Nat’l Juried from Oil Painters of America

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

real SMOOTH

CALL for ENTRIES: New Contemporary from Keep Contemporary

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Annual Call for Artists 2019-2020
from Durham Arts Council

CALL for ENTRIES:
Scapes 2019
from Art-competition.net

CALL for ENTRIES:
2020 Exhibition Opps
from Dairy Arts Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue 2019
from Art-competition.net

CALL for ENTRIES:
March Women Artist Edition
of Create! Magazine

CALL for ENTRIES:
28th Nat’l Juried
from Oil Painters of America

CALL for ENTRIES:
New Contemporary
from Keep Contemporary