CALL for ENTRIES: Summer 2019 Print Issue

Posted on May 29, 2019May 28, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

COLD complication

For years, popcorn was the ultimate summer food. Popcorn with a hint of olive oil, parmesan and cracked black pepper was my idea of the perfect snack food. Then, there was some weird shift for me. Stovetop popped was too greasy. Microwave-popped was always singed. Air-popped was always tough. I just quit eating it — for nearly two years. I missed my daily snack favorite, but was resigned to the absence of popcorn.

Then one day Facebook started feeding me ads for an Amazon listing a silicone popcorn popper (not a sponsored ad) for the microwave. I’m guessing I did something online that Google’s algorithm decided meant I needed popcorn, and, well, it was right. That $10 product arrived, and it was ridiculous, a floppy, ridiculous concept. It came without instructions. I searched and found an equally ridiculous video. Holy popcorn! It is soft like stove-topped but without that queasy overly greasy aftertaste. So what’s the lesson? No lesson, except maybe… all hail Summer.

Continuing with this week’s publication theme, here’s a call for one of my all time favorite art publications. Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine (print publication) for the Summer 2019 Print Issue. $30 entry for this gorgeous magazine. Don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Summer 2019 Print Issue
of Create! Magazine

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

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

DEADLINE: May 31, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3

JURORS: Nina Blumberg is a full-time art consultant at the New York City-based firm Samuels Creative. Outside of work, she fills her time with freelance social media contemporary art clientele and projects, most recently engaging with the art technology space. Nina received her BA in Art History from the University of Virginia and her MA from FIT’s “Art Market: Principles & Practices” program. Nina is also the founder of @Artstagram__,the contemporary art world Instagram account that covers art happenings and exhibitions in NYC and beyond.

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 Summer 2019 Print Issue 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: Cover Art

Posted on May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

a HUNGRY summer

I’ve had my head down working and planning and growing. How about you? Spring always makes me take a second look at my process, while summer makes me kick into production mode. What are you doing to support your work? I am contemplating meal kits and taking a day off from the studio. I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense at first glance. But lunch is the bane of my daily schedule. Just when I hit a creative stride, it is time for some sort of meal prep for lunch. I live in a house with folks with dietary restrictions, and everyone eats lunch at home. So, I’ve been exploring options. Take out takes just as much time to pick up, and delivery is cost prohibitive. A lot of meal kits are labor intensive despite arriving with pre-prepped foods, and many of them are the wrong quantity or, again, cost-prohibitive. I’ve found one (Hungryroot & no, this is not sponsored) I think I am going to give a try. The ingredients look good, the sizing is right, the cost is manageable. I am excited about getting lunch off my plate, so to speak.

One of the other big stumbling blocks for me is juggling my boring-but-necessary household tasks with my work schedule. Finding time. I find it hard to work creatively when I am encumbered with a list of non-creative tasks to do at home. My husband more than carries his half of the burden, but someone still has to do my half, ha. So, I’ve been practicing taking one day off from the studio and trying to cram all of the household tasks I can into that day –laundry, appointments, meal planning, grocery shopping. It is a work in progress. I’ll be sure to give you an update before summer’s end. In the meantime, I’ve had two acceptances for publication in two different magazines, and I am inspired by the positive attention it has drawn to my work and added to my social media reach. So, I am offering a few publication calls this week. I am running close on deadlines, so don’t delay in submitting your work.

Check out this Call for Entries from New England Review (Print & Digital Publication) for Cover Art. There is an additional call for artwork for use on their website on the same page. This is a reputable publication option, with artist payment (albeit tiny) and little to no risk. Is this a good fit for you?

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Cover Art
from New England Review

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to any genre (painting, photo, sculpture, etc.) that will reproduce well as cover art. “We strongly favor abstraction.”

DEADLINE: May 31, 2019

NOTIFICATION: Within 12 weeks, if possible.

ENTRY FEE: $2-$3 for writing submissions, but cover art submissions appear to be no charge. Fees are waived for current subscribers.

AWARD: $100 for cover art, plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears and a one-year subscription. The cover will be printed in full-color, full bleed, with the magazine’s logo in overprint and will be reproduced on the magazine’s website and electronic publications. The size of the printed cover is 6.75 inches wide by 9.75 inches tall, so the image may need to be adjusted to fit the trim size.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Meltdown

Posted on April 12, 2019April 13, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

lost in TRANSLATION

It is no secret that I’m a little, well, let’s call it cheese “focused”. But we all have our priorities. After being seperated by an ocean for 4 weeks, my husband and I stopped by a local dairy farm less than 24 hours after reunited… to buy cheese. Priorities. Cheese glorious cheese. A few days later, I made summer squash au gratin also known as “squash makes all the melted cheese a legitimate choice”, au gratin for short. Melted cheese means I’m home, ha. Think of it as my oven’s welcome mat. It is the best kind of meltdown.

I have been known to indulge in an epic meltdown of a personal nature on occasion. The last U.S. presidential election put me in an ugly place for weeks. Every insuing attack on civil rights, environmental regulations, access to health insurance & the ability to govern the workings of my own body have warranted their own meltdowns. My work has changed. My life has changed. I worry about becoming numb to the suffering of others, to the loss of agency, to the restrictions on the ability to speak freely. Where is this planet’s population headed? While I was in Scotland recently, I was regularly engaged by locals about American politics. People want to understand what is going on in the United States. I couldn’t explain. I can’t explain. So, I just keep working. Right now, THAT is what I can do.

This next Call in interested wants to see how your work reflects a sense of meltdown, whatever your interpretation. What do you have to say? Could this be the place for you to say it? Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Meltdown at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry, 35% commission, open to all media and all artists. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Meltdown
at the Limner Gallery

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This exhibition will be held June 14 – July 13, 2019.

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms

THEME: “We are living in an age of global crisis – of catastrophic MELTDOWN, a crisis the proportions of which, sadly, needs no description. Historically artists have foreseen, described and been inspired by crisis. The subject of this exhibition is every aspect of the MELTDOWN crisis, be it global, personal, environmental, financial, psychological, scientific and/or spiritual.” — Limner Gallery

DEADLINE: April 30, 2019

NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 4, $5 ea. add’l

SALES: SlowArt Productions will retain 35% commission on sales. Prices set by the artist.

Category: May 2019

COLD complication

CALL for ENTRIES: Summer 2019 Print Issue of Create! Magazine

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

a HUNGRY summer

CALL for ENTRIES: Cover Art from New England Review

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

lost in TRANSLATION

CALL for ENTRIES: Meltdown at the Limner Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Summer 2019 Print Issue
of Create! Magazine

CALL for ENTRIES:
Cover Art
from New England Review

CALL for ENTRIES:
Meltdown
at the Limner Gallery