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The work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Satsuki Shibuya offers a respite for each of us to find our own journey. I need the quiet, the time, the perspective.
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flawless FRUITI’m taking less food pics in restaurants these days. I’ve been shamed into stopping. How ’bout you? Now when I am served a beautiful dish, I have to weigh whether it is worth the condescending looks of disdain from servers and other patrons. Sigh. The only advantage is that taking pictures at home allows me to use a really camera, not my phone, and get the cherries arranged just so. Plus, now I can re-heat dinner after I get the perfect shot, ha. This next Call is interested in your perfect shots. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for Lens Flare, an open-themed photography exhibit. Don’t miss this opportunity…
CALL for ENTRIES:
“Photography provides many things; proof that something happened, the ability to capture a moment or memories, or as a means of communication. ” –from laslagunagallery.com
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all female artists
MEDIA: Open to photography –traditional or digital
DEADLINE: August 1, 2016
NOTIFICATION: August 14, 2016
ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l
SALES: The gallery will retain 35% commission on all sales
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Years of being allowed to handle artwork as a juror, curator and/or gallerist has made me the patron that museums loathe. I want to feel the texture, smell the oils, see the support structure. Art should always be personal. Intimate. But, I refrain. I still long to touch, but I don’t.
Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Christian Hetzel chooses texture and palette to convey a complexity of message. There is a reason all signs flash and a commercials scream. Competing for our attention is complicated. But does it have to be?
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NUTTY solutionsHave you ever tried to shell sunflower seeds while driving? It’s dangerous, trust me. As a result, I buy them shelled, roasted & salted. Have you ever tried to eat shelled sunflower seeds while driving? It’s messy, trust me. I think I’ll leave the sunflower seeds to the birds and the birds to this next Call. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from the 1650 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) for I’ll Fly Away, a juried photography exhibit. $35 entry & free matting and framing (pre-set sizes). There’s even a way to avoid shipping. Enjoy the opportunity…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
“What is it then about the bird that affects us so? Are they everything we want to be beautiful, carefree and literally above it all? Do we envy their freedom? Do we project on to them our desire to take wing from the grave cares and pedestrian repetitions of our human-ness, to a far place both wild and beautiful, and a life lived literally ‘on the fly’ ?” — from 1650 Gallery
ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+
MEDIA: Photography
DEADLINE: July 10, 2016
NOTIFICATION: By July 17, 2016
ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 5, $5 ea. add’l
JUROR: Andrew Overtoom is an award-winning filmmaker & photographer living in L.A. He publishes THE UNDEAD NEG, is launching a quarterly photography journal & owns the 1650 Gallery.
AWARDS: Best In Show, 2nd Place & 3rd Place will be awarded and posted online after the show opening. Award winning photos will be featured on the show page & Best In Show winners will have a small portfolio of their work featured in the 1650 Spotlight gallery of photographic excellence.
SALES: Selected artists may choose to offer their work for sale. The gallery retains 50% commission. The 1650 Gallery offers free matting and framing for accepted photographs that fit their pre-cut mat sizes for the duration of the exhibition. Photo sizes are 8″ x 10″, 11″ x 14″ 16″ x 20″, or 20″ x 24″.
I want to believe the best of people, but the current political climate has challenged that ability. It as though the majority of people I already knew to have political leanings in one direction or the other have suddenly become extremists who are not only willing, but happy, to spout hate or accept the complete destruction of those that differ from them. It scares me. Then I ran across this quote… [These images] “are a way of seeing commonplace architecture with fresh eyes and discovering both the charm and the dark side of easily-ignored structures.”
I went in search of the images referenced by the quote. That’s how I happened across this work from today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Ed Freeman. While that is completely backward of my normal process, it seems that his images quietly, innocently & unintentionally mimic their louder human counterparts. Intriguing.
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something’s FISHYMy son is spending the summer in Texas. Before he left, he was excited about what he assumed would be all the BBQ & Tex Mex food he could eat. He neglected to remember that Texas is a coastal state. Corpus Christi alone has dozens & dozens of well-reviewed seafood restaurants. this next Call wants the unexpected and just happens to hail from Texas. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from K Space Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX) for the 3rd Coast National exhibit. Open to any media, great juror & venue. Don’t miss this one…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+
MEDIA: Open to all media
DEADLINE: July 8, 2016
NOTIFICATION: August 1, 2016
ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 3 ($30/members), $5 ea. add’l
JUROR: Sharon Kopriva is a visual artist born in Houston Heights. Kopriva’s extensive exhibition record includes solo shows at prestigious institutions, such as The Menil Collection in Houston, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, and museums in India, Germany, China and other parts of the world. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Art News, Art Lies and Art+Culture. Kopriva was awarded the prestigious Texas State Visual Artist of the Year, Texas Artist of the Year-Art League of Houston& a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture.
AWARDS: $2500 in cash awards for the top 5 works: Erick Schaudies Memorial Award for Best of Show plus 4 places. Honorable Mentions are given at the juror’s discretion.
SALES: All works must be For Sale. KSC collects payment & retains 40% commission.
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We grow up hearing “anything’s possible”. But is it really? Possibilities vary from person to person. Privilege aside, doesn’t the individual’s talents and tendencies shape what is truly possible? I believe we find our possibilities where we look for them. I struggle with faith but find the need for absolutes stifles creativity. The work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Tracie Cheng suggests possibility in the intangible which requires faith in some form. Maybe it is dichotomy, not contradiction.
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don’t mix my GREENS300 miles from home, and we each wanted a salad on the go. Google sent me in the direction of a grocery store on the next exit with a huge salad bar. I came out with a traditional pile of mixed greens, spring peas, boiled eggs, carrots & cucumbers. My husband came out with segregated little piles of beets, broccoli florets, roasted tomatoes & olives, a wonder of little bites not unlike antipasto. Two schools of thought, equally valid. This next Call simply requires a school. Great exhibitions space…
Check out this Call for Entries from the Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH) for New School 2 for an exhibit at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery. Only $5 to enter. Take a look…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists currently enrolled in an undergraduate program
MEDIA: Open to all media
DEADLINE: July 11, 2016
NOTIFICATION: Mid August
ENTRY FEE: $5 per piece. No fee for ROY members. Student membership is $25. Student membership waives entry fees for the year & other benefits. Learn more here.
JURORS: Marisa Espe is an educator at the Wexner Center for the Arts & a founding member of MINT Collective. Espe is also a contributor for Refigural, a quarterly digital magazine on fashion, beauty and art. David Butler is an artist and the Education & Outreach Coordinator at the Pizzuti Collection. Butler’s paintings refer to social issues, pop and mass culture. Along with his visual arts background, Butler has maintained ten-year career as an educator, illustrator, and mural painter. Maria DiFranco is an artist & Graduate Teaching Associate for Ohio State University. DiFranco’s work incorporates printmaking, drawing, sewing & painting. She earned her B.F.A in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.
AWARDS: The selected artists’ work will be exhibited from September 19–October 7, 2016, at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery.
electronic EATSI spent another week eating & working on the road. I am a grazer, always snacking on something whether I am home or on the road. Most of my work gets done in a hotel room or in the car during night drives, but this week I spent hours in a coffee shop. Ewwww. The yuck didn’t come from the coffee or the fantastic lunch I had. It came from my laptop. Gross. Who do I call to decontaminate my work space? The fluorescent lighting in the coffee shop highlighted every crumb, splotch & speck. This next Call wants your view on technology & nature (not necessarily food). Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Black Bar Gallery (Boise, ID) for Technology & Nature. $20 entry for this art publication opportunity. This is a cool opportunity…
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Everyday, technologies are developed and used to enhance our abilities to experience nature. This juried group photography exhibition will examine where these two worlds connect. Can we experience one without the other? How are we adapting and evolving with these new insights? –from blackbargallery.com
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists
MEDIA: Photography
DEADLINE: June 29, 2016
NOTIFICATION: by July 4, 2016
ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l
SALES: Black Bar Gallery retains 20% commission
AWARDS: This exhibition will have 15 photographs selected by the juror for exhibition. Images will be archived online for four years.
After another week on the road, it is easy for me to begin to see patterns in the towns through which I drive — aspects of the constructs that seem to reflect back the personality of the town, be they real or fabricated. Imagine my delight to find the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Dana Hargrove. I invite you to take the time to investigate more of Dana’s work and her exploration of this concept.
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