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ARTIST of the DAY: Evla Vlašičová

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left to right "Morning on a Lake" & "In a Trap" (linocut) by Evla Vlašičová
left to right “Morning on a Lake” & “In a Trap” (linocut) by Evla Vlašičová

“I use only my hands and heart.” —Evla Vlašičová

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Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Evla Vlašičová, is a self-taught photographer.  But, after a recent house fire, Evla finds herself without a darkroom.  I find that creative expression is a bit like a trickle of water in that when it encounters an obstacle, it will always find an alternate path –just as Evla has found the art of the linocut.  You won’t find her on social media, but you can watch a great documentary about her creative process here.

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AAAD Artist of the Day, Evla Vlašičová!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Monica Loya

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watercolor by Monica Loya
watercolor portrait by Monica Loya

When I saw this image by today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Monica Loya, I thought that is exactly how I feel right now.  Trying to remain stoic while slowly shaking my head in disbelief.

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“Simple, direct & feminine.” —Monica Loya describing her style

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Discover yourself in the work of Artist of the Day, painter Monica Loya!

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CALL for ENTRIES: I’ll Fly Away

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Learn more about the I'll Fly Away exhibit from the 1650 Gallery!NUTTY solutions

Have 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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Learn more about the I'll Fly Away exhibit from the 1650 Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
I’ll Fly Away
from 1650 Gallery

 

“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″.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the 1650 Gallery!

CALL to ARTISTS: Moving Forward

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Learn more about opportunites to Move Forward and earning Brownie Points at AAAD - ArtandArtDeadlines.com!HUNGRY? me too

Because we live 20+ minutes to the closest grocery store, it can be very frustrating to start dinner and realize we’re out of onions or potatoes or eggs or whatever.  So, we are all about menu planning at our house.  This next Call is about planning as well, but it requires your input, your participation.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from AAAD for 2016-17 Planning & Progress.  We have a lot going on, and I need your guidance an input to make sure that AAAD heads in a direction that works for all of us.  I even formatted it like our normal calls to be certain that I don’t shake up the routine too much, ha.  Keep reading…

CALL to ARTISTS:
Moving Forward from AAAD

 

Enter the Small Plates Exhibit at The Balcony in Knoxville, TN sponsored by AAAD!ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.  You may notice that we have eliminated the Featured Artist program in an effort to publish more of the ART in our name, Art & Art Deadlines.  If you have an interest in being an Artist of the Day, we want to hear from you!  Look in the juror section for an add’l bonus!

MEDIA:  Are we including all the media Calls you want?  Am I missing something?  Am I under-representing your media?  Please tell me.  I largely post at the request of jurors and gallerists, so sometimes I unintentionally wear blinders.

DEADLINE:  April 18, 2016.  AAAD has a #smallworks (9×12 or smaller) Call out with an April 18th deadline, SMALL PLATES: A Response to Hunger.  $5 Entry & open to prints. Please enter so that we can provide more show opportunities in the future!

NOTIFICATION:  Now.  Tell me what you need from AAAD.  We have incorporated a lot of changes over the years based on readers’ suggestions.  And, I am open to more.  The site will undergo some dramatic aesthetic changes and alterations to the formatting of posts and subscriptions, and you can help shape that process.  The resources will remain the same, and you’re simply stuck with the food references.  But, I’m open to hearing you.  Email me, leave a comment on the post (link to comments at top) or reply to your subscription email.  Any way you wanna…

FEE:  None.  I am maintaining my commitment to NOT charge artists for use of this site. Ever.

Learn how you can help #saveERNIE!JUROR:  R.L. (Rachel) Gibson, continues to be the Editor.  Me.  Publication has been a bit sporadic lately because of events that left my family stranded in rural Virginia for a while.  Dramatic, I know.  I try not to publish personal posts often.  But you were so kind when I lost my father a few years ago, that I thought I would share.  Here’s the whole #saveERNIE story.  So many of you ask me if there is anything you can do to help out at AAAD.  There is.  Instead of paying a $5 Artist of the Day fee or the $15 Artist to Love fee, donate $10 to #saveERNIE, I will enter you for FREE in both the Artist of the Day competition & Artist to Love directory.  Plus, you have a chance to win a house concert.  Time runs out Monday, August 18th, so hurry.

SALES:  Selling art?  Yes?  YEAH!  No? Maybe I can help.  I will be travelling the country this summer giving career development seminars at Arts agencies and collectives.  If you have a ideas for someone that I should approach with seminars, including “How to Price Your Art”, “Creative Branding” & more, let me know.

AWARDS:  Brownie points.  I have millions of “brownie points” up for grabs.  You know you want them.  It is easy to get them.  Choose from one or ALL of these methods:

  • Subscribe to our FREE email (top right sidebar)
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  • Talk to that one friend that needs motivation about subscribing to AAAD.  We need friends.
  • Send me your success stories by email or comment.  I need motivation too. 🙂

Thanks for the love.

Click to Read the Full Call for Small Plates: A Response to Hunger!

ARTIST of the DAY: Barbara Witkowska

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gray DAYS

Cold weather can be lovely –in its season. But I crave blue skies. I get a few during winter’s grip; however, as March marches forward, I am growing intolerant of the gray days. My optimistic nature makes me want to find the beauty in the gray.  Imagine my delight to find the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Barbara Witkowska with all his glorious shades of gray. (continues below)

Paintings by Barbara Witkowska
Work by Barbara Witkowska

“The idea of human value intrigues me, the desire for domination & power over the world.” —Barbara Witkowska

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Celebrate the shades of gray in the work of
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Barbara Witkowska!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Karen O’Neil

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yours FOREVER

I have spent a lifetime not buying still life work, because it doesn’t usually call to me.  I like my work non-representational, controversial, emotionally raw.  But I keep finding work that defies my notion of what is and is not still life.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Karen O’Neil creates contemporary work with bright hues that only work because of her masterful use of neutrals –grays abound.  (continues below)

Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O'Neil
                   Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O’Neil

It speaks to me. The apple. It does. I want to own it, eat it and know why it is yellow. I do.

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Discover more work from the (AAAD)
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Karen O’Neil!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Laird Bindrim

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simply BEAUTIFUL

Minimalism has so many faces. Some would have you believe it to be stark and cold and gray.  I find it comforting.  I disagree that minimalism must always be bare.  Even intricate design can be simple and clean and appreciable for their design.   Today’s Artist of the Day, Laird Bindrim, shows such beautiful restraint. Such beauty in simply waiting for the unfolding.

U-Totem by photographer Laird Bindrim
U-Totem by photographer Laird Bindrim

“Photography as a medium is immediate. The “taking” of a photograph is measured in fractions of a second.  An art form, that has the unique ability to show us a singular moment.  In this image, the person talking on the phone, my good friend, is calling home to his mother to let her know he’s arrived safely.  Albeit, three thousand miles away from her.  This was the view from the car where I waited and watched patiently as he consoled her.” —Laird Bindrim

Delight in more beauty by
photographer Laird Bindrim!

CALL for ENTRIES: A Touch of the Blues

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Learn more about the Touch of the Blues exhibit from the ARC Gallery in Chicago!blue
MILK

I’m not really a milk drinker –never have been.  I use it in cooking and to make cheese, but by the glass is uncommon.  It has in recent years, though, become helpful in the winter months.  In the winter, my writing for AAAD & creating my own art (both visual & performing) keeps me indoors most of the time.  A lack of sunshine for extended periods of time is often accompanied by a general malaise –the winter blues.  Milk isn’t a miracle drug, but the boost of Vitamin D does seem to help.  This next Call wants your perspective on blue.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Arc Gallery (Chicago, IL) for A Touch of the Blues.  No commission on sales & cash awards.  Investigate…

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Learn more about the Touch of the Blues exhibit from the ARC Gallery in Chicago!CALL for ENTRIES:
A Touch of the Blues

“No color has as diverse a range or interpretation as Blue. It is represented by the clearest of oceans and the deepest of melancholy sadness. It is nature, music, movement, and joy. It is pain and suffering. This exhibition is an exploration of this extraordinary color and its seemingly limitless breadth of expression.” — arcgallery.org

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all mediums & materials are eligible including 2-D, 3-D, mixed-media & video.

DEADLINE:  December 26, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  January 10, 2016

Learn more about the Touch of the Blues exhibit from the ARC Gallery in Chicago!ENTRY FEE:  $40 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR:  With an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BS from Skidmore College, Sarah Krepp taught in the SAIC Painting Program for seven years before becoming Professor & Chair of the Painting Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign. Being both a visual artist and a professor, she has worked and taught nationally at visiting artist residencies & internationally in Ireland, Italy &France, earning opportunities to exhibit at many venues.

AWARDS:  Three monetary awards: Best in Show and two honorable mentions.

SALES:  Works will be for sale unless noted as NFS (not for sale) on the entry form.  ARC does not take commission on any work sold, but will act as a liaison for sales of the artists’ work. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the ARC Gallery in Chicago!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: One in Herself

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Learn more about the One in Herself exhibit at the Woman Made Gallery!OLIVE
facial

We consume a lot of extra virgin olive oil, but I have found yet another reason to love this elixir.  It has topical applications too.   I suppose it should occur to me that it would make fantastic lotions and eye creams, but I always thought of it as an ingredient –not for use in pure form.  This next Call is as virginal as my new make remover.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Woman Made Gallery (Chicago) for One in Herself.  Love this gallery & the history of well-curated shows. Great opportunity…

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Learn more about the One in Herself exhibit at the Woman Made Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
One in Herself

 

“According to the book, Villa of Mysteries… by Katherine Bradway, the original definition of the term, ‘Virgin’ describes ‘a woman who is one-in-herself, belonging to herself alone, being her own mistress,’ and that the ‘virgin goddesses symbolized women who were complete in themselves and not merely counterparts of male consorts. They were capable of developing their own wholeness through integration, realizing their separate qualities inside themselves rather than through projection onto other persons to whom they were related.’  One in Herself invites artists to present work that expands our ideas of virginity and of what it means to be a woman, “who is one-in-herself.”–from womanmade.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE:  January 3, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  January 23, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3 images

SALES: WMG will retain a 40% commission

For complete details, Read the Full Call!Learn more about the One in Herself exhibit from Woman Made Gallery!

ARTIST of the DAY: Jan Huling

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a happy HEART

It is time for holiday mayhem again. I want to encourage you to just say “no”.  I’m not suggesting you expect your five year old to give up gifts in lieu of a shiny red apple.  But I do want you to give up the undue pressure to make anyone’s holiday perfect, including your own.  I do want to encourage you to use your resources in support of the the people you love and what they can offer or create in this world.  Make it have heart or just say “no”. Today’s Artist of the Day Jan Huling offers the most literal example of that concept I can imagine. Enjoy. (continues below)

Corazon by Jan Huling
“Corazon” by Jan Huling

“My 3-dimensional collages combine found objects with surface design, sometimes touching on narrative themes. I’m also drawn to religious and political icons, inspired by a continuing fascination with indigenous or popular culture and world religions. By juxtaposing these icons with an eclectic assortment of objects, the viewer is challenged to consider common images within an altered context. The [construction] process is slow and meticulous, zen-like, with the choice of forms motivating color schemes and iconography.” — Jan Huling

Learn more about Jan Huling!