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CALL for ENTRIES: Really Affordable

Learn more about the Really Affordable Art Show from BWAC!just a PINCH

Because I am self-employed, my food budget fluctuates from week to week.  I have learned how to make a casserole out of random refrigerator & freezer finds.  I have learned to keep affordable staples like rice & potatoes, sauces like salsa verde & marinara, vegetables like cabbage & carrots, and proteins like chickpeas & canned salmon.  I can serve a fantastic dinner for 4 for under $8 in a pinch.  This next Call offers art to patrons at a really affordable price to help artists begin to build a base of collectors while presenting work professionally and taking a low commission.  It is a thoughtful call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for the Really Affordable Art Show.  There is a price cap on submissions to this show, but there is only 25% commission.  A distinguished juror & a $1000 purchase award make this is a great opportunity…

Learn more about the Really Affordable Art Show from BWAC!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Really Affordable Art Show
from BWAC

“The really Affordable Art $how’s broad theme encompasses all the possibilities of your imagination – allowing you to think,play and create outside the box with few inhibitions, restrictions, rules,or guidelines.  Just set yourself free to explore the possibilities of creativity. . .” –from bwac.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all 2D & 3D work including video (when self-presenting)

ENTRY FEE:  $45 up to 5, $5 ea add’l until 7/14 (final) or $65 for up to 5 until August 6 (late).

DEADLINE:  July 14, 2017 (early bird) or August 6, 2017 (final)

NOTIFICATION:  August 24, 2017

JUROR:  Laura Phipps is an Asst. Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been at the Whitney since the summer of 2009. She has served as a juror for New American Paintings, on the grant selection committee of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, as a visiting critic for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace & Smackmellon Studio Program, and as a guest curator at the Kentler Drawing Center, Brooklyn. Prior to the Whitney, Phipps worked in the curatorial department & director’s office of the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth. She received her MA, Art History at Hunter College, CUNY & BFA, Studio Art & BS, Psychology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX.

AWARDS:  Gold $1000 Purchase Award, Silver $250, 8 $100 Certificates of Recognition.

SALES:  This is a selling show with art priced for anyone and everyone.  To make it easy for new collectors, all work submitted must be for sale at $499 or less.  BWAC will retain a 25% commission on all exhibition sales.

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CALL for ENTRIES: All Things Salmon

Learn more about the All Things Salmon exhibit from the Coos Art Museum!FOOD fight

Tuna & salmon are sometimes a person’s first introduction to food politics.  The “dolphin safe” label has been appearing on cans of tuna since the 1990s, helping consumers influence industry-wide changes in fishing methods. And, the wild vs. farmed salmon arguments continues to be hotly debated by nutritionists, chefs, foodies & environmentalists.  Contaminants vs. nutrition, sustainability vs. over-fishing or Atlantic vs. Pacific.  If you’re looking for a food fight, there’s always one to be had.  This next Call is all about salmon –no arguing required.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay, OR) for All Things Salmon.  I always appreciate a museum show, but with $20 entry & 30% commission, this is a Call not to miss.  It is open to some artisan crafts, and for the record, I have never run across this curatorial theme…

Learn more about the All Things Salmon exhibit from the Coos Art Museum!CALL for ENTRIES:
All Things Salmon
from Coos Art Museum

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to paintings, drawings, hand-pulled prints, etchings, serigraphs, photography (film or digital), mixed media, fiber & textiles, small sculpture, glass (blown, fused or leaded stained), Turned & carved wood and jewelry.

THEME: Salmon, folklore, sport fishing or the salmon industry

DEADLINE:  August 5, 2017 (postmark)

NOTIFICATION:  August 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20  for 1, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR:  Dr. Deana Dartt Newton, a native Californian, is of Chumash ancestry. She has spent considerable time in Oregon, particularly Eugene where she received three degrees in anthropology, a bachelors, masters and doctorate from the University of Oregon. Dartt Newton had been a curator at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle from 2008 through 2011 while teaching at the University of Washington. Her most recent experience was as Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum.

AWARDS:  1st Place $1,000, 2nd Place $350, 3rd Place $250 & 4 Honorable Mention ribbons.

SALES:  Artist agrees to donate 30% of any sale to Coos Art Museum.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Sugar Rush

Learn more about the Sugar Rush Juried Show from the Sugar Hill Arts Commission!

a SWEET treat

I’ve been hired to write a series of budget dessert recipes that encourage local, organic sourcing.  I try to limit my personal intake of sugar because I am so easily addicted.  As a result, I am struggling to balance the sweetness in these concoctions.  I don’t want to use artificial sweeteners.  Honey is a flavor, not a just a sweetener.  Stevia can come with a bitter aftertaste. Agave nectar has the same glycemic impact as a sugar, so why not just use sugar?  At what point is sweet just sweet?  This next Call is all about the sugar.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Sugar Hills Art Commission (Sugar Hill, GA) for the Sugar Rush Juried Art ShowNo fee to enter…

Learn more about the Sugar Rush Juried Art Show from Sugar Hill Art Commission!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Sugar Rush Juried Show
from the  Sugar Hills
Art Commission

. . . a juried art show that will run
in conjunction with the annual
“Sugar Rush” Fall  Festival on
Saturday, October 21, 2017.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE:  July 15, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  July 31, 2017

ENTRY FEE:  No fee to enter. $35 fee per artist only if accepted.

AWARDS:  $1000 Best in Show, $500 2nd Place & $250 3rd Place.

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CALL for ENTRIES: American Icon

Learn more about the American Icon Competition from the Sausalito Art Festival!light my FIRE

As people celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. are want to do, my neighbors are grilling all manner of food.  In the fifteen feet I walked to my car, I was assaulted by the smell of lighter fluid.  What is it about the 4th of July that makes people want to light charcoal on fire and char meats & marshmallows.  Is that motivation uniquely American?  I made enchiladas; does that make me less American?  This next Call is looking for uniquely American work.  What will you show them?

Check out this Call for Entries from Sausalito Art Festival (Sausalito, CA) for American Icon.  This is an art festival Call that doesn’t require that you have an exhibition booth if selected.  Entry is only $10, plus there are cash prizes.  Check it out…

Learn more about the American Icon Competition from the Sausalito Art Festival!CALL for ENTRIES:
American Icon from
Sausalito Art Festival

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

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

THEME:  “Forgotten America”  America was founded on the notion of “new and improved” and its ongoing fascination with everything shiny is no secret. Quite often though, what we once cherished, succumbs to the relentless march of time. People age, machines rust, and thriving cities can become ghost towns. Yet a quiet beauty always remains. This year’s American Icon theme “Forgotten America” is your chance to show the world your interpretation of that beauty. — http://sausalitoartfestival.org

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $10  for 1, $18 for 2 or $25 for 3

JUROR:  World-recognized, long-established artists & creative professionals will judge all entries.

AWARDS:  First Place $1,500, 2nd Place $750, 3rd Place $400, 4th Place $200 & 3 Honorable Mention awards of $50.  Winners will be exhibited at the world famous Sausalito Art Festival over Labor Day Weekend

 

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CALL for ENTRIES: New Directions 2017

Learn more about the New Directions exhibit from the Barrett Art Center!

pass the SALT

Did you know there is a proper direction to pass food around the table?  It dates back centuries to men, mostly right handed, who were armed at the dinner table.  If you passed food  from the right, you ran the chance of bumping in to a weapon or worse yet, causing a spilled drink.  So these days it is still considered proper to serve or pass from left to right.  After all these years, you’d think there would be a better reason or a new direction, but, no.  This next Call is a new direction, more than 3 decades old –an exhibit now in its 33rd year. Don’t miss this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for New Directions 2017.   This venue is spectacular, and the juror is always great.  Take a look…

Learn more about the New Directions exhibit from the Barrett Art Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
New Directions 2017
from Barrett Art Center

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, installation art, glass, ceramics, fiber & mixed media.

DEADLINE:  July 24, 2017 (midnight MT)

NOTIFICATION:  August 9, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $50  for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($40 for members)

JUROR:  Ruth Erickson is Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She co-curated the major exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” with Helen Molesworth and has organized exhibitions of the work of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Ethan Murrow at the ICA/Boston. She is currently at work on the first U.S. survey of Mark Dion’s work to open in 2017. Erickson received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and has published and presented her writing widely. She serves as a visiting critic at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.   

AWARDS:  Juror’s Prize $1,000, 2nd prize $250, 3rd Prize $175 & two honorable merit awards.

SALES:  Barrett Art Center will retain a 30% commission for sales (20% for members).

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CALL for ENTRIES: FL3THC3R 2017

Learn more about the FL3THC3R exhibit from the ETSU Reece Museum!hot POTATO

Food is political; I repeat it regularly.  Whether it is the origin of food, the growing method, the harvesting practice or the politics of the person preparing it.  How you spend your money affects both the availability of the variety, the acceptability of the practices & the relative financial success of the corresponding farmers, vendors & restaurants.  If you don’t support a food’s associated politics, don’t lend it your financial support –regardless of how good it tastes.  Food is political.  It is a hot potato, and it matters because WHAT WE EAT MATTERS.  This next Call is also political.  This is an opportunity to make space for matters to you.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Reece Museum at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for the 2017 FL3TCH3R Exhibit. Never in history has this show been more relevant.  I’m entering; are you?

Learn more about the FL3THC3R exhibit from the ETSU Reece Museum!CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2017

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 22, 2017 (late deadline August 31, 2017)

NOTIFICATION: September 16, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l (by August 22). OR $45 for up to 3 & $10 ea. add’l (from August 23-31).

JUROR:  Painter Anita Kunz has work in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musée Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. She received the Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada. She has received an honorary doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and a second from Mass Art College of Art and Design. Kunz was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, and recently received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Honor.  Additionally, she will be inducted in the Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in New York in 2017.

AWARDS: Best of Show $300, 2 Awards of Excellence $100 ea., Sammie L. Nicely Appalachian Artist Award $100 & Reece Museum Award $100.  Other awards TBA.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Figures & Faces

Learn more about the Figures & Faces exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!i taste FLORIDA

I have a friend that claims every pack of Chicken McNuggets has one shaped like the state of Florida.  I followed the comment thread white people disputed that shape of the figure from bunnies to revolvers to other states and countries.  It devolved into what words appearing in soup & crackers and saints on toast.  People often see what they want to see.  It is like the culinary version of Rorschach ink blot test.  Fascinating.  This next Call wants to know what figures and faces you see.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for the Figures & Faces exhibit.  Sales commission is only 25%. Don’t miss this opportunity…

Learn more about the Figures & Faces exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Figures & Faces from
Las Laguna Gallery

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to all* media, including (but not limited to) assemblage, collage, digital art, drawing (graphite, charcoal, colored pencil), encaustic, fiber art, illustration, mixed media, new media, painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor, airbrush), pastel & photography (traditional or digital). No jewelry, video or sculpture.

THEME:  Art that explores the human figure or faces.  Open to a full spectrum of work and interpretation.

DEADLINE:   July 6, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  July 12, 2017

GUEST ARTIST:  Christine Duarte

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $1 ea. add’l

SALES: The Las Laguna Gallery will retain 25% commission on all sales.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Create September

Learn more about the September print Issue of Create! Magazineen PAPILLOTE

I’m on week 3 of no dishwasher.  It isn’t that bad.  I was dreading it before the move, but I knew downsizing was important enough to get over the inconvenience.  The only real difference I have noticed is the increased use of parchment paper, ha.  I don’t mind washing dishes, but cleaning baking pans is to be avoided when at all possible.  This next Call doesn’t require your work be on or in paper, but one artist will get a bonus prize of beautiful papers from the Awagami FactoryTake a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine for the September 2017.  Just wait until you get your hands on this gorgeous magazine.  Don’t miss this chance…

Learn more about the September print Issue of Create! MagazineCALL for ENTRIES:
September 2017
of Create! Magazine

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

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

DEADLINE:  July 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE:  $25 for up to 3, $30 for 5

JUROR:  Brock Brake is a co-owner & curator of Athen B. Gallery, the curator & director of First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco / Oakland, and is the latest addition to the curatorial board at Pro Arts in Oakland. His passion for photographing graffiti gained him publication in outlets such as Brooklyn Street Art Blog, Graffiti Art Magazine & Juxtapoz.  Once in Oakland Brock worked as an intern at Hamburger Eyes and as an art handler at White Walls & Shooting Gallery in San Francisco.  As a supporter & facilitator of the Bay Area Art community, Brock continues his “extended” art education by working as an art handler at various galleries and museums both locally and out of state. 

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.  One artist selected by the guest curator for the September issue will also receive $250 worth of Japanese papers from Awagami Factory, Japan.

SALES:  The September Issue will be available at McNally Jackson Books in NYC, Charlotte Street News in London & online.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Opulent Mobility 2017

Learn more about Opulent Mobility 2017!FLORAL notes

I don’t stock saffron in my pantry.  As much as I love the opulence & indulgence of a saffron-scented paella, the truth is that I get more mileage from luscious fats like unfiltered olive oil or nutty sesame oil.  I can only punctuate my menus with such an elaborate spice on occasion, but I use oils in every dish.  Opulence is user-defined & experiential, and this next Call wants your vision of the opulent.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from curator A. Laura Brody for Opulent Mobility 2017.  $20 Entry, no commission & a unique curatorial theme.  We love the work of curator A. Laura Brody so much that we featured her many years ago.   Stretch your creative muscles with this Call!

Learn more about Opulent Mobility 2017!CALL for ENTRIES: 
Opulent Mobility 2017 from
curator A. Laura Brody

“I challenge you to imagine a world where mobility, disability, and access can be opulent. I challenge you to approach the work with thoughtfulness, humor, creativity, and care.  Because if we do not imagine a better world, we can’t make one happen.”  — A. Laura Brody

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all 2 & 3-D work, film, videos of performance art & music.

THEME: Radical re-imagining of the mobility of disability

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2017

NOTIFICATION:  August 31, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $5 ea. add’l

CURATORS:  A. Laura Brody is a professional costume maker and designer who developed Opulent Mobility as a series of artworks, then built it into a juried group exhibit.  Anthony Tusler is a photographer & disability arts activist. His photographs of the 1977 disability occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building are on his site: aboutdisability.comZeina Baltagi is a printmaker, teacher and co-founder of the Valley Print Studio.

SALES:  No commission taken on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: WTP Painting

Learn more about the Painting Competition from Woven Tale Press!BREATHE deeply

I often claim to be a plein air diner.  Food just tastes better when eaten outside. I’ll take a picnic or patio dinner over a upscale restaurant any day.  My mother swears fruit tastes even better eaten right in the field, dirt & all.  This next Call doesn’t require that you paint, or eat, plein air; however, the winner’s retreat offers both of those opportunities.  If you’ve been hesitant to submit to publication calls, investigate this one…

Check out this Open Call for Entries from The Woven Tale Press (print publication) for Art Competition: Painting.  Regular readers know that I believe art publication is worth the effort and can be a reward of its own.  But THIS publication also comes with artist’s retreat in the Hamptons.  Take a look…

Learn more about the WTP Painting Competition from Woven Tale Press!CALL for ENTRIES:
Art Competition: Painting
from Woven Tale Press

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.

MEDIA:  Open to painting including: acrylic, oil, or watercolor –can include mixed-media.

DEADLINE:  October 31, 2017 (was July 31st. Post updated 9/15/17.)

ENTRY FEE:  $25 for up to 3

JUROR:  Artist Richard Malinsky, whose work has garnered awards from adjudicated museum exhibitions, art associations and prominent galleries both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Special Distinction Award at MIAB-Portugal International Biennale 2016. He is represented in the permanent collections of multiple corporate and museum collections including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; the RCA Corporate Art Collection, New York, NY; and in numerous private collections throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

AWARDS:  1st Prize: Creative Retreat in the Hamptons, NY including accommodations for 2 within walking distance to train, ocean beach & town; full amenities & flexible booking.  Also included are publication in special winners edition of The Woven Tale Press (including cover art), complimentary copy of print edition, WTP Spotlight & WTP (728 x 90 px) leaderboard homepage announcement.  2nd Prize: $300, publication in special winners edition of The Woven Tale Press, complimentary copy of the print edition, WTP Spotlight & WTP (250 x 350px) homepage announcement.  3rd prize: $100m publication in special winners edition of The Woven Tale Press, complimentary copy of the print edition & WTP Spotlight.

For complete details, Read the Open Call!

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