CALL for ENTRIES: Go Fish

Posted on January 17, 2019January 16, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

here FISHY FISHY FISHY

Ten years ago, I just quit eating tuna salad. I don’t know why. It has never been my favorite, but for some reason it just mysteriously disappeared from my menu-of-habit. I still eat chicken & egg salad. I even enjoy salmon patties on regular occasion. Hell, I even eat tuna fillets at dinner when I find a good deal, but mentioning tuna salad for lunch gets an immediate “no thanks.” Sometimes things just seem fishy.

In the art world, we’ve all become suspicious that someone has an alternative motive . I am leery of every call, every competition. If you read it here, it has passed a fairly thorough “seems fishy” investigation. The vanity galleries and fees-are-more-than-any-possible-reward scams are the easiest to see through. But what about the the newer spaces? The unconventional places? We want to support new endeavors from those whose passion is to serve artists and the development of best practices, but when is your “gut” enough to make it safe to gamble? When does is cease being fishy?

The landlord for my new studio space has me on high alert. It is 200 sq. ft. with power included for $50 per week. A steal right? But he is also willing to sink thousands of dollars into its renovation to make a 12-month studio space for me. Assuming the utilities are $50 a month, it will take him more than a year to recoup the cost for the renovation. Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to leave it as a storage space? Very fishy. Maybe he’s just trying to support the arts by breaking even on an unused asset. The verdict is still out. I’ll keep you updated.

This next Call is highly fishy, in a literal sense. Do you have work that is inspired by fish, fishing or aquatic fauna? Here’s your chance to trade in your suspicion for show time. Check out this Call for Entries from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department (Alamosa, CO) for Go Fish. $35 entry & no commission for this academic show. This is a beautiful venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Go Fish
the Cloyde Snook Gallery
at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media –contemporary interpretations that conceptually and/or literally are inspired by Fish, Fishing or Aquatic Fauna.

DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2019

NOTIFICATION: February 5, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 up to 3

AWARD: “Best in Show” will be offered a future solo exhibition at the Cloyde Snook Gallery.

SALES: The gallery will take no commission on sales but does encourage donations of 10 to 20%.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2019

Posted on January 16, 2019January 15, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

lost in TRANSLATION

What you do if your grocery option were cut by 90%? I recently read an article about the single largest threat to independent or regional grocers being small-box discount stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar & Dollar Tree. If you groceries could only come from one of these sources, can you imagine never eating fresh meat or vegetables again? Virtually every food you would consume would be pre-processed, significantly so. Nothing you ate would be as it exists in nature or even one step removed. My mind is really blown by that idea. It scares me. It that scenario, I would have to put my own health into the hands of the food processing industry. How does that sit with you? Yeah, me neither.

I live less than 5 miles from a regional grocer and another 10-15 miles from large-box retailers like Kroger, Publix, Walmart & Aldi. As much as I would like to buy local, my local grocer doesn’t make stock decision or employ pricing policies that allow me to make the best menu or the best financial decisions. Currently, Aldi gets the bulk of my formal grocery dollars. I want to make foods based on fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood & diary –as close as I can find to their natural form as possible. If I eat poorly, I want it to be by my choice.

A similar desire prompted by media change. I wanted to work using supplies and/or products that I could find easily, or make myself if necessary. At the time, I was contemplating significant rural travel that would have made art supply deliveries less convenient. I’ve always been a closet painter, but always acrylics. Acrylics led me down the path to acrylic mediums, and then my supply load quadrupled. I slowly made my way to watercolor. Purchased paints last long periods & arrive in compact containers. I can make both paints & paper with very few supplies if necessary. Finished work can be stored flat, pressed. Small amounts of water can be found anywhere. It took me a long time to commit, but I’m here and I’m in love, naturally.

This next Call in interested in seeing your nature-oriented work. What do you have to show in this well-established gallery? Take your time, research the history of this show & venue and the curatorial choices that have shaped this space. Could this be a good fit for you? Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Arte Natura 2019 at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry open to all media and all artists. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2019
at the Limner Gallery

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This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery from May 9 – June 1, 2019.

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphics, digital and installation art, video, etc.

DEADLINE: February 28, 2019

NOTIFICATION: March 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.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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: Shame

Posted on January 14, 2019January 13, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

parking lot PICNIC

Shame eaters raise your hands, or avert your eyes, whichever is most comfortable. I shame eat junk food while I am running errands. I could go inside and order and eat my less-than-healthy food and eat with the rest of the herd, but instead, I convince myself that I’m in a hurry, so I’d better get it to go. Then, I end up taking the same amount of time to eat sitting in the parking lot inhaling my $1.69 chicken nuggets with buffalo sauce and an occasional milkshake. In theory shame could be a healthy preventative for discouraged behavior. But I really just find ways to limit the exposure of my shame to others, hence the parking lot shame eating.

Shame is far more often an unhealthy tool of abuse, or self-abuse, taking the shine off a source of pride or casting shadow over behavior considered ordinary in other circumstances. For example, I had oral surgery recently, and as part of the get-to-know-you-before-I-cut-you-open session, the doc asked “so, what do you do for a living?” I replied, “I’m an artist” while quickly diverting my eyes in expectation of some version of the “what’s your real job” follow up question. But, I self-shamed myself into that expectation. He, instead, asked about my media, asked additional follow up questions, and shared the media of a couple of his other patients. In this particular case, my expectation of being treated as illegitimate led to my behaving as illegitimate. How many of you avoid describing yourself as an artist to non-creatives? We have to stop. There’s always something new to work on. This next Call is all about shame in all of its many manifestations. What would your shame work look like?

Check out this Call for Entries from Hera Gallery (Wakefield, RI) for Shame. $35 entry. 30% commission. This is a great juror & the venue has an exciting history. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Shame
from Hera Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: Shame. “The exhibition SHAME attempts to lift the veils of submission and silence by exploring shame in its many dimensions . . . . To feel shame is an act of self-erasure. To be shamed is a means of controlling others. To act shamelessly is a misguided path of self-empowerment. Shame has different cultural connotations yet is understood universally.”

DEADLINE: February 10, 2019

NOTIFICATION: February 27, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 up to 3

JUROR: Anna Dempsey is a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University where she was the recipient of a Presidential Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from M.I.T. Her research interests center on the intersection of public culture with a focus on urban street art, as well as museum spaces and gender politics in modern and contemporary installation art, painting, animation and film. Currently, she is working on a book titled Working Women Artists and the Construction of American Modernism, based on research she did at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, where she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.

SALES: Hera Gallery retains a 30% sales commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Recycle 2019

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

BA-NANA–nana-nana

How many bananas do you throw out every week? Back after the wildfire in 2016, I had to clean out my refrigerator after 9 days without power. When I opened the freezer door, the smell of bananas almost knocked me out. I’ve always bought bananas, used fewer than I bought, then tossed the remainder in the freezer for banana bread that never materializes. That ended the day I had to clean banana slime out of my freezer–until last month. Now I buy 7 or 8 fresh bananas each week; we eat 2 or 3 fresh bananas each week. With out newly re-discovered love for smoothies, I know throw my extra bananas into the freezer and re-purpose them later for smoothie. If I lose power again for an extended period of time, I may revisit the banana ban. We’ll see.

The idea of recycling and re-purposing materials and locations has been on my mind. My family downsized a year and a half ago; then six months ago, an extra family member moved into our tiny home. So, the dual use dining room / studio isn’t functioning so well with its view of the couch / bed of my 19 year old. I’ve turned to my Instagram & Pinterest feeds for inspiration. I am loving all the reading rooms with garden views and walk out basements with darkrooms, but that isn’t what I have. My husband found an 10’x20′ abandoned storage shed with a Queen Anne roof line that had once been the workshop of a Native American woodcarver. He passed away, and his family has declined the option to clean out his belongings. The building owner is willing to foot the bill for the renovation for the tiniest of rents. But in the back of my head, I am haunted by images of the big industrial studio spaces of movie and magazine spreads. This is a running theme, right? That we all fit in the same box, on the same path. Where did I leave my smock & beret?

So, 2019 is the year I try to cut that out. Join me? I will repurpose the places & things in my life to suit my needs. I will stop reshaping myself to fit the spaces in which I do not belong. This next show is all about repurposed, recycled, or reused materials, and feels like a good place to start. I like this venue, and as I mentioned last week, I am trying to spend the few dollars I have supporting the places & people & businesses that support artists. This is one.

Check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Recycle 2019. Take advantage of a discount for early entry, a distinguished juror & significant cash awards. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Recycle 2019
from BWAC

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“Recycle, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s national juried show of art crafted from cast-off, discarded & re-purposed materials, will be a celebration of ingenuity and imagination.” –from bwac.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media that incorporate at least 50 percent of repurposed, recycled, or reused materials.

ENTRY FEE: $50 up to 3, $6 ea. add’l (early bird) or $70 up to 3, $6 ea add’l after Feb 4

DEADLINE: February 4, 2019 (early bird) or February 24, 2019 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 18, 2018

JUROR: John Cloud Kaiser is the Director of Education at Materials for the Arts, one of the largest reuse centers in the U.S and a program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Through art shows he curates at MFTA Gallery and his work with his art group Free Style Arts Association, he has been championing reuse‐themed art in the museums, streets, and schools of New York City since 2000. These works have appeared broadly, from The Metropolitan Museum, to the NYC Parks Dept., to The New York Times. Kaiser graduated from New York University and is currently working on a series of temporary sculptures for Storm King Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Most Innovative Use of Materials $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten $100 Certificates of Recognition.

SALES: BWAC will retain a 30% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Fantastic Fibers 2019

Posted on January 9, 2019January 6, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

I YAM what I yam

I make fantastic mashed potatoes. No, really, I do. My husband wants to know why I refuse to share my technique, but he secretly suspects it is the volume of butter involved. I can neither confirm or deny. My favorites to mash are these tiny little orange sweets I get from Aldi. I bake them (that’s the real secret) before adding butter & other goodies. I prefer to puree them in my food processor, but I am usually too lazy to wash it afterwards, so I whip them with my hand mixer instead. Whatever variety of sweet potato that Aldi has been carrying lately seems to have almost no stringy fibers to untangle from my beaters. Add a hint of nutmeg, and it is like a spoonful of Thanksgiving every time. They are great in place of rice for bowl full of stir fried root vegetables on a rainy day.

I am hyper aware of fiber lately, I suppose because of the embroidery or mark making with thread that has become a defining characteristic in my work. The work I am loving most these days is fiber. Rug tufting. Ombré string instillation. Simply over-stitched paper collages. I come from a family of quilters, and I love to sew. It isn’t a huge leap. I honestly can’t believe my own work didn’t “go there” before now. I think I felt that I couldn’t measure up as a quilter (imposter syndrome again). I still don’t know how it developed; one day I just started stitching over my paintings. Now they are incomplete without stitching. In the meantime, no one, including me, really considers my work fiber art; therefore, I may be stuck in the mixed media category forever. This next show is fiber specific. I’ve been to this show multiple years, and it is awe inspiring. Thousands of people flock to this show, and it features an ever-evolving range of work both aesthetically and narratively challenging. I want to be a part of this evolution someday. If you do this work, please be sure to do this show.

Check out this Call for Entries from Yeiser Art Center (Paducah, KY) for Fantastic Fibers 2019. $25 Entry & 40% commission. This is a great venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Fantastic Fibers 2019
from Yeiser Art Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to fiber art –contemporary & innovative works created with fiber as the primary medium or concept.

DEADLINE: February 15, 2019

NOTIFICATION: March 1, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3 images of ONE piece

JUROR: Professor and chair of the Fiber Department, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, has been on the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute since 1997. A native of the Netherlands, she received her BFA (1982) in Fine Art from the Maryland Institute and her MFA in textile design from the University of Kansas (1995). Ms Verbeek-Cowart’s academic and Fine Art careers have garnered her numerous awards. She is one of the leaders in the use of new technologies in hand-weaving and has also conducted research using industrial looms in The Netherlands and the US. Her industrially woven work crosses boundaries between Fine Art and applied textiles and is directed toward structurally textured fabrics for apparel as well as home-furnishings. Her work has been exhibited extensively in both national and international venues including France, Austria, Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia.

AWARD: $1,900 will be awarded: $1,000 Best of Show, $500 First Place, $250 Second Place & $150 Third Place

SALES: Yeiser Art Center will keep a 40% commission on all gallery sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Saturated

Posted on January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

oh, KALE no!

Somebody help me love kale. I want to love love kale (in some other manner than deep fried kale chips, ha)., but I just don’t. If I’m gonna eat a leafy green, I’m gonna choose spinach every time. Give me arugula or chard. Meanwhile, organic kale was 99¢ a pound this week. It is a gorgeous color though. I’ve been toying with making my own watercolors. Maybe THAT is how I learn to love kale.

For years I worked in black and white, and I loved the big, bold graphic nature of that work. But, color. Color has turned my work around. I fell so in love with color that I changed media after TWENTY years. Like any grade schooler, I get that yellow + blue = green. But, when you find the right gambogue hue & add just a touch of thalo blue, you get to watch them bloom into a gorgeous shade of peacock. This newly found watercolor magic gives power & voice to what I tried to represent literally with typography and b&w symbolism for all those years.

I’ve tried to be more transparent over the past weeks about my own “which” & “why” & “what” questions because I am hoping my answers will help you formulate your own questions and discover your own answers. The Barrett Arts Center is a “yes” for me. Beautiful venue, great jurors, superb curatorial history, excellent resume builder. I have been working on a piece for months that would be the perfect piece to enter. If I can just keep myself on track to finish, I am entering this one. Do you have color you want to strut out like a proud peacock? Then THIS is a great call.

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for Saturated: An Eye for Color. $45 entry fee & 30% commission. Plus, this juror has a well-documented history. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Saturated: An Eye for Color
from Barrett Art Center

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

MEDIA: Open to drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fiber, mixed-media, new media & installation

THEME: Color. “Barrett Art Center seeks artworks in which color is the primary instrument of expression for this national juried exhibition to be held April 6 through May 18, 2019. The French painter Eugene Delacroix said, ‘I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will’. Delacroix was referring to the power of color dynamics. This call for works is looking for submissions in which which color plays a transformative role.”

DEADLINE: January 19, 2019

NOTIFICATION: by February 2, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $45 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($35 for members)

JUROR: Michael Rooks joined the High Museum of Art as Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in January 2010. Besides his responsibilities at the High, Rooks was appointed Commissioner and co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2010 and is a member of ActArt, the President’s committee for contemporary art and social action. Prior to joining the High Museum, Mr. Rooks held curator positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. At Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Rooks curated several group exhibitions and solo projects in addition to survey exhibitions of work by Roy Lichtenstein (1999) and H. C. Westermann (2001) for which he co-authored Westermann’s catalogue rasionné.

AWARDS: $825 in cash prizes –$500 Juror’s Prize, $200 2nd Prize, $125 Honorable Mention.

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

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: 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: Resume Builder

here FISHY FISHY FISHY

CALL for ENTRIES: Go Fish the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

lost in TRANSLATION

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2019 at the Limner Gallery

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COCO-nutty

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

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parking lot PICNIC

CALL for ENTRIES: Shame from Hera Gallery

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BA-NANA–nana-nana

CALL for ENTRIES: Recycle 2019 from BWAC

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I YAM what I yam

CALL for ENTRIES: Fantastic Fibers 2019 from Yeiser Art Center

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oh, KALE no!

CALL for ENTRIES: Saturated: An Eye for Color from Barrett Art Center

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

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celebratory EDIBLES

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

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real SMOOTH

CALL for ENTRIES: New Contemporary from Keep Contemporary

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Go Fish
the Cloyde Snook Gallery
at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2019
at the Limner Gallery

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
Shame
from Hera Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Recycle 2019
from BWAC

CALL for ENTRIES:
Fantastic Fibers 2019
from Yeiser Art Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
Saturated: An Eye for Color
from Barrett Art Center

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

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
New Contemporary
from Keep Contemporary