CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Bucktown Arts Fest

Posted on April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

say CHEESE

I can’t imagine how many times I have written the words “I love goat cheese”. It is easy for me to for to write these posts and reveal my food soul and forget that people READ these posts. But when I give career development seminars, I have readers that show up (thank you) and have conversations with me about food that remind me that people know way too much about what I eat, ha. Recently at a seminar about branding yourself as an artist, I had someone bring me goat’s milk soap since they couldn’t keep goat’s milk cheese cold. ♥ This next Call doesn’t have a lot of requirements, but one of them is that your design must include a goat. No, I’m not kidding.

Check out this Call for Submissions from Bucktown Arts Fest (Chicago, IL) for Annual Poster Contest. This is a great resume builder for the winner. Take a look…

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CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
Annual Poster Contest
from Bucktown Arts Fest

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to 2D media, including but not limited to graphic design, digital illustration, pen & ink, drawing, painting, etc. All posters must be 18″x24″, include a goat (not kidding) & include specific text that can be found in the full call. Visit the gallery of past winners for reference.

DEADLINE: May 11, 2018

NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2018

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee

AWARD: $200 cash prize OR complimentary admission and booth at the fest (your pick). Plus, your artwork will be used to promote the Fest, including the Bucktown Arts Fest website, festival merchandise (posters, t-shirts, hangtags, postcards, program), collateral, press releases and signage.

ABOUT: The Bucktown Arts Fest is a non-profit, all-volunteer run, neighborhood celebration of the arts. All proceeds from the fest go to fund, develop and support arts education programming at Holstein Park and in the Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhoods.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Self-Portrait

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

the slow MELT

I haven’t reflected on my self-portrait as a food lately. I’m feeling like butter this week, indulgent and cozy and not always the best choice, ha. I’m not certain my portrait as FOOD is what this next Call is looking for, but they do want your self-portraits. Show them your best…

Check out this Call for Entries from Jerry’s Artarama for the 5th Annual Self Portrait Contest. There is no entry fee and awards are given for first, second, third place, plus THIRTY Honorable Mentions. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Self-Portrait Contest
from Jerry’s Artarama

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“The most obvious subject in art is looking right at you in the mirror. It’s the person you know best; only you know every little detail of your face. Go surreal, abstract or fantasy, draw your reflection, paint yourself… Anything goes as long as it’s creative, original, and it’s you!” — from jerrysartarama.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. artists, age 18 & over

MEDIA: Open to most media. Photography only submissions are not allowed, although mixed media & digital painting are acceptable.

DEADLINE: April 30, 2017

NOTIFICATION: June 9, 2017

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee

JUROR: 30 Finalists are chosen by popular vote on Facebook. 30 Finalists are chosen by jury. All 60 Finalists are reviewed by a separate jury of professional artists who will decide the winners for 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place & the 30 Honorable Mentions.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Collaboration

Posted on May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

take two & call me after BREAKFAST

Food as medicine has been on my radar for a decade. I appreciate the ability to attempt home remedies through food and supplements. I am not suggesting it is easier, nor am I suggestion it is a solution for all ailments. But, I am intrigued. A family history of arthritis, combined with years of a slight addiction to towering high heels, has resulted in massive joint pain in one of feet. Flair ups are completely manageable with a combination of tart cherries & massive quantities of vitamin C. Drug-resistant pediatric epilepsy is now often treated by mainstream medicine with a ketogenic diet. The collaboration between doctors and nutritionists is inspiring. This Call offers you the opportunity to collaborate with writers. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art Labology for a Collaboration project between visual artists & writers. No entry fee & possible art publication. I like this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Collaboration
from Art Labology

“Art Labology’s latest competition is looking for artwork to inspire a short story. Join in a collaboration with writers using your artwork as their inspiration to write a short story.” –from ArtLabology.net

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to “paintings ONLY… that a short story can be based upon. Please, no abstract paintings, sculptures, or photographs.” *Editor’s note: I clarified the scope of media. & this expanded definition was approved: “representational painting including acrylic, oil, watercolor, digital painting & mixed media (including collage) so long as the work is 2-D & NOT abstract.” Note, the Call on their site DOES NOT reflect the same definition. You’re gonna have to trust me.

DEADLINE: June 15, 2016

NOTIFICATION: July 20, 2016

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: Selected work will be published in a future project. Promotional benefits include a showcase of winners on ArtLabology.net with a link to your website, social media exposure on Facebook & Twitter, and your artwork in a future book publication. Art Labology’s gallery is currently viewed in over 90 countries and offers its artists worldwide exposure.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

ARTIST of the DAY: Don Bergland

Posted on January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

utopian DISTOPIA

This site does not debate political issues –except those that surround food. But let’s speak generally. The current political circus in the U.S. and abroad seems unreal to me. I read quotes & sound bites everyday that indicate paint pervasively dark image of humanity. Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Don Bergland stages glimpses of the surreal world –both utopian & dystopian– only previously imagined. If feel like the perfect fit today. (continues below)

"Fallow Atonement" by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland! — *“Fallow Atonement” by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland*

“I like to challenge accepted cultural dogma and ideology. Each of my works features a theatrical set defined by a stage with actors, props, and a backdrop. The actors in the set consist of everyday objects brought into combinations and interactions that attempt to elicit inquiry. The content of the artwork focuses on themes such as time, aging, nostalgia, the footless pursuit of Utopia, and the conditions of ideology which disable our rational minds. Each image is constructed using conventions of visual realism, but with alterations that offer dreamlike possibilities. Themes and objects appear and re-appear. Each work becomes a framed snapshot of a moment in theatrical space, noticed briefly, and then forgotten once more, a fraction of time when reality is breached and a frozen glimpse into the mental theatre of Eternity is experienced, an opening when the viewer can catch the faint hint of cotton candy breezing in from the sideshow midway, the pastel moment of a lost memory, a slight reminder that the past is never absent, and that the future is always in front of us.” —Don Bergland

Discover dreamlike possibilities AAAD #ArtistoftheDay of Don Bergland!

ARTIST of the DAY: Liz Huston

Posted on December 10, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

creative ISOLATION

As the new year approaches, I find myself more isolated and in my head as I set goals for the year and contemplate creative direction. Today’s Artist of the Day, Liz Huston captured my inner dialogue with storytellers of her very own. The pieces below that spoke to me are from a couple of years ago. But please take the opportunity to look at her new work and find your own story. (continues below)

“I am fascinated with the way memory influences how stories change and evolve over time. This happens not because the facts change,but because the inner orientation of the storyteller has. Their perspective grows; expanding and contracting with experience. The storyteller journeys us deep into the timeless aspects of the human experience; the kingdoms of love and loss, through grief, resolve, growth and into the balance of purpose… This time traveler, this storyteller, unites the treads of time–leading us home, bringing us back into ourselves.” — Liz Huston

Learn more about Liz Huston!

CALL for ENTRIES: Militarism

Posted on November 3, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

vacuum-sealed
NUTRITION

MREs now have a strong secondary market–doomsday preppers. I don’t think that most people relish the idea of eating pre-packaged, processed military rations. They have improved great (or so I’ve been told); pizza is even on the horizon. However, I would think that preserving seeds, building hydroponic systems and farming fish would be better long-term solutions than MREs. But then again, I’m not a doomsday prepper–so, what do I know? This next Call wants your view on militarism, but I don’t think they are interested in the food options. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the American Friends Service Committee for All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism. Add a nationally-traveling exhibit to your resume. This Call is tailor-made for graphic & digital artists, but doesn’t exclude other media…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Militarism

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Any media that results in an 8.5 x 11 digital image (300-600 dpi)

THEME: Submissions should explore: Militarism’s negative effects on your community, your country, or the globe; Ideas for active resistance to militarism; and/or Alternative approaches, new projects, or manifestos that seek to achieve lasting peace and justice.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2014

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: AFSC will print & professionally display the chosen work in the traveling exhibit. The exhibit website will identify each poster by artist, title, short description & website. Artists will receive a $50 honorarium & a print copy of the catalog.

SALES: By participating in this project, artists are donating their work to AFSC to use in the traveling exhibit, in digital replicas of the work available for download for free. Work will be fully credited to the artists, with contact information included.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Digital

Posted on November 30, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

TIME
and temp

When I moved recently, I pared down some unnecessary kitchen gadgets–all digital. Among the things I ditched were a digital meat thermometer and a digital kitchen timer. I just prefer the non-digital ones. I never quite trust the digital ones. I’m always concerned about whether the batteries are on the fritz. This next Call, although digital, isn’t one to ditch…

Check out this Call for Entries from Unframed for Digital. Unframed is an online gallery dedicated to the celebration of art and creativity–for artists, by artists. It is brand new! In fact, this is their first juried show. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Digital, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Digital

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all digital art, including but not limited to: digital painting, computer illustration, digitally manipulated photography, computer generated art, digital manipulations of traditional art, digital collages, fractal art, computer printed sculpture, algorithmic art, app art, etc.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION: Ongoing

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3 images

JURORS: Entries will be juried by a selected panel from unframed’s staff.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

REMINDER: dARTboard

Posted on September 27, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD
roulette
(or darts)

Menu planning is great in theory. I do it most weeks only to end up picking out dinner much like throwing a dart at a dart board. I open the frig, find a miscellaneous ingredient like fava beans and base an entire meal on it. It is part laziness and part indecisiveness. My taste buds often object to my meal planning. Hmph. What’s a girl to do? I don’t know either. This next Call involves a dARTboard of its own. Take a look…

Check out the Call for Entries from the Vilcek Foundation for the 3rd Annual dARTboard Digital Art Exhibit on Vilcek.org. There is no entry fee, but the eligibility restrictions are very specific. Pay attention to the details…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, REMINDER: dARTboard, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

REMINDER:

3nd Annual dARTboard
Digital Art Exhibit

ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants must be foreign-born (originally foreign citizens) and be permanent US residents (green card holders) or naturalized U.S. citizens.

MEDIA: Computer-based and new media technologies

DEADLINE: 5PM EDT on Oct. 21, 2013

NOTIFICATION: By Nov. 30, 2013

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: Like their first winner, Ukrainian-born artist Irina Danilova, this year’s chosen artist will be invited to exhibit his or her new media work on the dARTboard, where it will be on display on Vilcek.org beginning in early 2014.

AWARDS: The chosen applicant will receive an Artist’s Honorarium of $5,000

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Un-Inhibited

Posted on July 23, 2013July 23, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

THE NAKED
but wounded
CHEF

Don’t you love it when a movie or tv show depicts the uninhibited excitement of cooking naked or with nothing but an apron on? Unless you subscribe to a raw food diet, I don’t recommend it. Mixing bowls: cold. Soup and/or bacon grease: very hot. Keep your apron on, my dears, and use this next call to be Un-Inhibited. It’s safer; just take my word for it…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition called Un-Inhibited. The sky is the limit on this show–they are open to just about everything. Don’t miss this one…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Un-Inhibited

The Un-Inhibited Show is an opportunity to explore creativity through the emerging technologies used in smart phones and smart devices. These apps have opened up exciting new ways for creating extraordinary visions and imagery on devices that we carry around with us day and night.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all US residents 18 years+

MEDIA:
All creations from smartphones & smart devices. All work must be captured and edited on a smartphone or a smart device.

ENTRY FEE:
By July 26: $20 for up to 7, $2 for ea add’l

Between July 27 and August 16: $30 for up to 7, plus $2 for ea add’l

DEADLINE:
August 16, 2013

NOTIFICATION:
Late August

AWARDS: BEST of SHOW GOLD: $500 At the Opening Reception, the artist whose work is juried as ‘Best of Show’ Gold by our Juror will receive a $500 cash prize.

BEST of SHOW SILVER: $300 At the Opening Reception, the artist whose work is juried as ‘Best of Show’ Silver by our Juror will receive a $300 cash prize.

BEST of SHOW Bronze: $200 At the Opening Reception, the artist whose work is juried as

Best Techniques Using Emerging Apps: $50 each

SALES: BWAC will retain a 25% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL of ENTRIES: dARTboard

Posted on July 12, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD
roulette
(or darts)

Menu planning is great in theory. I do it most weeks only to end up picking out dinner much like throwing a dart at a dart board. I open the frig, find a miscellaneous ingredient like fava beans and base an entire meal on it. It is part laziness and part indecisiveness. My taste buds often object to my meal planning. Hmph. What’s a girl to do? I don’t know either. This next Call involves a dARTboard of its own. Take a look…

Check out the Call for Entries from the Vilcek Foundation for the 3rd Annual dARTboard Digital Art Exhibit on Vilcek.org. There is no entry fee, but the eligibility restrictions are very specific. Pay attention to the details…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: dARTboard, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:

3nd Annual dARTboard
Digital Art Exhibit

ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants must be foreign-born (originally foreign citizens) and be permanent US residents (green card holders) or naturalized U.S. citizens.

MEDIA: Computer-based and new media technologies

DEADLINE: 5PM EDT on Oct. 21, 2013

NOTIFICATION: By Nov. 30, 2013

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: Like their first winner, Ukrainian-born artist Irina Danilova, this year’s chosen artist will be invited to exhibit his or her new media work on the dARTboard, where it will be on display on Vilcek.org beginning in early 2014.

AWARDS: The chosen applicant will receive an Artist’s Honorarium of $5,000

Category: digital painting

say CHEESE

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Annual Poster Contest from Bucktown Arts Fest

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

the slow MELT

CALL for ENTRIES: Self-Portrait Contest from Jerry’s Artarama

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

take two & call me after BREAKFAST

CALL for ENTRIES: Collaboration from Art Labology

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

utopian DISTOPIA

Discover dreamlike possibilities AAAD #ArtistoftheDay of Don Bergland!

creative ISOLATION

vacuum-sealed NUTRITION

CALL for ENTRIES: Militarism

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

TIME and temp

CALL for ENTRIES: Digital

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

FOOD roulette (or darts)

REMINDER:

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

THE NAKED but wounded CHEF

CALL for ENTRIES: Un-Inhibited

For full details, Read the Full Call!

FOOD roulette (or darts)

CALL for ENTRIES:

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
Annual Poster Contest
from Bucktown Arts Fest

CALL for ENTRIES:
Self-Portrait Contest
from Jerry’s Artarama

CALL for ENTRIES: Collaboration
from Art Labology

vacuum-sealed
NUTRITION

CALL for ENTRIES:
Militarism

TIME
and temp

CALL for ENTRIES:
Digital

FOOD
roulette
(or darts)

THE NAKED
but wounded
CHEF

CALL for ENTRIES:
Un-Inhibited

FOOD
roulette
(or darts)