I continue to dream of exotic walapini gardening. In my dreams, my fantastic garden of dragon & noni fruit, black radishes & dulse(yes, hydroponics) is documented by Grete Stern & Virginia Wolfe for Garden & Gun Magazine. I’m hoping that my dream was inspired by this next Call (and not that I need medication, ha). This is a fantastic Call. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania for The Mark On the Wall–a juried exhibition of small works on paper at Greenly Art Gallery in conjunction with The 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Investigate this opportunity…
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In keeping with the theme of the conference, Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, preference will be given to works inspired or broadly influenced by those female artists who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf, including but not limited to Berenice Abbott, Anni Albers, Vanessa Bell, Ilse Bing, Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Dora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Imogen Cunningham, Gisèle Freund, Barbara Hepworth, Hannah Höch, Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones, Ergy Landau, Lee Miller, Lucia Moholy, Gabriele Münter, Georgia O’Keeffe, Méret Oppenheim, Grete Stern, Dorothea Tanning, Suzanne Valadon, and Remedios Varo. –from The Mark on the Wall prospectus
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists age 18+
MEDIA: Open to works on paper(15” x 11” or smaller) in all traditional & experimental visual arts media, including photography, will be considered.
DEADLINE:April 20, 2015
NOTIFICATION: May 1, 2015
ENTRY FEE:$25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l
JURORS:Rosalyn Richards received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design & MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her work is represented in many museum & university collections. She has held artist residencies at numerous locations in the U.S., including VA Center for Creative Arts and Ragdale in Illinois. She was a visiting artist and critic at Colby College, Cornell University, the University of Dallas and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin, China. Richards retired as Professor of Art at Bucknell University in 2014.
Chad Andrews received his BFA in studio art from Kutztown University & his MFA in printmaking from the University of PA. He has taught at The University of PA for five years, and held the position of Director of Visual Arts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, MI) for six years. He is currently a full-time instructor of printmaking and 2-dimensional design at Bloomsburg University. He maintains a private studio at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
SALES: Sales will be encouraged, and a 20% commission will be retained by Greenly Art Gallery from the retail price listed on the entry form.
I dream of lemons & olives–and corn, of course. While dreaming of my future garden, I am excited at the prospect of growing non-GMO corn. But, I also have fantasies of the produce I love most like lemons and olives, neither of which is native to my climate. Is it just enormous hubris on my part to believe that if I try to grow them in a walipini that they will automatically surpass the quality of the native-grown varieties that I buy after their long trip to my local grocery store? What is it about humans that makes us want to manipulate plants? This next Call wants to see how you successfully manipulate plants in your art. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net(online) for Flowers, Plants & Gardens. The entry fee is as little as $15, and the prize packages are fantastic. Don’t miss the opportunity…
MEDIA:All 2D Media – painting, drawing, mixed media, photography or digital medium
THEME:Flowers, Plants & Gardens – Individual interpretations of plants. The work can reflect on nature’s remarkable abundance and diversity in the wild, in a garden, or an individual plant and or the beauty or complexity of a single leaf or petal.
DEADLINE: January 12, 2014
NOTIFICATION:January 16, 2014
ENTRY FEE: $15 for 1, $30 for 3, $60 for 7
AWARDS:1st Place $500 cash & other awards valued at $5200. 2nd place – $125 cash & other awards valued at $1625. 3rd Place – $75 Cash. 4th Place – $50 cash.
My pantry is a library of food fads and favorites. You’ll find canned tomatoes from my mother (necessary to all of my favorite dishes) and high-fat coconut milk (necessary to all quiet indulgences). Then there is the the fruit cocktail, quince marmalade, pickled herring, kimchi, a jar of black lime & a few dried apricots left over from some food obsession or experiment that either went awry or with which I got bored. I can’t bring myself to get rid of the non-expired food no matter how random because they occasionally inspire genius. This next Call displays the beauty of collecting and sometimes inspires genius. This is a beautiful idea…
Check out this Call for Entries from The Brooklyn Art Library for The Sketchbook Project (SBP 2015). Send your work on tour of museums and galleries across North America for as little as $25! Since the last time I mention SBP, there is now a digitized option! Take a look…
*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post,CALL for ENTRIES: The Sketchbook Project, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.
MEDIA:Open to all media that an be contained within the confines of the 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook. It can open to any size, but it must fold down and not exceed 5” wide x 7” high x 1” thick. You are welcome to cut, rebind or alter the book in any other way – just please remember to keep it less than 1” thick. Please read the media tips and tricks.
THEMES: For a complete list of themes, click here.
DEADLINE: You must purchase your sketchbook by January 5, 2015, but the postmark deadline isn’t until March 31, 2015.
ENTRY FEE:$25 minimum fee for a standard 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook that, once completed, registered and returned will go permanently on view at Brooklyn Art Library & travel in their Mobile Library. OR
$60 digitzed fee for a standard 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook that, once completed, registered and returned will go permanently on view at Brooklyn Art Library & travel in their Mobile Library. In addition, it will be viewable in the Digital library, have a custom URL to share the digital link, can be added to curated Collections and can be added to a Queue.
The December mayhem has set in, and we’re only 3 days into the month. And my own art has taken a back seat to other commitments and tasks once again. It seems I can’t every find the time to plot and illustrate and plan and follow through on those plans. I vow this year will be different. I’m putting up a real tree (rare in my household), and this month’s artist has inspired me to string popcorn in addition to my well-planned and plotted decorative theme. And this year, art will happen IN ADDITION TO and inspite of all the holiday mayhem. AND without all the traditional plotting and planning. I am excited to see where it goes…
This month’s artist has spent years learning the art of letting go and production through play. Her work reflects a deep connection to the beauty of nature without hidden agendas–just connection and PLAY.
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com is proud to claim Emily Mitchell as this month’s Featured Artist. This work spotlights home and family and parenting and human connection–life, really. And, I really needed it. Please let it sink it and consider it a holiday gift.
For the past 20 years, Emily Mitchell has been working as an art educator, and holds a M.A. Ed. in Art Education. The joy of teaching artists has allowed her to thrive on inspiration from others including teaching High School Art, including AP Studio Art, at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburgh, Vermont. Mitchell had the opportunity to work with John Crowe from Massachusetts College of Art, and with Peter London, Professor Emeritus of Art Education, UMass Dartmouth. “I am eternally grateful to them both for allowing me to simply play in my work.”
When not making art or managing family, Mitchell can often be found swimming with the BASS Masters Swim team, riding her bike with the kids, battling weeds in the garden, GF baking, obsessing about acappella music, reading, or exploring a small corner of Vermont.
How has the teaching art to others informed your own approach? Has years of teaching informed your sense of play? “Without question, I love making art with people, and I find that interacting with them, through is invaluable to my own art. My mind works in a very spiral manner – my train of thought will go from a process, to thinking and making connections through art history – helping others grow. Right now I teach adults and do the occasional workshop. But before this, I spent 16 years teaching K-5 in Massachusetts, and then 9-12 here in Vermont. Back in 2000, after reading “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds to my 4th graders, I saved their responses to the story, and often, when I am stuck, or frustrated, I will look at it. Its truly magic, free, full of joy, and THAT feeds me! Plus, kids are hilarious – and I learn so much from what they bring (mainly joy and abandon)to art making!”
Talk to me about your paint process. For example, which comes first, the title and concept or the work? “The process I currently use is an amalgamation of three amazing art course I have taken in my life – plus about 40 years of making art. The first was called “Vigorous Play for Artists/Teachers” and it was taught at UMASS by John Crowe. I took the course in the summer of 1998, and it changed my life–Crowe did not talk for the entire week! He pushed us through readings, critiques, and playful challenges, which for me, resulted in a wonderful body of artists books, and a show of my work and the work of my elementary students. The second was called “Drawing Closer to Nature” with Peter London – that one was hosted by Kirpalu.”
“The third class I took just last year in January of 2013. Flora Bowley’s e-course, Bloom True, reinvigorated all that I “knew” in terms of process, approach, but had neglected, forgotten and moved away from after 8 years of teaching more “formal” technical drawing. Most importantly, Flora’s class helped me let go of needing to know what my work was going to look like.
“Now, I literally feel my way through my work…”
“…working in layers, responding to colors, patterns, textures, feelings, a word in a song… the title could come from any of those things, or simply a feeling weeks later (or if I’m hanging a show and I’m like, “Crap! I need a title fast!”). I find that the final pieces really reflect a mood or idea in my own life, and the visual result is part of the process of understanding.”
You seem to have VISUAL connection to nature? Is there a deeper underlying meaning or connection for you? I spent 5 summers working at summer camp in Connecticut. I found that this place helped me find myself more than college or traveling ever did. It was a place of deep personal growth and connections–and it happens to be on its own private lake, surrounded by trees. The light & sounds there are unlike any other. I still hear them in dreams. Now, I am lucky enough to live in Vermont (where it gets damn cold!), but there is beauty everywhere here–in the food, in the woods.
While I love the culture of cities,
I need space, air and green to fully breathe and live!
Detail of Horizon 2 by Featured Artist Painter Emily Mitchell!
What are you trying to say with your work? How does it connect to your need to explore human connection? “Because I do not plan anything at all, I really feel like each piece is a response or story about the paint, my heart, and everyone’s desire to feel connected to others. While the characters in the work may be realistic (birds, trees) or abstract (bubbles or circles) the connection and harmony within the space is there and somewhat intentional. Ironically, I need to plan less in my daily life–but that’s hard to do with two busy kids!”
What style or school of art do you think work fits into? “My work is probably Realistic Expressionist, maybe? Color is certainly predominant in the art, but so is space and depth.”
What is your favorite food addiction? “Ok, this is going to sound really boring, but I actually LOVE salad with roasted veggies, my own greens, chicken and either goat or feta cheese. I essentially chop up whatever I have in my veggie drawer season with “slacker herbs” (aka Mrs. Dash) and a bit of oil. My husband also makes a mean maple balsamic dressing – I DO live in Vermont so any excuse to use Maple…We also have a pretty large localvore movement here in Vermont with about 10 CSAs(community-supported or shared agriculture) I can think of right around me! I have a garden, where I grow purple carrots, beans, lettuce, etc. and when possible, I do try to purchase as much meat and produce locally.” You are a woman after my heart. Veggies rock my world sometimes, and we certainly have goat cheese in common. But honestly, I’m going to pick chocolate every time.
What if your favorite snack food obsession? “Popcorn. I could easily eat about 12 cups of it. We make it old school with Oil in our “Whirly Pop”, and I use an herb salt on it, and when I’m feeling really VT hippy, I also toss a bit of nutritional yeast on it.” Okay, I edit responses to questions–usually only for length. So, most readers have NO IDEA how often I hear about nutritional yeast. Clearly, I am going to have to give in and try it.
On a more personal note , most of my readers know I don’t’ eat gluten due to the ugly presence of Celiac disease in my household–2 of the 3 of us. So, if you don’t mind my asking, how long have you been GF?*Editor’s Note: Published with full permission of the artist. “I have Thyroid Disease, and it was suggested I try being GF to help my thyroid function. It was also suggested to ditch dairy to be truly on the anti-inflammatory free diet…but man I LIVE IN VERMONT–there is NO WAY I am bailing on cheese! We have so much amazing cheese! So I limit cheese and diary but skip the wheat. Ironically, my asthma went away after eliminating wheat.” My son’s lactose intolerance completely disappeared, and he is happy to trade gluten for cheese any day.
What’s coming up next for you? “I have this idea for 20-30 small wood panel paintings to be displayed together – I may do this as part of an upcoming art-a-day event. I have also been pushing myself to do two portrait drawings per month to keep the ‘classical’ drawing skills fresh!”
Thank you, Emily,for reminding us that
play is productive.
I have grits for breakfast 3+ days per week. I have a favorite brand of organic, non-GMO grits that never cease to inspire. On a busy morning, it is scrambled eggs over the top of cheese grits. The next morning, the refrigerated left over grits are cut into cakes that are sauteed and used as the base for Eggs Benedict. This morning it was Charleston-style milk grits with a poached egg & chorizo. There is no end to the independent spirit of this simple staple. This next Call is an inspiration of grits proportions as well. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Proposals from the Nickelodeon Theatre for the Future Perfect themed Indie Grits Film Festival. Entries/Proposals ARE NOT limited to film. No entry fee either. Don’t pass this one by…
THEME:Future Perfect. What is Future Perfect? It is the new southern city, urban design for tomorrow in a technological environment, cars that drive themselves, plastic biology, thought-controlled machines, seeds that produce sterile offspring, invisible cities, roads that drain the sun, utopian daydreams, eminent domain, an electric imagination, drones, highly efficient minimalism, living architecture. Future Perfect is what we will make it.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists with a connection to the Southeast United States. It is up to each applicant to make an argument for a valid connection.
MEDIA: ALL disciplines of art are acceptable: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, sound, video, installation, mixed-media, etc. Artwork can be pre-existing, but it must have a connection to the 2015 theme of Future Perfect. In the application each artist must describe how their proposed work ties into Future Perfect.
DEADLINE:December 5, 2014
NOTIFICATION: January 16, 2015
ENTRY FEE:None
AWARDS: The Indie Grits Film Festival is a program of the Nickelodeon Theatre, a non profit with a tight budget; please mke an effort to hold down costs. They will select 15-25 artists/collaborations. Projects will receive $50 – $1000 with most being on the low end of that spectrum.
Frequently, the most memorable kitchen creations are happy accidents. As much as I love a list, theme and a plan, sometimes I find myself in a situation that forces me to create a masterpiece from what I have on hand or try something new on the spur of the moment. My favorite chicken-cheddar-broccoli soup came about as a necessary use of what I could find in the frig. Now it is a winter menu staple in our house. This next Call is a show that is both un-juried & un-curated, but I KNOW this organization. It will definitely be a show not to be missed, and you can be a part of it. Please investigate this one…
Check out this Call for Entries from The Haggus Society(Los Angeles) for The UN Show. Enter for only $12.50 or FREE if you’re a member. This is a great resume builder…
*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: The UN Show, anywhere other than by email subscription or onArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.
MEDIA: Open to 2D work. There is no official theme to this exhibit. However, works need to be gallery ready, no exceptions. This location is a family friendly venue; if your work contains explicit nudity, violence or other content not acceptable in a family oriented environment, it will be rejected.
DEADLINE: Delivered by December 27, 2014. Please remember to ship in plenty of time due to delays expected during the holidays.
NOTIFICATION: Ongoing. This is an unjuried show. You still need to email a submission of the work you intend to send.
ENTRY FEE: $12.50 for up to works. No fee for Haggus Society members.
SALES: Suggested donation of 20% back to the Haggus Society for all sales, in lieu of commission.
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…
*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post,CALL for ENTRIES: Militarism, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.
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.
Hello, my name is Rachel, and I am an emotional eater. I own it most days. I have learned to indulge the tendency with care. Potato chips and dip are fine after an occasional day of stress as long as it isn’t a daily ritual. Also, I’ve learned to be more discerning about the potato chips and dip I chose, of course. I find that my celebration eating is far worse than my stress eating though. I am wishing lots of celebration cupcakes for the five of my readers (fingers crossed) that make the cut for this next Call. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net(online) for Mind, Spirit & Emotion — a FIVE artist group show. If you are looking to increase your web exposure, take a look at the marketing efforts for those included in this show. This is a great opportunity…
MEDIA: 2-D artwork created in any medium(paint, drawing, digital, collage, photography, etc.) and expressed from realism to abstract images.
THEME: The visual narrative of the artist’s work should reveal their mind, spirit and emotion in the artwork. The work should express the subject through the artist’s emotions, whether it is bold energy, subtle expression, mystery deepened or revealed, inner beauty, or a unique vision.
There’s a battle brewing in my house. We live within 15 miles of two apple orchards. We only have room for a 5lb. bag of apples each week. This time of year, Crispins (green/golden apples) get my vote, while my husband seems single-mindedly obsessed with Braeburns (red apples). I don’t care what color they are, but red apples tend to be sweeter. We’ve finally taken to trading off weeks. On my weeks, I get to eat my slightly sour raw green apples; on his weeks, we make apple tarts, pies & crisps out of the red variety. I’m trying to embrace our differences–like the them of this next Call. Take a look…
Check out this great Call for Entries for the Annual Embracing our Differences Exhibit in Sarasota, FL. Your work on a billboard, no entry fee & $3000 in awards. Don’t miss this opportunity…
Final selections will be chosen based on artistic excellence and originality in reflection of our theme “enriching lives through diversity.” This may include, by way of suggestion only, any one or more of the following: appearance, racial differences, physical or mental impairment, language, religious or cultural differences, environmental stewardship, social economic status, sexual orientation or identity, positive attitude, inclusiveness, self-acceptance, taunting and bullying, confrontation, human rights and equality, understanding and kindness, empowerment or any other topic which you believe furthers the theme of “enriching lives through diversity.” — from embracingourdifferences.org
ELIGIBILITY:Open to all artists
MEDIA:2 Dimensional work including but not limited to photography, digital, collage, drawing, painting, etc.
DEADLINE:January 6th, 2015
The World’s Family Tree by Livy Long
NOTIFICATION: Winning selections will be announced online at their website by mid-March, 2015
ENTRY FEE: None
AWARDS: A total of $3,000 USD will be presented in the form of three separate awards – $1,000 each for “Best-in-Show Adult;” “Best-in-Show Student;” and the “People’s Choice.”
JURY PROCESS: Both “Best-in-Show” awards will be granted by a three-judge panel of art professionals. The “People’s Choice” award will be determined by visitors to the exhibits.
So we are still trying to figure out the logistics of building our own farm. We’re excited. We are hoping to move early 2017. We are working on alternative methods for everything: building, fencing, furniture, electric & sewer. Then there’s the issue of water. I can’t WATER goats and chickens and lamb or US without the water portion of the equation. And while a stream is lovely, there are laws about permanently diverting water that merely goes through your property. So my options are well water or cistern water. Both have to be pumped and filtered for different reasons. Decisions, decisions, decisions. This next Call recognizes water as the essence of life. I’m thirsty…
Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net(online) for Water. Competitions support free drawing lessons. If you are looking to increase your web exposure, take a look at these prizes…
*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post,CALL for ENTRIES: Pure Abstraction, anywhere other than by email subscription or onArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.
MEDIA: Open to any painting, drawing, mixed media, photography or digital medium.
THEME:Work should connect the viewer with the essences of life: water. The work can reflect on the simplicity of a single drop to the power of a raging ocean. It is the most powerful force on earth. It can humble us in the wake of a storm, provide us with endless energy. It is necessary for our survival. It can be the most destructive force on earth, and its beauty cannot be denied. All life on earth is connected by the need for water. Artists throughout history have captured it in all of its forms: drops, rain, storms, streams, lakes, rivers and oceans.
“I have always believed in establishing the sky tone, in general, as soon as possible. In sea painting the rest depends upon it because of the element of reflection.” — Frederick Waugh
AWARDS: 1st place prize value = $5,700. 2nd place prize value = $1,750. 3rd Place: $75 in Cash and 4th Place: $50 in Cash. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place winner’s art will be featured in Art-Competition.net “Winners Showcase” with links to their websites. The 10 Honorable Mentions artists and their artworks will also be displayed in the “Honorable Mentions” section of the Art Competition website.
HYDROPONICS too,
CALL for ENTRIES:
DEADLINE: April 20, 2015
