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MAIL ART: Anything Goes

Posted on August 6, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

LET THEM EAT…
cupcakes

Don’t you just love it when anything goes? Like many parents, I’ve had to have the difficult conversation that included explaining why chocolate chip pancakes are an acceptable breakfast but chocolate cupcakes. As you might imagine, food conversations are hard for me. I tend to give in. You only live once. Cupcakes anyone? This next Call exemplifies anything goes. My site stats indicate you guys love mail art, so here goes…

Check out this Call for Entries for Anything Goes Everything Shows Mail Art from the Courtyard Gallery (Asheville, NC) It is an all hung show. So as the title says…anything goes and everything shows. If you’re looking for a resume builder or just a creative outlet to jump start your day, this Mail Art show could be just for you. No submission fee…start working on your entry TODAY!

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CALL for ENTRIES:

Anything Goes
Everything Shows
Mail Art Call

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: All media will be accepted including mixed media, Collage, Montage, Sculpture Digital art, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography. Don’t be afraid to try with 3-D art; they have exhibited vinyl records, papier mache fish, wood sticks, shoes, and even a pig jawbone. Any size, if you can stamp it and get it through the Post Office, it will show.

DEADLINE: September 1, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Anything goes, everything shows! Non-returnable. Their mail art show title says it all as ALL received submissions will be exhibited in the Courtyard Gallery, from September 15th to October 27th, 2012.

ENTRY FEE: None

Exhibit will open September 15th at the Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts Street, Phil Mechanic Building, River Arts District, Asheville, NC.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Patterns

Posted on July 20, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

NOT pizza
AGAIN!

It takes great restraint not to continue food patterns in our menus. I am guilty of taco night, pizza night, and buffalo chicken night. I am trying to rationalize it by changing up the taco and pizza ingredients, but it is a pattern, nonetheless. I’m not saying it si a bad thing, I just think it can lead to dangerous stall patterns that end in pre-packaged and fast food that I try to live without. This next Call wants to know all about your patterns. Let’s see ’em, folks…

Check out this Call to Artists for Patterns from the Linus Galleries (California). The media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
Patterns

Sometimes patterns are intentional.

Sometimes they exist by coincidence.

Sometime they’re
simply beautiful,
and sometimes they
have deep meaning.

Submit your best patterned art
for this future exhibition.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA:

Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitch work.

DEADLINE:
August 27,2012

ENTRY FEE:
$35 for 3 entries,
$5 per add’l

AWARDS:

Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show, which is not a requirement to being a part of this show.

SALES:

Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open. 40% commission on all sales.

For complete details,
Read the Guidelines!

REMINDER: Art Inter/National

Posted on June 4, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

REMINDER:

EAT your
HEART out!

While watching a TV show about how salami is made, my son announced that eating the organs of an animal is wrong. However, when I explained all the things that his new belief would eliminate from his menu, he then asked, “Do they at least WASH the intestines first?” Hehehe. These days I prefer my animal organs in the form of chicken pate, but I will have to start keeping the ingredient list to myself, apparently. This next Call for Entries involves a different sort of heart all together. This could be an excellent opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Boxheart Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA) for the 2012 Art Inter/National Exhibition. There is no entry free and no media restriction on this exhibit. Don’t miss this chance!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Art Inter/National

Art Inter/National is a celebration of artistic expression from all over the world. It’s an exhibition that displays how the space one occupies both influences and guides the creative process.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Open to all media. Box Heart encourages diversity in the media used to create the work, in the artists and his/her interpretation of Art Inter/National. There are no limits or boundaries, no categories or types.

DEADLINE:
November 1, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
December 1, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
No entry fee.

AWARDS: One artist will receive the Best of Show Award. This artist is awarded Box Heart “Artist of the Year” and receives their own Solo Exhibition in the 2013 Exhibition Year. This includes Gallery Representation with Box Heart Gallery.

SALES: 40% Commission on all sales. (All work must be for sale.)

For complete details, Read the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Crossroads

Posted on May 28, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

BULKING UP

Have I mentioned my new obsession with dried fruit enough yet? Well, I just found another reason to love it–approximately twice the fiber. Yep. Fiber is important for all those reason you don’t want to talk about when you’re discussing yummy food, but it is also a key factor in management of weight and cholesterol management. Dry your fruit at home, and then you get to control the additives and chemicals. Allergic to sulfites? Use pineapple juice instead. Yum. This next call is all about the fiber. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Santa Cruz Art League for Fiber Art Crossroads: All Media for exhibit is Santa Cruz, CA. The entry fee is reasonable, and I like the inclusive concept. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Fiber Art Crossroads

ELIGIBILITY: All US resident artists

MEDIA: “Crossroads” celebrates the diversity within the contemporary Fiber Arts movement.

DEADLINE: June 1, 2012

NOTIFICATION: June 29, 2012

ENTRY FEE: Non-SCAL members is $40 for up to 3 entries; SCAL members $30 for up to 3 entries.

JUROR: Jean Cacicedo (Artist, Teacher and Lecturer)

AWARDS: The Juror will grant $1,000 in awards: 1st, 2nd & 3rd place.

SALES: Artists donate 45% of any sale of work to SCAL or 30% of sale if SCAL member.

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Where I Live

Posted on May 19, 2012July 1, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SHINE ON!

It is all about local food, regardless of where local is. In South Carolina, it was boiled peanuts and mustard-based barbeque. In Tennessee, it is Ole Smoky Moonshine and free-range chicken (as in…it wanders around your neighbor’s yard). Soon for me, it will be blackberries from my backyard. Local is where YOU are. This next Call wants to know all about where YOU live. Be proud…

Check out this Call to Artists for Where I Live from the Linus Galleries (California). The media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Where I Live

What is local to you?

Where do you live?

They are interested in seeing what is in your world, what is your every day local life.

Take the things you see every day and create.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitch work.

DEADLINE:
July 30, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
$35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS:

Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for their collective live show at the Pasadena Gallery in August 2012. $500 will be awarded to the curator’s choice for best artist for the collective show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open.

40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

CALL for ENTRIES: Food for Thought

Posted on March 24, 2012March 24, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SCRUMPTIOUS,
expectations

I am endlessly grateful that you put up with my food ramblings. If I talked about food to any one person as much as I do you, they would avoid me like the plague. It is our trade off. I give you a the details of a call, and you put up with my attempts to connect it to food in some random segue. Well, I need to ask another favor…I want to see AAAD readers DOMINATE this Call because surely you must love food at least 25% as much as I do or you wouldn’t keep reading this blog day after day. You are the cream of the crop…

Check out this Call to Artists for Food For Thought from the Linus Galleries (California). The acceptable media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Food for Thought

Food. Sustenance. Taste.
Savor food in art.
Send your best food art to the Linus Galleries.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitch work.

DEADLINE: May 7, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS: Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open. 40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

CALL for ENTRIES: Nude But Not Rude

Posted on March 8, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

MORE BUTTER
ALWAYS,
please &
thank you

My mother prefers her food naked. She eats fries without ketchup, nuggets without sauce, baked potatoes without butter, fajitas without salsa. Not this girl. I want all of my food dressed to the nines. This next Call wants their fries without ketchup too. Say it with art…

Check out this Call to Artists for Nude But Not Rude from the Linus Galleries (California). The acceptable media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Nude But Not Rude

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitchwork.

DEADLINE: March 19, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 3,$5 per add’l

AWARDS: Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open. 40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

CALL for ENTRIES: Consequences

Posted on February 7, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

MER-lower,
please

Merlot sings to me. But the next morning, I will harm anyone attempting to sing to me. I am allergic to the tannins after years of enjoying the taste of an earthy glass at art openings. Now, just one glass makes me feel like I’ve been hit by a bus. I still have a glass occasionally and deal with the consequences. This next Call wants to see how you deal with the consequences. Fabulous…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Arc Gallery (San Francisco, CA) for Consequences. This is a great space, AND I LOVE this theme. For those of us that live life with little thought of the consequences, this is pure fantasy. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Consequences

Consequences: aftermath, effect, conclusion, outcome, payback, repercussion, result, fallout, reaction, spin-off, inference, distinction, importance, or significant. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, “Everyone, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” Arc Gallery is looking for contemporary works that will fill its space with a smorgasbord of perspectives on this theme. Dark, humorous, quirky or twisted, interpret the theme as you like.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists residing in the continental US

MEDIA: Sculpture, painting, drawing, photo, printmaking, ceramics, assemblage, collage, mixed media, fiber art, and artist book.

DEADLINE:
February 24, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
April 1, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3 uploaded images per entry. A maximum of 2 entries per person is allowed.

JUROR: Donna Seager was born in New Orleans and received her education in English and Art History at the University of Texas in Austin. She is in her 33nd year in the art business, having started in New Orleans in 1978. She went on to direct Marlborough Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston and moved to the Bay Area in 1989. She worked with Robert Green of Robert Green Fine Arts for ten years. Throughout her career, she has written articles about artists and exhibitions for various publications and juried many shows in Northern California.

In November of 2005, she opened her own gallery in San Rafael, winning Best of Marin in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She believes strongly in the role of art in refining the sensibilities of the community and that involvement in the arts enhances the quality of life for all.

AWARDS: A Juror’s Award ribbon and certificate will be awarded to three works that express the most imaginative interpretation of the “Consequences” theme. *Editor’s Question: Am I the only one tickled pink by getting an award ribbon? hehehe.

SALES: 60% will go to the artists, 40% will go to Arc.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

2011 ARTIST of the YEAR: Pamela Zimmerman

Posted on January 24, 2012January 24, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
(kind of)

Today marks a New Year for ArtAndArtDeadlines.com! And, per usual, I am running a little behind the traditionally recognized New Year Celebration (December 31st), but I love Chinese New Year (yesterday). And, I almost got this post done by then, ha! I, of course, always appreciate an excuse to eat Chinese food…it doesn’t have to be a holiday.

This is the day we name the
Artist of the Year for 2011.

When this blog began in September of 2009, I was determined to cover not only art deadlines but also really good art. And, I chose a few artists here and there. I quickly realized that the Featured Artist program needed structure, or it would never really get done on any sort of regular basis. The $2 Art Contest was born.

I began to realize that the Featured Artist Page was getting crowded and adding more artists would lessen the impact of being Featured. I knew I had to start archiving artists yearly…

And the idea of
the Artist of the Year
was born.

I now give all of our Featured Artists each year notice that on December 31st at midnight EST, the Artist of the Year would be determined by the number of comments on their individual Featured Artist blog posts.

Right out of the gate, three artists’ fans came out strong: Denee Black, Deanna Bowdish, and Pamela Zimmerman. And after a month of voting, the final count was close… only a few dozen votes separated Black, Bowdish and Zimmerman.

Congratulations to
Pamela Zimmerman
AAAD’s 2011 Artist of the Year

I have enjoyed getting to know her this year. It feels to me like she showed a vulnerability to me, and thereby you, with her intricate, personal work. True vulnerability is rarely seen and often imitated.

Get to know Pamela Zimmerman:

ArtAndArtDeadlines.com
Facebook
Twitter

Do you want to be the 2012 Artist of the Year?
It all starts with the
$2 Art Contest.

Stay tuned later this week we unveil 2012’s first Featured Artist as well as changes to the Featured Artist Page!

CALL to ARTISTS: My Loves

Posted on January 17, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

LAMBCHOP,
my love

I love my husband more than life itself, but if he was just a meant-and-potatoes guy…we would never have made it. Relationships have hinged on worse, no doubt. The idea of a perfect lamb roast or seared piece of ahi gives hime the shivers, and I could not love him more for it. My loves are my husband, food and art. This next call wants you to name YOUR loves. Say it with art…

Check out this Call to Artists for My Loves from the Linus Galleries (California). The acceptable media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES: My Loves

Love is in the air. But what is Love to you? What are your loves? Interpret love, or your desires, or your loves to Linus Galleries in the best art.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitchwork.

DEADLINE: April 12, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS: Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open. 40% commission on all sales.

Category: Fiber

LET THEM EAT… cupcakes

CALL for ENTRIES: Anything Goes Everything Shows Mail Art Call

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

NOT pizza AGAIN!

CALL for ENTRIES: Patterns

Sometime they’re simply beautiful, and sometimes they have deep meaning.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

REMINDER:

EAT your HEART out!

CALL for ENTRIES: Art Inter/National

For complete details, Read the Prospectus!

BULKING UP

CALL for ENTRIES: Fiber Art Crossroads

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

SHINE ON!

CALL for ENTRIES: Where I Live

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

SCRUMPTIOUS, expectations

CALL for ENTRIES: Food for Thought

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

MORE BUTTER ALWAYS, please & thank you

CALL for ENTRIES: Nude But Not Rude

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

MER-lower, please

CALL for ENTRIES: Consequences

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (kind of)

This is the day we name the Artist of the Year for 2011.

And the idea of the Artist of the Year was born.

Congratulations to Pamela Zimmerman AAAD’s 2011 Artist of the Year

Do you want to be the 2012 Artist of the Year? It all starts with the $2 Art Contest.

LAMBCHOP, my love

CALL for ENTRIES: My Loves

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

LET THEM EAT…
cupcakes

CALL for ENTRIES:

Anything Goes
Everything Shows
Mail Art Call

NOT pizza
AGAIN!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Patterns

Sometime they’re
simply beautiful,
and sometimes they
have deep meaning.

For complete details,
Read the Guidelines!

EAT your
HEART out!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Art Inter/National

CALL for ENTRIES:
Fiber Art Crossroads

CALL for ENTRIES:
Where I Live

SCRUMPTIOUS,
expectations

CALL for ENTRIES:
Food for Thought

MORE BUTTER
ALWAYS,
please &
thank you

MER-lower,
please

CALL for ENTRIES:
Consequences

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
(kind of)

This is the day we name the
Artist of the Year for 2011.

And the idea of
the Artist of the Year
was born.

Congratulations to
Pamela Zimmerman
AAAD’s 2011 Artist of the Year

Do you want to be the 2012 Artist of the Year?
It all starts with the
$2 Art Contest.

LAMBCHOP,
my love