CALL for ENTRIES: NY Int’l Mini Print

Posted on July 12, 2017July 12, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

WINE and dine

If you are an apartment or city dweller, it is exciting to trip across another fruit or veg that can grown in a container. A friend from Atlanta recently sent me pics of the grapevine she is growing in a container on her balcony. Potted grapes, seriously. The grapes aren’t miniature; it can just be grown a miniature scale. She claims it is going to produce fruit in its first year too! This next Call wants your miniatures — a maximum of 9 square inches. Printmaking shows aren’t that commons, so don’t miss this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Manhattan Graphics Center (New York, NY) for 3rd New York International Miniature Print Exhibition. $35 entry & cash prizes. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
3rd New York Int’l
Miniature Print Exhibit
from Manhattan
Graphics Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all fine art printmaking, including relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, monotype, and letterpress will be accepted. Prints must be hand-pulled.

DEADLINE: August 5, 2017

NOTIFICATION: September 1, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to3, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR: Jennifer Farrell, Assoc. Curator of Modern & Contemporary Prints & Illustrated Books, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

AWARDS: 1st Place $500, 2nd Place $300 & 3rd Place $200. Purchase Purchase awards in the form of gift cards and/or merchandise are made from art supply retailers. The retailer presenting the award receives the selected print directly from MGC. This year’s supporters include: Awagami Paper Factory (100 sheets of editioning papers worth $500), DaVinci Artist Supply ($150 Gift Card) & Blick Art Materials ($100 Gift Card).

SALES: MGC will retain 40% commission on sales.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Madness

Posted on July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

patchwork PROVISIONS

The weirdness of my lunch is directly proportional to how badly I don’t want to go to the grocery store. I spend most of my working hours in my home office/studio. As a result, my work clothing standards are sometimes (often) not how I’d like to be seen in public. So to avoid the extra work of dressing and driving and shopping, I create food collages of sorts –often disparate ingredients composed into pasta salads, casseroles & almost anything sauteed & stuffed into a corn tortilla. This next Call is for traditional & digital collages; I don’t think food collage counts. Take a look…

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Collage & Digital
Madness from
Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to traditional or digital collage

DEADLINE: August 6, 2017

NOTIFICATION: August 12, 2017

GUEST ARTIST: Bobbi McMurry

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $1 ea. add’l

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: Bareback

Posted on July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

yea or NEIGH

What do you consider local? And which is more important? Today I listened to someone at my grocer complain that the “locally grown” carrots were from 125 miles away. Local first, organic second for my family –even apples (which often top the dirty dozen list). Know the methods & practices of your local farmers when possible. Are you happy with your carrots & apples? Be kind to yourself. This next Call is all about horses, who, by the way, love their apples & carrots too. Investigate this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Studio C Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) for Bareback 2: Symmetry in Motion. $27 entry & open to all media. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Bareback 2 from
Studio C Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media as long as it interprets the theme “Bareback 2: Symmetry in Motion”, honoring the horse.

DEADLINE: August 31, 2017

NOTIFICATION: November 4, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $27 for up to 4, $5 each add’l

JUROR: All entries are submitted to a guest artists & art professionals. Each year new jurors are selected for the process.

SALES: Studio C Gallery takes a 20% donation from each artwork sold during the duration of the exhibition. 80% of sales will go directly to the artist. The gallery asks that each artist make a donation to the Wild Horse Sanctuary or Dream Catcher Therapeutic Riding Center.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Really Affordable

Posted on July 9, 2017July 6, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

just a PINCH

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
The Really Affordable Art Show
from BWAC

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

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

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

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

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

NOTIFICATION: August 24, 2017

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

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: All Things Salmon

Posted on July 6, 2017July 5, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD fight

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
All Things Salmon
from Coos Art Museum

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

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

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

DEADLINE: August 5, 2017 (postmark)

NOTIFICATION: August 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $10 ea. add’l

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

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: Sugar Rush

Posted on July 5, 2017July 2, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

a SWEET treat

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

Check out this Call for Entries from Sugar Hills Art Commission (Sugar Hill, GA) for the Sugar Rush Juried Art Show. No fee to enter…

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

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

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: July 15, 2017

NOTIFICATION: July 31, 2017

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: American Icon

Posted on July 4, 2017July 4, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

light my FIRE

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
American Icon from
Sausalito Art Festival

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

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

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

DEADLINE: July 31, 2017

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

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: New Directions 2017

Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

pass the SALT

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
New Directions 2017
from Barrett Art Center

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

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

DEADLINE: July 24, 2017 (midnight MT)

NOTIFICATION: August 9, 2017

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

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

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: FL3THC3R 2017

Posted on July 2, 2017June 30, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

hot POTATO

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2017

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The FL3TCH3R Exhibit is focused on work with strong social and political content. Work entered in the exhibit should reflect current issues that affect contemporary culture and investigate societal and political concerns. Diverse media and approach to the theme are encouraged.

ELIGIBILITY: U.S. artists age 18+

MEDIA: All 2D, 3D, performance & installation & video art are eligible. Due to space & logistical considerations, large-scale & complicated installation is not encouraged.

DEADLINE: August 22, 2017 (late deadline August 31, 2017)

NOTIFICATION: September 16, 2017

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

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: Figures & Faces

Posted on June 30, 2017June 28, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

i taste FLORIDA

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

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Figures & Faces from
Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (int’l)

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

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

DEADLINE: July 6, 2017

NOTIFICATION: July 12, 2017

GUEST ARTIST: Christine Duarte

ENTRY FEE: $35 for 1, $1 ea. add’l

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

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Category: Media

WINE and dine

CALL for ENTRIES: 3rd New York Int’l Miniature Print Exhibit from Manhattan Graphics Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

patchwork PROVISIONS

CALL for ENTRIES: Collage & Digital Madness from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

yea or NEIGH

CALL for ENTRIES: Bareback 2 from Studio C Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

just a PINCH

CALL for ENTRIES: The Really Affordable Art Show from BWAC

For full details, Read the Full Call!

FOOD fight

CALL for ENTRIES: All Things Salmon from Coos Art Museum

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

a SWEET treat

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

light my FIRE

CALL for ENTRIES: American Icon from Sausalito Art Festival

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

pass the SALT

CALL for ENTRIES: New Directions 2017 from Barrett Art Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

hot POTATO

CALL for ENTRIES: FL3TCH3R 2017

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

i taste FLORIDA

CALL for ENTRIES: Figures & Faces from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
3rd New York Int’l
Miniature Print Exhibit
from Manhattan
Graphics Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
Collage & Digital
Madness from
Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Bareback 2 from
Studio C Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
The Really Affordable Art Show
from BWAC

CALL for ENTRIES:
All Things Salmon
from Coos Art Museum

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

CALL for ENTRIES:
American Icon from
Sausalito Art Festival

CALL for ENTRIES:
New Directions 2017
from Barrett Art Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2017

CALL for ENTRIES:
Figures & Faces from
Las Laguna Gallery