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ARTIST of the DAY: Meghan Stratham

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secretive, ISOLATED GIRLS

My own work has been a study in process & a lot of silhouettes these days. It is no wonder that I have completely fallen for the work of today’s Artist of the Day, Meghan Stratman. She has found a way to gives us little glimpse of the lives of folks like us…and not. Dark & sweet & funny & sad; idealized & unearthly people & creatures & those that lie between. I want to own this work. (continues below)

Mrs White by Meghan Stratman, cut paper
Mrs. White by Meghan Stratman, cut paper

“I am drawn to stories and lore in all forms… Recurring subjects in my art include ghosts, girls, monsters, and animals, and themes of friendship and loneliness. I like to include bright colors and a sense of humor in my art and enjoy combining elements to humorous effect, such as badgers sporting fezzes or weasels wearing rocket packs. I am also drawn to urban decay, abandoned places, and ghost stories: people and places that are lost and forgotten. My art world is populated with secretive, isolated girls and silly creatures that may or may not be wearing space helmets. I create my work with cut, layered paper, which allows for a sense of texture and dimensionality.”

Learn more about Meghan Stratman!

CALL for ENTRIES: For the Love of Animals

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Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!old tricks
NEW TREATS

My “pup” will eat anything.  Pepper, my four-legged child, is going to be a pup of ten-years-old soon.  As she gets older, there are fewer and fewer things she should eat.  The food she loves is of the cheapest, most fast-food sort of variety.  We limit her people food to fresh veggies & the occasional egg, but her dog food and treats have taken a huge turn.  The cheapest of food causes the worst of skin allergies, but for the love of this animal, I’ll probably be making her food and treats before long.  This next Call is for the love of animals, not just dogs.  Here’s your chance to make a difference, but they are taking the percentage from their share…

Check out this Call for Entries from LibertyTown Arts (Fredericksburg, VA) for a nat’l juried exhibit, For the Love of Animals.  A percentage of jury fees & gallery’s commission go to the SPCA.  Take a look…

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

Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!CALL for ENTRIES:
For the Love of Animals

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to artists, age 16+

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE:  January 15, 2016 (8pm EST)

NOTIFICATION:  January 18, 2016

ENTRY FEE:  $25 for 1, $5 ea. add’l up to 10. (Members $15 for 1, $5 ea. add’l). 10% of jury fees and 10% of show sales (taken out of the gallery’s commission) will go to Fredericksburg SPCA to support their work in rescuing animals.

AWARDS:  First Place $250, Second Place $150 and Third Place $75

SALES: LibertyTown keeps a commission of 40% on all show sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!

ARTIST of the DAY: Frédérique Morrel

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redemption

The season of mass consumption is upon us.  I will not waste my time trying to dissuade you of the want to give gifts to loved ones. I just want to ask you to consider value.  Does the item you are bestowing add to the recipient’s lives?  Does it help them grow?  Does it better equip them to dispel hate or anger?  Does it convey how you value the one who will receive it?  Mixed media artist Frédérique Morrel, today’s Artist of the Day., has addressed the question of value beautifully, and I offer it to you as yet another perspective.   (continues below)

Ma Biche (My Doe) by Frédérique Morrel (foam, fur & tapastries)
Ma Biche (My Doe) by Frédérique Morrel (foam, fur & tapastries)

“…these neglected tapestries, seen and re-seen along these journeys, suddenly appeared to me as the idealized transference of my own visionary.  These tapestries appeared to be the most accurate material to illustrate my work about modern vanities, loss of the paradise and rebirth in a better world.  These tapestries are the most obvious and literally impicturing vocabulary to depict loss of some values, consequently to the injection of hyper consuming in occidental societies.  These tapestries are telling the stories of these key and essential casualties:

  • loss of sale value : these tapestries are expensive (material & time consuming), but worth peanuts.
  • loss of aesthetic value : these tapestries are considered ugly and out of date, but have their own hidden beauty, particularly for those who are them.
  • loss of emotional value : these tapestries are telling love and family happiness stories, but are abandoned and thrown into mud.

“I revitalize them, offering a redemption, beneath animal appearance and covered with this popular language.” –Frédérique Morrel

Learn more about Frédérique Morrel!

CALL for ENTRIES: Fresh February

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Learn more about the February Call from Fresh Paint Magazine!CITRUS
star

Fresh, in-season foods are the heart of our family meals.  And as much as I love celebrating winter and the approaching new year with fudge and brownies and cookies and cocoa, the star of the season is always the clementine for me.  The supply is bountiful until January, but it is just enough to promise me that Spring really will arrive.  This next Call will offer you a little bit of fresh in February too.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Fresh Paint Magazine (print & digital) for the February 2016 Edition.  This is a rare PRINTED art publication.  Don’t forget that this call is open to more than PAINTING…

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Learn more about the February Call from Fresh Paint Magazine!CALL for ENTRIES:
Fresh February

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all forms of painting, drawing, art photography, sculpture and mixed media are eligible.

DEADLINE:  January 5, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  January 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: £40 for up to 3 (approx. $60.45 USD), £5 ea. add’l (approx. $7.76 USD).

CURATOR: Alice Herrick is an artist, curator and gallerist and founder and director of Herrick Gallery.  Alice trained as a painter at Kingston University, B.A. ’92 and Chelsea School of Art, M.A. ’93, and is a practicing artist, exhibiting her work in London and beyond.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be published in the next digital and print issue of FreshPaintMagazine (February 2016).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Fresh Paint Magazine!

We are PROUD to have Fresh Paint Magazine as a sponsor of AAAD!

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ARTIST of the DAY: S.L. Baker

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another LANGUAGE

Process can be such an immersive experience.  My own work is focused, often figurative with meaning in the minutia.  I get lost in my own process, but I envy the abstracted expression of painters like S.L. Baker, today’s Artist of the Day.  The inclusion of the ensō below perfectly captures the heart of this work and why I love it. (continues below)

Red Enso Landscape by SL Baker Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24
Red Enso Landscape by S.L. Baker, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24

“The work that appears on my canvases is a confluence of social, spiritual and familial concern.  Working mostly in acrylic and using my hands instead of brushes, a moment, an injustice, a joy becomes a color, a texture, a line, another language. I do not know the exact meaning other than I find gratitude within the process and believe that it says something.” — S.L. Baker

Learn more about S.L. Baker!

CALL for ENTRIES: Positive / Negative

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Learn more about the Postive Negative 31 at ETSUs Slocumb Galleries!comfort FOOD

When winter hits, my mood often turns darker.  But, instead of pizza & ice cream (okay, sometimes instead), I try to reset my nutritional routine.  I am always surprised how unexpected foods can trigger a change in mood.  Healthy fats like that found in fish, nuts, avocado are shown to improve brain health while vitamin D found in dairy (and non-dairy mylks) are a big help if I have been stuck indoors.  Spicy foods offer anti-inflammatory benefits that help with circulation and my energy levels.  Making a positive change in what I eat often helps me combat a negative turn in my mood when winter sets in.  This next Call is all positive.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Slocumb Galleries at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for the 31st Positive/Negative, a nat’l juried exhibit. Open theme considers most media. Don’t miss it…

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Learn more about the Postive Negative 31 at ETSUs Slocumb Galleries!CALL for ENTRIES:
Positive/Negative

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists residing in U.S., age 18+

MEDIA: Open to all 2D & 3D media, plus video.  Note: There is no theme.

DEADLINE: December 17, 2015 (extended to Dec. 20th)

EXHIBIT DATES: Feb. 8 to March 4, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $36 for up to 3 entries

JUROR: Al Miner is Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2010. There Miner has curated 8 exhibits and authored monographs including ‘Ori Gersht: History Repeating,’ and ‘Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Tropical Mythologies.’ His next major project opens April 2016 exploring the link between found object practices and urbanization in Asian megacities.   Prior to MFA, Miner worked at the Hirshhorn Museum &Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.

AWARDS: Up to $1,000 in cash prizes ($500 for Best of Show, $100/ea Honorable Mention) and exhibit opportunities.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Postive Negative 31 at ETSU's Slocumb Galleries!

ARTIST of the DAY: Maurice Mbikayi

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I love technology; I do. 

Technology is what allows AAAD to offer free resources to artists.  But I have days when I look around the restaurant or library (or my own livingroom) and I wonder at the blue glow of electronic devices on nearly every face in the room.  Is this where & what we want to be?  Have we weighed the positives & negatives of the constant immersion? Today’s Artist of the Day , Maurice Mbikayi, has given us his perspective in a series of works that are definitely worth investigating. (continues below)

Narcisurfing Netizenship by Maurice Mbikayi (computer keys, cables, fibreglass & wood)
Narcisurfing Netizenship by Maurice Mbikayi (computer keys, cables, fibreglass & wood)

“I a dragged into a virtual world of codes daily.  There, an irresistible fascination and a whispering concern transform me into something alien.” –Maurice Mbikayi

Learn more about Maurice Mbikayi!

GETTING a SHOW: Updated Resource

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Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls by RLGibson

 

ArtAndArtDeadlines.com began as a way to keep track of shows worth entering for artists, friends and peers– beginners, emerging & established. And over the years, I have found that established artists still make many the same mistakes I see from beginners, over and over again. As a gallerist, juror & critic, I am regularly asked why I choose one artist’s work over another.  There is never just one reason, but there are a handful of regular mistakes that influence my decisions NOT to choose work.  The obvious first issue: the art must be good, or at least promising–that should be the most important fact.  But to tell the truth, there’s a gallery or a show out there for most art– the sumptuous & the sour.  But, because the world is full of banana peels, we’ve newly updated one of our artist resources…

Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls!

CALL for ENTRIES: Bang Bang

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Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!SWEET
imposter

White chocolate is not chocolate.  Every year I have to remind a few folks.  Those cocoa bean solids are the defining issue.  I’ll eat just a kiss, or a smooch if you will, of white chocolate each year.  But when I say, “I’m craving chocolate”, the answer is never white-chocolate-macadamia-nut anything.  Just to be clear.  Consider this my yearly white chocolate PSA.  And to be honest, I’d rather have my smooches & kisses a very different way –like this Call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Ground Floor (Los Angeles) for Bang Bang.  Another great Call from a fantastic venue, $25 Entry & open to all media. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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Learn more from On the Ground Floor!CALL for ENTRIES:
Bang Bang

 

“Brancusi did it. Rodin did it. Even Tamara de Lempicka did it.

“The kiss has left its mark on many works of art, from the stone carvings of Constantin Brancusi to its marble predecessor sculpted by Rodin. With her kiss, Tamara de Lempicka delivered a woman swept off her feet by a high society gentleman, clad in an oily top hat, against the cubist backdrop of a city port. Each kiss carries its own sentiment.

“When lips meet, they promise temporary escape or a lifetime of devotion. When tongues touch, they deliver notes to our lovers, detailing desire or a lack thereof.” –from onthegroundfloor.co

Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME:  The kiss –open to interpretation

DEADLINE:  January 3, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $25

CURATOR: Malika Ali is a L.A.-based artist & curator working in multiple media including film & video, installation, photography & the written word. She is an alumna of Howard University & The American Film Institute where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Malika Ali has exhibited with The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, Arena 1 Gallery, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, and On The Ground Floor (OTGF), an artist-run space she co-founded in the View Park district of L.A. Her blog converges contemporary art, writing, design, lifestyle, family, culture & politics.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!

 

ARTIST of the DAY: Stacey Page

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naming, THE NAMELESS

You know that game you play at the airport when you’re bored where you try to tell the story of a complete strangers life as they walk by you on their way to baggage claim or ticketing?  Today’s Artist of the Day , Stacey Page, has found a way to tell the story of random, discard portraits of the people someone loves.    (continues below)

(left to right) Bee & Richard by Stacey Page
(left to right) Bee & Richard by textile artist Stacey Page

As an artist, I am inexplicably drawn to boxes and bins of photos at thrift stores and antique shops.  I always wonder how they got there, who they were, what they meant to the world. But textile artist Stacey Page already KNOWS.  She has discovered their inner demons, secret fantasies, heights & depths –in embroidery floss.  I couldn’t be happier to share her work with you.

Learn more about Stacey Page!