CALL for ENTRIES: Loss, Redemption & Grace

Posted on March 19, 2019March 17, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

I’ll take the PIE to go

There are a lot of customs surrounding death & food. Most people are familiar with people trying to feed the living by bringing the ubiquitous casserole to the living, but I’ve recently learned that many cultures feed the dead by leaving food on graves, from leaving a pie on the gravestone at Easter to pouring wine on the burial site. I don’t have a real understanding of the symbolism (if you do, LMK) behind the traditions, but I love the love it takes to want to feed someone pie and wine, even after death. THAT is devotion.

My work has centered around human bones for a while now. Bones indicate a pattern for me, both for the living and the lost. I prowl cemeteries with a sense of joy, not mourning. Gravestones are monuments for the living of the best in those no longer able to create new memories. They are, without doubt, often erected out of obligation, but even in obligation, they document a lifespan as an accomplishment, no matter how brief. If they include additional details, they are rare ugly, even if the truth is ugly. This next Call speaks to me because if offers the opportunity to react to loss from a place of truth, not obligation or memorialization. I am also excited about an open opportunity in Atlanta, a rarity.

Check out this Call for Entries from EBD4 (Atlanta, GA) for Loss, Grace & Redemption. $40 Entry & 50% commission. The jurors are researchable, and this venue offers a rare Atlanta opportunity. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Loss, Redemption & Grace
from EBD4

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“a platform to examine edgy, daring and thought-provoking contemporary artwork, which traditionally may not be available in a commercial setting”

ELIGIBILITY: Open to American artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media.

THEME: What is your response to grief? Have you spoken to loss through artistic expression? Have you been inspired to answer injustice with the energy of creation? Share your interpretation & response to loss, redemption & grace.

DEADLINE: March 31, 2019

NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $40 up to 3, $10ea. addl

JUROR: Elyse Defoor, director of EBD4, will serve as curator. Jerry Cullum, Ph.D. & Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Ph.D., will serve as jurors.

AWARD: 3 cash awards totaling $800 –for Best in Show, 1st place & 2nd place.

SALES: EBD4 will retain 50% commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: On the Easel Magazine

Posted on March 18, 2019March 17, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

don’t paint with FISH SAUCE

Every week I manage to make a handful of Insta-worthy, perfectly staged lunches & dinners, completely by accident. More often, I conjure tasty dishes that are weirdly, mostly shades of brown due to carmelization, excessive de-glazing and a love for soy, fish, Worchestershire & all other sauces, brown & salty. As you might imagine, the brown food pics, outside of coffee & walnuts, aren’t really winners on social media, ha. My work is not brown or salty, but similar & not…

A few times per week I manage to pull off a perfectly Insta-worthy image of my work in progress –always at an off-kilter angle with short focus to blur unresolved issues and just the right light to allow a contrast-y filter to make me look like a rock star. It is deceptive and born out of equal measure of insecurity and social media pressure to look like I always have everything effortlessly under control. I have guilt, but not. I don’t like feeding into the notion that studio life needs to be glamourous, but I also don’t like exposing my vulnerability underbelly to nameless, faceless critics. Then enters this Call. As you might imagine, I read A LOT of Calls, and I like options for art publication. But THIS call is different. This call wants to see the mess. Finally, there is an option to show studio life, work-in-progress specifically. I think that this is the kind of aspirational we can feel good about –always real, likely messy & unresolved. Seeing yourself represented as an artist is important. This Call is the brainchild of one of our previously Featured Artists, Robyn Thompson. It is a project of her course work while working toward her Master of Arts in Social Practice, making this a great opportunity to lift up ourselves AND one of our very own.

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Easel Magazine (digital/print) for Works In Progress. No entry fee for this aspirational call for work in progress. There are no cash awards, but this Call is all pros, no cons for me. Take a look, and please contact me personally if you have concerns…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Work in Progress
from On the Easel Mag

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“On The Easel (OTE), a new hybrid digital/paper magazine is seeking submissions of works in progress. We want to see the mess. We want to show the struggles.”

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media. Despite the name, this Call is not restricted to painting. They “want to show work during its awkward teen years in the hopes that it will inspire folks to push through to bring it to fruition.”

DEADLINE: Rolling. April 15, 2019 or until all spots have been filled.

NOTIFICATION: 1 week post submission.

ENTRY FEE: None

EDITOR: Robyn Thompson, visual artist who is working toward her M.A. in Social Practice program at the University of the Highlands and the Islands. This project is a part of Thompson’s course work. Your participation would be appreciated.

AWARD: Each page will include a full page image of your work in progress or a detail from it. We welcome submissions of either. Your name, links to your work and a paragraph about your process will also be included. The publication will be available for free online and you will be able to order print copies at cost if you wish.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 10

Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

a-PEELING

My mother doesn’t own a vegetable peeler. Well, didn’t. While I have the benefit of a knife skills class in culinary school, I am not great a peeling vegetables. I can tourne a potato, but if I peel potatoes for mash, you’d better hope I have a vegetable peeler… or a LOT of potatoes. When my mother requested vegetable soup over the holidays, I refused unless she let me buy a peeler. She agreed with disdain, and I spent $3 on the most generic “Domestix” variety available at the local grocer. CHANGED MY LIFE, well, my cooking anyway. With one swoop across a potato, I realized how dull my home peeler was. I put the gadget on my holiday list, and it showed up under the tree. Suddenly I have zucchini ribbons in salad & shaved carrots in my coleslaw. The possibilities are wide open, ha.

I’ve done the same with paint recently. I had access to some more highly pigmented tube watercolors recently, and it affected my approach to the work I did with them. My nature is to “make do” with what I have. It is taught as a virtue in the South. Don’t get me started on all the evils of making do. It is a mindset meant to make children grateful for what they have, but it often squashes ambition and self-value in adults. That mindset combined with all the guilt I have associated with spending money, has kept me “making do” with some watercolors that are not working for me. Now when I finish a tube that doesn’t behave in a way that serves my work, I re-order that hue or something similar from a different maker. I am exploring variations & dispersal patterns & saturation unknown. The adventure has left me open to the possibilities. Vegetable peeler & watercolors. Variations on a theme.

This next Call is also looking for variations on the theme of “Wide Open”. BWAC is one of my favorite venues, known for great jurors, reliable curatorial vision, a non-profit format & even artist run. Interested? Then check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Wide Open 10. There is a distinct discount for early entry, so don’t delay. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 10

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: Wide Open “encompasses all the possibilities of knowledge and freedom & love – wide open spaces…arms wide open…eyes wide open ‐ but as with all things, there is the inevitable opposite ‐ wide open to attack…corruption…failure. What kind of fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show looks to explore the idea of “wide open” in all the hidden niches of our collective psyche.” –bwac.org

ENTRY FEE: $50 up to 3, $6 ea add’l (early) or $70 up to 3, $6 ea add’l after Jan. 19th

DEADLINE: February 4, 2019 (early bird) or February 24, 2019 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 15, 2019

JUROR: Ylinka Barotto is an Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum and has assisted on such large-scale modern and postwar retrospective exhibitions as Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, which showcased masterworks from the Guggenheim’s modern collection (2017); and Mystical Symbolism; The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 (2017, for which she contributed to the catalog with entries on many of the show’s artists. Barotto is also one of the organizing curators for the museum’s Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Barotto received an MA in curatorial and museum studies at Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and is currently working toward an MA in art history at Hunter College of the City University of New York with a focus on postwar and contemporary feminism.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Best of Show Silver $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten (10) $100 (ea.) Certificates of Recognition.

SALES: BWAC will retain a 30% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Small Works 2019

Posted on January 22, 2019January 20, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

villainous FRUIT

I blew my grocery budget this week. I ran out of vanilla, almonds, pecans & walnuts all at one time. I may or may not have fallen prey to a Pinterest recipe that called for what seems like all the avocados in California, ha. Avocado toast is the villain once again. I see a lot of rice and beans for the end of the month. Do you rule your budget or does your budget rule you?

One of the most common stumbling blocks to productivity that I hear from artists is budget. Some media are incredibly expensive, some are not. We don’t always choose our media; sometimes it chooses us. So what do you do when you can’t afford 16 new tubes of oil? I have a friend that has become a master of mixing and regularly stocks only 6 colors. Early on, he did only monochromatic work that allowed him to stock only 3 tubes. I’m not suggesting this is your answer; I don’t have the answers. But I know that I must create, so I must find a way.

For years, I only did work that was under 12″ x 12″. Because I worked on gallery wrapped canvas or cradled wood I could ship anything I made via USPS Priority Mail for $8 or less. Now that I’m working on paper, I am torn between framing affordably small pieces or adding huge chunks of museum-quality matting to increase the negative space. That means you’re average 8″ x 10″ piece is 16″ x 20″ framed and 18″ x 24 “x 4″ by the time it is wrapped & packed & shipped. That doesn’t go anywhere in the continental U.S. for less than $36 bucks, and $50+ internationally, each way. This next show is for work 10″ x 10″, so if I work the math backwards, I would have to do 4″x4”. Hmmm, challenge accepted.

So, how about you? Do you normally work small or is this a challenge for you? Entry is cheap & the size means shipping is cheap. Check out this Call for Entries from The Studios of Key West & Lemonade Stand Gallery (Key West, FL) for 2019 Small Works Exhibit at the Sanger Gallery. $14 Entry & 50% commission. This show has a multi-year history for you to research. Is this right for you?

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Small Works Exhibit from
the Lemonade Stand Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media. Finished work, must be 10″ or less including the frame.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $14 per piece entered

SUBMISSION NOTE: “When applying, please send the most clear image of your work. This year we would also like to have an on-line reception, giving the accepted art an even better chance to sell. The better your photos that we receive via this entry process, the more of a chance we will put it on-line. White backgrounds are preferred for this, but not required.”

SALES: The gallery will retain 50% commission on sold work. All artwork must be for sale, and artists will be paid by May 31, 2019.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Int’l Show

Posted on January 21, 2019January 19, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

focused and FARE

I cheated on my husband with shrimp tacos. He’s contact allergic to shellfish, and on the rare occasion I eat a meal without him, my radar is firmly set on shrimp. I feel guilty while eating them, like I’ve cheated, and then have to go through a hazmat-style sterilization process afterward. But, shrimp.

I had that shrimp-y luncheon with my a friend, an accomplished realist painter. We spent time talking about our plans for the next weeks and months. She paints prolifically and noted, “I haven’t even been looking at Calls because I can’t do anything until Fall”. Between work for galleries that represent her, a couple of invitational shows and a museum solo show that comes down this week, she can’t lose focus. Realizing that kind of focus has been my goal for months, and I am beginning to see results, but it requires tuning out the things that don’t serve my focused goal.

Are museum shows a part of your current plan? If yes, check out this Call for Entries from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Brownsville, TX) for 47th International Art Show. $45 entry & 30% commission, plus $3300 in cash awards. Both jurors’ work is well documented, so do your homework!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
47th Int’l Art Show
from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to painting, drawing, water media, mixed media, printmaking, 3D sculpture, photography & digital media.

DEADLINE: February 20, 2019 (midnight CENTRAL time)

NOTIFICATION: February 26, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $45 up to 3, $5 ea. addl

JURORS: Joe Harjo, visual artist, MFA from the University of Texas San Antonio, and Professor of Photography at Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX. Mauricio Saenz, visual artist and filmmaker, MA in Artistic Production from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.

AWARD: Best of Show $1000; Clara Ely Award $250 (limited to oil & acrylic), and Octavia Arneson Award $250 (limited to water media), Mayor’s Award: Commemorative Plate, First Place (in each of 8 categories) $150, 2nd Place (in each of 8 categories) $50, 3rd Place (in each of 8 categories) $25 and Honorable Mentions receive ribbons.

SALES: All art must be for sale and the BMFA will require 30% commission for any sale that was a direct result of the exhibition.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Go Fish

Posted on January 17, 2019January 16, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

here FISHY FISHY FISHY

Ten years ago, I just quit eating tuna salad. I don’t know why. It has never been my favorite, but for some reason it just mysteriously disappeared from my menu-of-habit. I still eat chicken & egg salad. I even enjoy salmon patties on regular occasion. Hell, I even eat tuna fillets at dinner when I find a good deal, but mentioning tuna salad for lunch gets an immediate “no thanks.” Sometimes things just seem fishy.

In the art world, we’ve all become suspicious that someone has an alternative motive . I am leery of every call, every competition. If you read it here, it has passed a fairly thorough “seems fishy” investigation. The vanity galleries and fees-are-more-than-any-possible-reward scams are the easiest to see through. But what about the the newer spaces? The unconventional places? We want to support new endeavors from those whose passion is to serve artists and the development of best practices, but when is your “gut” enough to make it safe to gamble? When does is cease being fishy?

The landlord for my new studio space has me on high alert. It is 200 sq. ft. with power included for $50 per week. A steal right? But he is also willing to sink thousands of dollars into its renovation to make a 12-month studio space for me. Assuming the utilities are $50 a month, it will take him more than a year to recoup the cost for the renovation. Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to leave it as a storage space? Very fishy. Maybe he’s just trying to support the arts by breaking even on an unused asset. The verdict is still out. I’ll keep you updated.

This next Call is highly fishy, in a literal sense. Do you have work that is inspired by fish, fishing or aquatic fauna? Here’s your chance to trade in your suspicion for show time. Check out this Call for Entries from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department (Alamosa, CO) for Go Fish. $35 entry & no commission for this academic show. This is a beautiful venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Go Fish
the Cloyde Snook Gallery
at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media –contemporary interpretations that conceptually and/or literally are inspired by Fish, Fishing or Aquatic Fauna.

DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2019

NOTIFICATION: February 5, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 up to 3

AWARD: “Best in Show” will be offered a future solo exhibition at the Cloyde Snook Gallery.

SALES: The gallery will take no commission on sales but does encourage donations of 10 to 20%.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2019

Posted on January 16, 2019January 15, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

lost in TRANSLATION

What you do if your grocery option were cut by 90%? I recently read an article about the single largest threat to independent or regional grocers being small-box discount stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar & Dollar Tree. If you groceries could only come from one of these sources, can you imagine never eating fresh meat or vegetables again? Virtually every food you would consume would be pre-processed, significantly so. Nothing you ate would be as it exists in nature or even one step removed. My mind is really blown by that idea. It scares me. It that scenario, I would have to put my own health into the hands of the food processing industry. How does that sit with you? Yeah, me neither.

I live less than 5 miles from a regional grocer and another 10-15 miles from large-box retailers like Kroger, Publix, Walmart & Aldi. As much as I would like to buy local, my local grocer doesn’t make stock decision or employ pricing policies that allow me to make the best menu or the best financial decisions. Currently, Aldi gets the bulk of my formal grocery dollars. I want to make foods based on fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood & diary –as close as I can find to their natural form as possible. If I eat poorly, I want it to be by my choice.

A similar desire prompted by media change. I wanted to work using supplies and/or products that I could find easily, or make myself if necessary. At the time, I was contemplating significant rural travel that would have made art supply deliveries less convenient. I’ve always been a closet painter, but always acrylics. Acrylics led me down the path to acrylic mediums, and then my supply load quadrupled. I slowly made my way to watercolor. Purchased paints last long periods & arrive in compact containers. I can make both paints & paper with very few supplies if necessary. Finished work can be stored flat, pressed. Small amounts of water can be found anywhere. It took me a long time to commit, but I’m here and I’m in love, naturally.

This next Call in interested in seeing your nature-oriented work. What do you have to show in this well-established gallery? Take your time, research the history of this show & venue and the curatorial choices that have shaped this space. Could this be a good fit for you? Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Arte Natura 2019 at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry open to all media and all artists. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2019
at the Limner Gallery

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This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery from May 9 – June 1, 2019.

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphics, digital and installation art, video, etc.

DEADLINE: February 28, 2019

NOTIFICATION: March 31, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 4, $5 ea. add’l

SALES: SlowArt Productions will retain 35% commission on sales. Prices set by the artist.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Dairy Arts Annual

Posted on January 7, 2019January 5, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

you’re the ZEST!

The hourglass on citron is running low. Citron (aka Buddha’s hand) is that freaky-looking fingered citrus fruit that is commonly found in fruitcake and other holiday baked confections. It is lovely candied and turns a gorgeous shade of lemon yellow. Not panicked about the days slipping away? You’d better be certain, because it is only available a few months of the year, and January is the last of them in most places. So what happens if I need it in June? I wait; that’s what. If you miss this next call, YOU will also have to wait.

That’s the problem with waiting until you’re ready. Artists are often, by nature, too busy or too focused or too single-minded to be looking forward by months, much less years. So, we are cast as procrastinators even if the part doesn’t quite fit. I am you; we are all you. It is easy to say “next time” when you feel unprepared, or worse yet, suffering from a reliable case of impostor syndrome. But we’re never ready enough or prepared enough or qualified enough.

This next Call is for solo exhibit opportunities in 2020 at a public art center in Boulder, Colorado, a popular arts location. Why this call? First, they only ask for 4 to 7 images, not 20. You’ve got 4 images, right? Next, they offer a map of their galleries. Why is this important? Because their galleries are numerous and of varying size, including some lobby and corridor spaces that are manageable, regardless of how prepared you feel right now. You can’t wait until you re ready because then you’ll have to wait 2 years. And, what if you don’t get in the first time? You’ll feel more prepared and less nervous the second time, not “next time”. I get that not every opportunity is right for every artist, but if you’re going to NOT enter, be certain you’re CHOOSING not to enter, not letting the fear or insecurity choose for you.

Check out this Call for Entries from Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO) for 2020 Exhibition Opportunities. $35 submission fee with as few as 4 images. Is this your next step? This is a great venue…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2020 Exhibition Opps
from Dairy Arts Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: January 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35

JURORS: A ten-member committee comprised of artists, curators, university faculty, and art collectors. A floor plan of the Dairy’s exhibition spaces has been provided for review by potential applicants, however, if selected for exhibition the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts will select the gallery or galleries that are most appropriate for the display of invited artist(s) work.

AWARD: Following the close of this call, applications will be reviewed by the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts and the Visual Arts Jury to select individual artists and groups of artists to exhibit in the Dairy’s four galleries.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Saturated

Posted on January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

oh, KALE no!

Somebody help me love kale. I want to love love kale (in some other manner than deep fried kale chips, ha)., but I just don’t. If I’m gonna eat a leafy green, I’m gonna choose spinach every time. Give me arugula or chard. Meanwhile, organic kale was 99¢ a pound this week. It is a gorgeous color though. I’ve been toying with making my own watercolors. Maybe THAT is how I learn to love kale.

For years I worked in black and white, and I loved the big, bold graphic nature of that work. But, color. Color has turned my work around. I fell so in love with color that I changed media after TWENTY years. Like any grade schooler, I get that yellow + blue = green. But, when you find the right gambogue hue & add just a touch of thalo blue, you get to watch them bloom into a gorgeous shade of peacock. This newly found watercolor magic gives power & voice to what I tried to represent literally with typography and b&w symbolism for all those years.

I’ve tried to be more transparent over the past weeks about my own “which” & “why” & “what” questions because I am hoping my answers will help you formulate your own questions and discover your own answers. The Barrett Arts Center is a “yes” for me. Beautiful venue, great jurors, superb curatorial history, excellent resume builder. I have been working on a piece for months that would be the perfect piece to enter. If I can just keep myself on track to finish, I am entering this one. Do you have color you want to strut out like a proud peacock? Then THIS is a great call.

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for Saturated: An Eye for Color. $45 entry fee & 30% commission. Plus, this juror has a well-documented history. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Saturated: An Eye for Color
from Barrett Art Center

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

MEDIA: Open to drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fiber, mixed-media, new media & installation

THEME: Color. “Barrett Art Center seeks artworks in which color is the primary instrument of expression for this national juried exhibition to be held April 6 through May 18, 2019. The French painter Eugene Delacroix said, ‘I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will’. Delacroix was referring to the power of color dynamics. This call for works is looking for submissions in which which color plays a transformative role.”

DEADLINE: January 19, 2019

NOTIFICATION: by February 2, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $45 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($35 for members)

JUROR: Michael Rooks joined the High Museum of Art as Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in January 2010. Besides his responsibilities at the High, Rooks was appointed Commissioner and co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2010 and is a member of ActArt, the President’s committee for contemporary art and social action. Prior to joining the High Museum, Mr. Rooks held curator positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. At Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Rooks curated several group exhibitions and solo projects in addition to survey exhibitions of work by Roy Lichtenstein (1999) and H. C. Westermann (2001) for which he co-authored Westermann’s catalogue rasionné.

AWARDS: $825 in cash prizes –$500 Juror’s Prize, $200 2nd Prize, $125 Honorable Mention.

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue 2019

Posted on December 31, 2018January 5, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

CUCUMBER and berries

Between granola and smoothies, I am on a constant hunt for decent fruit. This time of year, it is a challenge. The strawberries are horrific, fibrous little lumps. Bananas are great for smoothies but don’t dry well without sulfites. Cucumbers & pineapples are rocking my smoothies, but FRESH fruit is a struggle. (Yes, I can hear how that sounds.) Blueberries have saved me lately. They are relatively cheap and work in cereal and for pancakes & smoothies. If anyone has recommendations on how to dry them, I’m open to ideas. This next Call wants your blue solutions…

So why do you consider this online gallery, art publication opportunity? Well, here are some questions: Do you need a low risk, low cost way to test new, experimental work? Are you looking to drive traffic to your website and create organic content for social media posts? And, there’s the grant money. Do you want the opportunity to be awarded grant money? ha. Is this opportunity right for you? Only you can know. The deadline looms VERY CLOSE — January 7th.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Blue 2019. $25 entry & no shipping. Do you have work in blue? You know you want the $500 grant. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue 2019
from Art-competition.net

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ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+ (int’l)

MEDIA: Open to still media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, fiber art, collage, etc.

THEME: Blue “The art created of any subject that is enhanced by the use of the color blue, whether it is a single dot of blue or a completely blue image. The color blue should enhance the narrative of the works subject as blue can imply many emotions, symbolisms or feelings, from the blue marble we call earth to our emotions expressed in Blues music. Blue can express the future, good feelings, happiness, prosperity, ocean or sky, and we can feel blue, etc. It can be used to enhance, emphasize or be a focal point in the art.” –art-competition.net

DEADLINE: January 7, 2019

NOTIFICATION: January 14, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS: 20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “BLUE 2019” at Gallery25N; the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 26,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, etc. One artist will be selected to receive the “Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant“ of $500. That artist’s work will become the image of the exhibition and will be used on the invitation, video title screen and on all online marketing.

Category: Painting

I’ll take the PIE to go

CALL for ENTRIES: Loss, Redemption & Grace from EBD4

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

don’t paint with FISH SAUCE

CALL for ENTRIES: Work in Progress from On the Easel Mag

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

a-PEELING

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 10

For full details, Read the Full Call!

villainous FRUIT

CALL for ENTRIES: 2019 Small Works Exhibit from the Lemonade Stand Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

focused and FARE

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Int’l Art Show from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

here FISHY FISHY FISHY

CALL for ENTRIES: Go Fish the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

lost in TRANSLATION

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2019 at the Limner Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

you’re the ZEST!

CALL for ENTRIES: 2020 Exhibition Opps from Dairy Arts Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

oh, KALE no!

CALL for ENTRIES: Saturated: An Eye for Color from Barrett Art Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CUCUMBER and berries

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue 2019 from Art-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Loss, Redemption & Grace
from EBD4

CALL for ENTRIES:
Work in Progress
from On the Easel Mag

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Small Works Exhibit from
the Lemonade Stand Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
47th Int’l Art Show
from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art

CALL for ENTRIES:
Go Fish
the Cloyde Snook Gallery
at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2019
at the Limner Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
2020 Exhibition Opps
from Dairy Arts Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
Saturated: An Eye for Color
from Barrett Art Center

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Blue 2019
from Art-competition.net