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CALL for ENTRIES: Macro/Micro

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brulée

So I was watching a “hot dish” competition on Bizarre Foods America the other day.  (A “hot dish” competition is sort of like a casserole contest.)   This particular contest was being held in a mid-western town’s VFW or American Legion Hall.  Many of the contestants sported beehive hairdos, mom jeans and gingham aprons.  Then out of nowhere, a woman in Bermuda shorts whipped out a BLOW TORCH to brown the top of her tater tot casserole like it was creme brulée–proof positive that culinary technology and techniques have made it to every fishbowl, no matter how small.  This next Call wants to see your techy stuff on a tiny scale or large, your choice.  How big is your fishbowl?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Macro/Micro: Photographic Extremes. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and they will provide free matting & framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com. We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

Artwork by Juror Felice Frankel!CALL for ENTRIES:

Macro/Micro:
Photographic Extremes

 

This exhibit is about two photographic extremes, regardless of what you call them: Micro Photography (AKA Macro Photography) and Macrophotography (AKA Wide Angle Photography).  The Darkroom Gallery wants to see your best work using these photographic tools.

Look it up, Macro (from Greek prefix “makros-” meaning “large”). Most sciences or areas of study use this prefix as defined.  Macroeconomics, for example: “dealing with the behavior of the whole economy”. Microeconomics: “study of the behavior of small economic units, such as that of individual consumers, opposite of macroeconomics”. So what happened with Photography?  Commonly, photographers call images of things small and extreme closeups, Macro Photography.

Artwork by Shawn Tucker!What then is Microphotography? Interestingly, Nikon uses the term Micro for it’s close focusing lenses, but not Canon.  So, even the manufacturers don’t agree.

Microphotography reveals a world unseen by the naked eye. It often exposes patterns and designs that create sublime abstract images. Macrophotography gathers a view often larger and grander than can be gathered with the human eye. Both introduce distortions either through lens characteristics or stitching construction techniques that are creative tools used to produce these distinctive images.

ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!MEDIA:
Photography.

DEADLINE:
May 2
, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
May 7, 2012

JUROR: Science photographer Felice Frankel is a research scientist in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Felice’s images have been published in over 200 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences such as National GeographicNatureScienceAngewandte ChemieAdvanced MaterialsMaterials TodayPNASNewsweekScientific AmericanDiscover Magazine, and New Scientist among others.

She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, among others. Felice was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award at Brooklyn College, CUNY and the Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography.

Felice founded the Image and Meaning workshops and conferences whose purpose is to develop new approaches to promoting the public understanding of science through visual expression.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!She and her work have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, LIFE Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Science Friday, the Christian Science Monitor and various European publications. She exhibits throughout the United States and in Europe. Her limited edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes.  Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for PROPOSALS: Solo Exhibition in CA

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again?

I try not to get stuck in a food rut.  I am guilty of spaghetti night, taco night, and pizza night; however, every 3 or 4 weeks I try to change up the menus to include wacky new options on our menu.  How are we to ever know if we want to add a lamb kebab night if we don’t try.  This next Call proves that with 9 shows per year, they rarely get in a rut.  Check it out…

Check out this Call for Proposals from the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center (Sacramento, CA) for Solo and Group Exhibitions for February of 2013 to January of 2014.  Did I mention that there is NO ENTRY FEE if you do not procrastinate?  Investigate…

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Learn more from the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center!CALL for PROPOSALS:
Solo & Group Exhibitions

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Proposals for the Main Gallery are open to all interested photographers including, but not limited to Viewpoint members.

MEDIA:  Photography

DEADLINE:  May 18, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  There is no fee for submitting initial on-time proposals. There is no fee for additional two (2) proposals after the initial submission. Submissions after midnight May 18, 2012 will be required to pay late submission fee of $10.00 for the submission to be considered.

Learn more from the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center!The $10.00 fee for late submissions after May 18, 2012 can be paid by using the PayPal button, or calling the gallery during normal hours, and paying with a credit card.  A $200.00 rental fee is charged for a one-month exhibit.

JUROR/CURATOR:  Viewpoint Photographic Art Center Exhibit Committee will make the selections for both solo and group exhibits.

AWARDS:  Exhibits run for approximately 4 weeks and change during the 2nd week of each month. There are 9 slots open for Main Gallery from February 2013 through January 2014.

SALES:  Gallery exhibition print sales (60% artist / 40% gallery).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Read the Full Call from the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center!

REMINDER: Night Light

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Yeah, I’m Bad

Expiration dates on food should be BIGGER!  I moved this week and found coconut milk that expired in 2008.  That means I have probably consumed some expired food unknowingly because I rarely check the dates.  This next call is going to expire soon.  Consider this your public health announcement..

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Night Light. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com. We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

Learn more about the Night Light show at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Night Light

 

Night photography reveals a world that we do not consciously see and offers photographers unique creative opportunities.

Night and day, dark and light – one implies the absence of the other. But like yin yang, each has a bit of the other. The surprising thing to first time night photographers is how their images reveal things that the mind’s eye does not see. Different light sources reveal their true colors. Compared to daylight, directed and weaker light creates drama, contrast, mystery and mood.

The dynamic range of light at night tends to be more in line with our tools abilities. Of course there are technical challenges with shooting in low light, but also tremendous creative opportunities. That’s what Darkroom Gallery wants to show with this exhibit.

Do you work with existing light – or do you introduce your own? Maybe you paint with light emitting light brushes. How have you approached shooting at night to express your vision? They want to see.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography.

DEADLINE:
March 21
, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
March 27, 2012

JUROR: Linda Rutenbergm, a Montreal-born native, who has been a photographer for 30 years. Her MFA in Photography is from Concordia University. She’s taught photography and worked as a freelance photographer for thirty years.

Rutenbergm’s fine art work has been exhibited internationally. She has produced several series:- Urban Visions, Sacred Sites, Terre Caliente, One Island – Many Cities, Mont Royal – A World Apart, The Spiritual Landscape and is presently working on a nocturnal garden series.

Linda has become particularly known for her striking images of flowers taken at night, revealed in a series of books, starting with The Garden at Night: Private Views of Public Edens (2007),After Midnight (2008)and The English Garden at Night (2009).

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Travelers

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PERKY
part

I am not a coffee drinker, but most of you know that.  Truth is…I really dislike coffee. I rarely mention this small fact because it apparently disqualifies me as a foodie, or so I’ve been told.    This next Call involves coffee in a random sort of way, but this time (and in this way) I like it…I really like it.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Tenn Street ART (Denver, CO) for Travelers on Tenn 3.  I am a fan of retail gallery spaces. They often spur sales.  Don’t miss this one…

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Learn more about the Travelers on Tenn show!CALL for ENTRIES:
Travelers on Tenn

 

The theme:  Journey, pilgrimage, escape, trek, junket, odyssey.  There are many ways and reasons to travel.  Whether it be a trip of the body, an object moving in space or an inner journey of the mind – your interpretation of movement from one place to the next is what we are looking for.  The images may be concrete or abstract, realistic or fantasy.

ELIGIBILITY: Open internationally

MEDIA:  Photography — traditional, digital, experimental or a mixture.

DEADLINE:  March 11, 2012 by 6pm (MST)

NOTIFICATION:  March 15, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 5 pieces, $5 each additional

JUROR:  Terri Bell is a fine art photographer, mixed media artist, and graphic designer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Since 2006 her art has been shown extensively in special exhibitions and galleries. She is a juried artist member of CORE New Art Space in Denver and maintains a studio|gallery in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe.

Learn more about Juror Terri Bell!Bell enjoys challenging preconceptions about photography through the creative post production of images.  She also uses her photographs in digital collage, and in combination with paint and a variety of other elements to create mixed media works on canvas.  Her work  is featured in the 2011 HGTV Green Home at Stapleton Denver.  Her photography can often be seen as transition images on KBDI/PBS in Boulder, CO.

AWARDS:  Tenn Street ART will host a First Friday Reception with refreshments and live music on Friday, April 6, 2012 from 6-9 PM.  A Juror’s Best of Show, a Juror’s Honorable Mention and a Curator’s Choice will be awarded that evening.

SALES:  All sales, including taxes, are handled through Tenn Street Coffee & Books during the month of the exhibit.  The sales commission split is 60% Artist and 40% to the Gallery.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Night Light

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Muncha, Yawn…

How does the older generation eat at 4:30 in the afternoon?  I am hoping it is just a Golden-Girls-esque stereotype.  I prefer to eat late night, but then again, I prefer to do everything at night. Everything tastes better after 8pm, but that may account for the reality of my lifelong struggle with the size of my rear end. My husband likes to jokingly refer to me as his “vampire-honey,” but that is clearly untrue…vampires don’t eat food.  But I would look cute as Countess Chocula.  Well, we all know I am a little hyper-focused on eating.  Anyhoo, I digress.  This next call wants to see your vision of the night. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Night Light. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com. We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

Learn more about the Night Light show at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Night Light

 

Night photography reveals a world that we do not consciously see and offers photographers unique creative opportunities.

Night and day, dark and light – one implies the absence of the other.  But like yin yang, each has a bit of the other. The surprising thing to first time night photographers is how their images reveal things that the mind’s eye does not see.  Different light sources reveal their true colors. Compared to daylight, directed and weaker light creates drama, contrast, mystery and mood.

The dynamic range of light at night tends to be more in line with our tools abilities. Of course there are technical challenges with shooting in low light, but also tremendous creative opportunities. That’s what Darkroom Gallery wants to show with this exhibit.

Do you work with existing light – or do you introduce your own? Maybe you paint with light emitting light brushes. How have you approached shooting at night to express your vision? They want to see.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography.

DEADLINE:
March 21
, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
March 27, 2012

JUROR:  Linda  Rutenbergm, a Montreal-born native, who has been a photographer for 30 years. Her MFA in Photography is from Concordia University. She’s taught photography and worked as a freelance photographer for thirty  years.

Rutenbergm’s fine art work has been exhibited internationally.  She has produced  several series:- Urban Visions, Sacred Sites, Terre   Caliente, One  Island – Many Cities, Mont Royal – A World Apart, The   Spiritual  Landscape and is presently working on a nocturnal garden   series.

Linda has become particularly known for her striking images of flowers   taken at night, revealed in a series of books, starting with The Garden at Night: Private Views of Public Edens (2007),After Midnight (2008)and The English Garden at Night (2009). 

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: The Human Form

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I believe that I am what I have eaten.  I have learned that the contents of my diet directly informs my mood, energy level, and even my creative tendencies.   I love fried chicken as much as the next sad and depressed person, but I have learned that fried chicken doesn’t make it better.  Beet salad and blanched ‘n’ chilled asparagus and the perfect piece of salmon can transform my body and my mind.  If you believe that people are what they eat, then this next Call is a smorgasboard.  Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for The Human Form.  The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and framing if you work in their standard sizes.  Take a look…

*Editor’s Note:  If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com.  We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

Learn more about The Human Form exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Human Form

 

Our bodies:
forbidden, subverted, suppressed.

Our bodies:
elevated, venerated, and sanctified.

The human form is unceasingly beautiful, complex, and remarkable. It is one of the very few things that all of us has in common, and yet is a source of perpetual cultural, spiritual, and scientific dissension. What better proof of this diversity than through the Photographic Arts; the Human Form has been its eternally devoted, perpetual muse. The body insights love, loss, envy and greed, devotion and esteem – as one of our most valued photographic subjects, our images do the same.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!The Human Form,
simple yet subtly complex,
always present yet hidden,
expose your vision.

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Entrants must be at least 18 years old.  If you are younger, you must have a parent or legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE:
Midnight EST, December 28, 2011

NOTIFICATION:
January 4, 2012

JUROR:  The work of Elizabeth Opalnik has been featured in Zoom, Camera ArtsBlack and White Magazine, Silvershotz, Photo District News, Collectors Photography and Progresso Fotografico, among others.  Commercial clients including Life Magazine, Gossard Lingerie, Coty Perfume, Michael Good Design, Sea Air Holidays and ongoing campaigns for The Ladies Professional Golf Association and Nancy Lopez Golf.  She is exhibited, collected and published internationally and recently published her first monograph “Poetic Grace: Elizabeth Opalenik Photographs 1979-2007”.

Learn more about Juror Elizabeth Opalnik!She uses the Mordançage darkroom process, hand painting, and contemporary digital imaging in mix, utilizing their combined boundless creative possibilities.   Between imagination and dreams, she believes all great photographs are an extension of the photographer – in essence, self-portraits.  Her darkroom skills, photo therapeutic approach, and the inspiration from her work, make her a popular facilitator.  She conducts photography workshops internationally, in partnership with the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, the Maine Media Workshops, the British Guild of Portrait Photographers, National Geographic Expeditions, The Rencontres d’Arles, and others.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!AWARDS:  All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog.  Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image.  People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES:  Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes.  Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs.  For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: The Built Environment

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GÂTEAUX!

Build it, and I will eat. I stand in awe of pastry chefs.  Most of the ones I know are delightfully batty (industry rumor is that the flour makes you a little off center).  I love that their creations are often part art, part architechture.  If you don’t think how something looks affects how it tastes, you are clearly eating ugly food.  This next Call wants to see the built environment that inspires you.  As always, feel free to venture past food…

Check out this Call for Entries from Darkroom Gallery in Vermont called The Built Environment. Enter your work for as little as $20. Don’t forget Darkroom offers free framing & matting on accepted work!

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Learn more about The Built Environment Exhibit at Darkroom Gallery!CALL FOR ENTRIES:
The Built Environment

Images that capture a vision of the man made world around us. 

We’ve been documenting the built environment since the beginnings of photography.  It’s natural – our lives are entwined with and dependent upon structures of all kinds.  Let us examine the genius designs, abundant materials both found and fabricated, engineering feats, beauty and function, of our constructed environments.  Technical mastery has much to do with a great architectural photograph, but also an understanding of the architect’s vision, and/or the humanity that invigorates and utilizes its spaces. 

Learn more about the Persona show at the Darkroom Gallery!Whether a skyscraper or a shed, chasm span or walking bridge, from convenience store to industrial complex, public or personal (heck, an outhouse is a pertinent structure), and even the remains of such, Darkroom Gallery is looking forward to featuring your built environments.

JUROR: With an engineering degree from Trinity College (Dublin) and an Architect/Author father (Raymond McGrath), Norman McGrath was primed for educated view of his subject. He has been photographing architecture and interiors for decades, capturing the work of major architects and designers and their well-known works. His images have been featured in the foremost architectural publications, as well as his popular book, “Photographing Buildings Inside Out”. The American Institute of Architects selected McGrath for its Institute Honor award. McGrath continues to author and co-author books illustrated with architectural photography (“Manhattan Skyscrapers”, “Skyscraper Rivals”, and New York’s Pennsylvania Station”) as well as educate and inspire students of photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops, the Palm Beach Photo Workshops, and the Calumet Institute of the University of Maryland.

Check out the Darkroom Gallery Online!PHOTO
SUBMISSIONS:

Age: Entrants must be 18+ years old. If younger, a guardian may submit for you.
Ownership: All photos must have been taken by the entrant. If you are a guardian submitting for a minor, please make it clear on the submission.

Digital Submissions: All submissions must be made by digital files through:

1. Upload on the Dark Room Gallery website or

2. Sent via email to submissions (at) VermontPhotoSpace.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with an application form. There is a $5.00 surcharge for email entries.

Learn more about The Built Environment Exhibit at Darkroom Gallery!3. Images should be as large as possible but no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side, type jpg – set to the highest quality. DPI can be set to any number, but if you must specify something to go with 72 dpi.

FEES: Up to 3 images may be submitted for a fee of $20 US for on-line submission and $25 for email submission. Add’l images $5 US per image.

DEADLINE:
Midnight (EST) on December 1, 2011.

NOTIFICATION: December 7, 2011

Darkroom Gallery provides free matting & framing of work for the duration of the exhibition, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

For the full Call for Entries,
visit the
website.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

 

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CALL for ENTRIES: Extraordinary Exposures

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SPROUT

Some foods require exposure therapy, and my child is proof.  Let’s face it, not every food makes your palate sing on first taste.  I still can’t get my kid to eat brussel sprouts, but through endless enforcement of the you-have-to-at-least-try-it rule, he now voluntarily eates tomatoes, pinto beans, butternut squash, and even spinach salad.  This next Call wants to see your exposures.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 2011 Extraordinary Exposures Photography Contest from The Aperture AcademyThe prizes are GREAT, and the entry fee is dirt cheap…

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Learn more about the Extraordinary Exposures show!CALL for ENTRIES: Extraordinary Exposures

The Aperture Academy is proud to present the 2011 Extraordinary Exposures Photography Contest. Take a look at the 2010 Winners!

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to legal residents of the
US and District of Columbia

who are 18 years of age or older.

MEDIA:  Photography.  Categories: Nature’s Landscapes, Wildlife, and Urban Landscapes

DEADLINE:  November 30th, 2011

Learn more about the Extraordinary Exposures show!NOTIFICATION:
On or before January 15th, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
$25 USD for up to 10 images.

 JURY PROCESS:   One (1) potential Grand Prize winner will be determined from among all eligible entries received by a panel of qualified judges, based equally on the following criteria:

Adherence to Theme, Composition and
Creativity / Originality.

 

The entrant who submitted the entry receiving the highest score, as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion, will be the potential Grand Prize winner.

AWARDS:

Grand Prize (1): $1,000 cash, a ThinkTank Airport International V 2.0 Rolling Camera Bag & a BayPhoto.com Print Package.

First Prize (1): $250 cash, a LowePro SlingShot 300 AW Bag & a BayPhoto.com Print Package.

Second Prize (1): BayPhoto.com Print Package & a Red River Paper Gift Certificate.

Third Prize (1): BayPhoto.com Print Package & a Red River Paper Gift Certificate.

For complete details, Read the Offical Rules!

Learn more about the Extraordinary Exposures show!

FEATURED ARTIST: Deneé Black

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This was the hardest $2 Art Contest to judge yet.   I always think it is going to be easy.  And, I am always wrong.  A word to the wise…  I allow a free entry to the $2 Art Contest if you send me one of your  rejection letters, and sometimes those entries DO win.  This month’s entry is proof that late entries and free entries have the same shot as all the rest.  But, I didn’t come to the decision easily.  I was, ironically, wandering around a Farmer’s Market when I finally made the decision.  This month’s Featured Artist is my sort of the perfect bumper-crop tomato.

I have a history in graphic design and I am drawn to bold color, not unlike fruit and vegetable crate labels of days gone by. It is frequently the attempt of my own work to direct the eye with bold lines, even if the subject matter seems common.  So once again, I suppose I am just self-absorbed enough to be attracted to it in others’ work.

This month’s artist brings attention
to the everyday scenes in life
that are often overlooked.

Self Portrait of Featured Artist Denee BlackThe Featured Artist chosen from the July and August entries is Deneé Black.  Black’s work forced me to stop and inspect each piece, to look for the storyline.  My life is always buzzing and busy. I truly appreciate the simple moments that inspire life, AND I appreciate the not so subtle reminder that it is up to me not to miss the BEAUTY of everyday life.

FEATURED ARTIST:
Deneé Black

Black was born and raised in North Carolina and is happy to still call it home. All her life she has loved to draw and create. When she was little she wanted to illustrate children’s books and at one point, medical books.

In high school, she was fortunate enough to have an amazing art teacher that encouraged her to develop her talents. That led Black to decide to earn a degree in graphic design.

“I then learned to think like a designer.
I love that I am a painter with a design degree
and not a painting degree.”

Vegetables in Tomato Boxes by Denee BlackThe influence of Black’s study of graphic design is evidently demonstrated in her work today.  She worked as a designer for a few years but quickly lost interest.  To cure her creative burnout, Black took a break from both design AND art.

“I sometimes wonder about all the years that I lost not creating artwork, but I know that the break was a necessary step in my personal process to being where I am now as an artist,” says Black.

But I wanted Black to explain–why the Farmer’s Market? Why Cityscapes?  Where’s the soul in that? “My work is about bringing attention to the everyday scenes in life that are often overlooked.  Though I take inspiration from where I live and places that I visit, the places and subjects that I choose to highlight are the ordinary spots that can be found in any city.

Orange Chair in Alley by Denee BlackBoth the Cityscapes series and the Farmers Market series are about the color, form and energy in these common scenes.  When I am captured by a striking city perspective or a pile of yellow peppers at the farmers market, I am surrounded by other people bustling about.  Often times those people are too busy to notice the beauty around them”

What do you consider your media? Do you once again consider yourself a graphic designer?  “Typically, I refer to myself as a mixed media artist or a painter. My design background doesn’t influence my ‘title’ but it definitely influences my work! I haven’t done graphic design for a number of years (so I haven’t referred to myself as a graphic designer in quite some time) but I still think like one.”

Talk to me about how you work, your process. Do you have special terminology that you have developed for how you work?  “I don’t use any special equipment. My favorite piece of equipment would be my camera, affectionately named ‘Olympia’ (yes, it’s an Olympic camera). Most all of my work is taken from inspiration that I documented with my camera.  I work mostly in acrylics utilizing my photography, image transfer and collage (including my own screen printed collage pieces).

Jars of Blackstrap Molasses by Denee BlackMy favorite substrate with which to work is always stretched canvas but depending on my goal for a specific piece, I will use paper or wood for my process if I think it will add to the work.  Although I have my preferences but I think it’s good to be flexible in regards to processes and materials because that’s how you learn (and accidentally find out) new things. I usually exhibit my work on gallery wrapped stretched canvas. I like the casual elegance of that presentation–no outline or frame, just artwork.”

You know we have to talk about food: “Well, I am just going to be honest… Potato Chips! I don’t like a particular brand or flavor as it depends on my craving at the moment. Hands down, they have been my favorite food my entire life.

“When I was little, I had pajamas that said,
‘Potato chips are vegetables too!’
I still stand by that logic.”

 

Boylan Buildings by Denee BlackSo, what’s coming up next for you, Deneé?  “This year has been pretty busy. I am a deadline oriented person.  I like deadlines because they help keep me focused.  The bad thing about them is that they don’t allow me much time for research and experimentation in my art.  I want to grow and improve as an artist so I am going to purposefully focus on that for a bit. ”

Thank you, Deneé Black for reminding us as we head into Fall to contemplate the beauty that surrounds us every day.  I am inspired to snuggle in for the comforts of autumn and not miss a thing.  See you on the tomato aisle!

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If the world is my oyster, then oysters are my playground.  While I have never developed a preference for raw oysters (it is a texture, not taste, issue), I will take them steamed or fried, cajun or asian, and even in my Thanksgiving stuffing.  I will eventually forgive my husband for developing an allergy to shellfish, but you’re gonna have to give me a little time with that one.  This Call wants to know what YOUR natural playground looks like.  Interpretation is key…

Check out this Call for Entries from Darkroom Gallery in Vermont called Natural Playground. Enter your work for as little as $20. Don’t forget Darkroom offers free framing & matting on accepted work!

* Editor’s Note: I just found out that one of my pieces got into their last Call, Persona, and if I can get Xerography into a show, you can take a chance too.  Put yourself out there and TRY.  Please make sure that you tell them that you found the show on Art & Art Deadlines so they know that all the talent is here at AAAD.

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Playgrounds come in all shapes and sizes, and they’re likely the first place your sense of adventure was tested . . . and further cultivated.  For the outdoor aficionado, what first started as an obsession for see-saws, swing sets, slides, jungle gyms, and sandboxes, has since turned into an instinctive passion for adventure by means of a different type of playground — the natural playground.

Whether by trail, rock, water, snow or air, where has your obsession for adventure taken you?  What’s your photographic definition of Living the Dream?  Skiing or snowboarding in the Alps or at your local hill?  Climbing in Thailand or at the backyard crag?  Mountain Biking in British Columbia or on your neighborhood trails?  Surfing pristine Tahiti barrels or a quiet home break?  Kayaking through Patagonia or along your favorite coastline? 

Learn more about the Persona show at the Darkroom Gallery!For those passionate about their adventure and their photography, show the photographic moments you’ve captured that will inspire the next adventure . . . in The Natural Playground

JUROR:  Corey Rich is a photographer, Filmmaker & Principal at Aurora Photos and one of the world’s most recognized adventure and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers.  He has captured stunning still photos and video on a wide array of assignments, including rock climbing in India, ultra-marathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, freight train hopping in the American West, and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea.  Today, much of his time goes into capturing both still images and video for the creation of multimedia projects for commercial and editorial clients.

As Vice President and co-owner of Aurora Photos, Rich was the driving force behind founding Aurora’s Outdoor Collection, which is the world’s leading brand of outdoor adventure and outdoor lifestyle photography.  Additionally, Rich is a Nikon evangelist and a member of the SanDisk Extreme Team.  His first book, My Favorite Place: Great Athletes In The Great Outdoors, was published by Chronicle Books.

Learn more about Juror Corey Rich!Justin Gural is a marketing and communications freelancer with photography playing a prominent role throughout his commercial and editorial work.  He approached the Darkroom Gallery in the Fall of 2010, proposing to prepare and curate a juried gallery exhibit focusing on sports, adventure, travel and the outdoor lifestyle.  A concept that relates directly with the active, local Vermont community, as well as the global adventure landscape.

As founder and director of Cortex Marketing Network, a full-service marketing and communications agency staffed by an influential group of freelancing professionals, Gural leads the network specializing in integrated brand strategy, design and creative, photo/video production, public relations and copywriting, and event management. 

Learn more about Juror Corey Rich!Gural also leads the editorial team at VentureThere.com, USA Today’s adventure sports, active travel and outdoor lifestyle website.  He directs the website’s content flow, manages photography, writes and edits editorial features, as well as travels to unique destinations while documenting the adventure.  He will be covering this exhibit on behalf of VentureThere.com once it’s underway, including photo galleries of selected submissions as well as a “Viewfinder” photographer profile of the winning photographer.

PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

Age: Entrants must be 18+ years old. If younger, a guardian may submit for you.

Ownership:  All photos must have been taken by the entrant.  If you are a guardian submitting for a minor, please make it clear on the submission.

Check out the Darkroom Gallery Online!Digital Submissions: All submissions must be made by digital files through:

1. Upload on the Dark Room Gallery website or

2. Sent via email to submissions (at) VermontPhotoSpace.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with an application form. There is a $5.00 surcharge for email entries.

3. Images should be as large as possible but no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side, type jpg – set to the highest quality. DPI can be set to any number, but if you must specify something to go with 72 dpi.

FEES: Up to 3 images may be submitted for a fee of $20 US for on-line submission and $25 for email submission. Add’l images $5 US per image.

DEADLINE:  Midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on September 13, 2011.

NOTIFICATION:  September 20, 2011

Darkroom Gallery provides free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes.  Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

For the full Call for Entries, visit the website.

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