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CALL for PROPOSALS: Living Arts

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Learn more about the 2017-18 Call for Proposals from Living Arts in Tulsa, OK!window GARDEN

It is the first day of Fall, and I am still nursing my garlic chives from Spring.  I received a gift of a 6″ starter of garlic chives from a farmers market vendor.  And, instead of re-potting, I just sat it in a dish in my window sill and kept clipping and watering.  Miraculously, it is still here –testament to an excellent offering from an excellent farmer.  This next Call is excellent.  Trust me, you won’t regret sending a proposal. I promise.

Check out this Call for Proposals from Living Arts (Tulsa, OK) for the 2017-18 Exhibit Season.  No entry fee, open to almost every media AND they might even cover return shipping.  Take a look…

Learn more about the 2017-18 Call for Proposals from Living Arts!CALL for Proposals:
2017-18 Season
fm Living Arts

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ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to nearly all media — including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, new media, new music, installation, spoken word, performance, new dance, art cars, artist residencies, curation and even video. Click here for a list of programs that might help you tailor your proposal.

DEADLINE:  October 1, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  Ongoing

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee

SALES: Sales are subject to 30% commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Kissimmee Sculpture

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Learn more about the Kissimmee Sculpture Experience!coastal FARE

I miss fish.  I live in a land-locked state; therefore saltwater fish are expensive if you can even find it fresh.  I love the abundant mountain trout, but a simple grilled flounder or grouper is just a dream.  If you can find no other reason to visit Florida, let me recommend the fish –and this next call.  Take a look at this one…

Check out this Call for Entries from Kissimmee Main Street for the 9th Kissimmee Sculpture exhibit.  No entry fee.  The deadline is approaching, so don’t delay…

Learn more about the Kissimmee Sculpture Experience!CALL for ENTRIES:
Kissimmee Sculpture

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ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists working/residing in North America

MEDIA:  Sculpture suitable for extended outdoor display

DEADLINE: September 23, 2016

NOTIFICATION: October 2, 2016

AWARDS: $750 Stipend to each artist. $500 Best of Show

SALES:  Kissimmee Main Street will retain a 20% commission on all sales

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Mister Finch

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"toadstool" (textile art) by Mister Finch
“toadstool” (textile art) by Mister Finch

“A story sewn in, woven in. Velvet curtains from an old hotel, a threadbare wedding dress and a vintage apron become . . . . Storytelling creatures for people who are also a little lost, found and forgotten.” —Mister Finch

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I find tactile joy in vintage textiles and incorporating them into my life gives me a sense of history, of continuation, that my personal story lacks in some degree.  The works of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Mister Finch, are gifts of life, experience, labor and joy — of mindfulness.  These creatures have a sort of fabricated authenticity, a beautifully crafted reality.

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Find your own creature feature in the work of
today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Mister Finch!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Ruth Tabancay

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"Basalt Causeway" (burnt sugar) by Ruth Tabancay
“Basalt Causeway” (burnt sugar) by Ruth Tabancay

Why food?  I am asked all of the time.  Food & art are connected as inspiration, nourishment & care-giving.  Food is ripe with meaning.  My developing palate & the evolution of my culinary abilities (and responsibilities), as well as my attitude about the suitability of food, echo my growth through the years as an artist and arts administrator –all marking the passage of time. That’s why.

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“I am attracted to objects that are already
infused with meaning.” — Ruth Tabancay

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The most recent work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Ruth Tabancay, features the installation of burnt sugar forms that slowly melt during their installation.  Sugar marking the passage of time, marking the beautiful fluidity, ignoring your impatience or desire to know the destination.  Beautiful.

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Be patient.  Take your time.  Enjoy the work of AAAD Artist of the Day, Ruth Tabancay!

 

 

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ARTIST of the DAY: Yana Goldfine

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Two views of "Solemnity" (porcelain, steel & fabric) by Yana W. Goldfine
Two views of “Solemnity” (porcelain, steel & fabric) by Yana Goldfine

“I vividly remember playing with dolls and stuffed animals as a young girl. They brought me comfort, pleasure and new coping skills and on occasion, solutions to conflicts. This current work is an attempt to recreate some of those childhood characters and to interact with them both as an artist and as a woman.” —Yana Goldfine

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The experiences of our childhood help shape us –for the good or for the bad, often both.  But for me, my childhood was a strange place, disconnected from whom I chose to become as an adult.  Any time I am met face to face with an artifact of my youngest years, it gives me pause.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, sculptor Yana Goldfine is on a journey to revisit her own artifacts.  Where do they take you?

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Explore your own artifacts through the work of the
AAAD Artist of the Day, sculptor Yana Goldfine!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Bareback

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Learn more about the Bareback Exhibit from Studio C Gallery! four-legged FOODIE

Parsnips make me itchy.  My family eats copious amount of root vegetables –carrots and turnips and beets.  But the carrot’s paler cousin makes me feel like I have rolled in fiberglass insulation.  Parsnips are easy to cultivate & fetch a higher price than carrots at local farmers markets.  I have a friend that grows them because she never has any waste.  They last forever, but even if they start to get overripe, they are a favorite treat of her retired work horse.   This next Call is interested in your equine imagery, and they promise not to make you eat parsnips.  This is a lovely theme…

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

Learn more about the Bareback Exhibit from Studio C Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Bareback from Studio C Gallery

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“Humankind owes an enormous amount of gratitude to the horse. Domestication of the horse provided humans with mobility, survival and pleasure. Yet today, horses are facing a daunting challenge. Yearly round ups by the Bureau of Land Management, kill buyers, horse racing breakdowns, and drought that forces some owners to abandon their animals, have left horse’s lives in peril. This dilemma is not going away. It is a problem that needs to be addressed through action.” –from studiocgalleryla.com

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to woman artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media as long as it interprets the theme “Bareback: Symmetry in Motion”

DEADLINE:  August 15, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  August 22, 2016

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

JUROR:  All entries are submitted to a jury comprised of women 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 Return to Freedom.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: FL3TCH3R 2016

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Learn more about the FL3TCH3R exhibit!circus FOOD

Popcorn is the nightly snack of choice at my home, but lately it has taken on a more symbolic nature.  The current election climate has left me feeling disconnected from the political process –as though my voice and vote don’t count.  It feels like I’m watching a movie, eating popcorn and yelling at the innocent girl to warn her that the bad guy looms just around the next corner.  This next Call strives to connect people to the political and social issues that comprises contemporary culture.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Reece Museum at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for The FL3TCH3R Exhibit. Here’s your chance to speak your mind without media restriction. Don’t miss this chance…

Learn more about the 2016 FL3TCH3R Exhibit!CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2016

 

The theme of 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, 2016 (late deadline August 31, 2016)

NOTIFICATION: September 16, 2016

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: Dr. Eric Avery is a celebrated printmaker and recently-retired physician who for decades has practiced medicine and art in tandem. His complexly layered work connects issues of printmaking and art history with social concerns of public health, human rights abuse and responses to HIV/AIDS, death, sexuality and the body.  Creating powerful historical records of experience with patients, he changes the ordinary role of a doctor into an artist inspired by healing, fusing the space between art and medicine.  Before his retirement, he was clinical associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and member of the Institute for Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch, specializing in issues related to HIV/AIDS.  In addition to being the subject of numerous gallery exhibitions, Avery’s work is found in many prestigious permanent collections.

AWARDS: Best of Show $300, 2 Awards of Excellence $100 ea & Appalachian Artist Award (TBA)

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Hank Willis Thomas

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"I Am A Man" by Hank Willis Thomas
“I Am A Man” by Hank Willis Thomas

“This series of paintings was inspired by a 1968 photograph by Ernest Withers of marchers during the Memphis sanitation workers March.  Martin Luther King was assassinated while there in support of the March.  The men carried signs which read ‘I am a Man’.  I found it fascinating that the the phrase I grew up with was ‘I am THE Man’.  The collective statement became individualistic in the age of integration.  Reflecting on American history I wanted to riff and remix the text, ultimately ending with the revelation ‘I Am. Amen.’  MLK showed us that our greatest gift is our consciousness and it is up to us what we choose to do with it.” —Hank Willis Thomas

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I implore you to listen.  Listen. Understand your privilege, whatever it may be.  Being defensive doesn’t serve you. Don’t just look at people; SEE them. Love people for their humanity — both strengths & flaws.  Respect the space each person needs to work and speak and react to community in which they live.  Recognize that people have the right to be who they are, regardless of, and even in spite of, your expectation of them.  I am inspired by the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Hank Willis Thomas.  You can change the world. Start with you.

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Explore your truth with AAAD Artist of Day, Hank Willis Thomas!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Points of Departure

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Learn more from the Points of Departure Exhibit from the John Michael Kohler Arts Center!FRUITY fantasy

Food transports me.  While I travel a lot regionally, I spend far less time west of the Mississippi, much less outside the U.S. borders, than I would like. If I can’t be there or go there today, or this year, food offers an escape to places far and near — both past favorites & those destinations yet untraveled.  This next Call wants to discover the places to which you depart.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI) for Points of Departure: An Exhibition without Borders.  No entry fee. Easy submission process. Fantastic theme…

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Learn more from the John Michael Kohler Arts Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Points of Departure
from JMKAC

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ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

THEME:  A place of escape—whether it is a psychological space in one’s own imagination or a physical place to venture off to.

MEDIA: Open to all 2-D or 3-D media

DEADLINE:  August 19, 2016

ENTRY FEE:  None

JUDGING:  Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the exhibition concept, overall quality & adherence to submission rules.

SALES:  The Arts Center will retain 25% commission on all sold work.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: William Hall

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"The Fifth Labor" (dry pigment & polished grout) by William Hart
“The Fifth Labor” (dry pigment & polished grout) by William Hart

“I ask the question ‘what if?’.  I am not always happy with the result, nor is it  always what I expected.” —William Hart

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Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day asks the universal question, and better yet, is brave enough to admit that he isn’t always happy with the outcome.  Thank you.  The unrelenting pressure to make creativity look easy and always perfect, not only leads to the demise of artist confidence, but renders experimentation and growth high risk.

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Discover the possibilities with the mixed media work of
today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, William Hall!

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