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ARTIST of the DAY: Sue Hotchkis

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beautiful EXISTENCE

I’ve been searching for the perfect new home. I have fallen in love with the most imperfect 10 acres.  Someone else out bid me because my budget is ridiculous.  Two weeks later, their contract dissolved.  I have a second day to hold the hope of imperfection in my heart. Fingers crossed.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Sue Hotchkis celebrates that same beauty.  My totem art for the day. (continues below)

Learn more about the fibre art of AAAD's Artist of the Day Sue Hotchkis!

 “…my work is texture and surface, strongly influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi. I seek out imperfection, in the insignificant and the overlooked, using a camera to freeze a moment in time, recording marks and surfaces that are in the process of breaking down, ephemeral, in a state of flux. ” —Sue Hotchkis

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Discover fibre art from the (AAAD)
ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Sue Hotchkis!

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CALL for ENTRIES: April Int’l

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Learn more about the April International issue from FreshPaintMagazine!FRUIT
fluff

Fresh fruit is still my favorite dessert.  I will take a bowl of berries over chocolate 9 times out of 10.  The only thing I miss is the fat content, the luscious mouth feel.  But, my husband has solved that problem with scratch-made whipped cream, heavy on the vanilla, light on the sugar.  There’s no going back. This next call could be the whipped cream on top of your fresh new art season.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Fresh Paint Magazine (print & digital) for the April International issue. This is a luxe art publication; I savor each edition. Remember, this call is open to more than PAINTING…

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Learn more about the April International issue from FreshPaintMagazine!CALL for ENTRIES: April Int’l
from FreshPaintMagazine
published by AAAD

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

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

DEADLINE: March 1, 2016

NOTIFICATION: March 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: £30 for up to 2 (~$43 USD)

JUROR: Andrew Salgado is one of the most promising young figurative painters at work today. Saatchi Art calls him “one to invest in today”; critic Edward Lucie Smith states he is a “dazzlingly skillful advocate [for painting]”; Tony Godfrey (author of Phaidon’s Painting Today) calls him an “exciting artist with a particular vision”; and even London’s Evening Standard has labeled him a “rising star”.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be published in the April international issue of FreshPaintMagazine (April 2016).

For complete details, Read the Full ART Call!

Learn more from Fresh Paint Magazine!

ARTIST of the DAY: Miguel Vallinas

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do i KNOW YOU?

All of us wear a mask.  I don’t believe every mask is a deceit or even a conscious choice, but it still a mask, deceptive or not.  I have days when a wolf in sheep’s clothing seems an overly-dramatic cliche.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Miguel Vallinas creates the mask that truly fits. (continues below)

"Retrato Número 28" and "Retrato Número 10" from the Second Skin series by photographer Miguel Vallinas!
“Retrato Número 28” & “Retrato Número 10” by photographer Miguel Vallinas

Perception. “what we believe we are, what others think we are, what we really are,
and what we would like to be.” —Miguel Vallinas

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ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Miguel Vallinas!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Karen O’Neil

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yours FOREVER

I have spent a lifetime not buying still life work, because it doesn’t usually call to me.  I like my work non-representational, controversial, emotionally raw.  But I keep finding work that defies my notion of what is and is not still life.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Karen O’Neil creates contemporary work with bright hues that only work because of her masterful use of neutrals –grays abound.  (continues below)

Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O'Neil
                   Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O’Neil

It speaks to me. The apple. It does. I want to own it, eat it and know why it is yellow. I do.

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ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Karen O’Neil!

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CALL for ENTRIES: WIA 2016

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Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016 from the Association of Illustrators!LIMES
not limestone

Chalk menu boards are sort of a bummer.  I can appreciate the eco-friendly nature of the notion as well as the flexibility for casual restaurants to keep their menus updated and filled with fresh ingredients.  But I sure miss the illustrated paper menus.  Aside from the handful of chalk art geniuses out there, nothing really beats bad menu illustration.  Come on, you know you just had a flash back to your favorite childhood pizza joint’s drawing of the mustachioed chef complete with red neckerchief and checkerboard pants.  I suspect those illustrators aren’t going to be competing in this next Call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Association of Illustrators for the World Illustration Awards 2016.  entry fee is reasonable & lots of jurors usually means a level playing field.  Open to both students & professionals…

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Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016!CALL for ENTRIES:
World Illustration Awards 2016

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to entries that have been created or published from January 2015 until the close of the call for entries of the competition 2/8/16.

MEDIA:  Open to illustration

DEADLINE:  February 8, 2016

NOTIFICATION: May 2016 Shortlisted work announced; June/July 2016 Category Winners announced; and September/October 2016 Awards Ceremony

ENTRY FEE: UK & EU £25 per or £45 up to 5 (w/ VAT) per single entry or ; Other Europe, USA, Amercian Continent & Rest of the World £20.83 per or £37.50 up to 5 (no VAT, approx $33/$60 USD)

JUROR:  Click here to learn more about the 24 judges.

AWARDS:  Shortlisted entrants: will have their work featured on the AOI’s website (~120K hits from around 20K visitors/month), highlighted in the permanent archive, promoted across the AOI’s significant industry networks, opportunity to be selected for a touring exhibition which receives over 40,000 visitors every year & opportunity to be selected and featured in an accompanying publication.

For complete details, Read the Full Call for Entries!

Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016 from the Association of Illustrators!

ARTIST of the DAY: Emily Shane

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yours FOREVER

In a Walmart world where most everything can be had for $10 or less, how do we avoid reinforcing a culture that regards everything is disposable?  How do we discourage casual consumerism and reinforce long-term responsibility of ownership?  Value.  Buy what you LOVE.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Emily Shane upcycles much-loved cast-offs of days past.   I LOVE the texture AND how illustrative this work is of falling down the reading “rabbit hole”. (continues below)

"Reliquary" detail (top) & triptych (below) by Aritst Emily Shane
“Reliquary” detail (top) & triptych (below) by Artist Emily Shane

“Reader’s Digest Condensed Book covers are my the base material for my mixed-media assemblages.  I’m inspired by their vintage look and texture, the rich colors, engaging patterns & surprising beauty –all of which are usually hidden under dust covers!  Now fading from the American gestalt, RDCBs speak to the baby-boomer generation as a bygone slice of middle-class life that will never return.”  –Emily Shane

Rediscover #RDCB with Artist Emily Shane!

CALL for ENTRIES: Grant / Purchase Award

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Learn more about the Working Artist Photography Award!lots of
CUKES

Cucumber frequently replaces crackers & bread in our house due to a family-wide wheat allergy.  I love the crisp texture coupled with the ridiculously low price.  If you have ever grown your own, you know that they fruit prodigiously, so they cost precious little.  But I have recently volunteered to pay more for my cucumbers.  No, I didn’t go organic; I went English.  I can’t go back.  English cucumbers aren’t usually waxed because plastic wrapping helps contain the moisture, and they are less bitter due to the smaller seeds.  But the true benefit for me is that they seem to spoil at such a slow rate that I never have to throw anything away.  The benefit outweighs the cost.  The return on this next opportunity is worth every penny too.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from WorkingArtist.org for the Working Artist Photography Award. This may very well be the simplest process for the amount of the return. $25 Entry. Don’t miss this one…

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Learn more about the Working Artist Photography Award!CALL for ENTRIES:
Grant / Purchase Award

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Photography

DEADLINE:  February 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: There is an application review fee of $25 for up to 5.

AWARDS: If selected as the winner, the award recipient must exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion into a collection, in return for the $1000 award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. Shipping costs will be paid by workingartist.org.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from WorkingArtist.org!

CALL for ENTRIES: The Mind’s Eye

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Learn more about The Minds Eye exhibit from all-about-photo.com!BREAKFAST blahs

We always end up eating eggs for breakfast.  I am so bored with eggs.  Because I try to avoid single-use appliances, I didn’t own a waffle iron until I inherited one second-hand from my mother-in-law last week.  We’ve had waffles 4 times in the last 7 days.  My husband asked, “Don’t you want something different?”   I explained that appearance of something 4 times in our nearly 20 years together still qualifies as something different even if the 4 times were all in one week.  The award for best waffles EVER goes to this morning’s blueberry bacon maple variety.  He deserves a cash award, really.  This next Call comes with cash awards but no blueberry waffles.  It is still worth a look though…

Check out this Call for Entries from All-About-Photo.com for The Mind’s Eye for a showcase at the Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco, CA) in addition to an online gallery.  Big jury pool, big prizes & reasonable entry fee.  Take a look…

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Learn more about The Minds Eye exhibit from all-about-photo.com!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Mind’s Eye

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Photography

DEADLINE:  January 31, 2016 (11:59 MT)

NOTIFICATION:  March 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

JURORS:  Learn about the TEN jurors here.

AWARDS:  First Prize $10,000, 2nd Prize $5,000, 3rd Prize $2,500, 4th Prize $1,500, 5th Prize $1,000.  In addition, all winners and entrants of merit will be featured at the Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco, CA) in May 2016.

SALES:  Jules Maeght Gallery will retain a 50% commission on the sale of each work.

For complete details, Read the Full Art Call!

Learn more about The Minds Eye exhibit from all-about-photo com!

ARTIST of the DAY: Don Bergland

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utopian DISTOPIA

This site does not debate political issues –except those that surround food.  But let’s speak generally.  The current political circus in the U.S. and abroad seems unreal to me.  I read quotes & sound bites everyday that indicate paint pervasively dark image of humanity.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Don Bergland stages glimpses of the surreal world –both utopian & dystopian– only previously imagined.  If feel like the perfect fit today. (continues below)

"Fallow Atonement" by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland!
“Fallow Atonement” by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland

“I like to challenge accepted cultural dogma and ideology.  Each of my works features a theatrical set defined by a stage with actors, props, and a backdrop.  The actors in the set consist of everyday objects brought into combinations and interactions that attempt to elicit inquiry.  The content of the artwork focuses on themes such as time, aging, nostalgia, the footless pursuit of Utopia, and the conditions of ideology which disable our rational minds. Each image is constructed using conventions of visual realism, but with alterations that offer dreamlike possibilities. Themes and objects appear and re-appear. Each work becomes a framed snapshot of a moment in theatrical space, noticed briefly, and then forgotten once more, a fraction of time when reality is breached and a frozen glimpse into the mental theatre of Eternity is experienced, an opening when the viewer can catch the faint hint of cotton candy breezing in from the sideshow midway, the pastel moment of a lost memory, a slight reminder that the past is never absent, and that the future is always in front of us.” —Don Bergland

Discover dreamlike possibilities AAAD #ArtistoftheDay of Don Bergland!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Art Show

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Learn more about the Tiny Art Show from Pitt County Arts!ch-ch-ch-CHIA

Despite not mentioning them for a year or two, I am still MAD about chia seeds.  Still loving using them to may refrigerator jam.  But, I just tried this chia parfait and renewed my LOVE of this peculiar, tiny food.  Plus, you also have the raw ingredients to make a chia pet, ha.  Good things come in small packages, like this next Call. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Pitt County Arts Council & the Emerge Gallery (Greenville, NC) for Tiny Art Show.  Help support a local arts council AND clean out your studio.   Great option for works on paper…

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Learn more about the Tiny Art Show from Pitt County Arts!CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Art Show

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media up to 5″x5″x7″. *Editor’s Note: You COULD clean out all those works on paper–studies, unfinished, unframed & abandoned projects.  They will be treasured by someone else.  Cut them down to make abstract work to size.  Fit in one envelope, take 50% & donate what doesn’t sell. That’s my plan. 

DEADLINE:  January 28, 2015 (must arrive by Saturday 1/30/16)

NOTIFICATION:  None.  All hung show.

ENTRY FEE:  None

SALES:  Work must be priced at either $5 or $10. If the “juried” box is checked on the inventory sheet, the work may be juried and re-priced to be $25 or $50 by Emerge Gallery. $5 and $10 are the only price options for the show. (You can check the box on the inventory sheet if you want them eligible for the juried section, but you must choose $5 or $10 beforehand.)  50% commission goes to the Arts Council; however, you can offer a complete sale donation if you wish.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Pitt County Arts Council!