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Although I have a few knife and sauce skills, my formal education is in English–lit and comp specifically.   I love to read.  I am completely influence by what I read.  I believe in the notion that words can change the world.  Reading The Silver Spoon (in print for over 50 years now) changed my culinary world.  Does that count as proof?  This next Call wants your literary or poetic inspiration.  Make me proud!

Check out this Call for Entries from the LH Horton Jr Gallery found on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College (California) for Visual Poetry 2012.  Enter your best work for inspired by literature or poetry.  Be inspired…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Visual Poetry

 

The LH Horton Jr Gallery is a non-profit art gallery located on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. The Gallery provides excellent exhibition opportunities, with over 2000 square feet of exhibition space, an extended 22 ft. ceiling with mounts, and over 1200 visitors to each exhibition.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists residing in the US.

MEDIA:  Any 2D and 3D medium and presenting works in any style, from abstract to representational, and inspired by a literary work or poetry. Work should demonstrate a strong emphasis in formal design concepts, such as the elements of shape, form, line, value, texture, and color, and/or the principles of repetition, rhythm, balance, proportion, and variety. While digital designs will be considered, works using non-digital mediums are desired. Photographic works are not eligible.

DEADLINE: June 29, 2012 (Extended to July 1st)

NOTIFICATION: August 6, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $30 for 3 work entries, $3 each additional work entry for a total of 6 entries. Unlimited alternate view images of 3D entries, $3 each.

JUROR: Chandra Cerrito, Director, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, California. Chandra Cerrito is an art consultant, curator and
gallery director in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in art history and a Certificate of Visual Art from Princeton University in 1991. Her studies included printmaking, ceramics with master ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu, photography with Emmet Gowin, and sculpture with James Seawright.

Cerrito received an MFA in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1994. She studied the work of Robert Irwin, David Ireland, Eva Hesse and Anish Kapoor.  Cerrito has completed several commissions including a temporary public artwork for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Market Street Art in Transit program.  Cerrito’s drawings are currently represented in the flat files of Pierogi gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

AWARDS: Best of Show: $600, 2nd Place: $400, and 3rd Place: $300.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!