CALL for ENTRIES: Black & White

Posted on May 1, 2017May 2, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

LOVE ME love me not

Beet wars 2017 just ended. At least once per year, I post something random about eating beets on social media. Every time, it ends in my friends arguing the merits, or not, of this ever-controversial veg. I am amazed by how passionately people love or hate beets. The confusing ones are the folks that love merlot & hate beets. I’ll never understand the disparity. They both have that same from the earth pungency, so shouldn’t it be a black & white issue? This next Call is definitely all about the black & white of it all. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Black & White. Take advantage of a discount for early entry, a distinguished juror & significant cash awards. This is a great opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White from BWAC

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“Black and white is primal, the underneath, the foundation, of the opuce of color; black and white is where we register motion and, when the cones do not have sufficient light, our rods optimize our survival in the night woods. ‘Black & White’ intends to explore this underground of survival and few words.” –from bwac.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

ENTRY FEE: $45 up to 3, $5 ea. add’l (early bird) or $65 up to 3, $5 ea add’l after May 10

DEADLINE: May 10, 2017 (early bird) or March 31, 2017 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 31, 2017

JUROR: Alison Hokanson, Assistant Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she studied Minimalism before writing her dissertation on Belgian Realism and Symbolism. Her recent projects include exhibitions on the whaling scenes of Joseph Mallord, William Turner and on The Met’s collection of Pre ‐ Raphaelite art and design. She publishes and lectures on topics ranging from Impressionist painting to Symbolist drawing, and was previously a juror for the National Arts Club’s Artist Members Exhibition.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Most Innovative Use of Materials $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten $100 Certificates of Recognition.

SALES: BWAC will retain a 25% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Axis 12th National

Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

penny FOODS

Have you noticed that the only a handful of foods are regularly sold in dozens. Eggs & pastries are most common, but there are a few others, like oysters and hot wings. As I understand it, it started because 12 pence = a shilling, and a shilling was a convenient unit of measure for 12 eggs, a pence per. This next Call costs more than a shilling to enter, but it is the 12th in the series. Open to any media…

Check out this Call for Entries from Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA) for the 12th National Juried Exhibition. This juror is well-known and, therefore, easy to research. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
12th Nat’l Juried
from Axis Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists residing in the U.S.

MEDIA: Open to any media including painting, prints, drawings, photography & digital images. (Sorry, no video)

DEADLINE: June 1, 2017

NOTIFICATION: June 26, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR: Founder of the highly controversial Coagula Art Journal, Mat Gleason is an internationally recognized art critic and curator of contemporary art. Gleason’s sharp analytical tongue and ability to articulate aesthetics served him well in analyzing and critiquing competitive body painting in the Ru Paul-hosted “Skin Wars: Fresh Paint”, the television series where he sat as one of the regular judges in its lone season on network television.

He has lost count of the number of exhibitions he has curated and while blogging, writing about art and continuing to publish a milder print version of his magazine, operates Coagula Curatorial, his gallery of contemporary art on Chung King Road in L.A.’s Chinatown. A southern California native who hates all of the Bay Area’s sports teams, especially the A’s, he lives with his wife (artist Leigh Salgado) and dog (Aybar) near the city of Vernon, just south of Downtown L.A.

AWARDS: Cash awards and a printed exhibition catalogue.

SALES: Sales are encouraged. The gallery will retain 40% commission on any work sold.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Senses working Overtime

Posted on April 24, 2017April 25, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

all my SENSES

I used to be very visually tuned in to my food. And, while I still love a beautifully composed plate, I find that the soft give of a melon or the earthy smell of mushroom gills are really what drive my appetite. I demand more from food these days; I want all the sensations. This next Call also wants you to use all of your sense. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from L.A. Photo Curator for the Senses working Overtime exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping, plus art publication for ALL entrants. Take the sensory challenge presented to help you stretch your creative muscles. Explore…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Senses working Overtime from
L.A. Photo Curator

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“One of the first things I talk to my students about is the challenge of experiencing a scene or subject with four or five of our senses and then translating those feelings into a two-dimensional frame and image. I might be standing on a beach, watching a beautiful sunset, feeling the sand beneath my feet, listening to the waves crash and the gulls chirp and smelling the salty ocean breezes, but how do I distill all the sensory information, other than visual, into a photograph?” –from Peter Bennett via laphotocurator.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: May 6, 2017 (Midnight PST)

NOTIFICATION: (and opening date) May 26, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3. 20% of artist fees go to 2 charities per competition –half goes to the curator’s choice of charity & half goes to the first place winner’s chosen charity. Peter Bennett has chosen the charity Friends of the L.A. River.

CURATOR: Peter Bennett has been a successful travel & environmental photographer for over 25 years and has his work appear in numerous publications and books worldwide. In 2015, he formed Citizen of the Planet, LLC, devoted exclusively to the distribution of his work and stories on sustainability and environmental subjects. Since 2009, Bennett has been teaching at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Bennett has been photographing & documenting the Los Angeles River since 2008. His work on the river has been exhibited in numerous recent shows and will be the subject of an upcoming book.

SALES: All sales are conducted between the artist & buyer. There is no commission.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Street Photography

Posted on April 23, 2017April 24, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

CURRY from a cart

There are glorious benefits to living rurally, including quiet solitude and night-time darkness. But, I’ve always admitted that there are detractions, many of them food related, from the long haul to the grocer and a lack of food diversity. Currently, I really miss street food or living in a city where wanting a snack just means I have have to walk a few yards or a block from my front door to whichever vendor is occupying the corner today. I miss it. This next Call wants to see your best street impressions. Don’t miss this chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Passporte for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Passporte Prize in Street Photography. $25 entry & cash awards. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Passporte Prize in
Street Photography
from The Passporte

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Street Photography – Images of street photography can depict the atmosphere of a space & the soul of its inhabitants by opening a window onto life in the locality. Its occupants inhabit & modify the space with their acts of physical & economic survival, attempts at entertainment & spiritual elevation, and mutual interactions as they embrace their humanity.

DEADLINE: May 15, 2017 (midnight MCT)

NOTIFICATION: May 30, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3

JUROR: Stephanie Heimann is the Photo Director for the New Republic. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2017 Magazine Picture Editor of the Year from the National Press Photographers Assoc. She is the founder of the non-profit Fovea Exhibitions, where in a volunteer capacity she oversees photojournalism exhibits on topical & social issues. A veteran photo editor, she has worked on many int’l & domestic magazines and books, including Newsweek, Fortune Small Business, Scientific American & New York Magazine. She was the photo editor for Al Gore on his book Our Choice, the sequel to Inconvenient Truth.

AWARDS: Juror’s Award $300 USD, Director’s Award $200 USD & Honorable Mentions

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: July Int’l Print

Posted on April 20, 2017April 19, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

playing with your FOOD

I butter baking pans with my hands. I work pie crust and pizza dough with my hands. Yes, I even like the feel of food. Luckily for my family, I am also a compulsive hand washer. Feel your food; I encourage it. This next Call is for a magazine that has a luscious hand feel too. Even if you don’t enter, order a copy. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine for the July International Print Issue. I’ll bet that you will love this gorgeous magazine as much as I do. Don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
July Int’l Print Issue
of Create! Magazine

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media, i.e.: painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, mixed media, photography, installation & more.

DEADLINE: May 25, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $30 for 5, $35 for 7 & $40 for 10. Note: a portion of all submission fees will be donated to National Endowment for the Arts/Americans for the Arts.

JUROR: Dasha Matsuura is the Assistant Director at Spoke SF. Since 2009 she has curated contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and nonprofit venues as an independent curator. Matsuura has spent many years working with artists and galleries, as well as corporate and private art consulting clients. In addition, she has worked closely with nonprofit arts organizations and sits on the Board of Directors for Oakland Art Murmur helping to support the Oakland arts community.

AWARDS: Artists selected by the guest juror will receive a 2-page spread including a brief bio, website, and 2 images in print and digital formats. Published artists will receive a complimentary digital issue and will be listed on Create! Magazine’s website/social media.

SALES: The July Issue will be available at McNally Jackson Books in NYC, Charlotte Street News in London & online.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens

Posted on April 19, 2017April 19, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

aztec TEA

We move to our “clean slate” apartment in about 6 weeks. It has a good-size front porch but almost no yard. The only green in site is a decayed and crumbling stepped flower bed next to the driveway. I don’t think I can really grow a lot of food, but I have a friend that says she can get me a cut of epazote, a Mexican herb that’s hard to find in these parts. Maybe if I surround it with marigolds and citronella, I might be able to save it from the bugs & their furrier 4-legged neighbors. This next Call wants to know about your flowers, plants & gardens. This is a perennial favorite, ha…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Flowers, Plants & Gardens. $25 entry & no shipping. The media is pretty wide open too. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens
from Art-competition.net

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ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

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

THEME: Flowers, Plants & Gardens “symbolize continual rebirth, fresh beginnings, fragile persistence, and alluring symmetry. Whether it is a single flower, a garden in full aromatic bloom or a ‘shy’ plant on a window sill, there is no mistaking the awesome complexity of the planet’s precious myriad types of vegetation. This abundance of flowers and greenery inspires and challenges the creative mind to redefine and/or simply glorify their splendor.”

DEADLINE: May 8, 2017

NOTIFICATION: May 22, 2017

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

AWARDS: 20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “Flowers, Plants & Gardens” at Gallery25N; the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 24,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, etc.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Paperworks

Posted on April 17, 2017April 18, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

COOKING in paper

I dislike washing dishes, just like everyone else. I have had a dishwasher for the past 10 years, but I still try to be conservative in usage. But as of June 1, we are downsizing to an apartment that does not have a dishwasher. And, while I will still avoid disposables, like paper plates, I am a strong advocate of cooking “en papillote”. Not only is it a great way to produce tender, flavor-infused dishes, it also produces one less dirty dish. This next Call also extols the praises of working with paper. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the b.j. spoke gallery (Huntington, NY) for Paperworks 2017. The deadline is approaching, so don’t miss this chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Paperworks 2017
at b.j. spoke gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. residents

MEDIA: Open to works made of, on or about paper: cut paper, folded paper, woven paper, glued paper, drawings, paintings, pastels, prints, photography, paper sculpture, 3D, bound books, collage, mixed media, video, installation.

DEADLINE: April 30, 2017

NOTIFICATION: May 30, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for six (6) images

JUROR: Akili Tommasino is a curatorial assistant at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and doctoral candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, where he earned his MA and BA. An advocate of emerging artists and scholar of the twentieth-century avant-garde, Tommasino has organized and collaborated on numerous exhibition projects at institutions including the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

AWARDS: The exhibition of selected works in August, 2017 at the b.j. spoke gallery.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Monsters

Posted on April 16, 2017April 17, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

gooseBERRIES

Pineapples are showing up in mass at every grocer right now. I can’t eat enough to take advantage of the availability, so I was contemplating making jelly or jam. As you may know, pineapple fights the jelling process, so you have to use nearly twice as much pectin to make it work –which defeats the purpose of buying on sale. Maybe I can freeze the cleaned pineapple and wait for gooseberries come into season. These little treasures have huge amounts of pectin and can be made into jelly without ANY additional pectin. This next Call wants your little treasures, but they must be monstrous…

Check out this Call for Entries from FE Gallery (Sacramento, CA) for Tiny Monsters. $20 entry & remember, small works shows generally mean cheaper shipping costs. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Monsters
from FE Gallery

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“. . . show in tribute to the wolf in grandmother’s clothes, to the bump in the night, to the monsters under our beds and to all of your most dangerous creations who lurk in a tiny frame.” — from FE Gallery

ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to many media, including photography, mixed media, painting, drawing, encaustic, fiber arts, sculpture, etc. Limited to work 12″x12″x12″ or smaller. *Sorry no Video at this time.

DEADLINE: April 30th , 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS: $500 Best in Show

SALES: FE Gallery retains 40% commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Bowery 26th Annual

Posted on April 13, 2017April 13, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

les ÉPINARDS

I am what I am, and this week, I am a spinach lover. To be honest, I am a spinach lover every week, but this week I have had spinach quiche & spinach salad without a wilted leaf to be seen. Because of the popularity of aquaponics and the number of artisan growers in my area, every day is spinach season for me (happy dance), but this next Call just has a few more days left. Don’t miss this deadline…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Bowery Gallery (New York, NY) for the 26th Annual Juried Competition. $35 entry & No commission. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
26th Annual Juried
from Bowery Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to include painting, drawing, printmaking & mixed media. Sculpture, photography and digital art not eligible.

DEADLINE: April 20, 2017

NOTIFICATION: June 1, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3, $6 ea. add’l

JUROR: Kyle Staver received her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art, and has exhibited throughout the United States. She has been a recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2015) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize (2015). Her work has been exhibited at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She currently exhibits at Kent Fine Art in New York, and lives in Brooklyn.

SALES: All work will be for sale unless artist states otherwise. All proceeds go to the artist.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: A Womb with a View

Posted on April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

MORE please

I have a complicated relationship with food. I eat what I want, when I want. I have a complicated relationship with moderation too. Food is at the very least a political one, and clearly a feminist one. Diet culture is pervasive. Patriarchy is rampant in the food industry. Then there’s fat shaming, BMI calculations and food deserts. This next Call wants your feminist perspective — food references not necessary. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Inner Space: A Chamber Gallery (Jersey City, NJ) for A Womb with a View. No entry fee and a curator open to all the possibilities. Investigate this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
A Womb with a View
from Inner Space

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists who believe that “feminism” will lead to a global reality where a new kind of person emerges with a new vision and create a new universal language.

MEDIA: Open to all media including art, art essays, performance, creative writing, other forms of writing & visual information.

THEME: “Inner Space joined by The Vagilante aim to examine, discuss, and present work that represents the intersections of culture, politics, economics, race, gender and/or sexual identity through a contemporary feminist lens in our current political climate.” –Inner Space

DEADLINE: April 16, 2017

NOTIFICATION: April 18, 2017

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee

CURATOR: The Vagilante, feminist superhero

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LOVE ME love me not

CALL for ENTRIES: Black & White from BWAC

For full details, Read the Full Call!

penny FOODS

CALL for ENTRIES: 12th Nat’l Juried from Axis Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

all my SENSES

CALL for ENTRIES: Senses working Overtime from L.A. Photo Curator

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CURRY from a cart

CALL for ENTRIES: Henri Cartier-Bresson Passporte Prize in Street Photography from The Passporte

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

playing with your FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: July Int’l Print Issue of Create! Magazine

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

aztec TEA

CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens from Art-competition.net

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

COOKING in paper

CALL for ENTRIES: Paperworks 2017 at b.j. spoke gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

gooseBERRIES

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Monsters from FE Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

les ÉPINARDS

CALL for ENTRIES: 26th Annual Juried from Bowery Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

MORE please

CALL for ENTRIES: A Womb with a View from Inner Space

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White from BWAC

CALL for ENTRIES:
12th Nat’l Juried
from Axis Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Senses working Overtime from
L.A. Photo Curator

CALL for ENTRIES:
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Passporte Prize in
Street Photography
from The Passporte

CALL for ENTRIES:
July Int’l Print Issue
of Create! Magazine

CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens
from Art-competition.net

CALL for ENTRIES:
Paperworks 2017
at b.j. spoke gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Monsters
from FE Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
26th Annual Juried
from Bowery Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
A Womb with a View
from Inner Space