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CALL for ENTRIES: Gender Definition

Posted on July 19, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

I am a product of a Southern upbringing and all the loveliness–and baggage–that goes with it. As a woman in the South, we are often expected to be in charge in the boardroom, have dinner on the table by 7…and do it all in heels and pearls.

Gender issues have been the subject of art for as long as art has been a subject. “Girl, Please!” is a Call for Entries from the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and is a great exhibit opportunity to re-examine gender issues from a slightly different perspective.

Take a look…

Call for Entries:
Girl, Please!

Exhibition Dates: November 5 – December 23, 2010

“We are all born naked, the rest is just drag” -Rupaul

Gender is a performance, an act that is perpetuated and maintained by societal norms and expectations, but how, and to what extent does it define us? “Girl, Please!” seeks to push and transcend the definition of gender while also exploring its relation to individual character amongst collective expectations. Bearing in mind Rupaul’s statement, drag in this case is not disco, but rather an illustration of feminity and masculinity in shades of grey.

Open to all genders! Artwork in all media may not exceed 72” horizontally, frame included. Please include an artist statement and a $30 entry fee.

Online Entries Submit jpgs of up to three of your works on our website.

Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form, and a $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.

Jurors: Kristen Carter and Emanuel Aguilar

Kristen Carter is WMG’s Gallery Coordinator. She is a graduate from DePaul University, and has a BA in History of Art and Architecture with a minor in Studio Art, in addition to studying Art History and Fine Art in Florence, Italy. Carter is a Ph.D candidate in Art History at the University of British Columbia as of September 2010. She is also a member of the Keeper Team for ArtSlant Chicago where she writes monthly reviews about art exhibitions in Chicago, and writes for the online art magazine, Jettison.

Emanuel Aguilar is assisting Woman Made Gallery with its exhibition programs. In addition he volunteers his marketing skills to the organization. He is a Fine Arts Major at Columbia College with concentration in Identity Politics and a Minor in Marketing, and he studied in Florence, Italy at the Lorenzo De Medici University. Aguilar works for Chicago’s Jean Albano Gallery and A & D Gallery. He has curated several exhibitions, and helped found the online arts magazine, Jettison.

Entry Deadline: August 11, 2010

Notifications: September 8, 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Printmaking

Posted on March 14, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

I want you to know that I am listening.

By examining the statistics for Art & Art Deadlines.com (AAAD), I have realized that you don’t seem to care for long lists of deadlines broken up by month. Guess what? I don’t like posting them either.

Instead, the hits on this site seem to indicate that you like being able to search by deadline month and year, but you prefer being given a show or two at a time.

I am excited about this revelation. I love being able to offer you shows as I trip across them instead of huge lists. The result–you’ll get more posts, and I feel less pressure. Wonderful!

Here is a great opportunity for female artists from the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.

Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to support women in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness and advocacy. It specifically accomplishes this through exhibitions which raise public awareness and recognition of women’s cultural contributions.

From 1992 through 2010 WMG has programmed 163 group shows, 104 invitational/solo shows, 36 Artisan Gallery exhibitions, and eight off-site shows. More than 6500 women artists have exhibited their work since WMG was established.

You know how I love a theme, and WMG always provides one. This call has a looming deadline, but you can enter online making it much more convenient for all those procrastinators out there. Here’s the call, in brief. Follow the link for the prospectus.

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Category: Printmaking (pdf)

http://www.womanmade.org/entryform.html
Exhibition Dates: July 9 – August 26, 2010
Invitation to women artists to submit artwork that challenges the boundaries of traditional handprint media, including intaglio, lithography, relief, monoprint and silkscreen. Please include an artist statement and a $30 entry fee.

Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on their website.

Juror: Debora Wood. Debora Wood is senior curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, where she takes the leading role in developing the Museum’s exhibitions and collections. She has been at the Block Museum since 1999 and her area of focus is in twentieth-century art and the history and study of prints. Wood has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of the exhibition catalogues for Imaging by Numbers (2008) and Marion Mahony Griffin (2005), and contributing author to catalogue Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910–1960 (2006).

Extended Entry Deadline: March 24 , 2010
Notifications: April 14, 2010

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