POTATO SPLAT
History has never been my favorite subject. However, I recognize how important a sense of history is in our everyday lives. Everytime I make potato pancakes …and inevitably burn, mangle or drop them …I smile knowing Julia Child got there before me. This next Call gives you a reason and purpose to reflect upon your history…at least about half of you.
Check out this Call for Entries from the MPLS Photo Center for Picturing Life as a Woman. Submissions are limited only by your imagination. With the holidays rapidly approaching, our lives are ripe with subject matter. Take a look…
CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman
Women have been actively involved with photography since the medium’s inception in 1839. The barriers to their participation were lower than in the other arts, and recognition often came faster. Yet women and their photographs have not been as visible as they should have been in view of their numbers and past influence. Only in fairly recent exhibitions and critical writings have women’s work in photography received due consideration.
Diane Arbus, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and thousands more women use their cameras as instruments of revelation – often about themselves. In the process they challenge assumptions about what it means to be and be seen.
ELIGIBILITY: This International Call for Entry invites women from around the world to submit photographs that demonstrate a smart, critical take on women with cameras in this day of a more open and subtle notion of gendered identity.
Submissions are only limited by your imagination and may cover a broad range of challenging, personal, emotional, and political issues facing women today. Their work-life, home, family, friends, relationships, life partners, homosexual, heterosexual, politics, equal rights, stereotypes, causes, roles and wishes.
DEADLINE: January 24th, 2011
NOTIFICATION: January 30th, 2011
ENTRY FEE: $35 for the first 5 images, $10 each additional
AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200, Honorable Mentions(3) – $100
JUROR: Christina Chang, Assistant Curator, Wiesman Art Museum