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CALL for ENTRIES: The Portrait

Posted on February 24, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

PURPLE,
not GREEN

Recently I called eggplant sexy, and I am still receiving email about that one. So chew on this one: brussel sprouts are sexy too. There. I said it. I mean it. You don’t have to like it…or them. The only thing that makes me hesitate to say my veggie self portrait would be a brussel sprout is, of course, they are green and round. I strive not to be green or round. This next call is all about portraits. And I still think eggplant is sexy, folks…

Check out this Call for Entries for The Portrait: Up Close & Personal from MPLS Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN). This is a great venue and a great juror. Don’t miss this opportunity!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
The Portrait:
Up Close & Personal

Portraits tell a story, depict a character, reveal emotion, demonstrate sensitivity and illustrate an intimate connection with your subject.

The greatest challenge and most important element in a successful portrait is an intimate connection with the subject. The ways in which you explore this connection, going beneath the surface and finding what is the essence of the portrait determines its success as a representation of your subject.

Explore different styles and methods of making revealing portraits that reflect not just the subject but you the photographer as well. Demonstrate the sensitivity necessary to move beyond literal renderings to more intimate portraits. Create images that go below the surface and penetrate deeply into a subject’s character.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: April 15th, 2012

NOTIFICATION: April 24th, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for five, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR: Andrea Mellard is Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, Texas. The newly merged museum provides rich environments for a wide range of audiences to investigate and experience excellence in modern and contemporary art. The museum accomplishes this through innovative exhibitions, education, interpretative programs and direct access to the creative process. Andrea Mellard draws on an interdisciplinary background to connect visual art to contemporary culture. She has been on staff for seven years and curating for since 2009.

Recently, she curated exhibitions of photography including Clifford Ross: Outside Realism and New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch. Previously, she was a curatorial and research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History for a three-year long cultural history project on Memphis, Tennessee. She holds an M.A. degree in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and an Interdisciplinary Humanities degree for California State University at Monterey.

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free Black & White Exhibition Book.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Absence of Color

Posted on December 21, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

CABBAGE,
not KRAUT

People tell me the wackiest food facts. I love hearing them, and I usually assume I am being told the truth. But, just to be certain, I always verify the facts if I can. Recently someone told me that the black and white cookie, that I alway think of as German in orgin, IS actually German, but it is called an Amerikaner. There has to be some cyclical humor in the fact that an American who thought she was a fan of German cookies is really only a fan of cookies that Germans refer to as American cookies. Funny. This next call is all about Black and White, too. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Black & White: Absence of Color from MPLS Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN). This is a great venue and a great juror. Don’t miss this opportunity!

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Absence of Color, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White: Absence of Color

The world’s first photographic images were made in shade of gray, black, and white, and the black and white photograph continues to be an important palette for photographers today. The beauty of a well-printed black and white photograph is undeniable—it is striking, unearthly, and can be life changing.

Some of the world’s most memorable photographs are black and white—the rich blacks, glowing whites, and silvery grays of a strong, black and white photograph leave a lasting impression on the mind. For photographers, those deep blacks hold a special significance, as it is the black tones that reveal themselves first in photographic chemistry and communicate the magic, mystery, and possibility of the photographic process.

Black and white photographs can have painterly, etching-like qualities, which were celebrated by photography’s inventors and early adopters. Photography as art was first championed with The Photo-Secessionists who celebrated the pictorial aspect of the black and white image. Today photography is widely accepted as an art form and as a key medium within contemporary and conceptual art.

The choice of using black and white versus color is the photographer’s choice, and the reasons for that choice can be personal, theoretical, or aesthetic. This call for entry—Black and White—The Absence of Color—looks to grays and blacks and whites to tell the story and make the picture that color would often muddy.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: Jan. 21st, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Jan. 29th, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for five, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR: Bevin Bering Dubrowski is Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography, a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach programs, lectures, and classes. HCP’s mission is to increase society’s understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture, and produces 15 – 20 exhibitions annually on and off-site, balancing work by regional and internationally acclaimed emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Bevin curates exhibition for HCP and is also editor of spot magazine, a bi-annual journal of photography that includes artist portfolios, interviews, exhibition and book excerpts, and highlights on HCP members’ work.

Prior to joining HCP as Executive Director, Bevin founded the photography division of Bering & James and served as gallery director. Bevin is also a practicing photographer and received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Emory University. Bevin has reviewed portfolios for FotoFest, Lens Culture/ FotoFest Paris, Photo Nola, and Photo Lucida. She has also recently served as a juror for Critical Mass and the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards and serves on the FotoFest Art Board.

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free Black & White Exhibition Book.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Off the Cuff

Posted on August 11, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

MUSTARD
du jour?

Spontaneous food creation is my favorite kitchen activity. There is nothing more exciting than finding a use for dijon mustard when it is the last seasoning you have left because you haven’t had time to make it to the grocery store this week. By the way, dijon mustard makes an excellent oil-free way to thicken homemade salad dressings. This next call asks you to submit your best spontaneous, unrehearsed photography for exhibition. I love this idea…

Check out this Call for Entries from MPLS Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN) for Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed. The entry fee is only $35 for up to FIVE images. Don’t miss this opportunity…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Off the Cuff

Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed will demonstrate the complex and varied roles photography employs as a witness and an accomplice in seeing the world. Relating to both the genres of street photography and performance art, these images may collectively portray chance encounters, improvisations, decisive moments in the height of action, and documents of occurrences. Without premeditation, the photographer captures what arises – acting as the mediator between the photograph and events as they unfold.

ELIGIBILITY:
All artists

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE: November 5th, 2011

NOTIFICATION: November 13th, 2011 via email

ENTRY FEE: $35 first 5 images, $10 each additional

JUROR: Madeline Yale is an independent curator and photography specialist based in Dubai and London. She is a consultant to auction houses in the Middle East and London, contributes to several publications on art and photography including Contemporary Practices, Art Dubai Journal, and is on the Editorial Board for HCP’s spot magazine. Yale holds a MA in Photographic Studies and is a PhD candidate at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free Off the Cuff Exhibition Book.

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Where in the World?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

SPEAK TO ME

I wish food could talk. Wouldn’t you like to know why one grape in a cluster is sweet and juicy and the next elicits the “pucker” face? Me too. I want to know why some pineapples ripen on my counter in a day or two and the next pineapple stubbornly refuses. I think they would tell me if they could. This next Call suggests the photographer visually interrogate their subject. Look out avocados, you’re on my short list…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, MN for Where in the World? People, Places and Events. Enter up to 5 photos for $35 and have your work juried by a world-class juror. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Where in the World?

Photography likes to break out of the studio and inhabit the world. Few things artists do are as immediately engaged with the dynamics of life and the environment as photography. Cameras have been on the bottom of the ocean and on the surface of the moon. They’ve seen everything, from weddings to wars, and they’ve augmented almost every attempt to understand life and our place in it. Where in the World: People, Places and Events will bring together a diverse group of photographers that interrogate the individuals, environments, and actions that comprise our universe.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE: July 25th, 2011

NOTIFICATION: August 2nd, 2011

ENTRY FEE: $35 first 5 images, $10 each additional

JUROR: Toby Kamp is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, has organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Tim Lee, Vanessa Beecroft, Martin Kersels and many more.

A graduate of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Kamps has written on contemporary art and artists for numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines. In 2008, The Old Weird America won the award “Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally” from the International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA). Prior to his CAMH appointment, Kamps was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland; and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions.

For complete details, read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman

Posted on December 7, 2010December 7, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

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

For all the details, visit the MPLS website!

PHOTOGRAPHY: Black and White

Posted on May 26, 2010June 3, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

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Installment 3:
Black and White Photography

I live in an area with a long-standing artisan crafts tradition, and I overhear a lot of conversation about how digital and “new-fangled” media will be the end of art as we know it. As you might imagine, as a Xerographist, I couldn’t disagree more. Artist Jerry Portelli and I even went so far as to create a series of square pieces in celebration of the pixel. So, I find this call from the MPLS Photo Center fascinating. Take a look…

Here is a great call for the photographer in us all…
Black & White Photgraphy Call for Entries from the MPLS Photo Center

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

What does “black and white” mean to contemporary photographers in the digital age? When Robert Frank made this observation, black-and-white film and silver prints were photography’s most commonly used materials. Nearly a half century later they are approaching “alternative media” status. Or are they? Are the implications and meanings of black and white still central to photography’s unique nature as a visual medium?

Submissions to this juried exhibition are limited only by your imagination and your photographic eye. Portraits, fashion, editorial, landscapes, documentary, conceptual – all of these genres, and others not named, are open for consideration.

Prints should take whatever form they need to in order to represent the continuum of tones, including gray tone, warm tone, cool tone, sepia, or other monochromes that comprise your photographs. Whether the initial recording was made on film or pixels is immaterial. However, in the final assessment, prints will be judged on their merits. Qualities of form, content, and relation to traditions of black-and-white printing and visualization will be sought in the pool of submissions.

About the Juror: As the founder, principal, and sole employee of re:photographica, George Slade has delved into matters related to the photographic arts for nearly thirty years. Although he started these inquiries as a photographer, his work over the past twenty years has been focused on curating, consulting, and commenting on others’ images. He was the artistic director of Minnesota Center for Photography (2003-2008) and the director of the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program (1998-2008). His writings have been published widely; he received a 2007 award from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program. Web sites like Flickr and Facebook, and digital imaging in general, are drawing him back into the making side of photography. On Quodlibetica, his photographs accompany Kristin Makholm’s “Five Memos on a New Museum.”

Juror: George Slade, Principal at re:photographica
Entry Fee: $35 up to 5 images; $10 each additional (no limit on number that may be submitted)
Prizes: $300 for 1st; $200 for 2nd; $100 for 3rd
Entries Due: July 23, 2010
Notice of Acceptance: August 2, 2010
Exhibition Dates: September 10 – October 25, 2010
Reception: September 10, 2010

MPLS Photo Center, 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55411, 612-643-3511, http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/callforentriesBW

Contact: Clare O’Neill, clare@mplsphotocenter.com

Tag: MPLS Photo Center

PURPLE, not GREEN

CALL for ENTRIES: The Portrait: Up Close & Personal

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CABBAGE, not KRAUT

CALL for ENTRIES: Black & White: Absence of Color

For complete details, Visit the Website!

MUSTARD du jour?

CALL for ENTRIES: Off the Cuff

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

SPEAK TO ME

CALL for ENTRIES: Where in the World?

For complete details, read the Full Call!

POTATO SPLAT

CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman

For all the details, visit the MPLS website!

PURPLE,
not GREEN

CALL for ENTRIES:
The Portrait:
Up Close & Personal

CABBAGE,
not KRAUT

CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White: Absence of Color

MUSTARD
du jour?

CALL for ENTRIES:
Off the Cuff

CALL for ENTRIES:
Where in the World?