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CALL for ENTRIES: Small Plates

Learn more about the Small Plates exhibit from artandartdeadlines.com!yours, MINE
& ours

Food is so personal.  A client recently asked if I had any dietary restrictions so that she could be prepared for our branding consultation that will span a lunch time.  I’m allergic to parsnips, which is rarely an issue, and wheat which is always an issue.  Always.  Her response?  We grow our own heirloom corn varietals from which we grind our own corn meal for cornbread.”  Food is PERSONAL, and this next Call couldn’t be any more personal.  Your support will determine the growth of this opportunity.  Please make it personal for you too…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art&ArtDeadlines.com for Small Plates: A Response to Hunger, an exhibit of unframed small works at The Balcony Gallery (Knox, TN).  This is a tiny show that needs big support…

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Enter the Small Plates Exhibit at The Balcony in Knoxville, TN sponsored by AAAD!
CALL for ENTRIES:
Small Plates from artandartdeadlines.com

 

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

THEME: Hunger—physical, spiritual, political, emotional or creative. Food reference optional.

MEDIA: Open to all 2D unframed media that will fit in a 9”x 12” envelope.

DEADLINE:  EXTENDED TO April 18, 2016 (midnight EST)

NOTIFICATION:  Ongoing until April 19, 2016

Small Plates: A Response to Hunger from artandartdeadlines.comENTRY FEE: $5 for up to 5 images. Entry fees are waived for members in good standing of The Haggus Society.

CURATOR: R.L. Gibson, a working artist and the Editor of artandartdeadlines.com (AAAD). Trained in classical, French culinary techniques, Gibson created AAAD as a food-themed resource to motivate artists to create their own community, standards & artistic opportunities. In addition her own solo & collaborative art, Gibson has served as a gallerist, juror, teacher & arts administrator for nearly two decades.

SALES: All work will be considered for sale unless marked NFS. A commission of 30% will be taken on all sales. Unsold artwork will be returned and payment for sold artwork will be made within 30 days of the close of the exhibit.

AWARDS: Best of Show, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place will be awarded. Note, at the curator’s discretion, ONE image from EVERY artist will go into the online exhibit with a link to the artist’s website.

For complete details, Read the Full Prospectus!

Click to Read the Full Call for Small Plates: A Response to Hunger!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Karen O’Neil

yours FOREVER

I have spent a lifetime not buying still life work, because it doesn’t usually call to me.  I like my work non-representational, controversial, emotionally raw.  But I keep finding work that defies my notion of what is and is not still life.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the DayKaren O’Neil creates contemporary work with bright hues that only work because of her masterful use of neutrals –grays abound.  (continues below)

Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O'Neil
                   Yellow Apple with Blue by Painter Karen O’Neil

It speaks to me. The apple. It does. I want to own it, eat it and know why it is yellow. I do.

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Discover more work from the (AAAD)
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Artist of the Day Karen O’Neil!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Garden Realm

Learn more about the Garden Realm from the Litha Moon Gallery!don’t eat the
POINSETTIAs

Holiday meals at our house are inevitably eaten around a floral centerpiece, or more commonly, a potted plant.  But, for love of our dogs, there hasn’t been a poinsettia in our home for a couple of decades.  Instead, we keep a Christmas cactus or two year round.  The only rule of thumb is to treat them badly.  My mother didn’t water hers for a year, left it on the front porch during multiple early cold snaps.  She pulled it in  & watered it mid-October, and it was gorgeous just in time for Thanksgiving.  So, as a rule, don’t eat your floral holiday centerpieces, but a Christmas cactus might protect your pets if they get the munchies.  This next Call is looking for your perspective on flowers this winter.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Litha Moon Gallery (Greensboro, GA) for The Garden Realm: Flora in Watercolour.  I always appreciate a themed call that makes room for the abstract.  Investigate…

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Learn more about the Garden Realm from the Litha Moon Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Garden Realm

Whether a walk down a garden path, or discovering fragile gentle beauty on a woodland trail, flowers have been a silent still and inspiring subject throughout time.  Flowers express love, celebrate rights of passage, such as marriage, birth and death, providing peace for the weary and comfort for the stressed.  They are the passion and tenderness of the lover.  Comfort for the grieving.” — lithamoon.com

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Watercolor of flowers — open to interpretation, realist to abstract

DEADLINE:  December 19, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  January 16, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 4

AWARDS:  1st  Place $300, 2nd Place $150, 3rd Place $100 & 2 Certificates of Recognition/Honorable Mention

SALES:  Litha Moon Gallery will retain 35% commission on all works sold.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Garden Realm from the Litha Moon Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2

Learn more about the Flowers, Plants and Gardens 2 exhibit at Art-Competition.net!needle
TEA

Did you know that pine needles are edible, sort of?  If you love the smell of holiday wreaths and garlands made of fresh pine, you can get that same sense of comfort from tea brewed of pine needles.  Be careful NOT to use yew, Norfolk Island Pine or Ponderosa Pine (poisonous) and be sure to forage for your needles to help avoid fertilizers and pesticides.  It’s a different way to look at those ever-present evergreens.   This next Call wants to see your different take on plants of all sorts too.  Deck the halls…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2.  Only $20 to enter & thousands in prizes. Take a look

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Learn more about the Flowers, Plants and Gardens 2 exhibit at Art-Competition.net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2

 

There are always flowers
for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to any still medium: painting, collage, photography, drawing, digital art, sculpture, fiber art, etc.

THEME: Work should intrigue and fascinate the viewer with their vision and communicate their individual interpretations of plants. The work can reflect on nature’s remarkable abundance and diversity in the wild, a garden, an individual plant and or the beauty or complexity of a single leaf or petal. The art can be expressed from realism to abstraction.

DEADLINE: January 11, 2016

NOTIFICATION: January 21, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $35 for 3  and $60 for 7

AWARDS: 1st Place $1,000 cash + $5000 marketing value, 2nd Place $250 cash + $1000 marketing value, 3rd place $125, 4th Place $75, 5th Place $50.  There will be 10 Honorable Mentions with the artist’s work being displayed in the “Honorable Mentions” section of Art-Competition.net.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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We are happy to have Art-Competition.net as a sponsor of AAAD.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Fresh February

Learn more about the February Call from Fresh Paint Magazine!CITRUS
star

Fresh, in-season foods are the heart of our family meals.  And as much as I love celebrating winter and the approaching new year with fudge and brownies and cookies and cocoa, the star of the season is always the clementine for me.  The supply is bountiful until January, but it is just enough to promise me that Spring really will arrive.  This next Call will offer you a little bit of fresh in February too.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Fresh Paint Magazine (print & digital) for the February 2016 Edition.  This is a rare PRINTED art publication.  Don’t forget that this call is open to more than PAINTING

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Learn more about the February Call from Fresh Paint Magazine!CALL for ENTRIES:
Fresh February

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all forms of painting, drawing, art photography, sculpture and mixed media are eligible.

DEADLINE:  January 5, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  January 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: £40 for up to 3 (approx. $60.45 USD), £5 ea. add’l (approx. $7.76 USD).

CURATOR: Alice Herrick is an artist, curator and gallerist and founder and director of Herrick Gallery.  Alice trained as a painter at Kingston University, B.A. ’92 and Chelsea School of Art, M.A. ’93, and is a practicing artist, exhibiting her work in London and beyond.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be published in the next digital and print issue of FreshPaintMagazine (February 2016).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Fresh Paint Magazine!

We are PROUD to have Fresh Paint Magazine as a sponsor of AAAD!

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ARTIST of the DAY: S.L. Baker

another LANGUAGE

Process can be such an immersive experience.  My own work is focused, often figurative with meaning in the minutia.  I get lost in my own process, but I envy the abstracted expression of painters like S.L. Baker, today’s Artist of the DayThe inclusion of the ensō below perfectly captures the heart of this work and why I love it. (continues below)

Red Enso Landscape by SL Baker Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24
Red Enso Landscape by S.L. Baker, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24

“The work that appears on my canvases is a confluence of social, spiritual and familial concern.  Working mostly in acrylic and using my hands instead of brushes, a moment, an injustice, a joy becomes a color, a texture, a line, another language. I do not know the exact meaning other than I find gratitude within the process and believe that it says something.” — S.L. Baker

Learn more about S.L. Baker!

CALL for ENTRIES: Power It Forward

Learn more about the Power it Forward project!power FOODS

Green chili has made my week.  Sometimes I struggle in the winter since most produce is sun-powered.  But, I have learned how to make the best of what IS available.  Using imported, hot-house tomatoes is never my first choice; however, if you are going to cook them for hours, like I do in green chili, tangy unriped green tomatoes can be just the thing to fool your taste buds for another week until Spring arrives.  Here’s a sun-powered Call that will make your week too.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Power It Forward for a T-Shirt Design contest.  Your design can help offer wind/solar power to one of the estimated 1.3 billion people without power in this world.  No entry fee, plus cash prizes. I love this one…

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Learn more about the Power it Forward project!CALL for ENTRIES:
Power It Forward

 

“Power It Forward, Inc.’s mission is to bring clean electrical power to people who don’t have it in impoverished and developing countries.  Having clean power impacts people’s quality of life, education, health, happiness, and the environment.  We are looking for outstanding artwork that can be used for Power It Forward, Inc.”  –poweritfwd.com

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all U.S. artists

MEDIA:  Open to work that has been hand-drawn, painted, collaged, or digitally rendered.  No photography.  The artwork should be clearly visible on a solid color background. Up to three solid colors can be used to construct the artwork as long as they are clearly visible on either the white or black background colors.  Work should draw inspiration from 1 of 4 slogans: 1) Power it Forward 2) Power to Give, Power to Live 3) Power for the People or 4) Give Power, Get Power.

Learn more about the Power it Forward project!DEADLINE:  December 31, 2015

NOTIFICATION: by March 2, 2016

ENTRY FEE:  None

JURORS:  Winners chosen by judges from the company & a collection of artists.

AWARDS:  Up to 4 winners will be chosen (one for each slogan) & will receive $500 each.

SALES:  Artist will NOT receive a % of sales.  Note that your only compensation would be a prize award. Please be aware that Power It Forward retains rights to work.  Editor’s Note:  This is not an uncommon part of these contests.  Be prepared to receive a TOTAL of $500 for your design; otherwise, don’t enter.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Power it Forward project!

ARTISTS of the Day: Jason Hallman & Stephen Stum

don’t be BLUE

I know the psychology of color dictates that blue is symbolic of sadness, but it always conjures the quiet of standing water for me.  It is always of surprise to me that blue is the most commonly-claimed “favorite color” (my own is red). But I doubt the popularity of this hue is of any question of today’s Artists of the Day Jason Hallman & Stephen Stum of Stallman Studio.  And it IS the perfect work and hue to feature with today’s Blue Call. (continues below)

"Rising Currents" by Jason Hallman of Stephen Stum of Stallman Studios
Detail of “Rising Currents” by Jason Hallman of Stephen Stum of Stallman Studios

Stallman is pioneering a new technique using paint and canvas as sculpture, naming this body of work Canvas on Edge. They are taking canvas and paint and giving it a creative edge. Now the canvas has the leading role, creating form, highlight and movement. The cut edge of the canvas creates an elevated line drawing and when seen at an angle, fields of color emerge as your perspective to the piece changes.  The hue of the painted canvas reflects on the background creating a spectrum of color. By using reflecting light, pigment and structure they can multiply the hues and tones within each sculpture.–from stallmanstudio.com

Learn more about Stallman Studio!

ARTIST of the DAY: Laura Sellers

smoky MOUNTAINS

The Smoky Mountains are celebrated for the vivid colors of fall, but those of us in the know appreciate the desaturated hues of winter.  We rarely get the opportunity to celebrate artists that live so close, so we are  excited to  share the work of Asheville-based artist Laura Sellers, our current Artist of the Day, with you.   (continues below)
Learn more about the work of AAAD Artist of the Day Laura Sellers!
Learn more about the work of AAAD’s Artist of the Day Laura Sellers!
“The summer series of crates were my first attempt at abstract painting on a 3-dimensional form using the desaturation scale. The entire palette was created from the combination of two complementary colors (yellow-green and purple) that when combined form a neutral grey. The colors matched the rainy summer days of the mountains perfectly, and the abstract lines mimic the horizontal landscape lines.” –Laura Sellers

Learn more about Laura Sellers!

ARTIST of the DAY: Grant Haffner

on the road, again

I spend a lot of time on the road, and the work of Grant Haffner, our current Artist of the Day, serves as a great reminder to stop, take a breath and SEE. I am a huge fan of color field work, and this intersection of color field with a dash of Fauvism and huge dollop of the living landscape is stunning–nectareous, even, to this weary traveler. (continues below)

"Winter on Scuttle Hole Road" by Grant Haffner
“Winter on Scuttle Hole Road” by Grant Haffner

“Those that are able to see beyond the shadows & lies
of their culture will never be understood
let alone believed by the masses.” –Plato

 

Learn more about Grant Haffner!