PAPER PICKY
Paper is good for a lot of things, but not something I want to eat from unless I’m consuming a ball park hotdog or street food. I know there is an arguement to be made for spending the time wasted washing dishes with your family but I encourage you to at least consider recycled paper plates. However, we truly honor food in my family, and I will only suggest you check out the environmental impact. Sermon completed, I promise. Check out Toni’s Treehouse if you want to learn more about living green.
Recycle your paper for art, folks. Here’s a ready-made opportunity…but you’d better hurry! Check out this Call for Entries from Gallery 5 for Papier-Mâchete. The entry fee is only $20 but the deadline is just around the corner (see below). Don’t miss this opportunity!
CALL for ENTRIES: Papier-Mâchete
Gallery 5 is now accepting entries for Papier-Mâchete. This juried fine-art exhibition will focus on artwork utilizing paper and organic fiber media as the primary construction means. Papier-Mâchete will explore the limitless range found in these ubiquitous materials.
MEDIA: Submissions may be 2D or 3D but should display innovative and inventive uses of paper and associated fibers. Traditional techniques such as collage and papier-mâché are discouraged but may be included if they exemplify a unique or transcendent approach to the craft. All works must be primarily composed of paper or analogous fibers, that include but are not limited to, cardboard, cardstock, newspaper, paper pulp, or organic media adapted from wood and fabric.
ENTRY FEE: An entry fee of $20.00 for up to 5 works must be included with each submission. There is a $5.00 fee for each additional submission. There is no limit to the total number of works that can be submitted.
AWARDS: All participants are eligible to win up to $1000 in cash and prizes. 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners will be announced by jurors during the First Friday opening scheduled for January 7th at 7pm.
DEADLINE: Tuesday, November 23th 2010. All submissions (documents & fees) must arrive at Gallery5 by 6pm. I heard a rumor that it might be extended to December 1st…no guarantees.
ABOUT THE JURORS:
Aaron McIntosh is a professional artist based in Virginia and MFA Graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. He received a BFA from the Appalachian Center for Craft and has shown his work nationally. He creates art that explores heteronormative ideals of love, romance, sex and sexuality utilizing a diverse array of objects, design motifs and texts, sourcing patterned cloth, lace, wallpaper, valentines, romance novels and erotic magazines. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Fibers at James Madison University.
Richard Waller is executive director of University Museums, including the Marsh Art Gallery, the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center and the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. He received his master of fine arts degree from Yale University after graduating from Mankato State University in Minnesota. He also received a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Before joining the University in 1990, Waller worked at the Brooklyn Museum of Art for 19 years and taught at New York’s Parsons School of Design. He has been a curator, judge and organizer of many historical and contemporary art exhibitions and has written extensively on visual art.
Amie Oliver is a professional artist. She is a current board member of 1708 Gallery and adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received a Master of Fine Arts at Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor of Arts at Mississippi State University.