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ARTIST of the DAY: Jennifer Dipper

Posted on January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

try a new PERSPECTIVE

It is just another day of the calendar, but January 1 brings out the worst of self-judgement & self-loathing in us all. New Year’s resolutions are rarely about self-fulfillment & more about internalizing the judgement of others –about fixing perceived faults of body image, guilty pleasures & consumer expectations. So every January 1, I just try, often in vain, to remember to live my life with eyes open, wide open, open with a renewed awareness of myself and the world around me, the people, the earth, and the food, of course. When I came across this image by today’s Artist of the Day, Jennifer Dipper, I recognized this look. Gentle but fierce, a haze of lashes softening but not obscuring the world. Strength.

*EYES: Open by Photographer Jennifer Dipper*

“I like taking a minimal approach to fine art photography. Moments captured are not created my me. I am simply recording one possible perspective in a given time in a way that I am captivated. Capturing an image allows me to capsulate [sic] a fleeting moment, allowing that same emotion (or interpretation) to be felt over and over by even those who were not there.” —Jennifer Dipper

Learn more about photographer Jennifer Dipper!

ARTIST of the DAY: Greg Sand

Posted on December 17, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

CHRISTMAS future

I watched Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” again last night. I think the familiarity of the story along with the endless tongue-in-cheek remakes and knock-offs have taken the edge of the concept. But what if? What if your life was absent of you? The work of Greg Sand, today’s Artist of the Day, reminds me of the reality of that concept. Every vintage portrait over which I have longed in consignment and thrift stores has met their end. Sobering. Another thoughtful display of empathy– empathy for those connected to these unknown souls. (continues below)

Once Removed #1 (left) & Once Removed #4 by Greg Sand — *Once Removed #1 (left) & Once Removed #4 (right) by Greg Sand*

“The series Once Removed consists of antique portraits in which the subject is missing. In all of the images, only the photographer’s backdrop and chair–next to which the sitter once stood–remain. The photographs are now about the absence of the subject rather than about the subject itself. Hopefully the viewer ponders the removal of the person and concludes, given the obvious age of the portraits, that the subject is dead.

‘By giving me the absolute past of the pose…
the photograph tells me death in the future… I shudder…
over a catastrophe which has already occurred.’

“These words from Roland Barthes’s ‘Camera Lucida” describe how I feel when I view a photograph as old as the ones used in this series. I feel a connection to the person, followed by a dread of what is to come, followed by a sense of grief at what has already transpired. The removal of the subject–who is very much alive in the photograph–forces the photograph to more truthfully depict the present reality in which the subject is no longer alive.” — Greg Sand

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CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2

Posted on December 12, 2015December 12, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

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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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!

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

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CALL for ENTRIES: childhood

Posted on December 11, 2015December 10, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

salt &
CELERY

Even as a kid, my tastes were a little off center. My father used to chop carrots for me so that I could dip them in celery salt, conveniently contained in the spice container cap. I don’t recall using celery salt on anything else either. So strange. Celery sticks got garlic salt, BTW. Neither get either now, ha. This next Call wants your perspective on childhood. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the A. Smith Gallery (TX) for childhood. Everyone starts out there, so the theme couldn’t be more relevant. Be inspired…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
childhood

“child – hood : infancy, nursery, youth, jejunity, bloom, teens, juvenile, beginning, adolescence ” –from asmithgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: January 7, 2016

NOTIFICATION: January 18, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 up to 5, $6 ea add’l

JUROR: Since 1998 Tom Chambers has shown photomontage images from 8 photographic series both nationally & internationally in 20 solo exhibitions & over 70 group exhibitions & art fairs. Chambers has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts & the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Tom’s photography is held in the collections of the National Museum (Colombia); California Sate Polytechnic University; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Santa Fe Museum of Art; Sir Richard Branson, personal collection; and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Chambers’ work has been published in multiple publications & books.

AWARDS: Jurors Award $325, Directors Award $250 & an exhibition catalogue, (5) Honorable Mentions receive an exhibition catalogue, and a Visitors Award $100.

SALES: A Smith Gallery will retain 40% commission.

For complete details, Read the full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Fresh February

Posted on December 5, 2015December 5, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

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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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!

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

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ARTIST of the DAY: Stacey Page

Posted on December 2, 2015December 2, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

naming, THE NAMELESS

You know that game you play at the airport when you’re bored where you try to tell the story of a complete strangers life as they walk by you on their way to baggage claim or ticketing? Today’s Artist of the Day , Stacey Page, has found a way to tell the story of random, discard portraits of the people someone loves. (continues below)

(left to right) Bee & Richard by Stacey Page — *(left to right) Bee & Richard by textile artist* *Stacey Page*

As an artist, I am inexplicably drawn to boxes and bins of photos at thrift stores and antique shops. I always wonder how they got there, who they were, what they meant to the world. But textile artist Stacey Page already KNOWS. She has discovered their inner demons, secret fantasies, heights & depths –in embroidery floss. I couldn’t be happier to share her work with you.

Learn more about Stacey Page!

CALL for ENTRIES: Seities & Selves

Posted on November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

BUTTER
me up

If you are what you eat, I come in stick form. Butter. I cannot tell you how often my husband’s cooking sends goodness wafting in the air which elicits the same response every time. “Butter. Onions. Yum.” It happens so many times a week, there is little doubt. I am butter. This Call wants to know what YOU are. Tell them…

Check out this Call for Entries from Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Seities & Selves. $24 entry. We’re proud our readers have been both shown & awarded at Darkroom. You know you have work for this theme…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Seities & Selves

“Self as subject, one’s uniqueness in scope, portraiture by design. In this age of the ubiquitous throwaway selfie it’s an even greater and more worthwhile challenge to create a self portrait that expresses one’s uniqueness and individuality.” –darkroomgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: December 2, 2015

NOTIFICATION: December 10, 2015

ENTRY FEE: 4 for $24 (online)/$29 (email)

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JUROR: After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. Now represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe and published throughout the world, Aline continues to create her award-winning photography with humor, compassion, and a 50-year-old camera.

Aline has curated and juried exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and on-line magazines, including Review Santa Fe, Critical Mass, Flash Forward, and the Griffin Museum. In addition, she is a reviewer and educator at many photo festivals across the United States. In 2014, Aline received the Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER, but she considers her children her greatest achievement. She is a founding member of the Six Shooters Collective and is currently teaching at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Santa Fe Photo Workshops, and the Maine Media Workshops. Aline lives and works in Los Angeles.

AWARDS: Selected entries are included in a full color exhibit catalog & gallery exhibit. Plus: Juror’s Choice: 30×48″ image banner; People’s Choice – a free future entry; Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition.

SALES: Free matting & framing of accepted entries (standard sizes). For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submissions page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Billboard Diversity

Posted on November 18, 2015November 17, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

EAT
more

I ate broccoli at dinner last night. *yawn* Did you know there are approximately 30,000 edible plants on this planet? Did you also know that a mere 50 crops make up 90% of the calories consumed? How did we get so boring? Diversity is the best part of eating and cooking and consuming (and being for that matter) even if I do forget that when shopping some days. This next Call is another excellent way to celebrate diversity. Take a look…

Check out this great Call for Entries for the annual Embracing our Differences billboard project (Sarasota, FL). No entry fee & $3000 in awards. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Embracing our Differences

Our goal is to create a community where diversity and inclusion are valued while teaching the importance of being an ‘up-stander,’ not a ‘by- stander’.” — from embracingourdifferences.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: 2-D work including but not limited to photography, digital, collage, drawing, painting, etc. Remember, if chosen, it will be enlarged to 16′ x 12.5′ or 4.9 m x 3.8m.

THEME: Enriching lives through diversity

DEADLINE: January 4, 2016 (midnight PST)

NOTIFICATION: Winning selections will be announced online by mid-March, 2016

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: A total of $3,000 USD in three separate $1,000 awards for Best-in-Show (adult), Best-in-Show (student) & People’s Choice.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Artist Grant

Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

cold & cheap
ROOTS

I am grateful for the apples, but I am missing fresh local veggies already. My local orchard serves as my farmers market most weeks. With their cold storage program, I can get local apples for most of the year, but the veggies they offer are limited as of November. Aside from winter squash, the only thing LOCALLY fresh I’ll have until spring are potatoes, onions and maybe a hot house bell pepper or two. My normal $25 farmers market budget will be too much for a change. This Call is a great use for the extra $. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Submissions from WorkingArtist.org for the $1000 Artist Grant/Art Purchase Award. $25 entry & send a link. It doesn’t get any easier. Don’t miss this one…

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CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
Artist Grant

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media including traditional visual arts, painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, video, new media & performance (no dance at this time).

DEADLINE: November 30, 2015

ENTRY FEE: There is an application review fee of $25 for up to 5.

AWARDS: If selected as the winner, the award recipient must exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion into a collection, in return for the award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. Shipping costs will be paid by workingartist.org.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Flawed

Posted on November 9, 2015November 9, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

seasonal
FRUIT

My experience with pre-packaged instant food is sketchy at best. You might find a box of instant oatmeal in my cabinet for lazy winter mornings. But I find that some foods that are unnaturally dehydrated to the extreme never really recover, like cheese & coffee, while others thrive, like cocoa and popcorn. I think of instant foods a little differently –preferring portable raw nuts, fruits, and even a few cheeses, best. This time of year though, pomegranates are my favorite. Just cut them in half, thump them with on spoon on the outside, and voilà –instant snackage. This next Call wants your instant favorites. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the A. Smith Gallery (TX) for flawed | an instant film exhibition. Rediscover the joy, freedom & accessibility of instant film. Buy a camera & film used. Stretch your skill set and find out what inspires you…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
flawed | an instant film exhibition

“flawed : faulty, haywire, imperfect, erring, inaccurate, crooked” –from asmithgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: The only constraints are that work must be made with one of the many forms of instant film, be it original Polaroid, any one of the Fuji Instant or Impossible Project films, or even the latest New55 Film.

DEADLINE: November 30, 2015

NOTIFICATION: December 12, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $30 up to 5, $6 ea add’l

JUROR: Michael Kirchoff straddles the worlds of both commercial and fine art photography. A commercial shooter for twenty-five years, it is his fine art work that has set him apart from others, with instant film fueling more than a few bodies of work, both completed and ongoing. His consulting, training, and overall support of his fellow photographer and artist continues with help in constructing ones vision, producing artist lectures, and finding exhibition opportunities, which fill the gaps in time away from active shooting.

AWARDS: Jurors Selection receives $325 & (3) three Directors Selections will receive an exhibition catalogue. Winning images will be exhibited at the A Smith Gallery from January 15 to March 6, and also published in a special editorial section of the international publication, Blur Magazine.

SALES: A Smith Gallery will retain 40% commission.

Tag: Photography

try a new PERSPECTIVE

Learn more about photographer Jennifer Dipper!

CHRISTMAS future

‘By giving me the absolute past of the pose… the photograph tells me death in the future… I shudder… over a catastrophe which has already occurred.’

Explore the more work by Greg Sand!

needle TEA

CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

salt & CELERY

CALL for ENTRIES: childhood

For complete details, Read the full Call!

CITRUS star

CALL for ENTRIES: Fresh February

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

naming, THE NAMELESS

BUTTER me up

CALL for ENTRIES: Seities & Selves

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

EAT more

CALL for ENTRIES: Embracing our Differences

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

cold & cheap ROOTS

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Artist Grant

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

seasonal FRUIT

CALL for ENTRIES: flawed | an instant film exhibition

For complete details, Read the full Call!

‘By giving me the absolute past of the pose…
the photograph tells me death in the future… I shudder…
over a catastrophe which has already occurred.’

needle
TEA

CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2

salt &
CELERY

CALL for ENTRIES:
childhood

CITRUS
star

CALL for ENTRIES:
Fresh February

BUTTER
me up

CALL for ENTRIES:
Seities & Selves

EAT
more

CALL for ENTRIES:
Embracing our Differences

cold & cheap
ROOTS

CALL for SUBMISSIONS:
Artist Grant

seasonal
FRUIT

CALL for ENTRIES:
flawed | an instant film exhibition