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CALL for ENTRIES: Water’s Edge

Posted on April 21, 2011April 21, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

PARING in PAIRS

I must confess that I do less cooking than my daily ramblings might indicate. My dearest husband does much of the cooking in our household, and he does it wonderfully. But the times I truly enjoy are the times we spend in the kitchen together. And, as I get older, I have found that artistic collaboration keeps me motivated as well. This call offers you an opportunity to produce work while still being someone else’s muse. Great idea…

Check out this Call for Entries from Open to Interpretation’s juried book competition Water’s Edge. Have your work become the artistic inspiration for a literary masterpiece today!

*Editor’s Note: This is a repeated post because 1) I love the collaborative nature of this Call for Entries and 2) the early deadline is five days away!

CALL for ENTRIES: Open to Interpretation

Open to Interpretation is a juried book competition of photography, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions to both the photos and the written word.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all

MEDIA:
Photography

THEME:
Water’s Edge

DEADLINE: The early deadline is April 26, 2011. The final deadline is June 7, 2011.

NOTIFICATION: June 20, 2011

ENTRY FEE: $30 for 5 images, $10 each additional if entered by April 26, 2011. $35 for 5 images, $10 each additional if entered by June 7, 2011.

JUROR: As founder and director of Vision Quest Photo Workshops, Douglas Beasley provides workshops that emphasize personal expression and creative vision over the mechanics of camera use. He believes in helping each student find their voice rather than making pretty pictures. Click on the Wind in Water photograph of Lake Michigan by Juror Douglas Beasley pictured right to see his portfolios.

Much of his personal work, including Sacred Sites of the Lakota, Disappearing Green Space, Silent Witness: Genocide and the Landscape, Sacred Places and Earth Meets Spirit are supported by grants and commissions and have been widely exhibited and collected. His second book Earth Meets Spirit will be coming out in late 2010. Doug continues to explore the notion of what is sacred in his photography and in his life. He lives in a passive solar home surrounded by trees in Saint Paul, MN. When not out traveling the world he can be found tending his Japanese gardens or enjoying a strong cup of coffee while listening to loud music. Personal heroes include Jimi Hendrix, the Dalai Lama and whoever invented the espresso machine.

AWARDS: $300 Jurors Selection Award

For complete details, visit Open to Interpretation online!

ARTIST RESIDENCY: 1 Week River Retreat

Posted on April 20, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

CATCH and RELEASE?

One of my favorite things about a river vacation getaway or retreat is the trout. I like to catch them. I like to eat them. I do not like to clean them. It isn’t about my wanting to be ignorant of the source of my food or the avoiding the death of a living being. I just don’t like the guts part. No, really. If you’re a little squeamish too, make sure you take someone along for this next week-long artist residency on the river. Take a look…

Check out this Artist Residency Opportunity from Vision Quest Photo. It would be a great deal at the normal cost of $675; however, here is your chance to get a grant to spend a free week at the Trade River Retreat Center! For those of you that don’t normally consider Artist in Residence programs due to an inability to leave home for months at a time, this might just be your chance!

ARTIST RESIDENCY: Trade River Retreat Center

Vision Quest Photo Workshops announces a new yearly grant of a one-week photographic artist’s residency. Spend five days to one week alone in the woods devoted to nourishing your artistic spirit at Vision Quest’s Trade River Retreat Center in NW Wisconsin.

For mid-career fine-art photographers looking for a retreat-like experience to work on their art, reflect on their artistic direction, make new photographs, plan new career paths, have time away from work/family/life pressure and stress or use in any way they find useful to move their art or career forward or use the time away to simply reflect on where they are and where they are headed.

Stay in a very private retreat in the woods along the banks of a pristine sand-bottom river. The Trade River Retreat Center is located near Grantsburg, Wisconsin, an hour and a half from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN.

Modern facilities include full bathroom with hot and cold running water, heat, electricity, phone, modern kitchen, wood-burning fireplace, sauna, fire-pit, library and stereo system. See student photos made at the Trade River Retreat Center.

The residency will include a private consultation, in person or via phone or Skype, with Vision Quest Photo Workshops founder and director Douglas Beasley before the week begins to help set the tone and scope of time spent there and also after its conclusion, to discuss its impact on future artistic endeavors.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2011

ENTRY FEE: There is a $20 application fee.

SUBMISSIONS: Submit 12 .jpeg images. Also send a 300 to 500-word artist statement about your past and current work and overall artistic direction, and a 300 to 500-word statement of what you would like to do with your residency.

IMAGE GUIDELINES:

sRGB or RGB color space (standard) – not CMYK.
Save files to 72 dpi resolution, flattened layers, 8 bit JPG files.
Sized to 1280 pixels on the longest side.
JPG compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of the images viewed on the monitor.
Enter zero in the field for width, height and depth.
Each image should be titled.
DO NOT USE characters other than a period or underscore preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters !@#$%^&*()+?/"~ will lead to image uploading problems.