CALL for ENTRIES: mon-o-chrome

Posted on January 20, 2020February 19, 2020 by R.L. Gibson

CULINARY tour

I spent 15 days on vacation –one week in Arizona, one week in New Mexico. Adjusting to the elevation was no joke. I’ve spent most of my life living at or around sea level. My homes for the past 10 years have been at around 2000 feet in elevation near the base of the Great Smoky Mountains. Bisbee, AZ has an elevation of approx 5500 feet and Silver City, NM has an elevation of 5800 feet, both higher than Denver, CO. Plus, Bisbee is known as the city of 1000 steps. We hear you get used to it after 3 weeks, but we only had two. We survived, but it was eye-opening. On an unrelated note, I think we took as many bites of food as we did steps. That’s a lot of forks folks. We’ve decided to start calling our vacations “culinary tours”. It seems more purposeful, less gluttonous, ha.

Now that I’m back, I am hard at work planning my year, including a residency (or three), a solo show, some juried shows, some invitationals. I have some announcements, but we’ll save those for another day. I am also looking to expand my “comfort” galleries to new areas. You know those galleries that you show in time and time again because you like the people, you like the space, you like the curation, you like the sales. You’re comfortable. I have a handful of those, but I am always looking to freshen my resume. This next call is a great way to try on a new gallery or, if you’ve shown at Las Laguna Gallery before, continue to develop that relationship. Take a look.

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for mon-o-chrome, $35 entry & 35% commission, most media accepted. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
mon-o-chrome
from Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to most media, including acrylic, airbrush, assemblage, charcoal, color pencil, collage, digital art, drawings, encaustic, etching, fiber art, graphite, illustration, mixed media, new media, oil, painting, pastel, photography, screen print, serigraph, and watercolor.

THEME: mon-o-chrome. The term monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photograph or prints in one color or values of one color. For this call for art Las Laguna Gallery challenges artists to explore not only the range of tones of black and white, but also explore the range of a single color.

DEADLINE: March 8, 2020

NOTIFICATION: March 15, 2020. If accepted, delivery of work is January 30-February 4.

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3

SALES: The gallery will retain 35% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Watercolor Supplies

Posted on July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 by R.L. Gibson

faster FOOD

After three weeks on my subscription food plan, and I am thrilled, (NOT a sponsored post), and the beet pesto OMG. The impact on my available studio time has been fantastic… no more lunch prep. My creative energy is less interrupted, and I am grateful.

In addition to food experiments, I have been testing out new paints and papers and brushes. Exciting. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, but I learn something new everytime. To that end, this is an abbreviated post about an opportunity to win art supplies.

Check out this Call for Entries from Dick Blick (online) for the Watercolor Challenge. No entry fee, five winners of $500 in supplies. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Watercolor Challenge from Dick Blick

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. resident artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to watercolor

DEADLINE: July 21, 2019

NOTIFICATION: July 22, 2019

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: Five random winners will be chosen.

AWARD: Approx. value of each prize pack is $582.88. For a complete list of prizes, click here.

For complete details, read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Las Laguna Aqueous 2019

Posted on June 26, 2019February 19, 2020 by R.L. Gibson

open up & say A-GUA

I quit smoking six and a half years ago. I entirely expected to be able to better taste food. What I didn’t expect was my sense of smell to like a blood hound. My hearing also wildly improved, but my family believes the timing is just a ridiculous coincidence. My sense of smell, while appreciated, has consequences. The trash has to go out more often. I can smell a soft spot in a potato in dry storage or an overly ripe banana all the way in my bedroom the minute I wake up. The strangest smell revelation for me is water. Water should be odorless, but it rarely is. Tap water almost always reeks of chlorine or sulphur or has an acrid metallic odor. Ugh.

Meanwhile my husband is upfitting a small barn as my new studio, and it doesn’t have running water. As a watercolorist, I have to have clean water. As a solution, I designed an inexpensive system that pumps water from exchangeable 5 gallon jugs and a separate complex filter system to allow me to send the gray water out to water the flower beds. I use non-toxic paints, and my filtration system is meant to capture the pigment, but I am going to plant white flowers… just in case. This next Call is all about the water soluble media & has fewer guidelines than the society shows. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for Aqueous 2019, a show of work in water-soluble media. $35 entry & 35% commission. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Aqueous 2019
from Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

THEME: This is an open theme exhibition and all subject types will be considered. From Traditional landscapes, Local views, Abstracts, Wildlife, Pets, Figure studies, Seascapes, harbors, and beach scenes, Impressionistic landscapes or more.

MEDIA: Open to water soluble media: watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache, ink & egg tempera

DEADLINE: July 9, 2019

NOTIFICATION: June 15, 2019. If accepted, delivery of work is July 25-30.

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3

SALES: The gallery will retain 35% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Unique Abstractions

Posted on May 5, 2019February 19, 2020 by R.L. Gibson

abstractly DRINKING SPEAKING

The notion of eating healthy is an abstract one. Even putting ethical concerns aside, there are health benefits (and disadvantages) to embracing vegetarianism, veganism and even raw diets. Sugar is the devil, but artificial sweetners are differently malicious. An excessively fatty diet can lead to heart disease but when coupled with an near absence of carbohydrates puts the body in ketosis that effectively treats diabetes in many. Chocolate and red wine and coffee and kale, all abstractions of a healthy diet.

In art, abstraction takes a lot of forms. At it’s broadest, abstraction is work that is non-representational. But, that begs the question, non-representational of what? From that we get non-figurative & non-linear styles that are often included in surrealism, dadaism, cubism, fauvism, suprematism, art informel, neo-plasticism, de stijl & others. This next Call wants to see all of your abstract creations. My heart lies with abstraction, although I find reactions to it frustrating. What’s your experience? Are you insulated enough not to hear the voices of those that would dismiss the non-representational? My mantra is ‘process not product’. Excerise your muscle memory. Lose yourself in process. It works for me. What works for you?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for Unique Abstractions, a show of abstract work in a wide range of media. $35 entry & 35% commission. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Unique Abstractions
from Las Laguna Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

THEME: Abstraction. “True abstract art not only utilizes flexibility and freedom; it also employs bold uses of color, line, pattern, form, process and composition.” — laslagunagallery.com

MEDIA: Open to acrylic, airbrush, assemblage, charcoal, color pencil, collage, digital art, drawings, encaustic, fiber art, araphite, illustration, mixed media, new media, oil, painting, pastel, photography & watercolor.

DEADLINE: June 7, 2019

NOTIFICATION: June 12, 2019. If accepted, delivery of work is June 26th to July 2nd.

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3

SALES: The gallery will retain 35% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Art Olympia 2019

Posted on November 19, 2018November 14, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

wholly MINE

I’ve spent a lifetime drinking 2% & skim milk without concern to its origin, only the expiration date. As the world has become more conscious of what we put in our bodies, I continued to drink lower fat options from dairies employing more healthful methods of production. But even those varieties are often too sweet and are ineffective in adding flavor and consistency to my cooking. I have finally given into the value of organic, whole milk products. Value-driven shopping isn’t always the cheapest route. This next Call costs more to enter than some others, but it offers HUGE cash award options. Is this the right value for you? Only you can decide.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art Olympia (Japan) for International Open Art Competition. $60 Entry. $120K cash award for first place plus a full range of additional cash awards from $500 to $30,000. Interested?

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Int’l Open Art Competition
from Art Olympia

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to 2D work including oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, mineral pigments, print, charcoal, digital/multimedia art, mixed media, photography, etc. (Calligraphy, video, sculpture, and group/collaboration works are not accepted.)

DEADLINE: March 15, 2019

NOTIFICATION: June 2019

ENTRY FEE: $60 for 1, $100 for 2, $140 for 3. (Student fees: $40 for 1, $70 for 2, $100 for 3.)

JUROR: At the primary screening, a panel of five (5) jurors will evaluate the works as digital images in March 2019. Ten (10) jurors will conduct the final review by evaluating the actual works in Tokyo in June 2019. In order to have a fair competition, all artworks will be judged without disclosing the name of the artists. Art Olympia also adopts a clear point system for their judging. Click HERE for a complete list of jurors. (Remember, research your jurors.)

AWARD: Approximately 160 artworks (80 from Japan and 80 worldwide) will be selected and undergo a final review in Tokyo by a panel of esteemed judges invited from around the world. In addition, 1,000 artists will be honored. The first place winner will receive $120,000. Add’l cash awards range from $500 to $30,000. 1,000 artists will be featured on the Art Olympia website as well as art magazines.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Pushing Paper

Posted on April 24, 2018April 23, 2018 by R.L. Gibson

my CREME-filled heart

My husband and I celebrated our 20th anniversary with Chinese takeout because neither of felt like cooking or grocery shopping. It was our typical night egg drop soup & steamed dumplings, but the thing that made the night a celebration came in a paper bag. A beautiful, fresh chocolate eclair from our local doughnut shop, a guilty pleasure from the middle years of our marriage when that was one of the only splurges we could afford. Since then, I tend to watch my sugar intake and my husband was diagnosed with a wheat allergy. But with a that single damn-the-consequences pastry, I felt the heart flutter that says he’ll stick for another twenty. Some of the best things come in, or on, paper just like in this next Call. Plus the gallery is gorgeous…

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for Pushing Paper. This venue is spectacular, and venues open to cutting edge work are always appreciated. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Pushing Paper
from Barrett Art Center

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media that explores & manipulates the materiality of paper, as well as works on paper, including watercolor, oil, photography, prints, digital work & drawings. Artists are invited to provide a juxtaposition of traditional styles and cutting-edge practices. In addition to 2-D works in all media, sculpture & installation are all encouraged.

DEADLINE: May 16, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($30 for members)

JUROR: Paul Wong is Artistic Director (retired 2017) of Dieu Donné and a master papermaker/artist who has collaborated with many artists producing groundbreaking work in the creative papermaking medium for over 38 years. Wong has widely exhibited his work in paper, books & installations since 1975 at museums & galleries including Neuberger Museum, Plains Museum, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, and Dieu Donné. He has conducted papermaking lectures and workshops including: NY Library, Haystack, Penland, Banff, Oxbow, PBI, UArts-Philadelphia, UA-Tuscaloosa, Columbia College-Chicago, Morgan Conservatory-Cleveland

AWARDS: $1,300 in prizes –two $500 prizes & two $150 prizes.

SALES: Barrett Art Center will retain a 30% commission for sales (20% for members).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Into the Sea

Posted on October 23, 2017December 6, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

SEAFOOD, anyone?

If you lived underwater, what would you eat? Indulge me here. If you were an inhabitant of Atlantis, what would be on the menu? Are you really going to want to eat your fish, turtle & crustacean cohorts? Can you be a vegetarian with only kelp to forage? Mysterious, no? This next Call wants your poetry or art interpretation of Atlantis. If you figure out the food, let me know. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Fairytales of Atlantis the Into the Sea poetry/art collaborative project. This is a small startup for a book with no entry fee & a whole lot of fresh, enthusiastic energy. I have a good feeling about this one…

*Editor’s Note: It has been my practice to only publish opportunities with which I have some sort of experience, either personally or through a friend/peer. But, I also like to try to vet more informal opportunities, and like the straightforward nature of the curators, but I can’t guarantee you anything. You have to weigh this opportunity for pros/cons just like any other publication option.

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Fairytales of Atlantis
the Into the Sea
poetry/art project

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“According to Plato and Greek mythology, the island of Atlantis was a utupia whose inhabitants became too greedy and power hungry (there are some variations on this). To punish them, Zeus and the other gods sank Atlantis. We wondered, what if this story was more of a classic princess fairytale, where Princess Kleito (who marries Poseidon), has to sink Atlantis in order to save it? And go…” –Elise Rorick & Sarah Ryan

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to 2-D media

THEME: Atlantis – open to interpretation

DEADLINE: March 1, 2018 (updated on 12/5)

NOTIFICATION: Rolling

ENTRY FEE: None

CURATOR: Elise Rorick, photographer, Lusicovi Creative & Sarah Ryan, poet

AWARDS: Be a part of the poetry/ art collaboration. Eventually it will be a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of the book.

SALES: Artists/contributors will all get an equal share of eventual sales profits.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Wet Paint

Posted on July 19, 2017July 20, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

EATING the rainbow

I love grocery day. My husband did the shopping this week, without a list. S, my house is full of gorgeous vegetables in all the colors of the rainbow –from red bell peppers to yellow bananas and purple-tipped turnip roots. I have this almost irrepressible need to eat ALL of it today. It is an exercise in self-restraint, ha. This next Call is open to all the colors, no self-restraint needed. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from Colors of Humanity Art Gallery (online) for Wet Paint. $20 entry fee, website back links & cash prizes make for a great opportunity, plus 10% of fees go to Habitat for Humanity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Wet Paint from
Colors of Humanity
Art Gallery

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to 2D painting of any subject matter

DEADLINE: August 15, 2017

NOTIFICATION: August 22, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 2. 10% of all entry fees will go to Habitat for Humanity.

JUROR: Artist & teacher, Janelle Cogan

AWARDS: Cash prizes will be given. The “Best of Show” will be featured on the cover of the show & it will be largely displayed with an article about the winner & their work. Other winners will be featured & have similar recognition. All accepted works will be displayed with the artist name, title of work, and a link back to their website (or email if no website).

SALES: All sales are conducted solely between the artist and the buyer. Colors of Humanity Art Gallery does not handle any part of the sale & will collect no commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: 2017 USM Nat’l Painting

Posted on June 12, 2017June 11, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

BERRY good

Painting with food is fun. About 15 years ago, I was a gallerist faced with the challenge of creating a curriculum for day camp that would teach children concepts & techniques employed in abstract painting. Again & again we found that painting with berries was the biggest success. It bypassed brush skills which are a challenge for kids under 6, and it relieved parents’ worries about the toxicity of paint. And of course, teaching other people’s children to play with their food is always fun, ha. This Call is all about painting, but using berries isn’t required. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art (Hattiesburg, MS) for the 2017 National Juried Painting Exhibition. This is a great academic show with a well-known juror & no commission. This is a great opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
2017 Nat’l Painting
from USM Museum of Art

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ELIGIBILITY: Open to all US artists,18+

MEDIA: Open to any painting medium (oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, etc.), and all forms of representational & non-representational painting are eligible.

DEADLINE: July 1, 2017

NOTIFICATION: July 22, 2017

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 4

JUROR: Peter Van Dyck studied painting & drawing at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. He also taught in the program from 2000-2002. He returned to Philadelphia to paint in studio & began exhibiting his work in group shows in Philadelphia, NY & San Francisco. In 2003, Van Dyck began teaching at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts. In 2012, he was named one of 25 Important Artists of Tomorrow by American Artist Magazine.

AWARDS: Best in Show $500, 2nd Place $300 & 3rd Place $200

SALES: Works can be available for purchase or listed as NFS (Not for Sale). Commission will not be taken on any sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Susan Grace

Posted on May 29, 2017June 7, 2017 by R.L. Gibson

"Here Kitty Kitty" (oil & charcoal on paper) by Susan Grace — *“Here Kitty Kitty” (oil & charcoal on paper) by Susan Grace*

“I find that I am an obsessive observer of signs but am increasingly skeptical that I perceive them in the ways intended by those who produced them.” — Susan Grace

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I am moving my home and downsizing again. This is the last step on the way to making my family more mobile. I have temporarily returned to goal-specific formal secondary education, and have just met the end of residential parenting. My world is shifting. I look around me for comfort in the familiar, in signs and symbols that the sun will appear once again in the morning. And, while the sun has yet to disappoint me, it is hard not to feel isolated when you interpret all the signs differently than those around you. I feel as a stranger in a strange land, like the title of that famous sci-fi novel. When I read the statement of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Susan Grace, I new I’d found a kindred spirit. Read the statement, browse the work. Maybe we aren’t strangers after all.

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Share the narrative, investigate AAAD Artist of the Day, painter Susan Grace!

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Tag: Watercolor

CULINARY tour

CALL for ENTRIES: mon-o-chrome from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

faster FOOD

CALL for ENTRIES: Watercolor Challenge from Dick Blick

For complete details, read the Full Call!

open up & say A-GUA

CALL for ENTRIES: Aqueous 2019 from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

abstractly DRINKING SPEAKING

CALL for ENTRIES: Unique Abstractions from Las Laguna Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

wholly MINE

CALL for ENTRIES: Int’l Open Art Competition from Art Olympia

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

my CREME-filled heart

CALL for ENTRIES: Pushing Paper from Barrett Art Center

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

SEAFOOD, anyone?

CALL for ENTRIES: Fairytales of Atlantis the Into the Sea poetry/art project

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

EATING the rainbow

CALL for ENTRIES: Wet Paint from Colors of Humanity Art Gallery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

BERRY good

CALL for ENTRIES: 2017 Nat’l Painting from USM Museum of Art

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

“I find that I am an obsessive observer of signs but am increasingly skeptical that I perceive them in the ways intended by those who produced them.” — Susan Grace

Share the narrative, investigate AAAD Artist of the Day, painter Susan Grace!

CALL for ENTRIES:
mon-o-chrome
from Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Aqueous 2019
from Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Unique Abstractions
from Las Laguna Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
Int’l Open Art Competition
from Art Olympia

CALL for ENTRIES:
Pushing Paper
from Barrett Art Center

CALL for ENTRIES:
Fairytales of Atlantis
the Into the Sea
poetry/art project

CALL for ENTRIES:
Wet Paint from
Colors of Humanity
Art Gallery

CALL for ENTRIES:
2017 Nat’l Painting
from USM Museum of Art