girly CITRUS

I took French as my foreign language in high school.  In hindsight, Spanish would have been more useful, but French turned out to be handy when my love of food emerged.  I am enamored with the use of feminine and masculine nouns.  Did you know that un chocolat is masculine while une orangina is feminine?  Orange you glad I’m publishing this next call?  Bad, I know.  Forgive me…

Check out this Call for Entries for (Re)capturing Womanhood at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL) then traveling, brought to you by curators Angela J. Aguayo and Stacy Jill Calvert.  There is no entry fee, but no opportunity for sales.  This is a great academic show with opportunities for your work to travel the country.  Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES: (Re)capturing Womanhood

What does your world look like?

Recapturing Womanhood is a traveling art exhibit addressing how women of all ages, races, orientations and abilities document their daily life with mobile media technology. In particular, how the ease and proximity of these devices offer insight into the everyday lives of contemporary women.  They are particularly interested in photos that respond back to the typical images of women in popular culture and recapture an undocumented womanhood.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all women

MEDIA:  Original photographs MUST have been captured and edited with a mobile device.

DEADLINE:  October 1, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  November 1, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  None

CURATORS:  Angela J. Aguayo is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale where her teaching, production and research program reflect a strong interdisciplinary focus on documentary studies, rhetoric, critical and cultural studies as well as video production.

Stacy Jill Calvert is Graduate Student in Digital Documentary & New Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  She continued in the world of dot-coms in the 90s and now works professionally as a Social Media Marketing strategist while pursuing her artistic passion as a Digital Storyteller.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!