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CALL for ENTRIES: The Bicycle 2019

Learn more about the 2019 Bicycle Call from Theatre Art Galleries!

FOOD to go

I have a friend that is a competitive cyclist and one that owns a coffee cart that is powered by custom-built tricycles, meanwhile I can’t ride a bike or a trike, or at least I don’t think so.  It has been a long time since I tried.  My friend that rides long distances carries a small pack with water and snacks. I picked up the protein bars she recommended, assuming they would be of questionable taste and that the lack of TASTE would prevent me from eating them like candy bars.  FAIL.  They taste like coconut cookies — delicious.  Ahhh.  I’m trying to forgive her, ha.  

Today’s call is all about the bicycle.  I exhibited in this show last year, and the venue is beautiful.  My interpretation of bicycle was NOT literal, so I was pleased to receive an acceptance letter.  My work did not sell, but the returned work was well-packed and received in an appropriate amount of time.  The entry fee is low; there are cash awards, and the commission is standard.  I may enter again this year.  How about you?

Check out this Call for Entries from Theatre Art Galleries -TAG (High Point, NC) for The Bicycle: Art Meets Form.  $20 Entry, 40% commission & cash awards.  Take a look…

Learn more about the 2019 Bicycle Call from Theatre Art Galleries!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Bicycle: Art Meets Form 
from the Theatre Art Galleries

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA:  Open to all media.  Subject matter must relate in some way to bicycles or cycling. 

DEADLINE:  July 26, 2019

NOTIFICATION:  August 6, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $20 up to 3 

JURY INFO:  All entries will be judged from digital images. Awards will be selected from the original works of art.

AWARDS:  1st Place $500, 2nd Place $250 & 3rd Place $100

SALES:   Theatre Art Galleries will retain a 40% commission on all work sold.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about The Bicycle exhibit from Theatre Art Galleries in High Point NC!

CALL for ENTRIES: Cimarron Nat’l Works on Paper

Learn more about the Cimarron National Works on Paper exhibit from Oklahoma State University Department of Art - Graphic Design and Art History!

list of DISTASTE

On paper, I am NOT a finicky eater, but there is a list of things I don’t eat by choice.  I’ve always disliked Ranch dressing until this 40 Aprons recipe changed my mind (not a sponsored post). The remainder of the list includes collard greens, anything eaten alive, American “cheese”, licorice & few other random odds & ends that are not normal options anyway. Sometimes you don’t know until confronted with an unedible.  I had to eat American cheese last week, and it is still on my mind, obviously, ha.  What are your outside food limits?

This next Call is on another of my lists, but this one is for far better reasons.  I appreciate academic shows, and they align with my list of shows that will help push me toward my career goals. OSU’s Art Department has a great record of good shows and excellent jurors.  This one is no different.  If you work on paper (including photography), and are looking for a quality show, try this one. They even pay return shipping up to $100.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Oklahoma State UniversityDepartment of Art, Graphic Design & Art History (Stillwater, OK) for Cimarron National Works on Paper.  $30 entry fee.  You know how I love an academic show…

Learn more about the Cimarron National Works on Paper exhibit from Oklahoma State University Department of Art - Graphic Design and Art History!Cimarron National Works on Paper 
from O.S.U. Department of Art, Graphic Design & Art History

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

MEDIA: Open to work on paper, including photography & paper-based multi-media work. 

DEADLINE:  July 8, 2019

SHIPPING:  If accepted, work must be received by August 29, 2019.

ENTRY FEE: $30 up to 3

JUROR:   Jodi Throckmorton, curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As PAFA’s Contemporary Curator, Throckmorton oversees such programs as, the Morris Gallery Program and the Sculpture Plinth Program. Prior to her current position at PAFA, Throckmorton served as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University and as associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. She holds an MFA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and French from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

AWARD:  $2,000 will be available for purchase awards. Purchased work will be added to the permanent collection of the Department of Art, housed in the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. Awards will be selected by the juror after the accepted work has been received.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Oklahoma State University Department of Art - Graphic Design and Art History!

CALL for ENTRIES: Real People 2019

Learn more about the Real People 2019 Call from the Old Courthouse Arts Center!

under PRESSURE

So, I’m selling my electric pressure cooker.  I got one as a gift a couple of years ago, hesitantly, and thought I would love it.  Not so much.  I tried joining an online community. Didn’t help.  It became a very heavy glorified rice cooker, and today it goes away.  (shoutout to Facebook Marketplace)  This is all a part of the new, lighter, more portable, healthier me.  I don’t mean physically, although the Instant Pot IS ridiculously heavy; I mean that I am trying to lighten my load and remember to repurpose or pass along things I no longer need. 

I’ve had my eye on the venue for this next Call for a while.  As much as I appreciate the modern box gallery, I have a special love for spaces repurposed as galleries.  In this case, the gallery is located in what used to be an old courthouse.  The variance in the spaces allows curators and jurors to cater the work to the environment.  I like it.  This Call comes from a publicly-funded arts council in a publicly funded space.  I also like that.  Take a look and let me know if you enter & how your experience is.  I’m going to try to get my act together and submit.

Check out this Call for Entries from Northwest Area Arts Council for Real People 2019 at the Old Court House Arts Center (Woodstock, IL).  $40 entry fee & 30% commission.  Do you have figurative work to show?

Learn more about the Real People 2019 Call from the Old Courthouse Arts Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Real People 2019 
from Northwest Area Arts Council

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media 

THEME:  Submitted work must depict
the human form or face in some manner that is recognizable.

DEADLINE:  July 7, 2019 (11:59pm CDT)

NOTIFICATION:  July 14, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $40 up to 3, ($30 for members)

JUROR:  Chicago-area artist Joyce Polance, who has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including six Chicago CAAP grants, a George Sugarman Foundation grant, two Judith Dawn Memorial grants, and a Cliff Dwellers Artist in Residence award.

AWARD: For First, Second, Third Place, a Gallery Award, and Three Artistic Merit Awards, and others, cash prizes totaling $1,500 will be awarded. In addition, we are very pleased to announce that the online artist management platform Biafarin, has donated 2 Gold one year memberships and 2 Blue one year memberships as awards. For more information on Biafarin and the services that come with these awards, please visit biafarin.com.

SALES:   30% commission on all sales will go to NAAC. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn morel from the Old Courthouse Arts Center!

CALL for ENTRIES: Strange Figurations 2019

 

Learn more about Strange Figurations from SlowArt Productions and the Limner Gallery!

future FOOD

Netflix & popcorn nights have accompanied my new revelation… the phrase “I had no choice” may be the most commonly uttered line written for television. We always have a choice.  The choice may be unthinkable, unspeakable and emotionally-devasting, but it is still a choice.  I have made glorious choices and horrific ones.  Those choices have allowed me to follow my heart and have fueled my creativity, but they have also created an unsustainable physical reality for me.  My body is betraying me; I’m not terminal, just infuriatingly chronic.

I have created bodies of work surounding how our bodies betray us.  But really, I made many of the choices.  So, thanks to Netflix #jokingnotjoking I am making new choices.  I am trying to gently strengthen my body and make healthier food choices.  Trying.  I love my life, and I’ve come to love the physicality of the figure I inhabit, so it is time to fight to keep it.  I’m not having a mid-life crisis or looking for immortality, I just want a chance to have a productive future.  I don’t think kale or avocado are miracle cures, but clean food & more movement have to be a start. Like I said, trying.

This next Call wants your figurative work, whatever your take.  Are you fighting for a figure?  Your own? Another’s?  Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Strange Figurations at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry, 35% commission, open to all media and all artists.  Take a look…

Learn more about Strange Figurations from SlowArt Productions and the Limner Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Strange Figurations
at the Limner Gallery

This exhibition will be held September 5-28, 2019.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms

THEME:  “This exhibition is open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations. Included are all forms of surreal, visionary and extraordinary figurative art. All interpretations of the theme “Strange Figurations” will be reviewed and considered.” — Limner Gallery

DEADLINE: June 30, 2019

NOTIFICATION: July 30, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 4, $5 ea. add’l 

SALES:  SlowArt Productions will retain 35% commission on sales.  Prices set by the artist.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from SlowArt Productions and the Limner Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Summer 2019 Print Issue

COLD complication

For years, popcorn was the ultimate summer food.  Popcorn with a hint of olive oil, parmesan and cracked black pepper was my idea of the perfect snack food. Then, there was some weird shift for me.  Stovetop popped was too greasy.  Microwave-popped was always singed.  Air-popped was always tough.  I just quit eating it — for nearly two years.  I missed my daily snack favorite, but was resigned to the absence of popcorn. 

Then one day Facebook started feeding me ads for an Amazon listing a silicone popcorn popper (not a sponsored ad) for the microwave.  I’m guessing I did something online that Google’s algorithm decided meant I needed popcorn, and, well, it was right.  That $10 product arrived, and it was ridiculous, a floppy, ridiculous concept.  It came without instructions.  I searched and found an equally ridiculous video. Holy popcorn!  It is soft like stove-topped but without that queasy overly greasy aftertaste.  So what’s the lesson?  No lesson, except maybe… all hail Summer.  

Continuing with this week’s publication theme, here’s a call for one of my all time favorite art publications.  Check out this Call for Entries from Create! Magazine (print publication) for the Summer 2019 Print Issue.  $30 entry for this gorgeous magazine.  Don’t miss this chance…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Summer 2019 Print Issue
of Create! Magazine

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists. 

MEDIA:  Open to all media, i.e.: painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, mixed media, photography, installation & more.

DEADLINE:  May 31, 2019

ENTRY FEE:  $30 for up to 3

JURORS:  Nina Blumberg is a full-time art consultant at the New York City-based firm Samuels Creative. Outside of work, she fills her time with freelance social media contemporary art clientele and projects, most recently engaging with the art technology space. Nina received her BA in Art History from the University of Virginia and her MA from FIT’s “Art Market: Principles & Practices” program.  Nina is also the founder of @Artstagram__,the contemporary art world Instagram account that covers art happenings and exhibitions in NYC and beyond. 

AWARDS:  Artists selected by the guest juror will receive a 2-page spread including a brief bio, website, and 2 images in print and digital formats. Published artists will receive a complimentary digital issue and will be listed on Create! Magazine’s website/social media & will be listed with images, details and information on their website/social media for life. All featured artists will automatically be considered for any upcoming curatorial projects & exhibitions organized by the Create! team.  

SALES:  The Summer 2019 Print Issue will be available online, in global retail locations in London, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Wilmington (DE), Philadelphia & more.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Create! Magazine.

CALL for ENTRIES: Opulent Mobility 2019

Learn more about the 2019 Opulent Mobility exhibit!

practice what you PEACH

I reject the notion that extravagant dishes require exotic foods. I find that the simplest foods, treated extravagantly, remain my favorites.  Have you ever had a vanilla-poached peach? Top it with  freshly whipped cream and a drizzle of raw honey, and it makes for the the most opulent dessert (or breakfast) you could ever want.  I’ve spent many a year unimpressed by this simple stone fruit to only to realize it was my own lack of imagination at fault.

This next Call addresses mobility devices and their common ground the the common peach — a need for re-imagining.  Each year when this Call is announced, I revel in the notion of opulent mobility.  You need look no further than the work of curator A. Laura Brody as inspiration.  At its core, this show suggests that not only are we enough, but that we should celebrate our enough-ness.  That we deserve to move through our lives, through this world with a personal sense of opulence, with purposeful, extravagant creativity.  Sit with the notion of this Call and see where it takes you.

Check out this Call for Entries from curator A. Laura Brody for Opulent Mobility 2019.  This year the exhibit will be at the Dora Stern Gallery in New Jersey.  $20 Entry, 40% commission & a unique curatorial theme.  Stretch your creative muscles with this Call!

Learn more about the 2019 Opuletnt Mobility exhibit!CALL for ENTRIES: 
Opulent Mobility 2019

“I challenge you to imagine a world where mobility, disability, and access can be opulent. I challenge you to approach the work with thoughtfulness, humor, creativity, and care.  Because if we do not imagine a better world, we can’t make one happen.”  — A. Laura Brody

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all 2 & 3-D work, film, videos of performance art & music.

THEME: Radical re-imagining of the mobility of disability

DEADLINE: June 30, 2019, 5pm PST

NOTIFICATION:  by August 1, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $20 flat fee

CURATORS:  A. Laura Brody is a professional costume maker and designer who developed Opulent Mobility as a series of artworks, then built it into a juried group exhibit.  Anthony Tusler is a photographer & disability arts activist. His photographs of the 1977 disability occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building are on his site: aboutdisability.comCelene Ryan, Director of Artist Development for Arts Unbound has more than twelve years of experience as an arts management professional in NYC, working directly with many self-taught artists, most with special needs.

AWARD:  This year, Opulent Mobility 2019 will be hosted by Arts Unbound.  If accepted, artists’ work will be included in the physical exhibit at the Dora Stern Gallery in New Jersey.

SALES:  40% commission taken on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about Opulent Mobility 2018!

CALL for ENTRIES: Unique Abstractions

Learn more about the Unique Abstractions exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!

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…

Learn more about the Unique Abstractions exhibit from Las Laguna Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Unique Abstractions
from Las Laguna Gallery

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!

 

Learn more from Las Laguna Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Meltdown

Learn more about the Meltdown Call from the Limner Gallery

lost in TRANSLATION

It is no secret that I’m a little, well, let’s call it cheese “focused”. But we all have our priorities.  After being seperated by an ocean for 4 weeks, my husband and I stopped by a local dairy farm less than 24 hours after reunited… to buy cheese. Priorities.  Cheese glorious cheese.  A few days later, I made summer squash au gratin also known as “squash makes all the melted cheese a legitimate choice”, au gratin for short.  Melted cheese means I’m home, ha.  Think of it as my oven’s welcome mat. It is the best kind of meltdown.

I have been known to indulge in an epic meltdown of a personal nature on occasion.  The last U.S. presidential election put me in an ugly place for weeks.  Every insuing attack on civil rights, environmental regulations, access to health insurance & the ability to govern the workings of my own body have warranted their own meltdowns.  My work has changed.  My life has changed.  I worry about becoming numb to the suffering of others, to the loss of agency, to the restrictions on the ability to speak freely.  Where is this planet’s population headed?  While I was in Scotland recently, I was regularly engaged by locals about American politics.  People want to understand what is going on in the United States.  I couldn’t explain.  I can’t explain.  So, I just keep working.  Right now, THAT is what I can do. 

This next Call in interested wants to see how your work reflects a sense of meltdown, whatever your interpretation.  What do you have to say?  Could this be the place for you to say it?  Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Meltdown at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry, 35% commission, open to all media and all artists.  Take a look…

Learn more about the Meltdown Exhibit from the Limner Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Meltdown
at the Limner Gallery

This exhibition will be held June 14 – July 13, 2019.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms

THEME:  “We are living in an age of global crisis – of catastrophic MELTDOWN, a crisis the proportions of which, sadly, needs no description.  Historically artists have foreseen, described and been inspired by crisis. The subject of this exhibition is every aspect of the MELTDOWN crisis, be it global, personal, environmental, financial, psychological, scientific and/or spiritual.” — Limner Gallery

DEADLINE: April 30, 2019

NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 4, $5 ea. add’l 

SALES:  SlowArt Productions will retain 35% commission on sales.  Prices set by the artist.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from SlowArt Productions and the Limner Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Loss, Redemption & Grace

Learn more abou the Loss Redemption and Grace show from EBD4!

I’ll take the PIE to go

There are a lot of customs surrounding death & food.  Most people are familiar with people trying to feed the living by bringing the ubiquitous casserole to the living, but I’ve recently learned that many cultures feed the dead by leaving food on graves, from leaving a pie on the gravestone at Easter to pouring wine on the burial site.  I don’t have a real understanding of the symbolism (if you do, LMK) behind the traditions, but I love the love it takes to want to feed someone pie and wine, even after death. THAT is devotion.

My work has centered around human bones for a while now.  Bones indicate a pattern for me, both for the living and the lost.  I prowl cemeteries with a sense of joy, not mourning.  Gravestones are monuments for the living of the best in those no longer able to create new memories.  They are, without doubt, often erected out of obligation, but even in obligation, they document a lifespan as an accomplishment, no matter how brief.  If they include additional details, they are rare ugly, even if the truth is ugly.  This next Call speaks to me because if offers the opportunity to react to loss from a place of truth, not obligation or memorialization. I am also excited about an open opportunity in Atlanta, a rarity.

Check out this Call for Entries from EBD4 (Atlanta, GA) for Loss, Grace & Redemption.  $40 Entry & 50% commission.  The jurors are researchable, and this venue offers a rare Atlanta opportunity.  Take a look…

Learn more abou the Loss Redemption and Grace show from EBD4!CALL for ENTRIES:
Loss, Redemption & Grace 
from EBD4

“a platform to examine edgy, daring and thought-provoking contemporary artwork, which traditionally may not be available in a commercial setting”

ELIGIBILITY: Open to American artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media. 

THEME:  What is your response to grief? Have you spoken to loss through artistic expression? Have you been inspired to answer injustice with the energy of creation? Share your interpretation & response to loss, redemption & grace.

DEADLINE: March 31, 2019

NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $40 up to 3, $10ea. addl 

JUROR: Elyse Defoor, director of EBD4, will serve as curator. Jerry Cullum, Ph.D. & Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Ph.D., will serve as jurors. 

AWARD:  3 cash awards totaling $800 –for Best in Show, 1st place & 2nd place.

SALES:  EBD4 will retain 50% commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from EBD4!

CALL for ENTRIES: On the Easel Magazine

Learn more about On the Easel Magazine's first Call for Entries!

don’t paint with FISH SAUCE

Every week I manage to make a handful of Insta-worthy, perfectly staged lunches & dinners, completely by accident.  More often, I conjure tasty dishes that are weirdly, mostly shades of brown due to carmelization, excessive de-glazing and a love for soy, fish, Worchestershire & all other sauces, brown & salty.  As you might imagine, the brown food pics, outside of coffee & walnuts, aren’t really winners on social media, ha.  My work is not brown or salty, but similar & not…

A few times per week I manage to pull off a perfectly Insta-worthy image of my work in progress –always at an off-kilter angle with short focus to blur unresolved issues and just the right light to allow a contrast-y filter to make me look like a rock star.  It is deceptive and born out of equal measure of insecurity and social media pressure to look like I always have everything effortlessly under control.  I have guilt, but not.  I don’t like feeding into the notion that studio life needs to be glamourous, but I also don’t like exposing my vulnerability underbelly to nameless, faceless critics.  Then enters this Call.  As you might imagine, I read A LOT of Calls, and I like options for art publication.  But THIS call is different.  This call wants to see the mess.  Finally, there is an option to show studio life, work-in-progress specifically.  I think that this is the kind of aspirational we can feel good about –always real, likely messy & unresolved.  Seeing yourself represented as an artist is important.  This Call is the brainchild of one of our previously Featured Artists, Robyn Thompson.  It is a project of her course work while working toward her Master of Arts in Social Practice, making this a great opportunity to lift up ourselves AND one of our very own.  

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Easel Magazine (digital/print) for Works In Progress.  No entry fee for this aspirational call for work in progress.  There are no cash awards, but this Call is all pros, no cons for me.  Take a look, and please contact me personally if you have concerns…

Learn more about On the Easel Magazine's first Call for Entries!CALL for ENTRIES:
Work in Progress 
from On the Easel Mag

“On The Easel (OTE), a new hybrid digital/paper magazine is seeking submissions of works in progress. We want to see the mess. We want to show the struggles.”

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 

MEDIA: Open to all media.  Despite the name, this Call is not restricted to painting. They “want to show work during its awkward teen years in the hopes that it will inspire folks to push through to bring it to fruition.”

DEADLINE: Rolling.  April 15, 2019 or until all spots have been filled.

NOTIFICATION: 1 week post submission.

ENTRY FEE: None

EDITOR:  Robyn Thompson, visual artist who is working toward her M.A. in Social Practice program at the University of the Highlands and the Islands.  This project is a part of Thompson’s course work.  Your participation would be appreciated.

AWARD:  Each page will include a full page image of your work in progress or a detail from it. We welcome submissions of either. Your name, links to your work and a paragraph about your process will also be included. The publication will be available for free online and you will be able to order print copies at cost if you wish.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from On the Easel Magazine!