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CALL for ENTRIES: Small Works 2019

Learn more about the 2019 Small Works Exhibit from the Lemonade Stand Gallery!

villainous FRUIT

I blew my grocery budget this week.  I ran out of vanilla, almonds, pecans & walnuts all at one time.  I may or may not have fallen prey to a Pinterest recipe that called for what seems like all the avocados in California, ha.  Avocado toast is the villain once again.  I see a lot of rice and beans for the end of the month.  Do you rule your budget or does your budget rule you?

One of the most common stumbling blocks to productivity that I hear from artists is budget.  Some media are incredibly expensive, some are not.  We don’t always choose our media; sometimes it chooses us.  So what do you do when you can’t afford 16 new tubes of oil? I have a friend that has become a master of mixing and regularly stocks only 6 colors.  Early on, he did only monochromatic work that allowed him to stock only 3 tubes.  I’m not suggesting this is your answer;  I don’t have the answers.  But I know that I must create, so I must find a way.

For years, I only did work that was under 12″ x 12″.  Because I worked on gallery wrapped canvas or cradled wood I could ship anything I made via USPS Priority Mail for $8 or less.  Now that I’m working on paper, I am torn between framing affordably small pieces or adding huge chunks of museum-quality matting to increase the negative space.  That means you’re average 8″ x 10″ piece is 16″ x 20″ framed and 18″ x 24 “x 4″ by the time it is wrapped & packed & shipped.  That doesn’t go anywhere in the continental U.S. for less than $36 bucks, and $50+ internationally, each way.  This next show is for work 10″ x 10″, so if I work the math backwards, I would have to do 4″x4”.  Hmmm, challenge accepted.  

So, how about you?  Do you normally work small or is this a challenge for you?  Entry is cheap & the size means shipping is cheap.  Check out this Call for Entries from The Studios of Key West & Lemonade Stand Gallery (Key West, FL) for 2019 Small Works Exhibit at the Sanger Gallery.  $14 Entry & 50% commission.  This show has a multi-year history for you to research.  Is this right for you?

Learn more about the 2019 Small Works Exhibit from the Lemonade Stand Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Small Works Exhibit from
the Lemonade Stand Gallery

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media. Finished work, must be 10″ or less including the frame.

DEADLINE:  March 1, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $14 per piece entered

SUBMISSION NOTE: “When applying, please send the most clear image of your work.  This year we would also like to have an on-line reception, giving the accepted art an even better chance to sell.  The better your photos that we receive via this entry process, the more of a chance we will put it on-line.  White backgrounds are preferred for this, but not required.”

SALES:  The gallery will retain 50% commission on sold work. All artwork must be for sale, and artists will be paid by May 31, 2019.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Lemonade Stand Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Int’l Show

Learn more about the 47th International Art Show from the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art!

focused and FARE

I cheated on my husband with shrimp tacos.  He’s contact allergic to shellfish, and on the rare occasion I eat a meal without him, my radar is firmly set on shrimp.  I feel guilty while eating them, like I’ve cheated, and then have to go through a hazmat-style sterilization process afterward.  But, shrimp.

I had that shrimp-y luncheon with my a friend, an accomplished realist painter.  We spent time talking about our plans for the next weeks and months. She paints prolifically and noted, “I haven’t even been looking at Calls because I can’t do anything until Fall”.  Between work for galleries that represent her, a couple of invitational shows and a museum solo show that comes down this week, she can’t lose focus.  Realizing that kind of focus has been my goal for months, and I am beginning to see results, but it requires tuning out the things that don’t serve my focused goal. 

Are museum shows a part of your current plan?  If yes, check out this Call for Entries from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Brownsville, TX) for 47th International Art Show.  $45 entry & 30% commission, plus $3300 in cash awards.  Both jurors’ work is well documented, so do your homework!

Learn more about the 47th International Art Show from the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art!CALL for ENTRIES:
47th Int’l Art Show 
from Brownsville Museum of Fine Art

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to painting, drawing, water media, mixed media, printmaking, 3D sculpture, photography & digital media.

DEADLINE:  February 20, 2019 (midnight CENTRAL time)

NOTIFICATION:  February 26, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $45 up to 3, $5 ea. addl 

JURORS:  Joe Harjo, visual artist, MFA from the University of Texas San Antonio, and Professor of Photography at Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX.  Mauricio Saenz, visual artist and filmmaker, MA in Artistic Production from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.

AWARD: Best of Show $1000; Clara Ely Award $250 (limited to oil & acrylic),  and Octavia Arneson Award $250 (limited to water media), Mayor’s Award: Commemorative Plate, First Place (in each of 8 categories) $150, 2nd Place (in each of 8 categories) $50, 3rd Place (in each of 8 categories) $25 and Honorable Mentions receive ribbons.

SALES:  All art must be for sale and the BMFA will require 30% commission for any sale that was a direct result of the exhibition.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art!

CALL for ENTRIES: Saturated

Learn more about the Saturated An Eye for Color exhibit from the Barrett Art Center! oh, KALE no!

Somebody help me love kale.  I want to love love kale (in some other manner than deep fried kale chips, ha)., but I just don’t.  If I’m gonna eat a leafy green, I’m gonna choose spinach every time.  Give me arugula or chard.  Meanwhile, organic kale was 99¢ a pound this week.  It is a gorgeous color though.  I’ve been toying with making my own watercolors.  Maybe THAT is how I learn to love kale.

For years I worked in black and white, and I loved the big, bold graphic nature of that work.  But, color.  Color has turned my work around.  I fell so in love with color that I changed media after TWENTY years.  Like any grade schooler, I get that yellow + blue = green.  But, when you find the right gambogue hue & add just a touch of thalo blue, you get to watch them bloom into a gorgeous shade of peacock.  This newly found watercolor magic gives power & voice to what I tried to represent literally with typography and b&w symbolism for all those years.

I’ve tried to be more transparent over the past weeks about my own “which” & “why” & “what” questions because I am hoping my answers will help you formulate your own questions and discover your own answers.  The Barrett Arts Center is a “yes” for me.  Beautiful venue, great jurors, superb curatorial history, excellent resume builder.  I have been working on a piece for months that would be the perfect piece to enter.  If I can just keep myself on track to finish, I am entering this one.  Do you have color you want to strut out like a proud peacock?  Then THIS is a great call.

Check out this Call for Entries from Barrett Art Center (Poughkeepsie, NY) for Saturated: An Eye for Color.   $45 entry fee & 30% commission. Plus, this juror has a well-documented history.  Take a look…

Learn more about the Saturated: An Eye for Color exhibit from the Barrett Art Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Saturated: An Eye for Color
from Barrett Art Center

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

MEDIA: Open to drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fiber, mixed-media, new media & installation

THEME: Color.  “Barrett Art Center seeks artworks in which color is the primary instrument of expression for this national juried exhibition to be held April 6 through May 18, 2019. The French painter Eugene Delacroix said, ‘I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will’. Delacroix was referring to the power of color dynamics.  This call for works is looking for submissions in which which color plays a transformative role.”

DEADLINE:  January 19, 2019

NOTIFICATION:  by February 2, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $45 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l ($35 for members)

JUROR:  Michael Rooks joined the High Museum of Art as Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in January 2010. Besides his responsibilities at the High, Rooks was appointed Commissioner and co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2010 and is a member of ActArt, the President’s committee for contemporary art and social action. Prior to joining the High Museum, Mr. Rooks held curator positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.  At Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Rooks curated several group exhibitions and solo projects in addition to survey exhibitions of work by Roy Lichtenstein (1999) and H. C. Westermann (2001) for which he co-authored Westermann’s catalogue rasionné. 

AWARDS:  $825 in cash prizes –$500 Juror’s Prize, $200 2nd Prize, $125 Honorable Mention.

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Barrett Art Center!

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue 2019

Learn more about Blue 2019 from art-competition.net!

CUCUMBER and berries

Between granola and smoothies, I am on a constant hunt for decent fruit.  This time of year, it is a challenge.  The strawberries are horrific, fibrous little lumps. Bananas are great for smoothies but don’t dry well without sulfites.  Cucumbers & pineapples are rocking my smoothies, but FRESH fruit is a struggle. (Yes, I can hear how that sounds.)  Blueberries have saved me lately.  They are relatively cheap and work in cereal and for pancakes & smoothies.  If anyone has recommendations on how to dry them, I’m open to ideas.  This next Call wants your blue solutions…

So why do you consider this online gallery, art publication opportunity?   Well, here are some questions:  Do you need a low risk, low cost way to test new, experimental work? Are you looking to drive traffic to your website and create organic content for social media posts?  And, there’s the grant money.  Do you want the opportunity to be awarded grant money? ha. Is this opportunity right for you?  Only you can know. The deadline looms VERY CLOSE — January 7th.

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Blue 2019. $25 entry & no shipping.  Do you have work in blue? You know you want the $500 grant.  Take a look…

Learn more about Blue 2019 from art-competition.net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue 2019
from Art-competition.net

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+ (int’l)

MEDIA:   Open to still media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, fiber art, collage, etc.

THEME: Blue “The art created of any subject that is enhanced by the use of the color blue, whether it is a single dot of blue or a completely blue image.  The color blue should enhance the narrative of the works subject as blue can imply many emotions, symbolisms or feelings, from the blue marble we call earth to our emotions expressed in Blues music. Blue can express the future, good feelings, happiness, prosperity, ocean or sky, and we can feel blue, etc. It can be used to enhance, emphasize or be a focal point in the art.” –art-competition.net

DEADLINE:  January 7, 2019

NOTIFICATION: January 14, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS:  20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “BLUE 2019” at Gallery25N; the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 26,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, etc.  One artist will be selected to receive the “Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant of $500. That artist’s work will become the image of the exhibition and will be used on the invitation, video title screen and on all online marketing.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from art-competition.net!

CALL for ENTRIES: 56th Annual Masur

 

Learn more about the 56th Annual Juried Exhibit from Masur Museum!

the SMOOTH move

I finally have a use for all those black, frozen bananas cluttering my freezer –the afternoon smoothie.  I live with two high-metabolism guys, so the 4 o’clock afternoon snack is standard here.  I’m not new to the concept of the smoothie, but I am new to making them regularly.  Frozen cantaloupe, whole milk yogurt and a melange of other goodies like vanilla, berries, chia seeds.  I am frequently still NOT hungry when dinner prep time rolls around.  The best part is that they are super fast & have almost no clean up, giving me less distraction and fewer avoidance excuses.

I need fewer reasons to make excuses.  Do you hibernate from responsibility when overwhelmed? Me too. I am a member of a handful of online artistic communities, and I read all the bickering about what shows are worth entering and which aren’t.  No one seems to see different paths.  Everyone seems to have divided up into teams “realism” vs. “abstraction”, “fine art” vs. “applied arts”.  Where are you?  And why can’t your decision be based on where YOU are or where you want to be?  Right now, I am interested mainly in academic and museum shows because this is a period of growth and change.  What shows feel right to you?  Are you concentrating on publication?  Are you testing new work in online venues?  Are you searching for gallery representation or maybe higher volume commercial sales?  All of those paths are valid.  Don’t get sucked into the guilt of not fulfilling the vision someone else has for what being a successful artist means. (Remind me to talk about Insta-worthy studios sometime.)

Check out this Call for Entries for the 56th Annual Juried Exhibition from the Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, LA). $20 Entry & no commission.  This is a stunning museum show with a storied history. The juror has excellent curatorial vision.   I think this is a great opportunity, but is it the right fit for you?  Have a smoothie and get back to me. 🙂

Learn more about the 56th Annual Masur Juried Exhibit!CALL or ENTRIES:
56th Annual Juried
from Masur Museum

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all US artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: January 2, 2019 (extended) 

NOTIFICATION:  February 1, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 2, $10 ea. add’l (5 max.)

JUROR:  Catherine Futter is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. Futter has curated a number of permanent collection installations of European and American art from medieval to the present, organized exhibitions that highlight living artists, and also has led the museum’s efforts to spark an area conversation about creating a cultural district in midtown Kansas City. Futter’s specialty is with European and American Decorative arts from 1850-present, and she has previously held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Chrysler Museum of Art.

AWARDS: Best in Show is $1,000, and total awards are $3,200. The People’s Choice Award is $200.00 and will be voted on by visitors throughout the run of the exhibition. Best Packed: $100 This award will honor for the artist who packs their art in the most professional manner. 

SALES: The Masur Museum of Art does not receive a commission on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Masur Museum!

CALL for ENTRIES: Art Olympia 2019

Learn more about the 2019 Art Olympia International Open Art Competition!

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?

Learn more about the 2019 Art Olympia International Open Art Competition!CALL for ENTRIES:
Int’l Open Art Competition 
from Art Olympia

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!

Learn more about Art Olympia!

CALL for ENTRIES: Open 2018

Learn more about the Open 2018 exhibit from art-competition.net!

the PRICKLY truth

Sometimes you just have to be open to trying new foods.  So, when handed a nopales taco by a friend, I thought “why not”.  Nopal is a common name for the pad of a cacti and sometimes refers to the prickly pear fruit as well.  Fleshy & a little tart, the nopales in my taco really worked as a meat substitute.  I’m not sure why I don’t eat more cacti. To what are you open? This next call is open to any thematic content.  Investigate the opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Open 2018 & the Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant. $25 entry & no shipping.  The theme is open to more than pencil & charcoal drawing, and one artist now receives a $500 grant.  Take a look…

Learn more about the Open 2018 exhibit from art-competition,net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Open 2018
from Art-competition.net

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+ (int’l)

MEDIA:   Open to any still medium

THEME:  Open “. . . . free from category, subject, and medium stipulation. Your art work can range from photo realism to abstraction; it is invited as your spirit of choice and is much appreciated as representation of a personal voice.  There is a welcome ‘mystery’ behind this ‘tabula rasa’ of opportunity which is likely to bring forth stimulating varieties of life’s subjective legacies. ” –art-competition.net

DEADLINE:  September 10, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  September 20, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

AWARDS:  20 artists will be selected for an online group exhibit, “OPEN 2018” at Gallery25N; the exhibit and artists will be extensively marketed worldwide to over 26,000 people including art buyers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, etc.  One artist will be selected to receive the “Christopher E. Burke Fine Art Grant of $500. That artist’s work will become the image of the exhibition and will be used on the invitation, video title screen and on all online marketing.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from art-competition.net!

CALL for ENTRIES: 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Learn more about the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition!

I will travel for FOOD, will you?

If you could have any food you want for your next meal, what would it be?  My favorite foods list is a moving target, but my dream foods list is dwindling. I find that more and more, I just want an authentic meal… dim sum in Hong Kong, ceviche in Peru, pho in Vietnam.  Let’s go.  This next Call is my stateside art dream– the National Portrait Gallery.  Do you have a portrait to submit?  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) for 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.  $50 Entry for a chance to win $25,000 + a commission. Is this show on your bucket list? 

CALL for ENTRIES:
2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 
from the National Portrait Gallery

Learn more about the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition!

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to professional artists, age 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media including but not restricted to painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance, and digital or time-based media.

THEME:  Portraiture.  Artists are invited to interpret the concept of portraiture broadly.

DEADLINE:  September 3, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  Semifinalists will be notified of their standing on or before November 12, 2018. Semifinalist work must be available for shipping to Washington, D.C., by March 4, 2019.  On or about May 13, 2019, finalists will be notified of their selection and non-finalists will be contacted to arrange for the return of their works.

ENTRY FEE: $50 per entry

JUROR: The first round of judging will be conducted online by a panel of experts chosen by the National Portrait Gallery. The jury will select approximately 80 semifinalists.

AWARD:  The winner of the Portrait Competition will receive a cash award of $25,000 and will be awarded a separate commission to portray a remarkable living American for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. The winning artist and the Portrait Gallery will collaborate to select the subject for the commissioned portrait. The second-prize winner will receive $7,500, and the third-prize winner will receive $5,000. Up to four additional artists may be commended for their work and those artists will receive $1,000 each. The winner of the People’s Choice Award during the exhibition at the Portrait Gallery will receive $500. All finalists’ works will form a major exhibition on view at the Portrait Gallery from November 2, 2019, through September 6, 2020 and the subsequent national tour from October 2020 through January 2022. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition!

CALL for ENTRIES: Boys will be Boys

Learn more about the Boys will be Boys Exhibit from Whitdel Arts!

COOK for me

Why are there so few female chefs and so many female cooks?  It turns out that professional cooking jobs are like so many other jobs –ruled by gender stereotypes.  I lived most of my pre-adolescence without a residential female figure, and I was always taught it was my job to learn to cook.  I cooked most of my familial meals from age 5, yes 5, to age 15.  Imagine my surprise when I got to cooking school and found myself the only woman in my class.  This next call explores masculinity. Do you have something to say? Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Whitdel Arts (Detroit, MI) for Boys will be Boys. $15 Entry & 33% commission, plus this theme is open to all media and wide interpretation. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIESLearn more about the Boys will be Boys Exhibit from Whitdel Arts!:
Boys will be Boys
from Whitdel Arts

“This exhibition will explore different archetypes of masculinity, today’s societal pressures on men, and ramifications of institutionalized expectations.  Masculinity has a long and varied history, but with the current climate, the constructs of manhood have come to the forefront of conversation. With this exhibition, we aim to continue the conversation on the limitations and outcomes of the concept of masculinity.” –from whitdelarts.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE:  September 4, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  September 7, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $15 for up to 3 (non-members); free to members.

SALES: Whitdel Arts takes a 33% commission fee of the sales price, regardless of gallery affiliation.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!


Learn more from Whitdel Arts!

CALL for ENTRIES: Bring Us Your Dead exhibit (Dia de los Muertos) 2018

Learn more about the Bring us your Dead exhbit from Las Laguna Gallery!

have some CANDY

My grandmother was addicted to candy. She would stock up near the candy-laden holidays Easter, Halloween and Christmas, and try to get it eaten at a faster rate than it would solidify in a solid block of colored sugar.  So, it wasn’t her sweet grandmotherly instinct to push candy on me at every occasion; it was stock rotation, ha. After she died, I could have started a candy store with the volume of candy in her kitchen. This Call is a chance for you to celebrate the life of someone who has passed from the physical world.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for Bring us Your Dead 2018, an exhibit inspired by those no longer with us. $35 entry & $35 commission. Don’t miss this opportunity…

Learn more about the Bring us your Dead exhbit from Las Laguna Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Bring us Your Dead 2018
from Las Laguna Gallery

“Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. It is an ancient and enduring ritual when the living commune with the dead – a mystical night when the veil is lifted between their two realms and they may share a day together.” –from laslagunagallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media, but your entries should fit this theme, either traditionally or digitally, in some way.

DEADLINE: September 4, 2018

NOTIFICATION: September 12, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3 via Submittable or $35/1 + $2 ea. add’l for up to 15 entries via CaFe.

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

 

Learn more from Las Laguna Gallery!