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CALL for SUBMISSIONS: $1000 Artist Grant

Learn more about the Artist Grant from WorkingArtist.org!

TOFU no, VEGGIES though

Testimonials and recommendations are great, but my taste buds choose for themselves.  As a welcomed side-result of writing these posts, I receive a significant amount of unsolicitied recommendations for brands of food that are meant to change my mind about tofu, kale & collard greens.  And, I diligently try most to of the suggests, just in case.  On occasion I muse to myself, “that wasn’t half bad”, (never about tofu though), but the important thing for me is to not get stuck in a rut or trust a single encounter as the definitive one.  Did you know that I avoided asparagus for 20 years because of my experiences with the canned variety as a child.  I missed 20 years of green tree goodness.  Never again.  So, send me your food suggestions, and I’ll send you my art experience suggestions.  Here’s one now. 

Yesterday, I offered a Call that chose random winners for supplies in a specific media, but today I offer a Call with a juried winner of cash open to wide array of media.  More accurately, this is a purchase award of sorts.  You do not have to submit the work that will be exchanged for the $1000 –that can be negotiated later.  They even pay shipping costs to get the work to them. I’ve been touting this opportunity for years, so there is a long, RESEARCHABLE history of winners.  Draw your own conclusions about their taste, but it is worthy of consideration.

Check out this Call to Artists from WorkingArtist.org for the $1000 Artist Grant. $25 entry & an email. It doesn’t get any easier. Don’t miss this one…

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Learn more from WorkingArtist.org!CALL to ARTISTS:
Artist Grant
from workingartist.org

“The Working Artist Grant/Art Purchase Award is a meager one-time art award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist’s ongoing art making process.” –workingartist.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to visual media, including but not limited to drawing, painting, conceptual, installation, prints, sculpture, new media, mixed media, photography & video.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2019

NOTIFICATION:  September 15, 2019 (approx. 45 days)

ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 5

AWARDS: If selected as the winner, the award recipient must exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion into a collection, in return for the award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. Shipping costs will be paid by workingartist.org.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Working Artist Grant and Purchase Award!

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: Wide Open 10

Learn more about Wide Open 10 from BWAC - Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition!

a-PEELING

My mother doesn’t own a vegetable peeler.  Well, didn’t.  While I have the benefit of a knife skills class in culinary school, I am not great a peeling vegetables.  I can tourne a potato, but if I peel potatoes for mash, you’d better hope I have a vegetable peeler… or a LOT of potatoes.  When my mother requested vegetable soup over the holidays, I refused unless she let me buy a peeler.  She agreed with disdain, and I spent $3 on the most generic “Domestix” variety available at the local grocer. CHANGED MY LIFE, well, my cooking anyway.  With one swoop across a potato, I realized how dull my home peeler was.  I put the gadget on my holiday list, and it showed up under the tree.   Suddenly I have zucchini ribbons in salad & shaved carrots in my coleslaw.  The possibilities are wide open, ha.

I’ve done the same with paint recently.  I had access to some more highly pigmented tube watercolors recently, and it affected my approach to the work I did with them.  My nature is to “make do” with what I have.  It is taught as a virtue in the South.  Don’t get me started on all the evils of making do.  It is a mindset meant to make children grateful for what they have, but it often squashes ambition and self-value in adults.  That mindset combined with all the guilt I have associated with spending money, has kept me “making do” with some watercolors that are not working for me.  Now when I finish a tube that doesn’t behave in a way that serves my work, I re-order that hue or something similar from a different maker.  I am exploring variations & dispersal patterns & saturation unknown.  The adventure has left me open to the possibilities.  Vegetable peeler & watercolors. Variations on a theme. 

This next Call is also looking for variations on the theme of “Wide Open”.  BWAC is one of my favorite venues, known for great jurors, reliable curatorial vision, a non-profit format & even artist run.  Interested? Then check out this Call for Entries from BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) for Wide Open 10.  There is a distinct discount for early entry, so don’t delay. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Wide Open 10

Learn more about Wide Open 10 from BWAC - Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition!ELIGIBILITY: Open to U.S. artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME: Wide Open “encompasses all the possibilities of knowledge and freedom & love – wide open spaces…arms wide open…eyes wide open ‐ but as with all things, there is the inevitable opposite ‐ wide open to attack…corruption…failure. What kind of fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show looks to explore the idea of “wide open” in all the hidden niches of our collective psyche.” –bwac.org

ENTRY FEE: $50 up to 3, $6 ea add’l (early) or $70 up to 3, $6 ea add’l after Jan. 19th

DEADLINE:  February 4, 2019 (early bird) or February 24, 2019 (final)

NOTIFICATION: March 15, 2019

JUROR: Ylinka Barotto is an Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum and has assisted on such large-scale modern and postwar retrospective exhibitions as Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, which showcased masterworks from the Guggenheim’s modern collection (2017); and Mystical Symbolism; The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 (2017, for which she contributed to the catalog with entries on many of the show’s artists.  Barotto is also one of the organizing curators for the museum’s Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Barotto received an MA in curatorial and museum studies at Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and is currently working toward an MA in art history at Hunter College of the City University of New York with a focus on postwar and contemporary feminism.

AWARDS: Best of Show Gold $1000, Best of Show Silver $500, People’s Choice $250, Curator’s Choice $250 & ten (10) $100 (ea.) Certificates of Recognition.

SALES: BWAC will retain a 30% commission on all exhibition sales.

For full details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Wide Open 10 show from BWAC!

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: Go Fish

Learn more about the Go Fish exhibit from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department!

here FISHY FISHY FISHY

Ten years ago, I just quit eating tuna salad.  I don’t know why. It has never been my favorite, but for some reason it just mysteriously disappeared from my menu-of-habit.  I still eat chicken & egg salad.  I even enjoy salmon patties on regular occasion.  Hell, I even eat tuna fillets at dinner when I find a good deal, but mentioning tuna salad for lunch gets an immediate “no thanks.”  Sometimes things just seem fishy.

In the art world, we’ve all become suspicious that someone has an alternative motive .  I am leery of every call, every competition.  If you read it here, it has passed a fairly thorough “seems fishy” investigation.  The vanity galleries and fees-are-more-than-any-possible-reward scams are the easiest to see through.  But what about the the newer spaces? The unconventional places?  We want to support new endeavors from those whose passion is to serve artists and the development of best practices, but when is your “gut” enough to make it safe to gamble?  When does is cease being fishy? 

The landlord for my new studio space has me on high alert.  It is 200 sq. ft. with  power included for $50 per week.  A steal right?  But he is also willing to sink thousands of dollars into its renovation to make a 12-month studio space for me.  Assuming the utilities are $50 a month, it will take him more than a year to recoup the cost for the renovation.  Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to leave it as a storage space?  Very fishy.  Maybe he’s just trying to support the arts by breaking even on an unused asset.  The verdict is still out.  I’ll keep you updated.

This next Call is highly fishy, in a literal sense.  Do you have work that is inspired by fish, fishing or aquatic fauna?  Here’s your chance to trade in your suspicion for show time.  Check out this Call for Entries from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department (Alamosa, CO) for Go Fish.  $35 entry & no commission for this academic show. This is a beautiful venue…

Learn more about the Go Fish exhibit from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Go Fish 
the Cloyde Snook Gallery
at Adams State Univ. Art Dept

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media –contemporary interpretations that conceptually and/or literally are inspired by Fish, Fishing or Aquatic Fauna. 

DEADLINE:  Feb 1, 2019

NOTIFICATION:  February 5, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 up to 3

AWARD: “Best in Show” will be offered a future solo exhibition at the Cloyde Snook Gallery.

SALES:  The gallery will take no commission on sales but does encourage donations of 10 to 20%

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Go Fish exhibit from the Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University Art Department!

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2019

Learn more about the Art Natura exhibit from the Limner Gallery!

lost in TRANSLATION

What you do if your grocery option were cut by 90%?  I recently read an article about the single largest threat to independent or regional grocers being small-box discount stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar & Dollar Tree.  If you groceries could only come from one of these sources, can you imagine never eating fresh meat or vegetables again?  Virtually every food you would consume would be pre-processed, significantly so.  Nothing you ate would be as it exists in nature or even one step removed.  My mind is really blown by that idea.  It scares me.  It that scenario, I would have to put my own health into the hands of the food processing industry.  How does that sit with you?  Yeah, me neither.

I live less than 5 miles from a regional grocer and another 10-15 miles from large-box retailers like Kroger, Publix, Walmart & Aldi.  As much as I would like to buy local, my local grocer doesn’t make stock decision or employ pricing policies that allow me to make the best menu or the best financial decisions.  Currently, Aldi gets the bulk of my formal grocery dollars.  I want to make foods based on fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood & diary –as close as I can find to their natural form as possible.  If I eat poorly, I want it to be by my choice.

A similar desire prompted by media change.  I wanted to work using supplies and/or products that I could find easily, or make myself if necessary.  At the time, I was contemplating significant rural travel that would have made art supply deliveries less convenient. I’ve always been a closet painter, but always acrylics.  Acrylics led me down the path to acrylic mediums, and then my supply load quadrupled.  I slowly made my way to watercolor.  Purchased paints last long periods & arrive in compact containers.  I can make both paints & paper with very few supplies if necessary. Finished work can be stored flat, pressed.  Small amounts of water can be found anywhere.  It took me a long time to commit, but I’m here and I’m in love, naturally.

This next Call in interested in seeing your nature-oriented work.  What do you have to show in this well-established gallery?  Take your time, research the history of this show & venue and the curatorial choices that have shaped this space.  Could this be a good fit for you?  Check out this Call for Entries from Slow Art Productions for Arte Natura 2019 at the Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY). $35 entry open to all media and all artists.  Take a look…

Learn more about the Art Natura exhibit from the Limner Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2019
at the Limner Gallery

This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery from May 9 – June 1, 2019.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media forms of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphics, digital and installation art, video, etc.

DEADLINE:  February 28, 2019

NOTIFICATION:  March 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: Dairy Arts Annual

Learn more about 2020 Exhibition opportunities from the Dairy Arts Center!

you’re the ZEST!

The hourglass on citron is running low.  Citron (aka Buddha’s hand) is that freaky-looking fingered citrus fruit that is commonly found in fruitcake and other holiday baked confections.  It is lovely candied and turns a gorgeous shade of lemon yellow.  Not panicked about the days slipping away?  You’d better be certain, because it is only available a few months of the year, and January is the last of them in most places.  So what happens if I need it in June?  I wait; that’s what.  If you miss this next call, YOU will also have to wait.

That’s the problem with waiting until you’re ready.  Artists are often, by nature, too busy or too focused or too single-minded to be looking forward by months, much less years.  So, we are cast as procrastinators even if the part doesn’t quite fit.  I am you; we are all you.  It is easy to say “next time” when you feel unprepared, or worse yet, suffering from a reliable case of impostor syndrome.  But we’re never ready enough or prepared enough or qualified enough.  

This next Call is for solo exhibit opportunities in 2020 at a public art center in Boulder, Colorado, a popular arts location.  Why this call?  First, they only ask for 4 to 7 images, not 20.  You’ve got 4 images, right?  Next, they offer a map of their galleries.   Why is this important? Because their galleries are numerous and of varying size, including some lobby and corridor spaces that are manageable, regardless of how prepared you feel right now.  You can’t wait until you re ready because then you’ll have to wait 2 years.  And, what if you don’t get in the first time?  You’ll feel more prepared and less nervous the second time, not “next time”.  I get that not every opportunity is right for every artist, but if you’re going to NOT enter, be certain you’re CHOOSING not to enter, not letting the fear or insecurity choose for you.

Check out this Call for Entries from Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO) for 2020 Exhibition Opportunities. $35 submission fee with as few as 4 images.  Is this your next step? This is a great venue…

Learn more about 2020 Exhibition opportunities from the Dairy Arts Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
2020 Exhibition Opps 
from Dairy Arts Center

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all media 

DEADLINE:  January 15, 2019

ENTRY FEE: $35 

JURORS:  A ten-member committee comprised of artists, curators, university faculty, and art collectors. A floor plan of the Dairy’s exhibition spaces has been provided for review by potential applicants, however, if selected for exhibition the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts will select the gallery or galleries that are most appropriate for the display of invited artist(s) work.

AWARD:  Following the close of this call, applications will be reviewed by the Dairy’s Curator of Visual Arts and the Visual Arts Jury to select individual artists and groups of artists to exhibit in the Dairy’s four galleries. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Dairy Arts Center!

CALL for ENTRIES: FL3TCH3R 2018

Learn more about the FL3TCH3R 2018 Exhibit!

FEEDING the anxiety

I’m notoriously an emotional eater.  I find comfort in food, and I know it is a slippery slope. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve quit trying to fight the desire to eat for comfort and have just tried to make better “comfortable” choices.  Politics being what they are in the U.S. would understandably drive anyone to drink, but I have resorted to guava.  Guava is my tropical fruit therapy, and then, of course, there’s art.  This next Call wants your political art.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Reece Museum at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for The FL3TCH3R Exhibit. Here’s your chance to speak your mind without media restriction. Don’t miss this chance…

Learn more about the FL3TCH3R 2018 Exhibit!CALL for ENTRIES:
FL3TCH3R 2018

The theme of THE FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT is focused on work with strong social and political content. Work entered in the exhibit should reflect current issues that affect contemporary culture and investigate societal and political concerns. Diverse media and approach to the theme are encouraged.

ELIGIBILITY: U.S. artists age 18+

MEDIA: All 2D, 3D, performance & installation & video art are eligible. Due to space & logistical considerations, large-scale & complicated installation is not encouraged.

DEADLINE: August 22, 2018 (late deadline August 31, 2018)

NOTIFICATION: September 16, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l (by August 22). OR $45 for up to 3 & $10 ea. add’l (from August 23-31).

JUROR:  David Carson is the most Googled graphic designer in history and has been named the art director of the era by Creative Review, London.   Carson’s company has offices in New York and Los Angeles. Their work for cultural, corporate, music and other clients has been recognized by the New York Type Directors Club, American Center for Design and ID magazine. Graphic Design USA Magazine (NYC) listed Carson as one of the all-time five “most influential graphic designers of the era”, alongside Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli. Carson’s work has been published in over 150 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including Eye, Idea, The New York Times, The Guardian, Metropolis, Domas, Wired and Émigré. A feature in Newsweek magazine said of Carson: “He changed the public face of graphic design.”  American graphic designer, art director and surfer David Carson is best known for his innovative magazine design, in particular for Ray Gun magazine & experimental typography that has been widely imitated and which influenced an era of graphic design.

AWARDS: Best of Show $300, 2 Awards of Excellence $100 ea,  Sammie L. Nicely Appalachian Artist Award $100, Reece Museum Award $ 100, Healthcare & the Arts Award $100 & other awards

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the FL3TCH3R exhbit!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Rhythm & Rush

Learn more about the Rhythm and Rush Call from Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville!

DINNER for one entire night

I’m a restaurant camper, and I apologize.  I want the pace of dinner to drag on all night and this isn’t always the same pace at which the restaurant can afford to turn over table.  Luckily, I am also a big tipper and luckily that sometimes buys lots of forgiveness from the serving staff.  This next Call is all about rhythm –fast or slowTake a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Ground Floor Gallery (Nashville, TN) for the Rhythm & Rush.  The Guardian included Ground Floor Gallery in the top 10 galleries to visit in Nashville! $30 entry for this Call.  Great venue…

Learn more about the Rhythm and Rush Call from Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville!CALL for ENTRIES:
Rhythm & Rush
from Ground Floor Gallery

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA:  Open to all media

THEME:  “Rhythm and Rush seeks to find work that provokes movement, atmosphere, and speed in both conceptual and formal ways . . . Slow, fast, static, haptic, and rhythmic can be presented in many ways – we are seeking works that touch on these ideas in very specific, sensitive and strong ways.” –groundflrgallery.com

DEADLINE:  July 15, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  August 1, 2018

ENTRY FEE:  $30 for up to 3, $50 for 4-6 & $70 for 7-9 images

JUROR:  Catherine Haggarty is an artist, curator & writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Haggarty earned her MFA from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011 and is currently the co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York. Haggarty’s paintings & curatorial work has been reviewed & featured in Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Maake Magazine, Art Maze Magazine, The Black and White Project (UK), Sound and Vision Podcast and Young Space. Teaching experience includes but is not limited to Rutgers University, Abrons Art Center, Princeton Day School, Philadelphia Mural Arts and One River School of Art and Design.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

 

Learn more from the Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville, TN!

CALL for ENTRIES: Below the Surface

Learn more about the Below the Surface exhibit from the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn NY!

slow BURN

Four days out of seven find my family eating spicy foods.  Before I quit smoking five years ago, I suspected my tolerance for spicy food came from my deadened taste buds.  But after years as a non-smoker, we eat more hot food, not less.  However, I’m not usually a fan of overtly fiery foods; I prefer the slow burn that simmers just below the surface.  I frequently start dinner thinking “this needed more heat” and end the meal with a flush having creeped up my scalp.  This next Call wants to know what is layered just below the surface of your work.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from 440 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) for Below the Surface, a juried exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, July 5 – July 29, 2018.  Most of create work that is layered either literally or metaphorically, so this curatorial theme might work for you…

Learn more about the Below the Surface exhibit from the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn NY!CALL for ENTRIES:
Below the Surface 
from 440 Gallery

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

MEDIA: Open to all media 

THEME: “What lies below the surface? Is it visible or hidden, more than just a cursory glance? This exhibit will explore ways that artists are interpreting the physical layering of material versus the metaphorical strata of meaning. Show us how—from the simplest drawing to the most complex sculpture—art has the power to invoke something more than what meets the eye.” — 440 Gallery

DEADLINE:  June 1, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  June 17, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $405 up to 3, $5 ea. addl 

JUROR:  Peter Gynd is an independent curator and fifth generation artist originally from Vancouver, Canada. Gynd studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has exhibited in both Canada and the US. Peter Gynd lives & works in Brooklyn, NY and is the director at Lesley Heller Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

SALES:   30% commission on all sales will go to the 440 Gallery. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn NY!