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CALL for ENTRIES: Artavita

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or me

The only thing missing from California cuisine is butter.  It is characterized by local, fresh ingredients and foods low in saturated fats and high in fresh vegetables and fruits with lean meats and seafood from the California coast with special attention paid to presentation–delicious & beautiful.  But why leave out the butter?  And, if it is from local, grass-fed cows, even better.  Can’t we just learn to play well with others?  The prize for this next Call hails from the land of California cuisine.  Is this opportunity the one for you?

Check out this Call for Entries from ArtAVita.com for their 10th Art Contest!  The entry fee is cheap, and it could be just the exposure for which you’ve been looking. Take a look…

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10th Art Contest

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Painting, Sculpture, 3D, Mixed media, Digital, Photography, Installation & Video

DEADLINE: April 5, 2014

NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2014

ENTRY FEE: $15 per image

JURY: Despina Tunberg, Curator, Founder of the International Contemporary Masters publication, The Important World Artists, organizer of International art Festivals and Thomas Tunberg, Founder of International Masters of Photography publication.

AWARDS: 1 Winner will exhibit 3 artworks for free at the World Wide Art Los Angeles show from October 16-19, 2014 at the Los Angeles Convention Center Downtown Los Angeles, right in the heart of downtown LA, at the beginning of next year’s international art fair season. There will be over 400 exhibitors – a mixture of art galleries and solo artists – and tens of thousands of visitors will attend.

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FEATURED ARTIST: Stephanie Metz

Learn more about Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!BUTTER, melts like butter

I try to co-ordinate the Featured Artists I choose with the season, the weather and, well, my mood.  Given the time of year and the constant presence of butter-laden comfort foods in my house, I have been in the mood for something comforting, something soft, something knowable.  Well, I don’t always get my way.

This month’s artist works in the soft and fuzzy, but she left me with an uneasy feeling.  After reviewing her work, I had more questions than answers and the sinking feeling I might have seen something that wasn’t any of my business.  I feel a little voyeuristic when feasting on her work.  I am uncomfortable, and I am okay with that.  On behalf of AAAD, I am proud to announce this month’s Featured Artist is Stephanie Metz.  Her artwork is mysterious but overtly human.  Let Stephanie take YOU out of your comfortable place and inspire you for the New Year…

Learn more about the Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!FEATURED ARTIST:  Stephanie Metz

Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA.  She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.  Her numerous group exhibitions include Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, Formex Stockholm 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, and Transmission: Experience at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery, Singapore.  Metz was honored with two Center for Cultural Innovation Grants in 2011 and 2009.

Her artwork has been reviewed and featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Fiberarts Magazine, Craft Magazine, Artweek Magazine, and PBS. She received her BFA in Sculpture at the University of Oregon.  Metz’s focus is overly domesticated creatures, especially those whose form has overgrown their function.

Flesh and Bone Study 2 by Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!What do you consider your media?  Felted Wool?  Mixed Media?  “I describe myself as a ‘Sculptor’, and I mostly use wool, but I feel free to use other things when they’re needed. I’m known for my felted wool work, and I truly love the medium, but I don’t identify myself as a fiber artist or a felt artist or a wool artist—all of which apply, but really narrow down the discussion with a lot of preconceptions.  I have in the past listed my medium as ‘felted wool’ on labels for my work, but recently saw a show of Rosemarie Trockel’s wrapped yarn canvases described simply as ‘wool,’ and really liked the simplicity of it—probably because I feel that I’m always having to push forward the idea of wool as just another medium with which to sculpt, rather than a way to draw a line between art and craft.   So I guess I’m saying my medium is wool.”

Talk to me about the process you use.  “My process is ridiculously simple: I poke at masses of wool fibers with sharp, notched needles from various directions until they compact into nearly solid forms. Needle felting is a way to make non-woven textiles, but unlike wet felting which tangles the wool fibers through heat and motion, needle felting accomplishes the tangling by mechanically forcing the wool fibers against each other, where they become interlocked thanks to the microscopic scales that cover the hairs.

Hair Underwear by Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!“Eventually the fluffy wool becomes more like a solid object, given a particular shape by the process of turning it over to reach different areas, adding on more wool, compacting it down, and all the time poking and poking and poking. Repeat.  I enjoy pushing the known limits of a material and a technique, and since I had no background whatsoever in fibers when I stumbled across needle felting, I didn’t know what rules I might be breaking.”  For those interested, there are some great process pictures on her Facebook page.

How do you feel about what I suspect are never ending questions, like mine, about your process?  “Sometimes I wish I were a painter, because then when people ask what I do I could just say ‘I’m a Painter’ which either ends the discussion or opens on to a discussion of ideas and themes, rather than detailing the physical application of materials.  Working in an unusual and craft-heavy medium means I have a lot of practice talking about my technique, which is a blessing and a curse. It’s great that people find it interesting, and I’m enthusiastic about sharing the ins and outs of needle felting—but that doesn’t always leave time to talk about the ideas behind the work. ”  Watch a time lapse video of 35 hours of work in 4:14 minutes.

Lorica 5 by Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!Your work actually makes me a little uneasy.  It seems far too intimate for public viewing, and I don’t know why.  Talk about your influences. “I’m intrigued to find that my work seems intimate to you, since I sometimes suspect that I’m too much of a chicken to really put it all out there.  I’m a private person.  I feel somewhat protected by the non-literal nature of my artwork, but perhaps it’s more self-disclosing than I realize. Or maybe it appears to be self-disclosing to a viewer because it reflects back their own issues or expectations. I do find that when I meet new people who have known my work first they often seem surprised that I am, er, ‘normal.’  I don’t know any ‘normal’ artists Stephanie.  Even the folks doing representational pastel beach scenes on the Boardwalk have a weird streak.

“It is a strange disconnect to make things and know what they mean to me, and then find out that others have completely different takes on them.  But I know each of us carries around a lifetime of personal baggage, and that affects the way we interpret art and life.  My teddy bear skulls, for example, tend to separate viewers into two distinct camps: those who see them as specimens of surreal nature, and those who see them as evidence of murdered childhood icons.  I’m in the former camp.”

Learn more about Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!What style of art do you find unbearable to own?  “I dislike artwork that mines the cultural iconography of another time or culture in a frivolous way… like plunking a Kokopelli figure on a mailbox, for example. There has to be a reason, a connection.”

You know we have to talk about food. What is your favorite? “Hmm. I’m not sure if ‘butter’ is considered to be a food or just a component of food. I was allergic to dairy as a child, so I tell myself I’m making up for lost time. Perhaps a more socially acceptable answer would be one of many cheeses, probably between Cotswold and fancy sharp Cheddar.  I lean towards an Italian palate of breads, cheeses, tomatoes, and the like.”  Butter.  I miss butter as it has been relegated to a rare indulgence, despite to my French culinary leanings.

What about snack foods?  “I really like rice cakes with cream cheese heavily applied, but some Oreos wil l do as well as long as it’s after real food.  I have a thing about not eating dessert food (chocolate-based) before ‘real food’. Not sure why.”  Rice Cakes, Stephanie?  Really?  You lead me on with butter only to slap me down with rice cakes?  I love them too, but it’s a long fall from butter.

Learn more about Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!So, what’s coming up next for you? “I’m considering this a ‘making year’- head down, working on my large scale body of work (and smaller studies as I work out the mechanics of making the large pieces). I’m looking into renting a larger studio space at the end of the year, since my work is lately taking over more of the house.”

What style or school of art do you think your work fits into and why?  “I think my work is perhaps related to post minimalism, but the ‘official’ style that best seems to fit is “Eccentric Abstraction,” a term coined by curator Lucy Lippard in 1966, which refers to the use of organic abstract form in sculpture evoking the gendered body through an emphasis on process.  I don’t know when there will be a term for a style or school that emphasizes hand work within the world of modern technology (and without the negative associations of ‘craft’), but I think I would fit there.”  Holy cannoli, someone finally ANSWERED this question without saying, ‘I don’t think in terms of labels’ or “My work doesn’t really fit into any particular style.”  Thank you.  You might be the first one EVER.

Thanks, Stephanie, for making me uneasy with your felted creaturesWe all need to be forced out of our comfort zone…

Learn more about Stephanie Metz online!

Learn more about Featured Artist Stephanie Metz!

CALL for ENTRIES: Mystery Build 2013

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GINGERBREAD
HOUSES

Last year, I mentioned gingerbread house kits and got one in the mail from a reader.  The result, well, we won’t talk about it.  But, when it comes to baking, I have to depend on kits, or leave it to my husband for the scratch-made goods.  I’m not great at it.  The recipe for this Christmas Cake (left) by Delia Smith used to be available in kit form.  This will be my fruitcake substitute this year. The next Call wants you to be inspired by a kit of mystery materials. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Mystery Build 2013. This year’s theme is “Re-Invent a Work of Art”.  What can be better than getting a mystery box of supplies by mail? Investigate this one…

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Mystery Build 2013

Mystery Build is an art challenge developed by two artists to inspire creativity. The concept is simple. Buy a kit. Make something out of the contents of the kit. And, upload either a picture or video of your creation.

ELIGIBILITY: Contest is only open to legal residents of the U.S. and D.C. Contestants must be 18 years of age and older to receive cash prizes. Contestants under the age of 18 must have an adult who is 18 or older complete the Submission Form.

THEME: “Re-Invent a Work of Art” — You may interpret the contest’s theme any way you wish. Perhaps a re-creation of a famous painting in the form of a sculpture, or a new perspective or hidden angle on a familiar work of art. You will specify what work of art you are re-inventing on the submission form. Any work of art can be used, in any medium from painting, to film, music, architecture, photography, sculpture, culinary arts etc. The entry should not be a replica of the work but a re-interpretation, continuation, or unique version of the original artwork.

Learn more about the 2013 Mystery Build! MEDIA: You must buy a Mystery Build Kit. You may choose to use anything in the Kit and the Mystery Build tin itself, but you are not required to use all of the materials. Entrants MAY ADD paint, varnish, lacquer, food coloring, oil, water, dye, ink, and similar liquids to decorate or enhance the entry, or to manipulate the materials. Liquids may not be used for structural elements, but may only be used as a surface enhancement or as a tool. Substances which are not liquid at room temperature, such as wax, are excluded. Liquid adhesives not included in the Kit are also not permitted. Judges will have final ruling on use of liquids.

Entrants may use any tools available to them to alter the materials in the Mystery Build Kit, barring tools that add or leave behind an additional physical material, such as a stapler which leaves a metal staple, or a soldering operation which adds solder. You may make tools out of any materials you want. Tools may include molds, which also do not have to be made of materials from the Kit.

2012 6th place winner - Hugo and the Mystery Clock by Leslie StancilDEADLINE: Submissions are due by 10/20/13 at 12:59 p.m. ET.

ENTRY FEE: $36 for the kit

JUDGING PROCESS: An independent, qualified panel of judges will judge all eligible Entries received based on the criteria found here.

AWARDS: There are $15,000 in cash Prizes. Grand Prize $5,000, 2nd Place $2,000, 3rd Place $1000, 4th Place $700, 5th Place $600, 6th Place $500, 7th Place $450, and $1500The People’s Choice Award (Public Voting Winner) $1000. Check here for complete prize details.

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Learn more about the Mystery Build project!

CALL for ENTRIES: All Media

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what I am

I’m not a fan of mustard greens.  I love spinach, but mustard greens do nothing for me.  I’m told exposure therapy is the answer, and that it is an acquired taste.  Really?  I don’t want to work hard to like food.  This next Call could be exposure in a good way.  Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from ArtAVita.com for their 4th Art Contest!  The entry fee is cheap, and it could be great exposure for you even if you don’t win the cash prize.  Take a look…

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4th Art Contest

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  All media considered

DEADLINE:  December 20, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  December 28, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  $15 per entry:  Example: 1 image $15, 2 images $30, 10 images $150

JURY:  Despina Tunberg, Curator, Founder of the International Contemporary Masters publication, The Important World Artists, organizer of International art Festivals and Thomas Tunberg, Founder of International Masters of Photography publication.

AWARDS:  1st Prize $3,000, 2nd prize $ 2,000, and 3rd Prize $1,000

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REMINDER: Fading Light

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I must confess that I do less cooking that my daily ramblings might indicate. My dearest husband does much of the cooking in our household, and he does it wonderfully. But the times I truly enjoy are the times we spend in the kitchen together.  And, as I get older, I have found that artistic collaboration keeps me motivated as well. This call offers you an opportunity to produce work while still being someone else’s muse. Great idea…

Check out this Call for Entries from Open to Interpretation‘s juried book competition Fading Light.  Have your work become the artistic inspiration for a literary masterpiece today!  This is a REMINDER that this Call has now extended the deadline to JUNE

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Open to Interpretation:
Fading Light

 

Open to Interpretation is a juried book competition of photography, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions to both the photos and the written word.

Learn more about Open to Interpretation!ELIGIBILITY: Open to all

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Fading Light

DEADLINE: Extended deadline is June 26, 2012. (originally March 15th)

NOTIFICATION: July 9, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $40 for 5 images, $10 each additional if entered by June 26, 2012.

JUROR: George Slade has provided fine photographic artists and their audiences with insightful interpretation and curatorial expertise in exhibitions, classes, writings, lectures, and face-to-face exchanges for over 25 years.

Learn more about Juror George Slade!Formerly the artistic director of Minnesota Center for Photography, the director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program, and recently the curator at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Slade is a veteran presence at portfolio review events like Fotofest, Photolucida, Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA, and the Society for Photographic Education’s regional and national conferences.

Slade’s writings and reviews appear extensively in print and online; some may be found at his web site, re:photographica. He lives in Minneapolis with his partner Stephanie and their children.

AWARDS: $300 Juror’s Selection Award

For complete details, visit Open to Interpretation online!

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CALL for ENTRIES: My Darlin’ Yellow

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I have always loved raspberries and blackberries.  However, until the vacation that I am currently on, I’ve never had a golden raspberry.  Not to be missed folks…but don’t take my work for it.  Maybe golden raspberries will be my inspiration for this next Call.  There is no entry fee so take a chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from the My Darlin’ Yellow design business and art shop for the My Darlin’ Yellow Art Contest!  If you looking for an inspired summer project to get your creative juices flowing, you can’t beat free and unlimited.  Take a look…

Click to learn more about the My Darlin' Yellow Art Contest!CALL for ENTRIES:
My Darlin’ Yellow

 

THEME: “We want to know what about our name might inspire you. to us, ‘my darlin’ yellow’ is a girl in a yellow dress… a muse, but my darlin’ yellow might also be a person, object, place, idea, shape, image, or emotion.  What does the phrase mean to you?”

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE: September 1, 2011

ENTRY FEE:  There is no fee or limit on number of submissions.

SUBMISSIONS:  E-mail a 300dpi digital .jpg of your work, titled as your first name, underscored, last name  (john_jones.jpg) to mydarlinyellow@gmail.com.  Also in the e-mail body, please attach the title, medium, and size of your piece.

AWARDS:  They will choose 10 best pieces.  All 10 will receive a place in their artshop to sell their winning piece, and the top 2 pieces will be awarded wall space in their first ‘my darlin’ yellow’ art exhibit!

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My Darlin' Yellow Art Contest