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CALL for ENTRIES: Feminist Sex

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Learn more from On the Ground Floor!WIENERS,
anyone?

How did operating a grill become a feminist issue?  I can’t tell you how many female friends I have that defer grilling activities to the men in their lives under the guise of not knowing “how to do it”.  Really?  Amongst this group of women who are financiers, scientists, diplomats & artists, no one can operate a grill?  Please.  Maybe they are just faking it, like me, to avoid the additional work occasionally.  *Shhh*  This next Call has NOTHING to do with the grilling of meat and EVERYTHING to do with feminism.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Ground Floor (Los Angeles) for The Feminist Sex Shoppe. This is open to all media.  The best men I know are feminists, and this Call does NOT exclude men.  Don’t miss this opportunity…

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Learn more about The Feminist Sex Shoppe from OTGF!CALL for ENTRIES:
Feminist Sex

 

“We seek new works that explore concepts of sex-positive feminism including pleasure and desire, repression and repulsion, taboo and fantasy, body image and biology, love, lust, and eroticism. We welcome works that address sexual health and well-being and reflect the influence of family, religion, culture, politics, education, and the economy on women and their sexuality.”  –from onthegroundfloor.co/fss

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.  (not gender specific)

MEDIA: Open to all media.

DEADLINE: February 9, 2015

Learn more from On the Ground Floor!NOTIFICATION:  February 20, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  $25

CURATOR:  Malika Ali is a Los Angeles-based artist & curator working in multiple media including film & video, installation, photography, and the written word. She is an alumna of Howard University and The American Film Institute where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Malika Ali has exhibited with The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, Arena 1 Gallery, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, and On The Ground Floor (OTGF), an artist-run space she co-founded in the View Park district of Los Angeles.  Her blog converges contemporary art, writing, design, lifestyle, family, culture, and politics.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST to LOVE: Dan McCormack

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We found another
great artist to celebrate!

This time it is a photographer! Say “Hello” to our newest Artist to Love…

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Dan McCormack
Photography
Vera by Photographer Dan McCormack
Vera
Pinhole Photography		McCORMACK used a round oatmeal box pinhole camera to create a series of visceral images. Through successive pulling of curves in Photoshop, B&W values are replaced with color. The “Nude at Home” series, began about five years ago.

McCormack photographs the model nude in her home, apartment or studio. With the model in her space, all the objects in the image are a part of the life of the model. Then the pose, the furniture and the long, two minute exposures reveal an intimate portrait of the subject.

FAVORITE FOOD: Blueberries

Are you an Artist to Love? Be sure to let us know!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens

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Learn more from Art-Competitions.net!sweet or
SOUR?

I dream of lemons & olives–and corn, of course.  While dreaming of my future garden, I am excited at the prospect of growing non-GMO corn.  But, I also have fantasies of the produce I love most like lemons and olives, neither of which is native to my climate.  Is it just enormous hubris on my part to believe that if I try to grow them in a walipini that they will automatically surpass the quality of the native-grown varieties that I buy after their long trip to my local grocery store?  What is it about humans that makes us want to manipulate plants?  This next Call wants to see how you successfully manipulate plants in your art.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net (online) for Flowers, Plants & Gardens.  The entry fee is as little as $15, and the prize packages are fantastic. Don’t miss the opportunity…

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Learn more from Art-Competitions.net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens

 

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: All 2D Media – painting, drawing, mixed media, photography or digital medium

THEME:   Flowers, Plants & Gardens – Individual interpretations of plants.  The work can reflect on nature’s remarkable abundance and diversity in the wild, in a garden, or an individual plant and or the beauty or complexity of a single leaf or petal.

DEADLINE:  January 12, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  January 16, 2014

ENTRY FEE: $15 for 1, $30 for 3, $60 for 7

AWARDS: 1st Place $500 cash & other awards valued at $5200. 2nd place – $125 cash & other awards valued at $1625. 3rd Place – $75 Cash. 4th Place – $50 cash.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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ARTIST to LOVE: Ansley Adams

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WE found ANOTHER great one!

  This fantastic artist is from Rock Hill, SC!  Say “Hello” to our newest Artist to Love…

Ansley Adams
Painting
The Red Horse, Oil Painting by Ansley Adams
The Red Horse
Oil Painting		ADAMS was born in the rural outskirts of Pittsburgh, PA, where she lived before settling in Charlotte, NC. Adams obtained a BA in Art & Education from Wingate University & a MFA in Painting at the University of SC. Her research on objects and the interior is drawn from the emotional memory of solitude and longing that the memory of place or thing holds for her. She is inspired by the desire to express, through ideas of shared experience, the emotional memory that these locations or 'special objects' hold.

FAVORITE FOOD: Mashed Potatoes

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CALL for ENTRIES: The Sketchbook Project

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Learn more about The Sketchbook Project!HERRING
pickled, not red

My pantry is a library of food fads and favorites.  You’ll find canned tomatoes from my mother (necessary to all of my favorite dishes) and high-fat coconut milk (necessary to all quiet indulgences).  Then there is the the fruit cocktail, quince marmalade, pickled herring, kimchi, a jar of black lime & a few dried apricots left over from some food obsession or experiment that either went awry or with which I got bored.  I can’t bring myself to get rid of the non-expired food no matter how random because they occasionally inspire genius.  This next Call displays the beauty of collecting and sometimes inspires genius.  This is a beautiful idea…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Brooklyn Art Library for The Sketchbook Project (SBP 2015).  Send your work on tour of museums and galleries across North America for as little as $25!  Since the last time I mention SBP, there is now a digitized option!  Take a look…

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Learn more about The Sketchbook Project!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Sketchbook Project

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media that an be contained within the confines of the 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook.  It can open to any size, but it must fold down and not exceed 5” wide x 7” high x 1” thick.  You are welcome to cut, rebind or alter the book in any other way – just please remember to keep it less than 1” thick.  Please read the media tips and tricks.

THEMES:  For a complete list of themes, click here.

Learn more about The Sketchbook Project!DEADLINE:  You must purchase your sketchbook by January 5, 2015, but the postmark deadline isn’t until March 31, 2015.

ENTRY FEE:  $25 minimum fee for a standard 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook that, once completed, registered and returned will go permanently on view at Brooklyn Art Library & travel in their Mobile Library. OR

$60 digitzed fee for a standard 5″ x 7″ x 1″ sketchbook that, once completed, registered and returned will go permanently on view at Brooklyn Art Library & travel in their Mobile Library.  In addition, it will be viewable in the Digital library, have a custom URL to share the digital link, can be added to curated Collections and can be added to a Queue.

For complete details, Visit The Sketchbook Project online!

Learn more about The Sketchbook Project!

 

 

 

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Octagon National

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Learn more from the Octagon Center for the Arts!rocks
NOT CORN

What’s behind the naming of state foods?  The obvious answer is that it honors a crop vital to a state’s economy and/or identity, right?  Wisconsin has milk. Florida has oranges.  And so on.  But what about the dozen or so U.S. states that does not claim a state food.  Iowa has a state rock (the geode) but no state food.  If you have any idea why, I’d love to know.  In the meantime, here’s a Call from an arts organization that Iowa should be proud to claim.  Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from Octagon Center for the Arts (Ames, IA) for the 47th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood National Exhibition.  This all media show has a great juror.  Take a look…

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Learn more from the Octagon Center for the Arts!CALL for ENTRIES:
47th Octagon Nat’l

 

ELIGIBILITY:  All artists 18+ residing in the continental U.S.

MEDIA:  Any Media is eligible including paintings, photos, jewelry, sculptures, etc.

DEADLINE:  December 5, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  December 15, 2014

ENTRY FEE:  $30 for up to 3 ($25 for Octagon members)

JUROR:  Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, a native of the Netherlands, received her BFA (1982) in Fine Art from the Maryland Institute and her MFA in textile design from the University of Kansas (1995). After teaching at the University of Kansas she joined the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute, where she has been developing the area of constructed textiles since 1997 and where she chairs the Fiber program.  She is a leader  in the use of new technologies in hand-weaving and has researched using industrial looms in The Netherlands & the US.  Most of her weavings span several feet in both directions & comment on the nature of woven surfaces.  Through structure, material, image and/or surface treatments, she demonstrates that weaving is unique in building an image.

AWARDS:  Winifred V. Brown Best of Show: $1,000, 1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $250, 3rd Place: $100, & (3) Honorable Mentions:  $50 ea.

SALES:  The Octagon retains a 40% commission on any artwork that is sold, so price accordingly on entry form. Artwork not for sale must be marked NFS and have a value for insurance purposes.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Octagon Center for the Arts!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Indie Grits

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Learn more about the Indie Grits Film Festival!simple
STAPLE

I have grits for breakfast 3+ days per week.  I have a favorite brand of organic, non-GMO grits that never cease to inspire.  On a busy morning, it is scrambled eggs over the top of cheese grits.  The next morning, the refrigerated left over grits are cut into cakes that are sauteed and used as the base for Eggs Benedict.  This morning it was Charleston-style milk grits with a poached egg & chorizo.  There is no end to the independent spirit of this simple staple.  This next Call is an inspiration of grits proportions as well.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Proposals from the Nickelodeon Theatre for the Future Perfect themed Indie Grits Film Festival.  Entries/Proposals ARE NOT limited to film.  No entry fee either.  Don’t pass this one by…

Learn more about the Indie Grits Film Festival!CALL for ENTRIES: Indie Grits

 

THEME:  Future Perfect.  What is Future Perfect? It is the new southern city, urban design for tomorrow in a technological environment, cars that drive themselves, plastic biology, thought-controlled machines, seeds that produce sterile offspring, invisible cities, roads that drain the sun, utopian daydreams, eminent domain, an electric imagination, drones, highly efficient minimalism, living architecture.  Future Perfect is what we will make it.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists with a connection to the Southeast United States.  It is up to each applicant to make an argument for a valid connection.

MEDIA:  ALL disciplines of art are acceptable: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, sound, video, installation, mixed-media, etc. Artwork can be pre-existing, but it must have a connection to the 2015 theme of Future Perfect. In the application each artist must describe how their proposed work ties into Future Perfect.

DEADLINE:  December 5, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  January 16, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  None

AWARDS:  The Indie Grits Film Festival is a program of the Nickelodeon Theatre, a non profit  with a tight budget; please mke an effort to hold down costs.  They will select 15-25 artists/collaborations.  Projects will receive $50 – $1000 with most being on the low end of that spectrum.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Indie Grits Film Festival!

CALL for ENTRIES: 18th Woman Made

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Learn more from the Woman Made Gallery!BACON
borders

The creativity of food preparation has fundamentally changed on a mainstream level in the past 20 years.  A larger segment of the population cooks with abandon now.  The great divide between foods destined to be either savory or sweet seems to have slowly disappeared.  Chocolate is as likely to show up in an entree as bacon is to show up in a dessert.  This next Call encourages you to explore and challenge boundaries presented by both materials & concepts.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL) for their 18th Int’l Open.  This is a special gallery with a fantastic history of well-curated shows, and I have a soft spot for this year’s juror.  Do your homework, ladies…

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Learn more from the Woman Made Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
18th Int’l Open

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all female artists

MEDIA: All themes, styles, and media will be considered– explore & challenge conceptual & material boundaries!

DEADLINE:  November 28, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  December 17, 2014

ENTRY FEE:  $30 for up to 3 images

JUROR:  Gill Gatfield has MFA & Bachelor of Laws from Auckland University.  In 2011, she won a major national public art competition for a site-specific sculpture in Auckland NZ.  In 2012, she was nominated as a member of Global Women, a multi-sector organization of women leaders with global perspectives.  A monograph on her practice, ‘Abstract Figure: Gill Gatfield,’ was released at the 2013 International Sculpture Centre Symposium.  Gatfield’s work blends abstraction with conceptualism, and contemporary with classical. Trans-disciplinary in approach, she uses diverse media to create interconnected series of texts, frames, and monochromes. Her work is held in collections in NZ, Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany and Switzerland. *Many of you are slacking off on doing your homework on jurors.  Don’t skip this step!

AWARDS: 1st Prize:  Solo Show in 2016 at WMG; 2nd Prize: $500 ; 3rd Prize: $250

SALES:  WMG will retain a 40% commission

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!Download the Prospectus from Woman Made Gallery!

 

CALL for APPLICATIONS: Emerging Curator

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Learn more from VisArts at Rockville!stingy
BENEDICT

I don’t share well.  I never have.  I like to believe it is an only-child-thing, but I’ll stab your hand with a fork if you get too close to my plate during some dishes–Eggs Benedict, for example.  Just ask my kid; it doesn’t leave marks, but apparently it is memorable, ha.  Regarding this next Call, I need you to be generous and share.  I hope this Call is just the opportunity YOU want.  But if it isn’t, please share it far and wide so that this dream doesn’t go unrealized for someone out there.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Applications from VisArts (Rockville, MD) for VisArts Emerging Curator Program 2015.  For those of you with curatorial vision but needing additional experience, this is a rare chance to learn with a budget…

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Learn more from VisArts at Rockville!CALL for APPLICATIONS:
Emerging Curator

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

DEADLINE:  December 3, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  December 19, 2014

APPLICATION FEE:  $15

SELECTION PANEL:  Includes the VisArts’ Curator, Artist Advisory Council, Gallery Committee and 2015 Mentoring Curator

AWARDS:  VisArts will provide the Emerging Curator with an exhibition budget of $10,000.  Additional funding and staff support for printing, promotions, and execution of exhibition programming is available.

*I understand that this Call is meant for a very limited audience.  My best hope is that if this opportunity doesn’t speak to your career development that you will kindly share it.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from VisArts at Rockville!

CALL for ENTRIES: Militarism

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Learn more from the American Friends Service Committee!vacuum-sealed
NUTRITION

MREs now have a strong secondary market–doomsday preppers.  I don’t think that most people relish the idea of eating pre-packaged, processed military rations.  They have improved great (or so I’ve been told); pizza is even on the horizon.  However, I would think that preserving seeds, building hydroponic systems and farming fish would be better long-term solutions than MREs.  But then again, I’m not a doomsday prepper–so, what do I know?  This next Call wants your view on militarism, but I don’t think they are interested in the food options.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the American Friends Service Committee for All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism.  Add a nationally-traveling exhibit to your resume.   This Call is tailor-made for graphic  & digital artists, but doesn’t exclude other media…

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Learn more from the American Friends Service Committee!CALL for ENTRIES:
Militarism

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Any media that results in an 8.5 x 11 digital image (300-600 dpi)

THEME: Submissions should explore: Militarism’s negative effects on your community, your country, or the globe;  Ideas for active resistance to militarism; and/or Alternative approaches, new projects, or manifestos that seek to achieve lasting peace and justice.

DEADLINE:  December 15, 2014

ENTRY FEE:  None

AWARDS:  AFSC will print & professionally display the chosen work in the traveling exhibit.  The exhibit website will identify each poster by artist, title, short description & website.  Artists will receive a $50 honorarium & a print copy of the catalog.

SALES:  By participating in this project, artists are donating their work to AFSC to use in the traveling exhibit, in digital replicas of the work available for download for free. Work will be fully credited to the artists, with contact information included.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the American Friends Service Committee!