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ARTIST of the DAY: Laura Sellers

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smoky MOUNTAINS

The Smoky Mountains are celebrated for the vivid colors of fall, but those of us in the know appreciate the desaturated hues of winter.  We rarely get the opportunity to celebrate artists that live so close, so we are  excited to  share the work of Asheville-based artist Laura Sellers, our current Artist of the Day, with you.   (continues below)
Learn more about the work of AAAD Artist of the Day Laura Sellers!
Learn more about the work of AAAD’s Artist of the Day Laura Sellers!
“The summer series of crates were my first attempt at abstract painting on a 3-dimensional form using the desaturation scale. The entire palette was created from the combination of two complementary colors (yellow-green and purple) that when combined form a neutral grey. The colors matched the rainy summer days of the mountains perfectly, and the abstract lines mimic the horizontal landscape lines.” –Laura Sellers

Learn more about Laura Sellers!

CALL for ENTRIES: Imagined World Creatures

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Learn more about the Creatures of Imagined Worlds exhibit at ETSU's Slocumb Galleries!seasonal
VARIETY

It is almost time for winter cabbage.  I am always grateful to those of our local farmers that have the forethought to plant cold-hardy cabbage in late August so that we can have at least one locally-grown GREEN veggie this winter.  It is neither a high-yield crop, nor is it a high profit crop.  Aside from how delightful it tastes in Irish stew, I am fascinated by the other worldliness of cabbage layers. If you compare the outside leaves to the interior leaves of the cabbage head, you would assume one was some sort of alien mutant version of the other with changes in color, texture AND taste.  This next Call wants your other worldliness.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Slocumb Galleries at ETSU (Johnson City, TN) for Creatures of Imagined Worlds. This is a great academic gallery. $20 entry.  Don’t miss it…

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Learn more about the Creatures of Imagined Worlds exhibit at ETSU's Slocumb Galleries!CALL for ENTRIES:
Imagined World Creatures

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists residing in U.S., age 18+

MEDIA:  Open to all 2D & 3D media

DEADLINE:  December 9, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  by December 18, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  $20 for up to 4 entries

CURATORS:  Marty Henley has a B.S. in Computer Animation and Design, a M.A. in art with a concentration in sculpture, and is a Professional Illustrator and Game Designer. He has a fascination with organic and inorganic textures and masses, their combinations in the creation of imaginary artistic creatures, and the emotional and psychological connections the viewers have with these creations. Marty is currently an Adjunct faculty member at East Tennessee State University, were he teaches 2D design, 3D design, and Color Theory.

Kevin C. Reaves has a B.F.A and an M.F.A. with a concentration in Jewelry and Metals. He is a traditional sculptor, metalsmith, digital modeler and an avid game and toy designer. Kevin is inspired by retro science fiction, Japanese monster movies, toys, games and 80’s pop culture. His designs have a strong geometric aesthetic and they often deal with social issues and human conditions that primarily focus on Western civilization.

AWARDS:  Up to $500 in prizes

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Creatures of Imagined Worlds exhibit at ETSU's Slocumb Galleries!

ARTIST of the DAY: Grant Haffner

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on the road, again

I spend a lot of time on the road, and the work of Grant Haffner, our current Artist of the Day, serves as a great reminder to stop, take a breath and SEE. I am a huge fan of color field work, and this intersection of color field with a dash of Fauvism and huge dollop of the living landscape is stunning–nectareous, even, to this weary traveler. (continues below)

"Winter on Scuttle Hole Road" by Grant Haffner
“Winter on Scuttle Hole Road” by Grant Haffner

“Those that are able to see beyond the shadows & lies
of their culture will never be understood
let alone believed by the masses.” –Plato

 

Learn more about Grant Haffner!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Infected 4

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Learn more about Volume 4 of Infected by Art!feelin’
LEMONY

I ran across Buddha’s finger a couple of years ago.  What a bizarre, other-worldly looking fruit.  It is a type of citron and has the aroma of a lemon.  It makes great candied peel and is fantastic for flavoring vodka, or infusing oil or sugar.  The best part is that the pith doesn’t have the bitter taste that is commonly in the white of the lemon.  I would love to have a keep just for ornamental reasons since fruit tends to last longer “on the vine” than flowers do.  The fruit of this tree just doesn’t look real.  The next Call wants just the opposite–subject matter that appears real but is not.  This is a science fiction lovers dream…

Check out this Call for Entries from Infected by Art for Volume 4, an art compilation book. $10 Entry & you DO NOT sign over your copyright.  Take a look…

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Learn more about Volume 4 of Infected by Art!CALL for ENTRIES:
Infected

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to work of imaginative realism, i.e. science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc.  The categories include: Oil/acrylic, pen/ink,digital/photoshop, & other work that can be represented by a 2-D image.

DEADLINE:  December 4, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  January 2016

ENTRY FEE: $10 each image, limit 10.  Images 5 & 10 are free.

JUROR:  The Jury Panel is comprised of four individuals personally entrenched in the creation, sales or promotion of imaginative realism artworks; Erica Berkowitz, Patrick Jones, Lauren Panepinto & Allen Williams.

AWARDS:  Artists have a chance to win $5,000 in Cash Prizes. Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards in each of the Categories will also receive a full page in the IBA book dedicated to that image.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about Volume 4 of Infected by Art!

CALL for ENTRIES: Billboard Diversity

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Learn more about the Embracing our Differences billboard project!EAT
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I ate broccoli at dinner last night. *yawn*  Did you know there are approximately 30,000 edible plants on this planet?  Did you also know that a mere 50 crops make up 90% of the calories consumed?  How did we get so boring?  Diversity is the best part of eating and cooking and consuming (and being for that matter) even if I do forget that when shopping some days.  This next Call is another excellent way to celebrate diversity.  Take a look…

Check out this great Call for Entries for the annual Embracing our Differences billboard project (Sarasota, FL). No entry fee & $3000 in awards. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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Learn more about the Embracing our Differences billboard project!CALL for ENTRIES:
Embracing our Differences

 

Our goal is to create a community where diversity and inclusion are valued while teaching the importance of being an ‘up-stander,’ not a ‘by- stander’.” — from embracingourdifferences.org

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: 2-D work including but not limited to photography, digital, collage, drawing, painting, etc.  Remember, if chosen, it will be enlarged to 16′ x 12.5′  or 4.9 m x 3.8m.

THEME:  Enriching lives through diversity

DEADLINE: January 4, 2016 (midnight PST)

NOTIFICATION: Winning selections will be announced online by mid-March, 2016

ENTRY FEE: None

AWARDS: A total of $3,000 USD in three separate $1,000 awards for Best-in-Show (adult), Best-in-Show (student) & People’s Choice.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about Embracing our Differences!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Animals 2

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Learn more about the Animals 2 exhibit from art-competition.net!eat my
FUNGI

I’m afraid of eating wild mushrooms.  Correction, I am afraid of improperly identifying a mushroom as edible and doing unexpected harm to my family.  So, I have been trying to decide whether or not to grow them myself.  Growing mushrooms at home always conjures images of damp, basement-like conditions.  But research indicates I can crow them on logs in dappled shade, above ground, among the living, with fewer creepy-crawlies. This next Call want to know your views, wild OR domestic, but no veggies–just animals.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net for Animals Wild or Domestic 2.  $20 entry & open to 2D media.  Cash prizes & great marketing tools too…

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Learn more about the Animals 2 exhibit from art-competition.net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Animals 2

 

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: All 2D media: painting, drawing, collage, photography, digital, etc.

THEME: “Animals Wild or Domestic 2“ – The artists should intrigue and fascinate the viewer with their vision and interpretation of the animal’s beauty, elegance, strength, speed, delicateness, size, etc. The work can reflect on creatures of the land, sea & air from domesticated pet to a ferocious wild animal.  The art can be expressed from realism to abstraction.

DEADLINE: November 30, 2015

NOTIFICATION: December 8, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $35 for 3, or $60 for 7

AWARDS: $7,500 in cash & marketing prizes. All cash prizes have doubled (e.g. 1st place $1000, 2nd Place $250, 3rd Place $125, etc) + helpful marketing.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Animals 2 exhibit from art-competition.net!
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CALL for ENTRIES: Out of Bounds

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Learn more about the Out of Bounds exhibit at the Kavanagh Gallery at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center!seat belt
VINAIGRETTE

I eat in my car A LOT.  This has always been true.  Once upon a time, those meals consisted of a generous amount of fast food of the drive thru variety.  However, as my tolerance for processed food has waned but my travel for the job has increased, I find that packing food for the road has become more and more common.  Eating a decent meal is no longer an out of bounds activity for the car.  I do pull over to eat, but my seat belt has the permanent aroma of Italian dressing.  This next Call wants to know what YOU consider out of bounds.  This is a great opportunity and a beautiful space…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Fine Line Creative Arts Center (St. Charles, IL) for Out of Bounds at the Kavanagh Gallery.  The theme is broadly interpreted.  Take a look…

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Learn more about the Out of Bounds exhibit at the Kavanagh Gallery at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Out of Bounds

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists living & working in the U.S.

MEDIA:  Open to all media.  Pieces should encompass the definition of the title: beyond limit, banned, beyond the pale, forbidden, inaccessible, off-limits, prohibited, and restricted.

DEADLINE:  December 7, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  December 20, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 5 ($25 for members)

JUROR:  Three jurors will choose from the pool of applicants. Artists are selected on the basis of originality and quality of work.

AWARDS:  There will be a Best of Show award as well as a non-monetary People’s Choice Award, chosen by popular vote of the attendees of the show.

SALES:  The gallery will retain a 30% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Kavanagh Gallery at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Magnificent Maps

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Learn more about the Magnificent Maps exhibit from Artlink!grown
WILD

Have you ever eaten a persimmon?  I am headed out for a road-trip soon, and I am super excited about eating persimmon pudding in Indiana.  Persimmons are typically cultivated in the southeastern U.S. but grow WILD throughout much of Indiana.  I think their love of this weird little fruit has resulted in some of the best uses, including the notorious pudding.  Give a persimmon a try.  Make sure it is ripe though; trust me.  This next Call IS ripe and from Indiana.  (I know.  Bad.  Sorry.)  This is a great call…

Check out this Call for Entries from Artlink (Fort Wayne, IN) for the Magnificent Maps exhibit.  No entry fee.  The theme is broad & open to interpretation.  Take a look…

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Learn more about the Magnificent Maps exhibit from Artlink!CALL for ENTRIES:
Magnificent Maps

 

ELIGIBLE:  Open to all artists 18+ residing in U.S. (Sorry Shane Watt, they are missing out on the fine work of one amazing Canadian.)

MEDIA:  Open to all media. Eligible artwork should depict real or fictitious maps. Artists may incorporate collage pieces of maps or create new map- themed works of art.

DEADLINE:  December 1, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  All hung  *Editor’s Note: This in an update from the original post.

ENTRY FEE:  None

SALES:  A 35% commission will be retained by the gallery on all sold work.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Magnificent Maps exhibit from Artlink!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Book Show

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Learn more about the Tiny Book Show from Food for the Soul Train!soul FOOD

I love an amuse-bouche as much as the next foodie.  I love tapas & small plate menus too.  But, I don’t understand the tiny food trends I am seeing.  The videos of tiny food being made on tiny appliances? I am clearly missing something.  I cannot find a point to the concept of tiny food except for the cute factor.  Where food is concerned, more is almost inevitably better in my house.  But there is a time & place for everything.  This next Call is the perfect way to dive into tiny works.  Now to learn how to bind my work…

Check out  

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Learn more aboutthe Tiny Book Show from Food for the Soul Train!CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Book show

 

“The Tiny Book Show is our latest creative adventure and we need your help filling our library shelves. Our vintage caravan, Maude, will become a bookmobile of Lilliputian proportions, stopping in select locations around the country to display a collection of tiny books hand made by artists and writers from around the world.” –food4thesoultrain.com

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Hand-made books no larger than 3″ square.  Content is up to the artist, these books do not have to be “How to” titles, but certainly can be if you’d like!

DEADLINE:  December 1, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  All hung, or in this case, all included

AWARDS:  Dates & locations TBD and will be announced as travel plans are confirmed.

SALES:  FFTST will retain a 40% commission on all sales

*Editor’s Note:  I am always trying to encourage you to stretch yourself.  If you do ANY 2-dimensional work, chances are good you can bind it into a book.  Consider the possibilities.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more aboutthe Tiny Book Show from Food for the Soul Train!

CALL for ENTRIES: Flawed

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Learn more from the A Smith Gallery about the Flawed Instant Film Exhibition!seasonal
FRUIT

My experience with pre-packaged instant food is sketchy at best.  You might find a box of instant oatmeal in my cabinet for lazy winter mornings.  But I find that some foods that are unnaturally dehydrated to the extreme never really recover, like cheese & coffee, while others thrive, like cocoa and popcorn.  I think of instant foods a little differently –preferring portable raw nuts, fruits, and even a few cheeses, best.  This time of year though, pomegranates are my favorite.  Just cut them in half, thump them with on spoon on the outside, and voilà –instant snackage.  This next Call wants your instant favorites.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the A. Smith Gallery (TX) for flawed | an instant film exhibition.  Rediscover the joy, freedom & accessibility of instant film. Buy a camera & film used. Stretch your skill set and find out what inspires you…

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Learn more from the A Smith Gallery about the Flawed Instant Film Exhibition!CALL for ENTRIES:
flawed | an instant film exhibition

 

“flawed : faulty, haywire, imperfect, erring, inaccurate, crooked” –from asmithgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY:   Open to all artists

MEDIA:   The only constraints are that work must be made with one of the many forms of instant film, be it original Polaroid, any one of the Fuji Instant or Impossible Project films, or even the latest New55 Film.

DEADLINE:  November 30, 2015

NOTIFICATION:  December 12, 2015

ENTRY FEE:  $30 up to 5, $6 ea add’l

JUROR:  Michael Kirchoff straddles  the worlds of both commercial and fine art photography.  A commercial shooter for twenty-five years, it is his fine art work that has set him apart from others, with instant film fueling more than a few bodies of work, both completed and ongoing. His consulting, training, and overall support of his fellow photographer and artist continues with help in constructing ones vision, producing artist lectures, and finding exhibition opportunities, which fill the gaps in time away from active shooting.

AWARDS: Jurors Selection receives $325 & (3) three Directors Selections will receive an exhibition catalogue.  Winning images will be exhibited at the A Smith Gallery from January 15 to March 6, and also published in a special editorial section of the international publication, Blur Magazine.

SALES:  A Smith Gallery will retain 40% commission.

For complete details, Read the full Call!

Learn more from the A Smith Gallery about the Flawed Instant Film Exhibition!