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CALL for ENTRIES: Benjamin’s Buttons

Posted on December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

the cornball
TRUTH

Iowa = Corn. I have no doubt Iowans are justifiably proud of their corn. But, I could not BELIEVE they reintroduced my favorite food with a twist –Caprese Salad on a Stick. The Iowa State Fair debuted this genius idea in 2014. How did I miss this one? I ended up using it at my own art opening less than a month later. This next Call is another reasons Iowans should be proud. Investigate this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Chait Galleries Downtown (Iowa City, IA) for Benjamin’s Buttons–Faces of Intensity. I love this theme, and the gallery space is truly gorgeous. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Benjamin’s Buttons

How do you judge intensity? What experience can you portray through portraiture that captures the spirit and invites viewers to share emotion and understanding? What do you envision when someone’s buttons are pushed to or beyond their limits?

How do you judge intensity? What experience can you portray through portraiture that captures the spirit and invites viewers to share emotion and understanding? What do you envision when someone’s buttons are pushed to or beyond their limits? — from the prospectus

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

MEDIA: Open to all 2D and 3D media accepted except photography. 2D artwork must not exceed 16 inches on any side, including frame. 3D artwork should not exceed 12 inches on any side.

DEADLINE:
January 23, 2015

NOTIFICATION:
January 28, 2015

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 3, $10 ea. add’l

AWARDS: Best in Show $400
& Honorable Mention $250

SALES: Work that is sold during the show will generate a 50% commission to the artist, which will be paid by the 20th of the month following the date the sale occurred.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens

Posted on December 15, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

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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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!

CALL for ENTRIES: The Sketchbook Project

Posted on December 9, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

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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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.

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!

CALL for ENTRIES: Chronograph

Posted on December 7, 2014December 7, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

cold or
FROZEN?

To freeze or not to freeze– THAT is the question. I tend to cook in large quantities. I do it on purpose to provide additional dinners, but mostly lunches, with the same amount of effort it took to make dinner. The problem is that not all food freezes well. Chili is great reheated after being frozen for a week, but potato soup becomes paste after only a day in the freezer. Casseroles take on a luscious, unctuous quality while mushrooms turn to rubber. This next Call want you to freeze TIME, for better or for worse. Brilliant. Are you up for the challenge?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Chronograph. They always have a low entry fee ($24) & a great juror. But, I have a soft spot for this theme. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Chronograph

“Photography is a medium renowned for freezing time. However, there are many facets and dichotomies this theme of chronology can visually explore. Darkroom Gallery is calling for explorative visual depictions of time. Pasts and futures can often collide…and what of time travelers and quantum physics? Lastly, photographs can be truly devoid of time, they can have a sort of classic “timelessness”. “ — from darkroomgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Time-oriented photography; vintage, futuristic or rhythmic imagery.

DEADLINE: December 28, 2014

NOTIFICATION: January 4, 2015

ENTRY FEE: Up to 4 for $24 (online)/$29 (email)

*Editor’s Note: It is important to let Darkroom Gallery know you found their Call on artandartdeadlines.com. They are friends & sponsors of AAAD, and I always want them to know they have our support…

JUROR: Johan Hallberg-Campbell, born in Scotland & living in Canada, is a Graduate of The Glasgow School of Art. As a freelance photographer, he has worked for numerous publications and institutions worldwide, shooting assignments globally.

Johan’s commissioned and personal work has been published and exhibited internationally. As a freelance Curator, he has curated 45 photographic exhibitions in galleries such as VII gallery, New York and Pikto gallery, Toronto, showcasing the works of local, national and international photographers. Johan is the photo editor at Raw View magazine alongside Donald Weber. His work explores what it means to belong to a community and have traditions rooted in heritage, and alternatively what happens when one’s “place” is altered, removed, distorted and shifted. He continues to develop his book length project ‘Coastal’, a project photographing the Canadian coastline in which he was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to make work in 2014. He will continue producing ‘Coastal’ in 2015.

AWARDS: All selected entries are included in a full color exhibit catalog & gallery exhibition. Juror’s Choice: 30×48″ image banner. People’s Choice – a free future entry. Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition.

SALES: Free matting & framing of accepted entries, subject to standard sizes. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submissions page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Paint Pulse Mag

Posted on December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

NUTS
to milk

My first taste of coconut milk, and I was sold. It isn’t always that way. Beets took 20 years to get on my good side. But coconut milk is good in everything. Granted, I prefer the high fat canned version, but I’m even enamored using the carton in the frig for everything from breakfast cereal to hot cocoa–and then there is the homemade ice cream, yum. This next Call is your chance to fall in love with something on the very first try. There is only one first, so don’t miss your opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Paint Pulse Magazine (both online & print) for Issue #1! Here’s a great chance to get in on their debut issue. $15 for entry & all disciplines considered . Take a chance…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Paint Pulse Mag

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Any discipline is accepted. The lens of painting is widely interpreted so feel free to submit what you wish. *Editor’s note: I clarified this statement with the editors of Paint Pulse. Specifically: “all media is accepted as long as it can be loosely related to painting”.

DEADLINE: December 31, 2014

NOTIFICATION: Shortly after submission according to their site

ENTRY FEE: $15 for up to 3 images

AWARDS: 20 talented contemporary artists will be featured in Issue 1. Selected artists will receive social media attention, spotlight on the website with contact information and will also receive a complimentary magazine of the issue for which they were selected.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 52nd Masur

Posted on December 4, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

EARLY
to rise?

Breakfast is beloved in my house. Everywhere I have ever lived, including some time in the Virgin Islands, breakfast has been the biggest meal of the day because it was always the cheapest. Even tiny islands in the Caribbean can raise chickens instead of importing eggs. So, a cheeseburger might be $18, but breakfast was always under $5. Those days have passed, and breakfast can be a pricey endeavor. It is apparently even more expensive if you get up a little later and call it brunch. Start your morning with this next Call because it is definitely cheaper than brunch. 🙂 Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 52nd Annual Juried Exhibition from the Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, LA). $10 entry fee, no commission, and the gallery is stunning. This is a great opportunity!

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CALL or ENTRIES:
Masur Museum
52nd Annual Juried

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all US artists 18+

MEDIA: Any media

DEADLINE: January 1, 2015 (online) and December 27, 2014 for postmarked entries

NOTIFICATION: January 21, 2015

ENTRY FEE: There is a $10 per work with a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 entries

JUROR: Sandra Q. Firmin was Curator of the UB Art Galleries, gallery of the University of Buffalo SUNY, a position she held from 2003 to 2014. Firmin is currently the Director and Chief Curator, Colorado University Art Museum.

Firmin holds an M.A. from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, and was awarded a Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Fellowship at Arcadia University Art Gallery. At the UB Art Galleries, Firmin established an annual residency program in which artists are presented with an empty gallery to transform over time while open to the public. These commissioned projects aim to forge meaningful interactions between artists and diverse groups of people while acknowledging a turn toward research-based and ephemeral site-specific approaches in contemporary art. In 2014 Firmin co-chaired (with Julian Cox) the Association of Art Museum Curators’ annual conference in Detroit, and moderated the panel Urban Ecologies and Cultural Exchange.

AWARDS: Best in Show is $1,000, and total awards are $3,200.00. The People’s Choice Award is $200.00 and will be voted on by visitors throughout the run of the exhibition. Best Packed: This award will honor the artist who packs their art in the most professional manner. The award is $100. *No packing peanuts, feedbags, loose papers as packing materials, no cigarette butts, etc. These types of things will disqualify you! This prize will be decided by the Masur Museum staff. I ♥ this!

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

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Animals

Posted on November 27, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

corn, hay or
ALFALFA

Grass or corn or both? Research on how to feed the animals we choose to raise after the move to the farm continues. Most commercially-available feed consists of a high percentage of corn—GMO corn. Feeding our chickens and goats and sheep GMO corn really negates the reason behind raising our own animals. So grass fed, right? Why not just turn them out into the field since it has green stuff growing on it? Well, it is more complicated than that. You have PLANT and sometimes re-plant that field of “grass” in most cases. Then, what variety do you plant. If we are what we eat, they are what they eat. In the end, the animal depends on the plant. Interesting. This next Call depends on only the animal. Take a look…

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

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Animals

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Painting, drawing, mixed media, photography or digital medium

THEME: “Animals” Wild, Domestic, On Land, In The Air or Under The Sea.
The image should intrigue and fascinate the viewer with the artist’s vision and interpretation of the animal’s beauty, elegance, strength, speed, delicateness, size, and or its environment.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2014

NOTIFICATION: December 19, 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!

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Octagon National

Posted on November 26, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

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 47^th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood National Exhibition. This all media show has a great juror. Take a look…

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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!

CALL for ENTRIES: Indie Grits

Posted on November 25, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

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…

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!

CALL for ENTRIES: 18th Woman Made

Posted on November 24, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

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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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

Category: Call for Entries

the cornball TRUTH

CALL for ENTRIES: Benjamin’s Buttons

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

sweet or SOUR?

CALL for ENTRIES: Flowers, Plants & Gardens

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

HERRING pickled, not red

CALL for ENTRIES: The Sketchbook Project

For complete details, Visit The Sketchbook Project online!

cold or FROZEN?

CALL for ENTRIES: Chronograph

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

NUTS to milk

CALL for ENTRIES: Paint Pulse Mag

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

EARLY to rise?

CALL or ENTRIES: Masur Museum 52nd Annual Juried

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

corn, hay or ALFALFA

CALL for ENTRIES: Animals

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

rocks NOT CORN

CALL for ENTRIES: 47th Octagon Nat’l

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

simple STAPLE

CALL for ENTRIES: Indie Grits

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

BACON borders

CALL for ENTRIES: 18th Int’l Open

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

the cornball
TRUTH

CALL for ENTRIES:
Benjamin’s Buttons

sweet or
SOUR?

CALL for ENTRIES:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens

HERRING
pickled, not red

CALL for ENTRIES:
The Sketchbook Project

cold or
FROZEN?

CALL for ENTRIES:
Chronograph

NUTS
to milk

CALL for ENTRIES:
Paint Pulse Mag

EARLY
to rise?

CALL or ENTRIES:
Masur Museum
52nd Annual Juried

corn, hay or
ALFALFA

CALL for ENTRIES:
Animals

rocks
NOT CORN

CALL for ENTRIES:
47th Octagon Nat’l

simple
STAPLE

BACON
borders

CALL for ENTRIES:
18th Int’l Open