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ARTIST of the DAY: Laurie Freitag

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balls balls BALLS

February is a building month, a building, re-building, structuring, restructuring month for me.  Some of the balls that I am supposed to keep in the air can sit idly on the ground for a few weeks in February while I throw the other balls a little higher hoping they gain air.  That’s the dream —an illusion, really. Most days I feel like all the balls are on the ground, piling up around me.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Laurie Freitag has clearly been lurking in my psyche. (continues below)

"Balls" by photographer Laurie Freitag
“Balls” by photographer Laurie Freitag

 “‘The Lost Years’, of which ‘Balls’ is a part, focuses on the years before five in which most people cannot remember. I look at photographs of myself before five and see how happy I was and wish I could remember those times. Does the mind remember sad times more than happy times? Was I posing for the camera with a smile? What was real?”

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ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Laurie Freitag!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Document

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Learn more about the Documentary Essay Prize in Photography from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University!guilty PICS

Many of you ask if I take the food photos used in AAAD posts.  Occasionally.  I took this one (left).  But more often, the imagery is stock.  I really don’t document what I eat often enough to provide a library of images from which to choose.  I have tried to break myself of the habit of being “that” diner –the one whose food gets cold while they get the perfect angle– out of guilt that my family was suffering the consequences (cold, soggy food).  This next Call wants YOUR documentary images, food optional of course.  Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for Documentary Essay Prize in Photography. $3,000 cash prize + publication.  Take a look…

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Learn more about the Documentary Essay Prize in Photography from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University!CALL for ENTRIES:
Documentary Essay Prize in Photography

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA: Documentary photography. All entries must have  evidence that they were created with reliance on documentary methods & immersive fieldwork. They are interested in work that directs its gaze outward, curiously engages with the world, and is,  “derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history & the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work. The commitment is to use documentary expression to motivate the thinking & reflection of others.” 

DEADLINE:  February 16, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  June 2016

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for up to 15 images

AWARDS:  The winner of the competition will receive $3,000 and will have his or her work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as on the Center’s website. The winner’s work will also be placed in the Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Library, Duke University.

For complete details, Read the Full Art Call!

Learn more about the Documentary Essay Prize in Photography from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University!

ARTIST of the DAY: Cristina Troufa

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beautiful EXISTENCE

I try to live transparently. I have no illusions about online safety or personal privacy.  As a result, it is fairly easy to find out anything you could ever want to know about me.  I find it peaceful, really (the not hiding of it all).  There ARE days however when my want to be transparent gives way to discomfort of perceived invisibility –both physical, artistic & emotional.  Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Cristina Troufa questions and explores the self as other through an extraordinary series of self-portraits.   (continues below)

"Recipiente" (left) and "Resistencia" (right) by Cristina Troufa
“Recipiente” (left) and “Resistencia” (right) by Cristina Troufa

Troufa provides no answers; only more questions.  Inspiration

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ArtAndArtDeadlines.com Artist of the Day Cristina Troufa!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Small Plates

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Learn more about the Small Plates exhibit from artandartdeadlines.com!yours, MINE
& ours

Food is so personal.  A client recently asked if I had any dietary restrictions so that she could be prepared for our branding consultation that will span a lunch time.  I’m allergic to parsnips, which is rarely an issue, and wheat which is always an issue.  Always.  Her response?  We grow our own heirloom corn varietals from which we grind our own corn meal for cornbread.”  Food is PERSONAL, and this next Call couldn’t be any more personal.  Your support will determine the growth of this opportunity.  Please make it personal for you too…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art&ArtDeadlines.com for Small Plates: A Response to Hunger, an exhibit of unframed small works at The Balcony Gallery (Knox, TN).  This is a tiny show that needs big support…

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Enter the Small Plates Exhibit at The Balcony in Knoxville, TN sponsored by AAAD!
CALL for ENTRIES:
Small Plates from artandartdeadlines.com

 

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

THEME: Hunger—physical, spiritual, political, emotional or creative. Food reference optional.

MEDIA: Open to all 2D unframed media that will fit in a 9”x 12” envelope.

DEADLINE:  EXTENDED TO April 18, 2016 (midnight EST)

NOTIFICATION:  Ongoing until April 19, 2016

Small Plates: A Response to Hunger from artandartdeadlines.comENTRY FEE: $5 for up to 5 images. Entry fees are waived for members in good standing of The Haggus Society.

CURATOR: R.L. Gibson, a working artist and the Editor of artandartdeadlines.com (AAAD). Trained in classical, French culinary techniques, Gibson created AAAD as a food-themed resource to motivate artists to create their own community, standards & artistic opportunities. In addition her own solo & collaborative art, Gibson has served as a gallerist, juror, teacher & arts administrator for nearly two decades.

SALES: All work will be considered for sale unless marked NFS. A commission of 30% will be taken on all sales. Unsold artwork will be returned and payment for sold artwork will be made within 30 days of the close of the exhibit.

AWARDS: Best of Show, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place will be awarded. Note, at the curator’s discretion, ONE image from EVERY artist will go into the online exhibit with a link to the artist’s website.

For complete details, Read the Full Prospectus!

Click to Read the Full Call for Small Plates: A Response to Hunger!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: April Int’l

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Learn more about the April International issue from FreshPaintMagazine!FRUIT
fluff

Fresh fruit is still my favorite dessert.  I will take a bowl of berries over chocolate 9 times out of 10.  The only thing I miss is the fat content, the luscious mouth feel.  But, my husband has solved that problem with scratch-made whipped cream, heavy on the vanilla, light on the sugar.  There’s no going back. This next call could be the whipped cream on top of your fresh new art season.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Fresh Paint Magazine (print & digital) for the April International issue. This is a luxe art publication; I savor each edition. Remember, this call is open to more than PAINTING…

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Learn more about the April International issue from FreshPaintMagazine!CALL for ENTRIES: April Int’l
from FreshPaintMagazine
published by AAAD

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to all forms of painting, drawing, art photography, sculpture and mixed media are eligible.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2016

NOTIFICATION: March 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: £30 for up to 2 (~$43 USD)

JUROR: Andrew Salgado is one of the most promising young figurative painters at work today. Saatchi Art calls him “one to invest in today”; critic Edward Lucie Smith states he is a “dazzlingly skillful advocate [for painting]”; Tony Godfrey (author of Phaidon’s Painting Today) calls him an “exciting artist with a particular vision”; and even London’s Evening Standard has labeled him a “rising star”.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be published in the April international issue of FreshPaintMagazine (April 2016).

For complete details, Read the Full ART Call!

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CALL for ENTRIES: WIA 2016

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Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016 from the Association of Illustrators!LIMES
not limestone

Chalk menu boards are sort of a bummer.  I can appreciate the eco-friendly nature of the notion as well as the flexibility for casual restaurants to keep their menus updated and filled with fresh ingredients.  But I sure miss the illustrated paper menus.  Aside from the handful of chalk art geniuses out there, nothing really beats bad menu illustration.  Come on, you know you just had a flash back to your favorite childhood pizza joint’s drawing of the mustachioed chef complete with red neckerchief and checkerboard pants.  I suspect those illustrators aren’t going to be competing in this next Call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Association of Illustrators for the World Illustration Awards 2016.  entry fee is reasonable & lots of jurors usually means a level playing field.  Open to both students & professionals…

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Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016!CALL for ENTRIES:
World Illustration Awards 2016

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to entries that have been created or published from January 2015 until the close of the call for entries of the competition 2/8/16.

MEDIA:  Open to illustration

DEADLINE:  February 8, 2016

NOTIFICATION: May 2016 Shortlisted work announced; June/July 2016 Category Winners announced; and September/October 2016 Awards Ceremony

ENTRY FEE: UK & EU £25 per or £45 up to 5 (w/ VAT) per single entry or ; Other Europe, USA, Amercian Continent & Rest of the World £20.83 per or £37.50 up to 5 (no VAT, approx $33/$60 USD)

JUROR:  Click here to learn more about the 24 judges.

AWARDS:  Shortlisted entrants: will have their work featured on the AOI’s website (~120K hits from around 20K visitors/month), highlighted in the permanent archive, promoted across the AOI’s significant industry networks, opportunity to be selected for a touring exhibition which receives over 40,000 visitors every year & opportunity to be selected and featured in an accompanying publication.

For complete details, Read the Full Call for Entries!

Learn more about the World Illustration Awards 2016 from the Association of Illustrators!

ARTIST of the DAY: Emily Shane

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yours FOREVER

In a Walmart world where most everything can be had for $10 or less, how do we avoid reinforcing a culture that regards everything is disposable?  How do we discourage casual consumerism and reinforce long-term responsibility of ownership?  Value.  Buy what you LOVE.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Emily Shane upcycles much-loved cast-offs of days past.   I LOVE the texture AND how illustrative this work is of falling down the reading “rabbit hole”. (continues below)

"Reliquary" detail (top) & triptych (below) by Aritst Emily Shane
“Reliquary” detail (top) & triptych (below) by Artist Emily Shane

“Reader’s Digest Condensed Book covers are my the base material for my mixed-media assemblages.  I’m inspired by their vintage look and texture, the rich colors, engaging patterns & surprising beauty –all of which are usually hidden under dust covers!  Now fading from the American gestalt, RDCBs speak to the baby-boomer generation as a bygone slice of middle-class life that will never return.”  –Emily Shane

Rediscover #RDCB with Artist Emily Shane!

CALL for ENTRIES: The Mind’s Eye

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Learn more about The Minds Eye exhibit from all-about-photo.com!BREAKFAST blahs

We always end up eating eggs for breakfast.  I am so bored with eggs.  Because I try to avoid single-use appliances, I didn’t own a waffle iron until I inherited one second-hand from my mother-in-law last week.  We’ve had waffles 4 times in the last 7 days.  My husband asked, “Don’t you want something different?”   I explained that appearance of something 4 times in our nearly 20 years together still qualifies as something different even if the 4 times were all in one week.  The award for best waffles EVER goes to this morning’s blueberry bacon maple variety.  He deserves a cash award, really.  This next Call comes with cash awards but no blueberry waffles.  It is still worth a look though…

Check out this Call for Entries from All-About-Photo.com for The Mind’s Eye for a showcase at the Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco, CA) in addition to an online gallery.  Big jury pool, big prizes & reasonable entry fee.  Take a look…

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Learn more about The Minds Eye exhibit from all-about-photo.com!CALL for ENTRIES:
The Mind’s Eye

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Photography

DEADLINE:  January 31, 2016 (11:59 MT)

NOTIFICATION:  March 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 up to 3, $5 ea. add’l

JURORS:  Learn about the TEN jurors here.

AWARDS:  First Prize $10,000, 2nd Prize $5,000, 3rd Prize $2,500, 4th Prize $1,500, 5th Prize $1,000.  In addition, all winners and entrants of merit will be featured at the Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco, CA) in May 2016.

SALES:  Jules Maeght Gallery will retain a 50% commission on the sale of each work.

For complete details, Read the Full Art Call!

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ARTIST of the DAY: Don Bergland

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utopian DISTOPIA

This site does not debate political issues –except those that surround food.  But let’s speak generally.  The current political circus in the U.S. and abroad seems unreal to me.  I read quotes & sound bites everyday that indicate paint pervasively dark image of humanity.   Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Don Bergland stages glimpses of the surreal world –both utopian & dystopian– only previously imagined.  If feel like the perfect fit today. (continues below)

"Fallow Atonement" by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland!
“Fallow Atonement” by AAAD Artist of the Day Don Bergland

“I like to challenge accepted cultural dogma and ideology.  Each of my works features a theatrical set defined by a stage with actors, props, and a backdrop.  The actors in the set consist of everyday objects brought into combinations and interactions that attempt to elicit inquiry.  The content of the artwork focuses on themes such as time, aging, nostalgia, the footless pursuit of Utopia, and the conditions of ideology which disable our rational minds. Each image is constructed using conventions of visual realism, but with alterations that offer dreamlike possibilities. Themes and objects appear and re-appear. Each work becomes a framed snapshot of a moment in theatrical space, noticed briefly, and then forgotten once more, a fraction of time when reality is breached and a frozen glimpse into the mental theatre of Eternity is experienced, an opening when the viewer can catch the faint hint of cotton candy breezing in from the sideshow midway, the pastel moment of a lost memory, a slight reminder that the past is never absent, and that the future is always in front of us.” —Don Bergland

Discover dreamlike possibilities AAAD #ArtistoftheDay of Don Bergland!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Art Show

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Learn more about the Tiny Art Show from Pitt County Arts!ch-ch-ch-CHIA

Despite not mentioning them for a year or two, I am still MAD about chia seeds.  Still loving using them to may refrigerator jam.  But, I just tried this chia parfait and renewed my LOVE of this peculiar, tiny food.  Plus, you also have the raw ingredients to make a chia pet, ha.  Good things come in small packages, like this next Call. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Pitt County Arts Council & the Emerge Gallery (Greenville, NC) for Tiny Art Show.  Help support a local arts council AND clean out your studio.   Great option for works on paper…

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Learn more about the Tiny Art Show from Pitt County Arts!CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Art Show

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media up to 5″x5″x7″. *Editor’s Note: You COULD clean out all those works on paper–studies, unfinished, unframed & abandoned projects.  They will be treasured by someone else.  Cut them down to make abstract work to size.  Fit in one envelope, take 50% & donate what doesn’t sell. That’s my plan. 

DEADLINE:  January 28, 2015 (must arrive by Saturday 1/30/16)

NOTIFICATION:  None.  All hung show.

ENTRY FEE:  None

SALES:  Work must be priced at either $5 or $10. If the “juried” box is checked on the inventory sheet, the work may be juried and re-priced to be $25 or $50 by Emerge Gallery. $5 and $10 are the only price options for the show. (You can check the box on the inventory sheet if you want them eligible for the juried section, but you must choose $5 or $10 beforehand.)  50% commission goes to the Arts Council; however, you can offer a complete sale donation if you wish.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Pitt County Arts Council!