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ARTIST RESIDENCY: Light Work

Posted on January 3, 2011January 3, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

GRASPING at
STRAWBERRIES

I am not a morning person; however, I do so much love breakfast foods. Eggs Benedict, yum. Fluffy biscuits, pumpkin pancakes, fresh strawberries. Somethings are worth getting up a little earlier in the morning; however, I have decided breakfast food is fair game anytime of the day instead. Do not be encouraged to follow my bad example…make sure to apply early to this next Call.

Check out this Call for Applications for an Artist Residency at Light Work housed in Syracuse University. You have all year to apply, but I encourage you to get your application submitted to the Light Work AIR Program early. Take a look…

ARTIST RESIDENCY: Light Work

Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 350 artists have participated in the AIR program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.

The residency includes a $4,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.

DEADLINE: Applications to the Artist-in-Residence Program are accepted throughout the year.

ABOUT LIGHT WORK: Light Work was founded as an artist-run, non-profit organization in 1973. Its mission is to provide direct support through residencies, publications, exhibitions, a community-access digital lab facility, and other related projects to emerging and under-represented artists working in the media of photography and digital imaging.

Light Work’s founding directors were Phil Block and Tom Bryan. The organization has been led by Jeffrey Hoone since 1982. Light Work is housed in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center at Syracuse University.

Please see the How to Apply section for details.

CALL for ENTRIES: A Year in Review 2010

Posted on January 2, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

GOOSE ME

In addition to running the ever popular ArtAndArtDeadlines.com empire (hee), I create art of my own and hold down a day job as a Marketing Director. I frequently get asked what it would take for me to throw up my hands and give in to my desire to do nothing but cook and make art. The Goose would have to lay the Golden Egg. I have a 10 year plan, but the golden egg would make it a 10 second plan. Maybe this Call will be your golden egg.

Check out this Call for Entries for A Year In Review 2010 from Artists Wanted. The entry fee is a low $10 per piece, and the Grand Prize package is almost impossible to believe. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: A Year in Review 2010

Artists Wanted: A Year In Review 2010 is an international, all-medium-encompassing open call for art. Their mission is to present a range of technique, style and narrative that captures the best emerging artists of the previous year.

They believe that great talent deserves endless attention, and they will do all they can
to present your work
to the world.

During the first week of March, New York City will host artists, galleries, critics and curators from all over the world. Let this be your opportunity to shine in the spotlight of a feature booth at SCOPE, the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and one of the most influential presences in the expanding global art market.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists from around the world who are 18+ years.

MEDIA: Sculpture, Installation, Painting, Drawing, Photography, Design, Illustration, Film, Video, Performance, sound & more! Conceptual proposals also welcome.

DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted before January 28, 2011. Late entries must be submitted no later than February 4, 2011 and may be subject to a late entry fee.

ENTRY FEE: Price for entry is $10 per image, you can submit 8 or more images for a flat rate of $79 (maximum of 15 images).

AWARDS:

The Grand Prize Package: A feature spot at SCOPE New York 2011, next to the top figures in the global art scene, $10,000 cash grant, includes $5,000 to create new work; $5,000 to spend however you want; Hotel accommodations and airfare to and from New York City for the event; A publicity campaign in New York City promoting you and your work; An online video feature garnering lasting exposure for your work; and Art-star treatment at the official SCOPE After-Party produced by Artists Wanted.

The People’s Choice Award: $2,000 cash grant; An online feature bringing international exposure

The Category Awards: $1,000 and internationally-broadcasted online features by Artists Wanted will be awarded to one winner in each of the following categories: Fine Art (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture & Installation), Motion & Sound (Film, Video, Performance & Sound), Design & Illustration, and Photography.

The Art of Elysium Award: $10,000 donation made to The Art of Elysium on the winner’s behalf; and an online feature bringing international exposure

JURORS: Entries will be reviewed by a talented panel of judges, who are leaders in their fields, dedicated to creative expression and fully supportive in the effort to identify and recognize emerging artistic talent all across the globe. Go ahead, the judges are waiting for you to amaze them. Click here to learn more about the judges.

For complete details, visit the Artist Wanted website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Human + Being

Posted on December 23, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

HUMAN “BEANS”

We all hear basic needs defined as food, water and shelter, but there is a lot of wiggle room in those standards. With folks now obsessed with organic foods and bottled water, I suspect the acceptable norm will continue to shift. This next Call invites you to dig deeper into what it means to BE HUMAN not just survive.

Check out this Call for Entries for Human + Being from the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. I personally love portraiture, and I can’t wait to enter this one. Join me…

CALL for ENTRIES: Human + Being

The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO announces a call to photographers world wide, both amateur and professional, for a photography exhibition to be held March 25 – April 23, 2011.

Being human is complicated.

Human + Being is an equally complex equation, the sum of these parts a richly textured experience unique to the individual but shared universally. Triumphant, tragic, absurd and the quiet significance in between, our stories unfold without cease. Explore the emotions and actions that define being human.

ELIGIBILITY: The exhibition is open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. The Center invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions.

DEADLINE:
January 12, 2011

NOTIFICATION:
January 21, 2011

MEDIA: Photography

ENTRY FEE: Members: $20 for the first three images, Non-Members: $35 for the first three images. Additional images may be submitted for $10 each. There is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted. Applicants signing up for membership at the time they submit will receive the automatic discounted entry fee.

EXHIBITION PRINTS: All accepted images submitted for exhibition must be printed and framed or mounted professionally. The Center recognizes that some work is non traditional and incorporates the framing as an integral part of the presentation. To encourage participation by photographers from around the world, the Center offers optional economical printing and framing services. Additional details will be provided upon request.

EXHIBITION & AWARDS: With selection for this exhibition, featured artist’s work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography. Each participant will be included in the Center’s Main Gallery exhibition and Online Gallery exhibition.

Juror’s Selection: $300, a Blurb book award and feature on the blog

Director’s Selection: $200, a Blurb book award and feature on the blog

2 liveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks.com

Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission to a call for entry at the Center. All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery.

JUROR: For over twenty five years Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his work, he strives to create a heightened understanding of the issues faced by people in the developing world. Phil has hosted three television documentaries for Discovery and National Geographic as a part of a series that investigates indigenous cultures that still maintain a spiritual dialogue with the natural world.

Phil’s photographs are collected and exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. His award-winning books have been published in four languages and in 1998 he was presented the Photo Media Magazine “Photoperson of the Year” award. In December, 2003 Phil was honored with the Humanitarian Award, receiving the Lucie at the 1st Annual International Photography Awards.

In 2005 he was named a Giraffe Hero for his humanitarian work. Phil teaches and lectures internationally and is co-founder of Blue Earth Alliance, a 501(c)3 that sponsors photographic projects focusing on endangered cultures and threatened environments.

For full details, visit C4FAP.org!

CALL for ENTRIES: Less Than or Equal To 196

Posted on December 22, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

YOU’RE SHITAKE-ING ME!

I spend a lot of time having this conversation with my husband Jon: “What do you want for dinner?” to which he responds, “I don’t know. What do you want for dinner?” I rarely know the real answer and often end up settling for whatever is easiest because it is already defrosted. However, every once in a while, I know exactly what I want (Sunday it was mushroom soup), and often I want only that. No side dishes, no amuse bouche. Just mushroom soup. This next Call lets you choose just soup…or the whole meal.

Check out this Call for Entries from SICA (The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts) for ≤196. Simple concept: your work has to be equal to or smaller than 196 square inches, i.e. 14″x14″ or smaller (if square) or 14″x14″x14″ or smaller (if cubed). Any media that will fit into those guidelines will work, and you can enter just one piece for as little as $15. Mushroom soup for one please…

Call for Entries: ≤ 196

ELIGIBILITY: Works that have been completed in the past 5 years and that has never been displayed at SICA. Each artist may enter as many ORIGINAL pieces for consideration as they wish. Only one digital image can be submitted for each work of art, except for sculpture or installation where 2 views of each submission are allowed.

MEDIA & SIZE: The exhibition is open to all visual artists in all mediums. 2-dimensional work can be no larger than 196 square inches (excluding the frame) and must be “show ready” – totally ready for hanging. 3-dimensional works must be less than 2,744 cubic inches and must not weigh more than 100 lbs . [i.e. 14” x 14”= 196 sq. in. (for 2D) or 14”x14”x14” = 2,744 cu. in. (for 3D)] .

DEADLINE: January 7, 2011

NOTIFICATION: January 15, 2011

ENTRY FEE: $12 ($15 for non-members) for EACH entry. This fee includes insurance and handling fees for the submission of 1 work of art (1 image per work) and is non-refundable. Three-dimensional entries may submit two images for each entry. You may submit as many entries as you want for an add’l fee.

SUBMISSIONS: Images may ONLY be submitted ON-LINE through their website. No slides, CD’s, email attachments or any other form of submissions accepted. All submissions must be digital and submitted through their website: www.sica.org .

No images sent via email or mailed to us on discs will be accepted. All images should be jpegs only, and have a resolution which is no larger than 300 dpi and a maximum size of 1200 pixels in any direction. All entries must be labeled according to these specification: last name_first name entry number.jpg. For instance Jane_Doe1.jpg or John_Smith2.jpg.

JURY PROCESS: Juried screening will be made digital images ONLY. Any entry not meeting the restrictions listed in “Submissions” above will not be accepted for jurying.

JURORS: Elizabeth McKay, Co-Owner of McKay Imaging, Bob McKay, Co-Owner of McKay Imaging, Lawrence Cappiello, Director of the Arts Guild New Jersey, and Rachael Faillace, Assistant Director of the Arts Guild New Jersey.

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Still Life Photography

Posted on December 21, 2010December 21, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

TIE A STRING
AROUND YOUR FINGER

I always remember the thing I needed from the grocery store about 10 minutes after I leave the grocery store. I used to put Post-it® notes everywhere. That didn’t work. I tried pre-printing lists with check-off boxes. That didn’t work. Now I send myself a text message with the essentials and an alarm for the time I plan on going to the grocery store. Sad, but true. Consider this your official text message for The Arrangement.

The deadline for entry in The Arrangement at Vermont Photo Space Gallery is Wednesday, December 22nd at Midnight EST. You can email your entries and pay via PayPal so there are no excuses folks. I know you don’t like it when I repost, but this is a great opportunity, and I don’t want you to wish you had bought milk 10 minutes after you leave the grocery store. So, here is the original posting…

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Arrangement

The tradition of still-life as subject matter has roots deep into the history of art, pre-dating photography as a medium by centuries.

Fine artists in all mediums, photography included, benefited from the total control they had over the final piece; the art making began with their arrangements of the mostly inanimate objects they intended to represent. As Vermont Photo Space Gallery owner Ken Signorello aptly points out, “…it is art squared, where one first creates a work of art and then another to preserve it.”

The history of still life in Photography is as old as the medium itself. Henry Talbot himself produced the first photographic images using the inanimate objects of still life. In its earliest days, utilizing still life as subject matter allowed for the lengthy exposures necessary for its initial technologies.

In the early 1900s, studies in line and form of object contributed to popular abstractions. In the 1950s, still-life concentrated on the kitsch, and re-emerged in the 90s after a few decades in obscurity, in perfect partnership with the new trendy super-saturated film stock. Overall, the genre has been largely ignored, despite periodic bouts of influence – surprising, for a photographic practice with so much potential.

What is still life today?

Vermont Photo Space wants you to show them your arrangements, from advertising to record photography, the abstract to the obvious. Whether you are an amateur or professional, you may have experienced your still-life photographs as some of your favorite images – Juror Paula Tognarelli wants to see them.

JUROR: Paula Tognarelli is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. The Griffin Museum of Photography’s mission is to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional and social impact.

Tognarelli holds a M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University; is a graduate of the New England School of Photography (Applied Program) and is a current candidate for her Masters in Education at Lesley University as a visual arts teacher.

Paula describes her photography as her native language. “I’ve always been more visual than vocal. I could draw a picture much faster than I could articulate a story in words. Photography made dialogue that much easier for me.”

Tognarelli is also a digital imaging specialist. She has done extensive postgraduate study in color management, color theory, digital photography and digital imaging processing. She has lectured on digital imaging throughout the United States and in Japan, representing Agfa and Polaroid Graphic Imaging. She has also been a speaker at the Seybold Conferences. She is a former member of the Xerox Technical Advisory Board. Paula was named by Printing Impressions magazine as one of twelve women who made a major contribution to the Graphic Arts/ Imaging industry.

RULES FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

Age: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, a parent or legal guardian may make the submission for you.

Ownership: All submitted photos must have been taken by the photographer making the entry.

If you are a parent or legal guardian submitting for a minor, please make it clear on the submission form.

Digital Submissions: All submissions must be made by digital files through:

1. Upload on VermontPhotoSpace.com or

2. Sent via email to submissions@VermontPhotoSpace.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with an application form. There is a $5.00 surcharge for email entries.

3. Images should be as large as possible but no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side, type jpg – set to the highest quality. DPI can be set to any number, but if you must specify something go with 72 dpi.

FEES: Up to three images may be submitted for a fee of $20 US for on-line submission and $25 for email submission. Additional images may be submitted for an additional $5 US per image.

DEADLINE: Images and payment must be received by midnight EST on the submission closing date December 22, 2010.

RIGHTS: Photographers retain all rights to their work, except for submissions accepted for exhibition: artists grant Vermont Photo Space the right to use their images to promote the exhibition and for display on VPS website and for inclusion in an exhibit catalog.

Vermont Photo Space Gallery provides free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

For the full Call for Entries, visit their website.

CALL for ENTRIES: Fashioning Photography

Posted on December 20, 2010February 9, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

WHITE MEAT
or DARK MEAT?

I am frequently asked how and when the food obsession started. I can’t pinpoint when in my Banquet-fried-chicken-sackful-of-Krystals childhood that I fell in love with food, but if I had to venture a guess, I would say 1983. I was on vacation with family in Florida, and my father decided that it would be his treat to take us all to the restaurant at the Kapok Tree Inn in Clearwater, FL.

We were so overwhelmed by the wonderful, albeit obnoxiously decadent decor, my father refused menus and suggested the chef choose on our behalf. Much to our surprise, instead of grand courses of unpronounceable French food, out came fried chicken and green beens. It was that moment that I realized that my humble little fried chicken eating self could make every meal an adventure. This next call offers you an opportunity to be the chef…select a whole array of choices for the juror in photo essay format.

Check out this Call for Entries from Vermont Photo Space Gallery called Fashioning Photography. Indulge your love for fashion photography for as little as $20. Don’t forget Vermont Photo Space offers free framing & matting on accepted entries!

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Fashioning Photography

Where do art and fashion meet? That’s the gray area they are looking to showcase for “Fashioning Photography.” Since the 1990’s, the two have benefited from constant cross-fertilization. As a population, we are taking fashion photography very seriously as a result.

Is it the droves of visitors that appear in museums and galleries with the Fashion Photography exhibit?

Is it the income available to Photographers who bend a little into the commercial realm?

Is it our fascination for lifestyle imaging that has created the booming magazine culture and therefore elevated the fashion spread to be endlessly alluring to the artist?

There is so much diversity and energy in contemporary fashion photography that artists everywhere are turning to it as a subject matter; it’s an obsession and a compulsion.

Fashion is fickle.

It changes its values constantly and the variety of fashion photograph is proof. Though “safe” images are preferred by most advertisers for magazine spots, there are no holds barred for the gallery setting. Whether it’s for music videos, lookbooks, catalogues, advertising and catwalk photography, or the personal portfolio, fashion photography is everywhere.

The styles are seemingly infinite, ever-evolving, and constantly reinventing themselves: staged tableaux (Steven Meisel), diarist approaches (Mario Sorrenti, Corinne Day), cinematic (Venetia Scott), critical and political (Nick Knight), high gloss and glamour (Karl Lagerfeld), iconographical (Craig McDean), shock (Clayton Cubitt), sexual (Steven Klein), psychological (Camille Vivier), surreal (Bela Borsodi), spectacle (Ellen Rogers), realism (Lina Scheynius) and the banal (Jonathan de Villiers).

What is your style?

JUROR: Bobby Mozumder, is both a Photographer, and Editor-in-Chief at FutureClaw Magazine, currently in its third year. A Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, Mozumder now lives and works in Washington D.C.

His fashion photography ranges from high-end glamour to diaristic. Whether high-end studio or location, Mozumder’s images incorporate exquisite lighting, intimate camera angles, dynamic framing, graphic overlays, and an approach to color that ranges from monochromatic to high-key black and white.

Across the gamut, his imagery is consistently calculated. Is it the influence of a background in computer architecture and engineering? Personal work aside, Vermont Photo Space is lucky to have his experience as Editor-in-Chief of FutureClaw Magazine extended to the jurying of “Fashioning Photography.” Mozumder is entrenched in the art, culture, and fashion of our time, engaging himself in Fashion Photography’s latest trends as he builds the FutureClaw brand as one of today’s most beautiful boutique magazines.

RULES FOR
PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

Of special note: Vermont Photo Space is able to accept essays for this exhibition! So much of the genre appears as multi-page spreads, and they are thrilled to offer the opportunity to their exhibitors to submit the same.

Whether you are submitting single images or multiples as a story, Mozumder will consider your work as it is intended. Who knows, this exhibition may include a few very lucky photographers who present an outstanding fashion story in several images.

Age: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, a parent or legal guardian may make the submission for you.

Ownership: All submitted photos must have been taken by the photographer making the entry.

If you are a parent or legal guardian submitting for a minor, please make it clear on the submission form.

Digital Submissions: All submissions must be made by digital files through:

1. Upload on VermontPhotoSpace.com or

2. Sent via email to submissions (at) VermontPhotoSpace.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with an application form. There is a $5.00 surcharge for email entries.

3. Images should be as large as possible but no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side, type jpg – set to the highest quality. DPI can be set to any number, but if you must specify something to go with 72 dpi.

FEES: Up to three images may be submitted for a fee of $20 US for on-line submission and $25 for email submission. Additional images may be submitted for an additional $5 US per image.

DEADLINE:
Images and payment must be received by midnight EST on the submission closing date February 16, 2011. (Editor’s Note: Extended from 2/14 to 2/16 as of Feb 9th)

RIGHTS: Photographers retain all rights to their work, except for submissions accepted for exhibition: artists grant Vermont Photo Space the right to use their images to promote the exhibition and for display on VPS website and for inclusion in an exhibit catalog.

Vermont Photo Space Gallery provides free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

For the full Call for Entries, visit their website.

CALL for ENTRIES: 13th Annual Baker Arts Center

Posted on December 15, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

CHOPS AGAIN?

Can you imagine liking something enough to do it 13 times in a row? I have an unnatural, and probably unhealthy, addiction to lamb, but I couldn’t have it 13 times in a row. The folks producing this next call for entries, clearly love your artwork more than I love lamb chops, because this is their 13th Annual Call.

Check out this Call for Entries from the Baker Arts Center for their 13th Annual Juried Exhibit. The entry fee is a low $25 and cash awards abound. Don’t miss this opportunity!

CALL for ENTRIES:
13th Annual Juried Exhibit

ELIGIBILITY: This Exhibition is open to artists 18 years and older who are residents of the USA or Puerto Rico. Entries must be available for exhibition at the Center April 16-June 4, 2011.

MEDIA: Original 2 & 3-dimensional works including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, wood, paper, enamels, glass, metalsmithing, collage, and mixed media, completed since January 2009 and not previously shown in this exhibit are acceptable. Textiles, crafts, video, kit work, and reproductions are not accepted.

ENTRY FEE: A non-refundable entry fee of $25 for the first 3 slides/images & $10 for each additional slide or image. 5 slides/images maximum. Make checks payable to Baker Arts Center. Visa & Mastercard are also accepted. Include number and expiration date on entry form.

DEADLINE:
February 11, 2011

NOTIFICATION:
March 11, 2011

JUROR: Laurence Bradshaw, Professor of Art & Art History at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He received his MFA from Ohio University. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Upstream People Gallery. His has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and served as juror for numerous national and international exhibits.

AWARDS:

1st Prize $1100 ( 1 ea. in 2D, 3D & Photography)
2nd Prize $800 ( 1 ea. in 2D, 3D & Photography)
3rd Prize $500 ( 1 ea. in 2D, 3D & Photography)
4 $100 Merit Awards

SALES: Baker Arts Center retains a 30% commission on all sales.

For full details, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman

Posted on December 7, 2010December 7, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

POTATO SPLAT

History has never been my favorite subject. However, I recognize how important a sense of history is in our everyday lives. Everytime I make potato pancakes …and inevitably burn, mangle or drop them …I smile knowing Julia Child got there before me. This next Call gives you a reason and purpose to reflect upon your history…at least about half of you.

Check out this Call for Entries from the MPLS Photo Center for Picturing Life as a Woman. Submissions are limited only by your imagination. With the holidays rapidly approaching, our lives are ripe with subject matter. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman

Women have been actively involved with photography since the medium’s inception in 1839. The barriers to their participation were lower than in the other arts, and recognition often came faster. Yet women and their photographs have not been as visible as they should have been in view of their numbers and past influence. Only in fairly recent exhibitions and critical writings have women’s work in photography received due consideration.

Diane Arbus, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and thousands more women use their cameras as instruments of revelation – often about themselves. In the process they challenge assumptions about what it means to be and be seen.

ELIGIBILITY: This International Call for Entry invites women from around the world to submit photographs that demonstrate a smart, critical take on women with cameras in this day of a more open and subtle notion of gendered identity.

Submissions are only limited by your imagination and may cover a broad range of challenging, personal, emotional, and political issues facing women today. Their work-life, home, family, friends, relationships, life partners, homosexual, heterosexual, politics, equal rights, stereotypes, causes, roles and wishes.

DEADLINE: January 24th, 2011

NOTIFICATION: January 30th, 2011

ENTRY FEE: $35 for the first 5 images, $10 each additional

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200, Honorable Mentions(3) – $100

JUROR: Christina Chang, Assistant Curator, Wiesman Art Museum

For all the details, visit the MPLS website!

CALL for ENTRY: Lens 2011

Posted on December 3, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

ORANGE YOU GLAD?

I am amazed by how often I am reminded that it is all about perspective. My child loves tomato sauce and ketchup but will only eat home-grown, raw tomatoes. He’ll put ranch dressing on virtually anything…except chicken. But, then again, I love oranges but seriously dislike orange juice. Go figure. This next Call seeks your perspective.

Check out this Call for Entries for the Lens 2011 competition from the Perspective Gallery located just north of Chicago. All subject matter and photographic processes are accepted, and their sales commission is only 30%. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Lens 2011

Perspective Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural juried exhibition of photography, LENS 2011. Photographers are invited to submit work for possible inclusion in the exhibition. All subject matter and photographic processes are welcome.

Perspective Gallery is a not-for-profit, community-oriented cooperative whose purpose is to promote photography as fine art. Perspective is located in Evanston, Illinois, immediately north of Chicago.

The members of Perspective Group and Photography Gallery bring a rich blend of experience and focus to the gallery. Members’ work has been shown at galleries, colleges, libraries and in publications and juried shows across the country. The artistic styles and techniques of the members include traditional film, digital, alternative processes, mixed media, collage and encaustic art.

SUBMISSIONS: Artists are invited to submit up to five (5) photographic images, JPEG form. The images must have been created within the past five years. Artists should complete the entry form and upload their images at: http://perspectivegallery.slideroom.com

DEADLINE:
January 9, 2011

NOTIFICATION:
January 20, 2011

ENTRY FEE: The fee for submitting up to five (5) images is $35. The fee is non-refundable.

JUROR: Natasha Egan, Associate Director & Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She has organized numerous international exhibitions and contributed essays to many publications. Natasha is co-author of The Transparent City, a book of photographs by Michael Wolf.

COMMISSION: Perspective Gallery will receive a 30% commission on any artwork sold during the exhibition. Artists will receive 70% of the sales price of any work sold.

AWARDS: One photographer will be awarded a featured exhibition at Perspective, and a $200 stipend. The first runnerup will receive a $150 stipend, and the second runner-up will receive a $100 stipend. continues below

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Human Artifact

Posted on November 30, 2010November 29, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

FREEZE OUT!

People are often intrigued by my refrigerator …they always want a glimpse inside. I am equally fascinated by the food preferences of other foodies, but I would never ask to see inside their cupboards or refrigerators. That would be like asking a stranger on the sidewalk to strip naked. You don’t need to know that I store raw meats above vegetables, that I secretly love sardines in mustard sauce and don’t make my own marinara. This next Call will help you mind your own business …wink, wink, nod, nod.

It will come as no surprise that this Call for Entries from Vermont Photo Space Gallery called Human Artifact conjures images cabinets full of Thai Sweet Chili Sauce and exotic spices crammed into food-splattered cabines for me. But I trust that your human artifacts will prove far more interesting than what’s for dinner. Don’t forget Vermont Photo Space offers free framing & matting on accepted entries!

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Human Artifact

We create spectacle of our personal environments as an extension of our selves, our souls. We are also compelled to photograph the object-evidence of these lives lived.

Have you captured images of the human artifact? Images that show the spaces and things that outfit our personal or private lives? Vermont Photo Space Gallery wants to see these images:

Images that illustrate the personality, pastime, position of an individual through their things. A trophy wall, taxidermy collection, corner shrine, garden retreat. A bottle collection, bowl of matchbooks, box of love letters.

The messages we write on walls, carve in trees, mark on the door frame, post in the tree house… From backyard junkyards, to attic hideouts and basement retreats, we mark our territories with the stuff, the evidence, of our lives.

Whether you are documenting the neighbor’s chattels or the abandoned remains of a home left behind, Vermont Photo Space and Juror Dave Jordano are looking for images that evidence human artifact.

The photographic documentation of personal object is as old as the medium itself and it has become a contemporary obsession for some. Roger Ballen, Eugene Richards, William Eggleston, Takashi Homma and Juror, Dave Jordano are among the ranks of photographers documenting human artifact. The subject matter is a collision of cultural anthropology, pop culture, domesticity, documentary, realism and perhaps sentimentality. By photographically documenting personal relic we prove the universality of the personal, we find connections and we share intimacies.

JUROR: Dave Jordano received a BFA in Photography from the College of Creative Studies in 1974. Since 1977 he has been working as a professional commercial Photographer from his studio in Chicago, Illinois. It is his fine art imagery that will compel you to submit your work for jury into “Human Artifact.”

Jordano has been recording cultural and societal identities extensively through Fellowship and as Curator’s Choice (Houston Center for Photography), Critical Mass finalist, Wright State University sponsorship recipient, and Chicago Cultural Center exhibitor.

Twice published, his work is also found in private, corporate and museum collections, including in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois. Jordano continues an extensive investment into the documentary series “Prairieland”, focusing on rural Illinois.

RULES FOR
PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

Age: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, a parent or legal guardian may make the submission for you.

Ownership: All submitted photos must have been taken by the photographer making the entry.

If you are a parent or legal guardian submitting for a minor, please make it clear on the submission form.

Digital Submissions: All submissions must be made by digital files through:

1. Upload on VermontPhotoSpace.com or

2. Sent via email to submissions@VermontPhotoSpace.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with an application form. There is a $5.00 surcharge for email entries.

3. Images should be as large as possible but no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side, type jpg – set to the highest quality. DPI can be set to any number, but if you must specify something to go with 72 dpi.

FEES: Up to three images may be submitted for a fee of $20 US for on-line submission and $25 for email submission. Additional images may be submitted for an additional $5 US per image.

DEADLINE: Images and payment must be received by midnight EST on the submission closing date January 18, 2011.

RIGHTS: Photographers retain all rights to their work, except for submissions accepted for exhibition: artists grant Vermont Photo Space the right to use their images to promote the exhibition and for display on VPS website and for inclusion in an exhibit catalog.

Vermont Photo Space Gallery provides free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

Category: Photography

GRASPING at STRAWBERRIES

ARTIST RESIDENCY: Light Work

Please see the How to Apply section for details.

GOOSE ME

CALL for ENTRIES: A Year in Review 2010

They believe that great talent deserves endless attention, and they will do all they can to present your work to the world.

For complete details, visit the Artist Wanted website!

HUMAN “BEANS”

CALL for ENTRIES: Human + Being

Being human is complicated.

For full details, visit C4FAP.org!

YOU’RE SHITAKE-ING ME!

Call for Entries: ≤ 196

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

TIE A STRING AROUND YOUR FINGER

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Arrangement

What is still life today?

RULES FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

For the full Call for Entries, visit their website.

WHITE MEAT or DARK MEAT?

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Fashioning Photography

Fashion is fickle.

What is your style?

RULES FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

For the full Call for Entries, visit their website.

CHOPS AGAIN?

CALL for ENTRIES: 13th Annual Juried Exhibit

For full details, Download the Prospectus!

POTATO SPLAT

CALL for ENTRIES: Picturing Life as a Woman

For all the details, visit the MPLS website!

ORANGE YOU GLAD?

CALL for ENTRIES: Lens 2011

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

FREEZE OUT!

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Human Artifact

RULES FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

For the full Call for Entries, visit their website.

GRASPING at
STRAWBERRIES

They believe that great talent deserves endless attention, and they will do all they can
to present your work
to the world.

TIE A STRING
AROUND YOUR FINGER

WHITE MEAT
or DARK MEAT?

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Fashioning Photography

RULES FOR
PHOTO SUBMISSIONS:

CALL for ENTRIES:
13th Annual Juried Exhibit

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Human Artifact

RULES FOR
PHOTO SUBMISSIONS: