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I love new ideas in food.  Iodiza, one of AAAD’s loyal readers, turned me on to Chin Chin Laboratorists, Europe’s only nitro ice cream parlour. They are using liquid nitrogen to make delicious creamy ice cream. So cool! This next Call for Art Entries is also a fascinating new combination.  Take a look…

Check out this International Call for Entries for the NY Art Marathon.  This is an interesting combination show.  Everyone gets in the online show, and 10 people get a group show in NYC.  Enter any media for as little as $25 by the June 15th deadline.  I love the combination approach… 

CALL for ENTRIES:
NY Art Marathon

The NY ART MARATHON is an international art competition, which offers its 10 finalists the opportunity to participate in a group show in New York City;  a $3000 cash prize for the winner;  a People’s Award for the most voted-for artist.

NYAM is a new type of art contest, where everybody gets rewarded. Each member of the NY ART MARATHON participates in the online group show.  The first hundred participants receive their work reviewed by the curator.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.

MEDIA:  Any media and genres are welcome, from traditional to digital.

The theme for THE NY ART MARATHON Spring 2011 is
“NEW VISION = NEW WORLD. Break old canons, create new art.”

DEADLINE: June 15th, 2011

NOTIFICATION: Finalists will be notified by July 1st, 2011.

ENTRY FEE:  There is an entry fee of $25 for the first image and $15 for every next image up to 3 images.

JUROR:  The curator and juror for the NY ART MARATHON Spring 2011 is David Gibson, a well-known NY art critic and curator who has curated numerous shows all over the United States, reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, The Miami Herald, New York Arts, New York Art World, WagMag, Time Out NY, The Cleveland Free Times, Sculpture Magazine, The Village Voice, and other publications.  As an art critic, David Gibson published numerous catalogue essays, books and exhibition reviews. David Gibson taught and gave lectures at the University of Massachusetts, Indiana University, University of Central Florida, Christie’s Education, University of Wisconsin, School of Visual Arts NY, Pratt Institute NY, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Parsons School of Design NY, and other institutions, and was an interviewer and was himself interviewed on radio and television.

The board of the judges
also includes:

Highly-acclaimed artist Vitaly Komar is represented at some of world’s best museums and private art collections, and has been included in “100 Best Artists of the 20th Century.”

Alexandre Gertsman is New York’s premier dealer in contemporary Russian art. He represents well-known and established Russian-born artists and develops new, young, emerging artists. Mr. Gertsman has curated more than 40 traveling major museum exhibitions of Russian art throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia. He was also a Member of the Leadership Committee and Sponsor for the highly-acclaimed RUSSIA! exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1993, Mr. Gertsman founded the International Foundation of Russian and Eastern European Art, which introduced the American public to the largely unknown and undiscovered world of Russian contemporary art.He furthered this with the formation of the American Friends of the Tretyakov Gallery founded in 2002, which supports and contributes to the programs of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fundraises for the return of artworks by former dissident artists.

Jill Conner is the New York Editor of Whitehot Magazine (pictured left)and Editor of On-Verge. She is also a curator and contributor to Afterimage, ArtUS, Art in America, Interview Magazine, Performance Art Journal and Sculpture Magazine.  Two summer 2011 exhibitions that she has curated are “Reverb: New Work by Vicki DaSilva,” at Able Fine Art Gallery and “Vestige” at the AIR Gallery.

AWARDS: 10 finalists participate in THE NY ART MARATHON group show in New York City during the month of July 2011. The Winner – chosen by the juror – receives a $3000 cash prize.  The most voted-for artist receives the People’s Award and is featured for a year on the main webpage of THE NY ART MARATHON.  Each week, the juror / curator selects several artists from the participants who submitted their artworks during that week. The selected artists receive an online group show with a review of their submitted artworks by the curator.

Each of the first hundred participants receives an online group show with the review of the submitted artworks by the curator.  Each participant who is not in the first hundred or was not selected by the juror / curator during the week of their submission takes part in an online group show so every participant of THE NY ART MARATHON is rewarded.  All online group shows are published on THE NY ART MARATHON’s blog and social networks.

For complete details, visit the NYAM website!