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CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2012

Posted on January 4, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Despite all my talk about butter, chocolate and all things yummy, we really do eat fairly healthy at my house. We limit excessive intake of fats, processed white sugar and foods with unnecessary chemical additives. I usually insist to avoid the premature expansion of my rear end and to offset a few other bad habits, ha. Organic bananas are a must. No they aren’t alway the prettiest, and yes, they spoil faster, but nothing tastes more like a banana. Here’s your chance to get back to something natural …

Check out this Call for Entries from SlowArt Productions with Arte Natura. The entry fee is reasonable, and here are no media restrictions. The awards include both an exhibit (in Hudson, NY) and an opportunity to have your work in the nationally-distributed art magazine. Don’t miss this one!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2012

SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Arte Natura. This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery.

Eligible are all art forms relating to, or gaining inspiration from the world of nature. Landscapes, skyscapes, flowers, vegetables, fruits and animals are all eligible. Human images are permitted only as an elemental part of the natural environment. All artist interpretations of the natural world from the realist to the abstract and conceptual will be reviewed and considered.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA:
All media

DEADLINE:
February 24, 2012.

NOTIFICATION: By March 31, 2012. Results will be posted on or before this date at: http://www.slowart.com/results. Notification will be made via email and/or by mail with the return of materials in the SASE provided by the artist.

All artists who provide a working email address will be notified via email, if no email or return envelope is provided, artists will only be notified if accepted to exhibit. Type or print your email address clearly, if a mistake is made reading it you will not be notified. Read the notification page for details of the notification policy.

ENTRY FEES: $35.00 entry fee for one to four artworks entered, presentation is by digital files, prints or 35mm slides. There is a $5.00 fee for each additional artwork above four.

SALES: All works in the show must be for sale. The gallery will take a 30 % commission on all sales. Sale price is determined by the artist.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be featured in a group exhibition at the Limner Gallery, June 2 – 30, 2012. The exhibition will also be displayed on the Limner Gallery web site. One artist will be awarded a two page display in Direct Art Volume #19, Fall 2012 issue. Two artists will be awarded a single page display.

For the full guidelines, Download the Prospectus!

CALL for ENTRIES: Interpretation of Fading Light

Posted on January 3, 2012March 12, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

PARING in PAIRS

I must confess that I do less cooking that my daily ramblings might indicate. My dearest husband does much of the cooking in our household, and he does it wonderfully. But the times I truly enjoy are the times we spend in the kitchen together. And, as I get older, I have found that artistic collaboration keeps me motivated as well. This call offers you an opportunity to produce work while still being someone else’s muse. Great idea…

Check out this Call for Entries from Open to Interpretation‘s juried book competition Fading Light. Have your work become the artistic inspiration for a literary masterpiece today! Keeping reading for details…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Open to Interpretation:
Fading Light

Open to Interpretation is a juried book competition of photography, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions to both the photos and the written word.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all

MEDIA: Photography

THEME: Fading Light

DEADLINE: Extended deadline is June 26, 2012. (originally March 15th)

NOTIFICATION: July 9, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $40 for 5 images, $10 each additional if entered by June 26, 2012.

JUROR: George Slade has provided fine photographic artists and their audiences with insightful interpretation and curatorial expertise in exhibitions, classes, writings, lectures, and face-to-face exchanges for over 25 years.

Formerly the artistic director of Minnesota Center for Photography, the director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program, and recently the curator at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Slade is a veteran presence at portfolio review events like Fotofest, Photolucida, Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA, and the Society for Photographic Education’s regional and national conferences.

Slade’s writings and reviews appear extensively in print and online; some may be found at his web site, re:photographica. He lives in Minneapolis with his partner Stephanie and their children.

AWARDS: $300 Juror’s Selection Award

For complete details, visit Open to Interpretation online!

CALL for ENTRIES: True Colors

Posted on January 2, 2012January 2, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

MISSION
not
ACCOMPLISHED

A little girl recently asked me how I could tell which food was good for me just by looking at it. (Yes, I really do talk about food all day.) I spent a few minutes explaining that you could tell that some foods are good for you because they are deeply or brightly colored, like broccoli, swiss chard and carrots. Without missing a beat she said, “I’m glad to know I don’t have to give up jelly beans,” and she promptly turned and left. Perfect. This next show is proves color can be good for you. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for True Colors, a digital and photography competition brought to you by Digital Arts: California that will feature both an online showcase AND a physical gallery exhibit. Pay attention to the details…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
True Colors

“Color—in all its glory—is the theme of this exhibit. Bring on those bright, dazzling hues, or those soft, muted pastels. Explore deep, mysterious shades, or subtle, sophisticated tones. Does your palette include earth tones…or psychedelic blinders? Have you created a fuchsia-and-saffron fractal or a digital painting in chartreuse and cherry-blossom pink? Or, have you photographed the subtle range of blues and greens in an ocean vista? If color is an integral aspect of your art or photography, we want to see your images!” —from digitalartscalifornia.com

Digital Arts: California presents exhibits online and in a physical, brick-and-mortar gallery in Los Angeles, San Diego, or another California art center.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Every discipline, genre, style, and school of thought within digital art and photography is welcome.

DEADLINE: January 15, 2012

ENTRY FEE: Entry fees are $25 for the first 5 & $4 for each add’l image.

JURORS: Selection of the finalists that will appear online in solo artist/photographer galleries will be made by Virginia and Glen Christensen. Virginia has enjoyed a long career as an editor and a publisher of photography and art books, and is, herself, an accomplished photographer. Glen has had a distinguished career as Art Director at major record companies in both New York City and Hollywood. Among his professional accolades have been two Grammy nominations for Best Album Package.

AWARDS: Works that have been awarded a Gold Stellar Art Award will be eligible for exhibition in a physical gallery setting. Such exhibits will be held periodically and will combine these award winners from various Digital Arts: California online exhibits. How often such physical exhibits are held will depend on the volume of entries to their online exhibits as well as other factors.

For complete details, Visit California Digital Arts online!

CALL for ENTRIES: Centering the Margin

Posted on January 1, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

BACON SHMACON

Culinary experimentation is one of my favorite endeavors. I like to think of results in the terms a “margin for interpretation” as opposed to a “margin for error.” No Canadian bacon or english muffin for your eggs benedict? How about brie and roasted garlic loaf. Granted, that interpretation may be on the very periphery of acceptable to some. But maybe, just maybe, that’s the sweet spot. These folks behind this next Call for Entries agree with me. “Varied platforms of concept.” Fun…

Check out this Call for Entries for Centering the Margin, an artist curated show brought to you by Root Division (Sacramento, CA). The entry fee is incredibly low, and the thematic content is fascinating. Don’t miss this one…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Centering the Margin

Centering the Margin is an artist-curated project focusing on artwork that concerns itself with spaces, events, and artifacts that exist just outside of our field of vision and attention. If our contemporary existence is marked by a focus on spectacle and constant stimulation, then Centering the Margin is a show that documents those things that fall outside this focus. These are things that require a change of speed or shift in focus to perceive them.

This show hopes to draw connections between artists concerned with margins, edges and interstitial spaces through diverse approaches and varied platforms of concept, representation and materials.

Works considered for the show could be: 1) pictorial works that represent spaces and moments that are glimpsed fleetingly if at all; 2) process-based works that employ materials that exist solely as vessels for goods or products, or are artifacts of technologies of display and production; or 3) time based works that document forces or phenomena that are barely perceptible or so common as to escape notice. *These are only a few examples.

Editor’s Note: This call is meant to complete a show that currently includes the work of 7 artists including the curator, Anthony Ryan. A total of 15 to 18 artists will be represented in the exhibition. Final selection of works will occur AFTER the Call for Entries process is complete.

ELIGIBILITY: All artists

MEDIA: All media

DEADLINE: January 17, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $10 for 4 images

CURATOR: Artist Anthony Ryan

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CALL for ENTRIES: 32nd Annual Juried

Posted on December 25, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

CEREAL
or TREASURE?

Every home-cooked meal is a hand-made treasure. It does not matter what it is–from frozen pizza to chocolate souflee. Most of us would just eat a bowl of cereal if weren’t for the other people in our lives that need to be nourished, physically and otherwise. So regardless of the content, every meal is a gift. This next show explores the idea of all photography as ‘hand-made.’ Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from Smith Township Arts Council for 32nd Annual Juried Exhibit: The Hand-Made Photograph to be exhibited at the Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James, NY. This is such a beautiful place to exhibit your work. Take a closer look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
The Hand-Made Photograph

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists age 18 & up.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE:
March 23, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
Mailed by April 9, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $45 for up to 3 entries. $30 for STAC member artists. Artists may join at time of entry.

JUROR: Christopher James is an internationally known artist and photographer whose paintings and alternative process images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The 1st edition of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes received unprecedented critical acclaim and was the winner The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year. In 2008, a greatly expanded, and lavishly illustrated, 2nd edition was published by Delmar Cengage and has become universally recognized as the definitive text in the genre. A 3rd edition is currently underway and will be published in 2013. James, after 13 years at Harvard University, is currently University Professor, and Director of the MFA in Photography program at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. He is also a working graphic designer.

AWARDS: 1st Place: $300 Excellence in Photography Award, Sataporn Suravichai Memorial, Winner’s Exhibition Opportunity and one-year STAC Artist Membership. 2nd Place: $100 Award of Merit, Dr. & Mrs. Roger Gilmont Fund, Winner’s Exhibition Opportunity and One-year STAC Artist Membership.

SALES: STAC will receive a 30% gallery commission on all work sold.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Right Here Over There

Posted on December 23, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

RAIL road trip

Don’t you want to have a Club sandwich in the Club Car of a long-distance train? It it just me? Admittedly, I just watched White Christmas again. I just watched them all sing “Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow.” Now that I think about it, we never do SEE those sandwiches…just the aftermath. Hmmm… While I ponder the snowy landscape of napkins in that train car, you ponder the “metaphoric landscape of place” in this next Call. Go ponder…

Check out this Call for Entries for Right Here Over There brought to you by the Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY). This is an all media show with NO ENTRY FEE! Don’t miss this rare opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Right Here Over There

Right Here Over There is an exhibition exploring the physical, mental, and metaphoric landscapes of place and their indelible link to memory. Throughout our lives we are surrounded by a world punctuated by varying spaces, climates, geographies, buildings, and cultures. Accumulating in layers over time, pieces of our physical world provide visual reference points for how we understand one another and ourselves.

THEME: Including (but not limited to) the following may be integrated into the final exhibition: mapping, topography, architecture, nature, distance, home, exile, travel, and personal/social/political geographies.

ELIGIBILITY: All artists, age 18 and older.

MEDIA: All media and styles will be considered.

DEADLINE: January 31, 2012

NOTIFICATION: February 17, 2012

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee.

JUROR: Becky Alley, LAL’s Exhibitions & Programs Director, will select all artwork for exhibition. Alley earned a BFA in studio art from Washington University, and an MFA in studio art from the University of Kansas. Before joining the LAL staff in January 2010, Alley was the Director of University Galleries at Murray State University. She has organized over 100 shows and has curated several major projects including Think Tank, an international show of political art, Creatures Great and Small, a touring exhibition of contemporary art featuring animals, and Love and Things Like Love, an LAL project.

SALES: Not all works need to be for sale, but LAL retains a 30% commission on the retail price of all works sold in the gallery. The artist must determine retail price, which is sent with the application materials.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Absence of Color

Posted on December 21, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

CABBAGE,
not KRAUT

People tell me the wackiest food facts. I love hearing them, and I usually assume I am being told the truth. But, just to be certain, I always verify the facts if I can. Recently someone told me that the black and white cookie, that I alway think of as German in orgin, IS actually German, but it is called an Amerikaner. There has to be some cyclical humor in the fact that an American who thought she was a fan of German cookies is really only a fan of cookies that Germans refer to as American cookies. Funny. This next call is all about Black and White, too. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Black & White: Absence of Color from MPLS Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN). This is a great venue and a great juror. Don’t miss this opportunity!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White: Absence of Color

The world’s first photographic images were made in shade of gray, black, and white, and the black and white photograph continues to be an important palette for photographers today. The beauty of a well-printed black and white photograph is undeniable—it is striking, unearthly, and can be life changing.

Some of the world’s most memorable photographs are black and white—the rich blacks, glowing whites, and silvery grays of a strong, black and white photograph leave a lasting impression on the mind. For photographers, those deep blacks hold a special significance, as it is the black tones that reveal themselves first in photographic chemistry and communicate the magic, mystery, and possibility of the photographic process.

Black and white photographs can have painterly, etching-like qualities, which were celebrated by photography’s inventors and early adopters. Photography as art was first championed with The Photo-Secessionists who celebrated the pictorial aspect of the black and white image. Today photography is widely accepted as an art form and as a key medium within contemporary and conceptual art.

The choice of using black and white versus color is the photographer’s choice, and the reasons for that choice can be personal, theoretical, or aesthetic. This call for entry—Black and White—The Absence of Color—looks to grays and blacks and whites to tell the story and make the picture that color would often muddy.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: Jan. 21st, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Jan. 29th, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $35 for five, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR: Bevin Bering Dubrowski is Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography, a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach programs, lectures, and classes. HCP’s mission is to increase society’s understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture, and produces 15 – 20 exhibitions annually on and off-site, balancing work by regional and internationally acclaimed emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Bevin curates exhibition for HCP and is also editor of spot magazine, a bi-annual journal of photography that includes artist portfolios, interviews, exhibition and book excerpts, and highlights on HCP members’ work.

Prior to joining HCP as Executive Director, Bevin founded the photography division of Bering & James and served as gallery director. Bevin is also a practicing photographer and received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Emory University. Bevin has reviewed portfolios for FotoFest, Lens Culture/ FotoFest Paris, Photo Nola, and Photo Lucida. She has also recently served as a juror for Critical Mass and the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards and serves on the FotoFest Art Board.

AWARDS: First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free Black & White Exhibition Book.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES: You’ll Find this Offensive

Posted on December 19, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

NO FINGER LICKIN’

I learned table manners in “finishing” class. No, I am not kidding. I went to a southern, Protestant private school through sixth grade. All 5th grade girls took “finishing class” in which we learned posture by walking with books on our heads. We learned that our waist should be 10″ smaller than our bust and hips. And we learned both how to set a table and how to behave while sitting at the table. No really, I’m not kidding. And while I have clearly let go of the 10″-smaller-than-my-bust-and-hips lesson, I still find bad table manners offensive. This next show is looking for something a little more extreme, I suspect. Whatcha got, folks?

Check out this Call for Entries for You’ll Find this Offensive from Outlaw Artisans (Pittsburgh, PA) which will be shown at the Red Door Space. Low entry fee, quick decision time and no commission make for a great opportunity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
You’ll Find this Offensive

“Art has a purpose. It challenges, it offends, it makes people think. In this age of ‘political correctness,’ it’s more important than ever that artists gets out there and wake up the people.This show is for your offending work. We will be doing a one day purchasing event at Red Door Space in Pittsburgh, PA, and we are collecting all of the work into a book for sale. Keep your prices at an attractive level for purchase, but let your submission be as offensive as you would like. The book is available as a show piece for advertising your art style and accomplishments, as well as demonstrating your vision.” –from the OutlawArtisans.com website

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Two dimensional media plus literary work of 300 words or less.

DEADLINE: January 13, 2012

NOTIFICATION: January 15, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $20 charge for 3 images

SALES: All work must be available for sale. No NFS work will be eligible for this show. The gallery will not be collecting commission on works sold for this show. Work will be sold in at auction the evening of the show. Artist will be able to designate the minimum bid for their work.

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CALL for ENTRIES: Monochromatic

Posted on December 18, 2011December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

BEET me PURPLE

I prefer my foods on the edge of extreme–from color to taste. My newest favorite are little purple, fingerling potatoes. Yum. In addition to being beautiful, those brightly colored foods tend to be higher in iron and anti-oxidants that your body needs to be healthy. I have sworn of the beige potato chip or two, but I’ll take beets instead on most days. This next show is interested in the black and white extremes. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Monochromatic. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Monochromatic

“The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value…“Ansel Adams, The Camera

“A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.” Edward Steichen

These two masters enriched the history of photography by being some of the first to experiment with new technologies in a relatively new art medium. They were also traditionalists and truly embraced manual and old photography processes. The hundred and fifty photographers from Steichen’s world is millions today, and finding “as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made” is no longer as simple.

Digital cameras and editing software have transformed the medium and opened up whole new worlds for the 21st century photographer. We have dozens of “aps” that help us tweak a digital image to “perfection” in minutes. A vast repertoire of image resources we look to for inspiration and meaning still brings us to the same point of reflection as photographers of the early 20th century: what is the art of photography?

Black and white photography, a genre that many would claim made them fall in love with image-making in the first place, has remained completely relevant and contemporary despite it’s ancient roots. It is timeless, sometimes soft, sometimes dramatic and brings new perspective to images and image making. Whether you are a darkroom purist or a Photoshop craftperson, show us your love for hue-less images. The Darkroom Galllery wants to see YOUR best black and white or alternative process images for an exhibit that will pay tribute to the origins of photography and praise it’s development.

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

MEDIA: Photography. Monochrome images from traditional silver black and whites to cyanotypes, sepia toned photographs and anything else in the color-less spectrum.

DEADLINE: Jan. 25, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Feb. 1, 2012

JUROR: Growing up in southern Poland, Rafal Maleszyk spent his childhood and early years in post-communist Poland. He first started exploring photography using a 35mm Kiev on his fourteenth birthday. Maleszyk’s photography is rooted in his interest in natural landscapes. For him, photography is the ultimate artistic form that captures one’s encounter or oneness with nature. His style focuses on simplifying and expressing with intimacy the perspectives in nature.

In 2009, he moved to the Oahu island of Hawaii, where he now works as a professional fine art black and white landscape photographer, specializing in large format prints series using a digital medium format Hasselblad camera. Maleszyk has received numerous awards for his work.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Imagination

Posted on December 17, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

OLIVES in ORANGE

Last night I imagined my self in a white chef’s coat and orange clogs while dozing off on the couch. I must have been channeling Mario Batali, or maybe it was just eating antipasto a little to late in the evening. This next show is all about imagination, but then again–shouldn’t EVERY show be about imagination?

Check out this Call for Entries for Imagination brought to you by the A. Smith Gallery (Johnson City, Texas). The entry fee is low, and you can’t ask for a better theme. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Imagination

i-mag-i-na-tion: fabrication, fantasy, illusion, imagery, insight, inspiration, originality, thought, vision, creation, creativity, inventiveness realization.

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral”. –Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” –Pablo Picasso

“Imagination feeds the need to photograph. Since I can remember, I have loved to create with my mind and my hands. This desire was instilled by a mother and grandmother who shared the same compulsion. These imaginative women taught me to dream and experiment. ‘I-mag-i-na-tion’ is your opportunity to imagine and create. Get outside the conventional with this one. Don’t just photograph the pear; hide it underneath a cloth napkin and see what happens.” — from the A. Smith Gallery website.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists. Entries must not have been exhibited previously in an exhibition at A Smith Gallery.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: January 9, 2012

ENTRY FEE: A non-refundable entry fee of $25 for the first 5 images and $5 for each additional image is required. The Paypal link is on the Entry Form.

JUROR: The juror for “I-mag-i-na-tion” will be Aline Smithson. After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. Now represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe and published throughout the world, Aline continues to create her award-winning photography with humor, compassion, and a 50-year-old camera. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including a recent cover of PDN, the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, and others. She has exhibited widely. Aline writes and edits the blogzine, Lenscratch, has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, a contributing writer for Diffusion ,Too Much Chocolate, Lucida, and F Stop Magazines, and has been curating exhibitions for a number of galleries and on-line magazines. Though she was nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and for The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009 by Center, she considers her children her greatest achievement.

AWARDS: Cash prizes of $250 each will be awarded for The Juror’s Award and The Director’s Award, along with a $100 prize for the Visitors’ Choice Award. There will also be five Honorable Mentions.

SALES: A Smith Gallery will retain 40% commission out of the sales price.

Tag: Call for Entries

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2012

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PARING in PAIRS

CALL for ENTRIES: Open to Interpretation: Fading Light

For complete details, visit Open to Interpretation online!

MISSION not ACCOMPLISHED

CALL for ENTRIES: True Colors

For complete details, Visit California Digital Arts online!

BACON SHMACON

CALL for ENTRIES: Centering the Margin

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CEREAL or TREASURE?

CALL for ENTRIES: The Hand-Made Photograph

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RAIL road trip

CALL for ENTRIES: Right Here Over There

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CABBAGE, not KRAUT

CALL for ENTRIES: Black & White: Absence of Color

For complete details, Visit the Website!

NO FINGER LICKIN’

CALL for ENTRIES: You’ll Find this Offensive

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

BEET me PURPLE

CALL for ENTRIES: Monochromatic

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

OLIVES in ORANGE

CALL for ENTRIES: Imagination

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2012

CALL for ENTRIES:
Open to Interpretation:
Fading Light

MISSION
not
ACCOMPLISHED

CALL for ENTRIES:
True Colors

CALL for ENTRIES:
Centering the Margin

CEREAL
or TREASURE?

CALL for ENTRIES:
The Hand-Made Photograph

CALL for ENTRIES:
Right Here Over There

CABBAGE,
not KRAUT

CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White: Absence of Color

CALL for ENTRIES:
You’ll Find this Offensive

CALL for ENTRIES:
Monochromatic