CALL for ENTRIES: American Vices

Posted on January 31, 2016January 31, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

american
PIE

I talk to myself in the grocery store –okay everywhere. But, it is worst in the grocery store. In the produce section last week, I was standing in front of a mountain of shiny red apples when I muttered, “I don’t get it.” As you know, I advertise my disinterest in the grainy texture & overly sweet flavor of many red varieties of apples on a regular basis. I tend to prefer them green & tart; sue me. My grocer had approx. 2 dozen green apples & 20 dozen red varieties for sale, hence the “I don’t get it.” But this time, a woman in my age range was standing next to me while I muttered. She turned, looked me in the eye & said, “If you don’t like apples, you’re not American.” Really? Is my nationality now determined by my fruit choices? Lady, step away from the apples & toward the hard cider. This next Call is all about being American. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Art Entries from ArtRise Savannah (GA) for American Vices exhibit at the Non-Fiction Gallery. I know that I have plenty to say on this subject; don’t hold you tongue…

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CALL for ART ENTRIES:
American Vices

” …to paraphrase Bertrand Russell: no one is interested in other people’s secret virtues. Whether it’s greed, narcissism, perversion, selfishness, wastefulness, vanity or other bits of wickedness, America is infamous for its vices. American Vices invites you to crawl down into the belly of American immorality and show us what you find.” –from nonfictiongallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

DEADLINE: February 7, 2016

NOTIFICATION: February 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $25 up to 4 ($15 for members)

AWARDS: 1st Place $150 & Honorable Mention $50

SALES: The Non-Fiction Gallery will retain 40% Commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: WIA 2016

Posted on January 29, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

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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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!

CALL for ENTRIES: Grant / Purchase Award

Posted on January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

lots of
CUKES

Cucumber frequently replaces crackers & bread in our house due to a family-wide wheat allergy. I love the crisp texture coupled with the ridiculously low price. If you have ever grown your own, you know that they fruit prodigiously, so they cost precious little. But I have recently volunteered to pay more for my cucumbers. No, I didn’t go organic; I went English. I can’t go back. English cucumbers aren’t usually waxed because plastic wrapping helps contain the moisture, and they are less bitter due to the smaller seeds. But the true benefit for me is that they seem to spoil at such a slow rate that I never have to throw anything away. The benefit outweighs the cost. The return on this next opportunity is worth every penny too. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from WorkingArtist.org for the Working Artist Photography Award. This may very well be the simplest process for the amount of the return. $25 Entry. Don’t miss this one…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Grant / Purchase Award

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: February 15, 2016

ENTRY FEE: There is an application review fee of $25 for up to 5.

AWARDS: If selected as the winner, the award recipient must exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion into a collection, in return for the $1000 award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. Shipping costs will be paid by workingartist.org.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Art Show

Posted on January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

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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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!

CALL for ENTRIES: Reflections

Posted on January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

burnt BREAD

My toaster died. I have had the same retro-styled, chrome toaster for 10+ years. Who knew they lasted that long? It operated perfectly until about a year ago when it just quit toasting anything evenly. I should probably have been sad to lose my faithful little toaster that could. But, I hated it. It was cool for about the first 15 minutes I owned it –before the finish began to reflect every stray speck in my kitchen. My mother decided a red and toaster, far less reflective, would make the perfect gift. We played, Mom. This next call highlights all that is good about reflections. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the 1650 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) for Reflections. $35 entry & free matting and framing (pre-set sizes). There’s even a way to avoid shipping. This could be a great opportunity…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Reflections

“…wash your window and shine your chrome, this time it’s not you we want…. it’s the reflection of your perfection we yearn to see.” — 1650gallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: February 7, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 5, $5 ea. add’l

JUROR: Andrew Overtoom is an award-winning filmmaker & photographer living in L.A. He publishes THE UNDEAD NEG, is launching a quarterly photography journal & owns the 1650 Gallery.

AWARDS: Best In Show, 2nd & 3rd Place will be awarded & posted after the opening. Awarded photos will be featured on the show page & Best In Show winners will have a small portfolio featured in the 1650 Spotlight gallery.

SALES: Selected artists may choose to offer their work for sale. The gallery retains 50% commission. The 1650 Gallery offers free matting and framing for accepted photographs that fit their pre-cut mat sizes for the duration of the exhibition. Photo sizes are 8″x10″, 11″x14″ 16″x20″, or 20″x24″.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: 25th OPA Nat’l

Posted on January 19, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

mmmm
BUTTER

Why doesn’t food taste like it did when you were a kid? It isn’t just sentimental remembrance. It is because food isn’t made the same way or with the same ingredients, even at HOME. I want to encourage you to experiment with the simplest of foods. Try a simple saute of ANY organic vegetable in grass-fed butter, or if you don’t do dairy, try unrefined coconut oil. It isn’t a new way of cook. In fact, it is the most traditional way. All vegetables used to be organic. All butter used to be from grass-fed cows. I’m suggesting that we’ve forgotten how good traditionally raised and prepared food is. Try it again. This call is also for the traditional. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 25th Annual National Exhibition from Oil Painters of America to be exhibited at the Southwest Gallery (Dallas, TX). $100,000 in awards including $30K Best of Show. Make us proud…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
25th OPA Nat’l

ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists residing in the U.S., Canada & Mexico

MEDIA: Representational oil painting

DEADLINE: January 29, 2016

NOTIFICATION: February 25, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 for 1 or $45 for 2 (plus membership fee of $70). More membership information can be found on the OPA website, under the Member Services tab.

JURORS: Howard Friedland, Signature Member and OPA Board Member, will serve as chairman of a Jurying Committee, consisting of five Master Signature or Signature members of OPA.

AWARDS: The total awards will be approximately $100,000, including a $30,000 Best In Show.

SALES: Commission of 40% is required by the gallery for all paintings sold.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Culture

Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

CRUCIFEROUS
gold

I struggle with the debate over the cost of healthy food vs. fast food. I struggle with the idea that there are food snobs out there that believe that “healthy food is expensive” is an excuse, instead of a reason. Healthy food IS expensive. Cauliflower, a relatively unsexy vegetable, is currently $6 a head at the grocery. Six dollars. That is insane. Asparagus, sure, but cauliflower? Really. And cost aside, there really are places in this country where access to fresh food is limited by availability, transportation & a lack of knowledge or ability to prepare it if it were accessible. So, instead of clever memes, can we just take a moment to talk about a culture that ignores hunger because it “doesn’t affect me”? Do you have to have something to say about the culture outside your window? This Call is the perfect opportunity to let your work speak…

Check out this Call for Entries from Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Culture. $24 entry. We’re proud our readers have been both shown & awarded at Darkroom. I cannot wait to see this exhibit…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Culture

“Culture: a word with many shades of meaning and numerous subtle connotations. To the anthropologist, culture defines the social, behavioral, material, and spiritual characteristics of distinct groups of people such as tribes, ethnic groups, and nations, as well as subgroups within those larger entities.” –darkroomgallery.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Photography documenting moments of the human condition.

DEADLINE: January 27, 2016

NOTIFICATION: February 4, 2016

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

JUROR: Peter Turnley is renown for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek 43 times and are published frequently in the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over 90 countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geo-political and historic significance in the last thirty years. His photographs draw attention to the plight of those who suffer great hardships or injustice. He also affirms with his vision the many aspects of life that are beautiful, poetic, just, and inspirational.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the New School of Social Research in New York and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000-2001.

Peter Turnley also teaches photography workshops on street photography and the photo-essay in Paris, Cuba, New York, Mumbai, Venice, Sicily & Lisbon. He presently lives in both New York & Paris, and has previously published six books of his work.

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

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

*Editor’s Note: Please be sure to remember that it IS important to let Darkroom Gallery know you found their Call on artandartdeadlines.com. The hard-working folks at the Darkroom Gallery are friends & sponsors of AAAD, and we always want them to know they have our support…

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Garden Party

Posted on January 5, 2016January 5, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

a spring
APPETIZER

I wore flip flops on Christmas day because it was just that warm. Then I got cocky and bought strawberries as if it were really Spring and I needed a treat for an upcoming garden party. Ummhmm. The little red boulders the grocer sold me as strawberries had about as much flavor as, well, what I imagine boulders might taste like. But this next Call is a REAL garden party. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Fine Line Creative Arts Center (St. Charles, IL) for Garden Party at the Kavanagh Gallery. This theme could be just the inspiration to hang on to the promise of Spring. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Garden Party

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists living & working in the U.S.

MEDIA: Open to all media. Pieces should evoke the feeling or be reminiscent of a party in the garden.

DEADLINE: January 11, 2016 *MUST BE MAILED SO DON’T DELAY

NOTIFICATION: January 30, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $30 for up to 5 ($25 for members)

AWARDS: There will be a Best of Show award as well as a non-monetary People’s Choice Award, chosen by popular vote of the attendees of the show.

SALES: The gallery will retain a 30% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Storytelling

Posted on January 4, 2016January 4, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD
for the ages

The story of my life could easily be told with my culinary history: the half-eaten worm that immediately proceeded my speaking in complete sentences (gross, but true), the cheese dogs of my youth (nicknamed angels riding horseback), the short-lived teenage infatuation with fast food, the pasta love fest of my twenties, and the ongoing efforts to repair all the damage done now that I know better, ha. This next Call wants to hear your stories, but again, the food references are merely optional. No artist statements required this time…

Check out this Call for Entries from L.A. Photo Curator for the Storytelling exhibit. $20 entry, no shipping & a portion of the entry fees goes to a great charity. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Storytelling

“We are looking for photographers with the ability to tell a compelling visual narrative through fine art photography. Stories could be told based on landscapes, and do not have to be portraits. Any kind of photo process (digital, analog, alternative) is welcome.” –from laphotocurator.com

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: January 19, 2016

EXHIBITION: February 1-28, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 2

CURATOR: Carolyn Hampton is a Southern California fine art photographer who creates surreal, dreamlike images based on childhood memories, rituals, nightmares, and fantasies. She is currently working on a narrative portrait series entitled “Constructed Fairytales”. Hampton’s award-winning work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and art festivals worldwide, and is held in many private collections, including those of Jock Sturges, Kim & Gina Weston, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. Her images have been published in books and on dust jackets, on album covers, and in newspapers, magazines, and popular blogs. Hampton is represented by the Duncan Miller Gallery.

AWARDS: Winner receives review by curator plus online exhibition (front page of site for a month, then archived). Winner also receives Q&A making a substantial PR piece for the photographer. A percentage of artist fees will go Hampton’s charity: Children’s Institute, Inc. There is a 2nd place winner & 3 honorable mentions which will show their bio and images archived on the site.

SALES: All sales are conducted between the artist & buyer. L.A. Photo Curator does not handle any part of sales. There is no commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Intimate Treasures

Posted on January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 by R.L. Gibson

salty or
SWEET

As much as I love stuffed grape leaves & feta, my first thoughts of Greece are of figs. My husband makes a mean pastitsio, but I will still take yogurt with honey & figs any day of the week. This Call is another sweet treat from the Mediterranean. If you are looking for an international show, this could be a golden opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from Textile Arts Factory (Greece) for Intimate Treasures, a textile, fiber & jewelry exhibit. With approx. 40 days between notification & delivery, reasonable shipping rates are available for this international opportunity. Take a look..

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Intimate Treasures

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Accepted techniques include, but are not limited to: weaving, lace, knitting, crochet, embroidery, dyeing, patchwork, sewing, felt, braiding & knotting. Experimental techniques are also welcome. Combinations of different materials are accepted; however the main material should be textile and/or fibers, synthetic or natural.

DEADLINE: January 15, 2016

NOTIFICATION: January 20, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $15 for up to 3

JUROR: A jury of acclaimed artists & designers will decide which entries will be showcased.

SALES: Textile Arts Factory will retain a 30% commission of all sales.

Tag: Call for Entries

american PIE

CALL for ART ENTRIES: American Vices

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

LIMES not limestone

CALL for ENTRIES: World Illustration Awards 2016

For complete details, Read the Full Call for Entries!

lots of CUKES

CALL for ENTRIES: Grant / Purchase Award

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

ch-ch-ch-CHIA

CALL for ENTRIES: Tiny Art Show

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

burnt BREAD

CALL for ENTRIES: Reflections

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

mmmm BUTTER

CALL for ENTRIES: 25th OPA Nat’l

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CRUCIFEROUS gold

CALL for ENTRIES: Culture

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

a spring APPETIZER

CALL for ENTRIES: Garden Party

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

FOOD for the ages

CALL for ENTRIES: Storytelling

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

salty or SWEET

CALL for ENTRIES: Intimate Treasures

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

american
PIE

CALL for ART ENTRIES:
American Vices

LIMES
not limestone

CALL for ENTRIES:
World Illustration Awards 2016

lots of
CUKES

CALL for ENTRIES:
Grant / Purchase Award

CALL for ENTRIES:
Tiny Art Show

CALL for ENTRIES:
Reflections

mmmm
BUTTER

CALL for ENTRIES:
25th OPA Nat’l

CRUCIFEROUS
gold

CALL for ENTRIES:
Culture

a spring
APPETIZER

CALL for ENTRIES:
Garden Party

FOOD
for the ages

CALL for ENTRIES:
Storytelling

salty or
SWEET

CALL for ENTRIES:
Intimate Treasures