Continue reading »]]> Culturehall New Artists Feature Application Call: Winter 2012 New Artists

Culturehall, a curated online resource for contemporary art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. From this open call, four artists will be selected for membership and inclusion in their Winter 2012 New Artists Feature. As a member, each artist can directly share their work, accomplishments, and events with the audience of arts professionals who visit Culturehall daily.  The New Artists Feature will publish to their homepage and by newsletter on March 7th.

Submit links of your work or 5 images for review.  Applications are $35 and if selected, you will be able to share your full portfolio with no additional fees or subscriptions.

Deadline: Applications close February 12th, 2012 at midnight EST.

For more information and to apply, please visit: http://culturehall.com/apply.html

Culturehall, New York, NY

Continue reading »]]> de Young Musuem New Generations, Student Showcase, call for San Francisco Bay Area students (University or Continuing Education): Matter!

Public Programs at the de Young Museum invites San Francisco Bay Area students (University or Continuing Education) to submit proposals of visual art, film, music, or performance art, for “Friday Nights at the de Young” for display at the museum on Friday, April 20, 2012. Members of the de Young Museum’s New Generations Student and Faculty Advisory Committee will jury the proposals.

Theme:   This year’s theme of the New Generations: Student Showcase is a call to action: Matter!

Think of it as a one-word manifesto: Matter!

Matter! Is the stuff of our lives, the goods that surround us, the fibers we wear, and the atoms of which our bodies are formed. Artists and designers have, in recent years, called for a return to Matter!, new investigations of material culture, a re-invigoration of distinctly handmade objects and insistent materiality. In an age characterized by post-studio art, others might argue that what matters most today is something immaterial, something social, an artistic form of anti-matter!

Matter! is a serious call for your creative contributions. Weigh in with your own submissions of work to be considered by our jury of art professionals.

Deadline March 1st, 2012

Prospectus: Call 4.20 Showcase

Exhibiting Artist Guidelines: Exhibiting Artist Guidelines

Continue reading »]]> Rhizome Commissions, 2012 – 2013: Call for Proposals

Continue reading »]]> Call for Entries: American Photography 28

Deadline Extended to February 3rd, 2012

American Photography promotes and preserves the finest pictures being created today by established, emerging and student photographers from thousands of submissions. American Photography 28 will be published in November 2012 for worldwide distribution and will launch at our annual Party in New York City the industry’s most anticipated networking event of the year that brings photographers, illustrators and creatives together to celebrate the years best images.

All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography living, working or studying in North American with work created or published anywhere for any purpose. International photographers living abroad who have North American representation or have been published or exhibited in North America are also eligible.

Eligibility: Work created or published between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 for both print and digital media. Work created in 2010 for publication in 2011 is okay. Work created in 2011 for publication in 2012 is okay. All images in an ongoing project that stared earlier and continued into 2011, whether published or not, are okay.

Entry Fees: $35 per single photograph in any category.
$95 per series of 10 images from a book, catalog, annual report, calendar or video.
$95 per editorial, advertising, promotional or unpublished, personal series of up to 10 related images.

Student Fees: $10 per photograph –or- $60 per portfolio of up to ten images by an individual, class or department.

Publication fees for winning images are in addition to entry fees for Selected and Chosen images:
Selected – $95 per image for publication in the book and on The Archive.
Chosen – $50 per image to be presented on The Archive only.
Publication fees are waived for winning student submissions and not-for-profit organizations.

Website Link for submission guidelines and more detailed information: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/

Continue reading »]]> Open Call: 4 Art and Documentation Festival, Łódź, Poland

Proposals are being accepted for three festival events:

1. Art-Object-Registration 4
The exhibition Art – Object – Registration is the festival’s main exhibition. It consists of the documentation of artworks, exhibitions, projects, art actions performed by artists, and the art viewing public – both individual and institutional.

2. Film on Art – historical category and contemporary filming possibilities
We organise two shows of films on art:
- a historical show
- a contemporary show of films made during the last 5 years

3. Visual Text
The exhibition will be organised in the form of a presentation of works in A4 format, attached to the Art and Documentation journal. It may consist of artists’ texts, quotations and artists’ statements, mini-essays, registrations of conversations, handwritten notes, etc. These may take various graphic and typographic forms.

For more details: http://doc.art.pl/ (scroll down for English)

There are no fees associated with participation in the “Art & Documentation” Festival.

Deadline: February 15th, 2012

Continue reading »]]> Sustainable Arts Foundation: 2012 Spring Awards for Artists and Writers with families

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting individual artists and writers with families. Their mission is to provide financial awards to parents pursuing creative work. Specifically, the applicant must have at least one child under the age of 18 years of age. They welcome applicants from anywhere, but will give some preference to residents of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Too often, creative impulses are set aside to meet the wonderful, but pressing, demands of raising a family. The foundation’s goal is to encourage parents to continue pursuing their creative passion, and to rekindle it in those who may have let it slide.

Awards:  Sustainable Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award: $6,000
Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Award: $6,000

There will be multiple winners for each award.

Additionally, they will be awarding a number of smaller Promise Awards to those applicants whose work may not qualify for the main awards, but nonetheless demonstrates both skill and potential.

Disciplines: The foundation offers awards in two major categories: visual arts and writing. They encourage writers working in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to apply. Visual artists practicing painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film/video, and photography are encouraged to apply. At this time, they are not accepting applications in the performing arts or music.

They seek to reward excellence. Your portfolio will assist them greatly in evaluating your work which may, but need not, refer to your parenting. They are also interested in hearing what your plans are, and how this award might assist you in attaining your goals.

Deadline: March 1st, 2012

Website link for more information: http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org/awards

Link to apply: http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org/apply

Awards will announced May 1st, 2012

Continue reading »]]> Torpedo Factory Art Center, Target Gallery, Call for Entries: Forged (Sculpture)

Description: This is a media specific sculptural exhibition that explores the contemporary approaches to forged metal work. The work can range in size with the stipulation that it incorporates forged metal elements. This is open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Juror: Twylene Moyer, managing editor of Sculpture magazine, has published numerous articles and catalogue essays on contemporary art. She has been a featured speaker at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at SOFA Chicago and has juried and curated several exhibitions, including “Insight Out” and “Disintegration” at the Arlington Arts Center. She is the co-editor of The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency, A Sculpture Reader, Conversations on Sculpture, and Landscapes for Art, all distributed by the University of Washington Press.

Deadline: March 19th, 2012

Website link: http://www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/targetcallforentry.htm

Prospectus – Make sure to read this COMPLETELY before applying online: Forged Prospectus

Apply Online at: http://www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/target_online_form.htm

Exhibition Dates: May 19th – June 24th, 2012

Target Gallery/Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314

Continue reading »]]> Creative Arts Workshop, Call for Printmakers: Boundless

Printmaking offers a rich menu of opportunities for experimentation, imagination and innovation. While the core techniques of the medium are centuries old, methods are constantly evolving as artists explore boundless possibilities for creative expression.

This exhibition seeks recent prints in which concept and technique come into balance to create works of art.

The Creative Arts Workshop (CAW), located in New Haven, Connecticut, announces a call for printmakers for their International Juried Show ‘Boundless’, with Ann Coffin, Director of the International Print Center, New York, as juror.  Two entries will be awarded a joint exhibition in 2013.  All entries will be entered into an online gallery, on the CAW website.

Open to all original artists’ prints, including three-dimensional and installation work. If selected, work must be sent ready for display – CAW will not mount or frame work. Work must be able to pass through a doorway measuring 80 by 40 inches; no piece may exceed a weight of 75 pounds. If framed, please indicate glass or plexiglass on back. Exceptions to any of these requirements must be justified in writing at the time of entry. Please indicate any particular needs for display and handling of each entry.

Artists are responsible for paying shipping costs, including any insurance, with the carrier of their choice to and from CAW.

Deadline: February 20th, 2012

Website link to more detailed information and online entry: http://www.creativeartsworkshop.org/boundless/submission.html

Creative Arts Workshop is a non-profit community art center devoted to fostering creativity through participation in and appreciation of the visual arts. The Workshop is located in historic New Haven, Connecticut, in the city’s Audubon Arts district.

Continue reading »]]> Call for Nominations: International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards

Established in 1994, the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards competition was created for the recognition and advancement of undergraduate and graduate student excellence in sculpture. In partnership with educational institutions around the world, this award program encourages faculty members to nominate students that demonstrate exceptional talent in the contemporary sculpture field.

Award recipients participate in an exhibition hosted by Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ) and a traveling exhibit hosted by an esteemed arts organization in a location TBD.  Award recipient work is also featured in Sculpture magazine.  Each award recipient receives a one-year ISC membership and the chance to apply for a full, sponsored residency to study in Switzerland with world-renowned sculptor Heinz Aeschlimann.

Only educational institutions with current ISC University Level Memberships are eligible to submit student nominations. Each school can nominate up to three (3) students. If your school needs to join the ISC or renew an ISC University Level Membership, please fill out the University Membership Form and return by mail with payment or join/renew online. There are no additional fees to participate in the Student Awards program.  If you are unsure about the status of your membership, please contact us at 609.689.1051 x 301 or email studentawards@sculpture.org.

Nominees must be students working towards a BA, BFA, MFA or certificate from an established and reputable art school. The ISC reserves the right to decline entries from schools deemed inappropriate for this program.

Nominations close March 23, 2012.

To find out more about the program please visit the ISC website http://www.sculpture.org/StudentAwards/2012/index.shtml or email studentawards@sculpture.org.

Continue reading »]]> Art Job Opportunity, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington: Ceramics Faculty

Deadline: March 5th, 2012

The Evergreen State College seeks a versatile and broadly trained faculty colleague to teach Ceramics-based art forms and three-dimensional art in a variety of interdisciplinary programs at the undergraduate level.  Candidates must be committed to teaching in a liberal arts context, and must have clear expertise and ability to teach Ceramics from technical, conceptual, and cultural perspectives, as an art form and as a creative and responsive means to address the material world, for both art and non-art students, in diverse teaching and learning situations.

Candidates must be able to teach ceramics concepts, skills and processes to support a range of ceramics-based forms of expression, including functional ceramics, ceramic sculpture, mixed media, and emerging art forms.  Preference will be given to candidates who have significant experience with and the ability to teach an additional 3D art medium.  Candidates must be prepared to teach drawing and three-dimensional design fundamentals, as well as visual literacy, art history, and broader cultural contexts relative to Ceramics.  Further, candidates must be able to speak and write effectively about their own work and that of others, and must be prepared to actively support students to develop critical thinking, writing, and assessment skills.  Finally, they must be prepared to offer critical support to students pursuing work in a range of 2D and 3D media.

Evergreen organizes its curriculum through coordinated interdisciplinary studies (rather than through departments and courses).  Team-taught interdisciplinary “programs” occupy students full time, over multiple quarters.  Faculty on teaching teams enjoy a high degree of freedom to determine the subject matter, emphases, pace, classroom strategies and modes of evaluation in these programs.  In some years, faculty teach students working close to their own discipline at a variety of experience levels; in other years they join faculty from diverse disciplines to develop a theme-based curriculum. In keeping with this teaching and learning model, ideal candidates for this position will demonstrate engagement with one or more disciplines outside of the visual arts and in different social, cultural, or environmental arenas, through creative work, teaching, or research.  We encourage those who have had experience with students from underrepresented populations to apply.

Minimum Qualifications:

• M.F.A. degree;
• Demonstrated experience teaching ceramic arts at the college level;
• Experience teaching three-dimensional art forms and design;
• The ability to work effectively with students on writing; and
• Demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching in an interdisciplinary context.

In addition to teaching, faculty are expected to advise and mentor students and participate in Evergreen’s system of shared governance. Through their participation in shared governance, faculty play a significant role in most aspects of how the college is run.

Website link for more detailed information: http://www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring/jobs/ceramicsfaculty12.htm

Evergreen State College is a progressive, public liberal arts and sciences college located in Olympia, Washington, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.