Monthly Archives: June 2010

A few more calls for artistic submissions, various media and topics requested

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CALL FOR WEARABLE ART SUBMISSIONS
The 2011 Wearable Art Awards invites artists and designers to submit application packages for original garments to be included in the event’s performances and exhibition. $5,000 CDN in prize money will be awarded. Presented by the Port Moody Arts Centre Society, the Wearable Art Awards encourage artists of all mediums to submit evocative, imaginative and thought provoking creations for the human body. Please see our web site for call for entry details at: http://www.wearableartawards.com/call_for_entry.php
 
A SHOW OF HEADS
A thematic exhibition based on the portrayal and interpretation of the human head to be held at the Limner Gallery, November 4-27, 2010. Open for entry to all artists working in any media. $2600 in publication awards. For prospectus send SASE (or online or email) to: SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534 OR http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/head.htm OR slowart@aol.com
 
CALL FOR ART ABOUT JESUS
The purpose of this contest is to show and/or write about your experience with an imaginary Jesus, how you came to know that he wasn’t the real thing, and how your life has changed now that you have a better understanding of who Jesus is. Create an 8.5 x 11 drawing (or even a painting or sketch or a printed computer illustration) that illustrates your experience with an imaginary Jesus. OR Create a video clip between 3 to 5 minutes long that depicts your experience with an imaginary Jesus. Grand prize includes a FREE Amazon Kindle, Apple IPod products, and a free trip to Portland, Oregon to meet Matt Mikalatos, an amazing new author who is being compared to C.S. Lewis and Kurt Vonnegut. (All prizes are real, not imaginary. We promise). For more information and to enter the contest: http://www.MyImaginaryJesus.com
 
CALL FOR ART ABOUT CANCER
THE ONE THING I LEARNED FROM CANCER: Lived Experience Stories from Survivors and Eye Witnesses of the big C… Open call for poetry, writing, rants, words, line drawings, notes, jpegs of found objects, artifacts of process or other imagery that tells the story about the one thing and the big C and your lived experience. Selected works will be memorialized in a book. Entry fee. Contact: http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-black-hut/281609265356?ref=ts OR comeknowing@theblackhut.com

Further varied and sundry calls for art submissions

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NATIONAL CALL FOR FIGURES & FACES THEMED ART
August 6 – 26, 2010. Open to all artists who can drop off or ship accepted work. JPG submissions only. All media except film, video & installation. Juror: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California. Awards: 1st – $500, 2nd – $250, 3rd – $100. For more information and online entry form: Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California OR 650-321-3891 OR http://www.PacificArtLeague.org OR gallery@pacificartleague.org
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS ABOUT DEATH AND MEMORIALIZATION
The I-Park Foundation (www.i-park.org), a not-for-profit international arts community in E. Haddam, CT (USA), is seeking proposals from the following disciplines that re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death, memory and memorialization: Music/Sound Sculpture, Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture, Theater/Choreography/Performance Art, Landscape/Garden Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture. Those invited to execute their physical, performance or music/sound sculpture pieces for the Thanatopolis Exhibition in October 2010 will receive a creative fee of $2,000 plus a budget for travel, materials, incidental expenses. “Paper projects” will receive a creative fee of $700. No application fee. Overview: http://www.i-park.org/Thanatopolis2010_FAQ.pdf OR http://www.i-park.org/MusicandSound.html OR thanatopolis@gmail.com
 
CALL FOR LOW TECH PHOTOGRAPHY
This call is open to all subjects and styles of photography that include a low tech means of image making or printing. This includes, but is not limited to; toy, Holga and Diana cameras, Pinhole, Wet Plate Collodian, Photograms, Callotypes, Cyanotypes, Polaroid and other traditional darkroom processes. Over $1500 in cash and awards. Entry fee. Questions: 970-224-1010 OR http://www.c4fap.org
 
CALL FOR BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
What does “black and white” mean to contemporary photographers in the digital age? When Robert Frank made this observation, black-and-white film and silver prints were photography’s most commonly used materials. Nearly a half century later they are approaching “alternative media” status. Or are they? Are the implications and meanings of black and white still central to photography’s unique nature as a visual medium? Submissions to this juried exhibition are limited only by your imagination and your photographic eye. Cash prizes. Entry fee. Submitting Your Entries: http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/exhibit-competitions.php

More international calls for submissions

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STRANGE FIGURATIONS ART EXHIBITION
A thematic exhibition open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations. Open to all forms of new and unusual figurative styles from the realist to the surreal and visionary. Open to all media. 72″ maximum dimension. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, September 1 – 25, 2010. National magazine publication awards. For prospectus send SASE to (or online or email): SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534 OR http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/figure.htm OR slowart@aol.com
 
NATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION
Eleventh Annual WILL’S CREEK SURVEY (Sept. 11 – Oct. 9, 2010). Best of Show 2-D $1250, Best of Show 3-D $1250, Awards $5,500+. Juror: Eric C. Shiner – Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Two jpegs entries on CD, $25. Contact or download entry form: Allegany Arts Council, 52 Baltimore St, Cumberland MD 21502 OR 301-777-2787 OR http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org OR arts@allconet.org
 
CALL FOR FEATURED ARTISTS ART BOOK
Artists are invited to submit material for selection so as to be included in “Featured Artists” Vol. II. “Featured Artists” is a series of art books, which offers artists a new and effective way of introducing their work to a considerable international audience of art professionals. It is a daring attempt to feature several contemporary artists in an overview, a book which will be a resource for galleries, museums, artists, art collectors and dealers who constantly seek for new talents and trends in the art community. Every nomination is based entirely on the merit of the work submitted for selection. Selected artists will have to pay an editorial fee. “Featured Artists” distribution is made internationally through large book wholesalers and e-shops, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and more. The book is also distributed to over 1200 top galleries, museums, curators, art consultants in the U.S and in Europe. More info: http://www.modernartcom.com/featured_artists.html OR artist@modernartcom.com
 

Two calls for art submissions, San Jose’s Kaleid Gallery and San Francisco’s Altered Barbie show

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Two Buck Tuesdays @ KALEID Gallery in San Jose

TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge.

The TBT Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into 3 hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you’ll carry with you all month long til the next one!…
 
We want to invite you to participate by submitting your art for this great event. It’s an opportunity to get your work and your name out there to new fans that appreciate the work and the amazing affordable price. All TBT art is 4″ x 6″ or smaller, we suggest 6-8 pieces, all your contact info should be on the back, works are priced at $2 and you keep all the proceeds.

You can drop off your work anytime at KALEID Gallery Tuesday thru Friday, Noon – 7pm or Saturday Noon – 5pm before the next scheduled TWO BUCK Tuesday event (3rd Tuesday of every month.)

Email us with any questions at info@KALEIDgallery.com

 

The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition, 2010
Romancing the Barbie

A CALL TO ARTISTS: This year San Francisco, Barbie and Ken are re-doing it, re-using it, and re-inventing it all over again!  A Date with Barbie!
Sign up and Payment is done through the web site, click HERE.  You can sign up now!

Categories include: 3-dimensional Barbie’s, Mixed media, Photographs, Paintings, Performance-art, Print making, Film & Video, Spoken word, Fashion, Panels, Quilts, New Media. All submissions must interpret, comment on, or criticize what Barbie or Ken mean to you.
Dolls that are acceptable are: Barbie and Barbie like dolls, Christie, Courtney, Gillian, Kayla, Midge, Ken and Ken like dolls, Raquelle,Skipper, Tia, etc. Works not including an “Altered” Doll will not be considered for this show.

Altered Barbie registration Deadline: July 31st, 2010 Please remit all information to the web site.  All Artists will be informed of their entry to the show by August 7th, 2010.
Entry fee….

ALSO- there’s a call for curators on the site…

http://alteredbarbie.com/about-us/altered-barbie-call-artists-2010

 

Call for Artwork for a San Jose Sempervirens Fund charitable benefit

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Call for Artists in all mediums to donate a piece to be auctioned at Take Back Your Forest Benefit. The benefit will be Friday July 9th at 8pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose, California. All proceeds will go to Sempervirens Fund. It is a fund to save the Redwoods. For more info please visit this site: http://www.takebackyourforest.com/event.html
If you want to donate your art please contact Kimy Martinez at kimy@pacbell.net. Thank you!

Super Arrow Magazine seeks written and visual artwork submissions

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issue 3 of Super Arrow is looking to gather.
http://superarrow.blogspot.com/

We’d like to welcome you to submit your writing and art for publication in our online journal for creative experiments. The journal was originally conceived as a first cousin several times removed from movements like OULIPO, which is to say, process-informed, stretching, and connected to a collaborative/creative community. Please read past issues to have an idea of our aesthetic and project, but by all means please avoid feeling constricted by same.

Super Arrow is published twice a year, with a Spring/Summer issue and a Fall/Winter issue.

We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Please see our online submissions guidelines for genre-specific notes. In addition, we’re often interested in our readers committing to an “assignment” (i.e., prompt) – Issue 3’s assignment, TOGETHER, NOW, is all about collaboration.

If you have a work that doesn’t seem to quite fit with what we’ve yet described, but you still think it’s kismet – a critical essay, perhaps – please write us a note describing your project.

E-mail submissions and/or questions and/or…
<superarrowfliestrue(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

More compiled Theano’s Day posts

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Theresa Ramseyer’s post on Heloise, Hildegard, and Mary Wollstonecraft: http://controls-lady.insanejournal.com/2606.html

Sarah Melton’s post on intellectual and political activist Simone Weil: http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-melton/women-in-philosophy-simone-weil/439058716084

Amar Chaudhary’s post on Theano, Anna Maria von Schurman, and Mary Wollstonecraft: http://www.ptank.com/blog/2010/06/theanos-day/

University webpage on women in logic and mathematics: http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/EMAT6680.Folders/Dickerson/women/women.html