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Artists to Watch Winter '22

ABOUT:
“Small Matter” is a national juried exhibition hosted by the 437Co Art Gallery, Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. The exhibition is open to all US-based artists 18 years of age and older working in 2D and 3D media. Entries must be original works created within the last five years, and not previously exhibited at the CMU Art Gallery. Artists may submit up to three works with a $35 entry fee. Accepted works will be exhibited at 437Co in downtown Grand Junction, CO from Nov. 28, 2022, to Jan. 26, 2023. The 437Co Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the exhibition will be juried by Pattie Chalmers, artist, and educator at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale. There will be $1,000 in cash awards given to Best of Show ($500), 1st Place ($300), and 2nd Place ($200).  The BEST of the show will have a solo exhibition opportunity in the CMU 437Co Art Gallery in Fall 2023 or 2024.

JUROR: Pattie Chalmers (www.pattiechalmers.com) received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba in Canada, and her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

She has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and thirty-three states and over the past ten years has had work in over ninety exhibitions. Chalmers is a Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has taught at SIUC since 2006.

Professor Chalmers has been awarded two McKnight Residencies at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN, and in 2020 she received an Illinois Art Council Professional Development Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Finalist Award.  

PUBLICITY:
437Co may use images of artwork accepted into the exhibition for publicity purpose. Artists agree to allow images of their art for educational, publicity and archival purposes.

INSURANCE AND LOAN AGREEMENT:
Artists must insure their work during transit to and from the gallery, and for the duration of the exhibition. The CMU 437Co gallery is not liable for any damage caused during transit to and from gallery.

All works must be accompanied by a signed loan agreement. The loan agreement must arrive by Nov. 12, 2022. The loan agreement will be provided upon acceptance of work.

SHIPPING AND DELIVERY:
Artists are responsible for all shipping and delivery costs to and from the gallery. Works should be shipped to arrive only during the “window to receive works” unless otherwise arranged. Works must be carefully packed and shipped in a reusable box, container, including packing materials and a pre-paid return shipping label. All works will be returned in original packing materials and box. Works need to be received no later than Nov. 12, 2022. All hand-deliveries must be picked up in person at the close of the show.
 

IMPORTANT TIMELINE:

Entry Deadline: Oct. 10, 2022
Notification of acceptance by email: Oct. 24, 2022
Window to receive works: Nov. 1 – Nov. 12, 2022
Works Delivered in person at the 437Co Art Gallery: Nov. 7 – Nov. 12, 12:00-5:00 pm
(437 Colorado Ave. Grand Junction, CO 81501)
Deadline to receive works: Nov. 12, 2022
Exhibition opens: Nov. 28, 2022
Opening Reception and Juror’s talk: Dec. 2, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Closes: Jan. 26, 2023
Return Shipping or Pick-up for works: Jan. 30 – Feb. 10, 2023


Small Matters

Oleg Beshentsev

UPWARD Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online competition and exhibit, Atmosphere.

“Without atmosphere, a picture is nothing,” said the Rembrandt. But what if the atmosphere itself is the main focus of the work? And the rest of the artistic means are ways to convey it.
Share your vision of how to let the viewer with emotions that they will remember as the unique atmosphere of a artwork.

Acceptable mediums include all traditional art media (e.g., oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, gouache, egg tempera, pen and ink; drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, scratch board, markers, metal point), digital painting, arts and crafts (beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).

All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at upwardgallery.com.

Atmosphere | Open Call

The changing nature of armed conflict since the beginning of the 20th century has led to a significant increase in the volume and intensity of the social consequences of war on the civilian population. Children are often impacted strongly, and this is particularly pronounced for children associated with the enemy. Among those, Children Born of War, fathered by foreign/enemy or occupation soldiers or peacekeepers and born to local mothers, are especially vulnerable to a range of adversities. They are frequently born out of wedlock, are almost always raised without fathers, and their position as a child ‘of the enemy or occupier’ and often as a child of mixed ethnical parentage, leads to stigmatisation and discrimination.

These challenges and gaps in the knowledge about their biological father affect their identity

formation processes. Despite these challenges and the taboo associated with their provenance, their identities are varied. They are not merely, as has been suggested in research and policy making, secondary victims of armed conflict, but they often see themselves as bridge builders between previously inimical countries or kinship groups. This multi-facetted set of experiences is at the core of this call for projects that visualise – through performance-based engagement – the challenges and opportunities of CBOWs in postconflict societies.

With our OPEN CALL we invite artists of the independent performing arts throughout Europe to develop performative works and make them publicly visible in a theatrical process that also involves audience participation. Three selected artistic projects will be presented publicly at the final symposium in April/May 2023 together with a symposium addressing questions about performing arts as a way of communicating scientific topics and findings to the public. Academic partners of the project are University of Leipzig and the University of Birmingham; the artistic network partner is the regional association for the independent performing arts in Saxony (Landesverband der Freien Theater in Sachsen e.V. / LFTS).

OPEN CALL

We are looking for projects that engage Children Born of War (persons who were fathered by foreign/enemy/occupation soldiers and born to local mothers in 20th and 21st century conflicts), and co-develop artistic, performance-based concepts that translate scientific knowledge about and experiences of Children Born of War to raise awareness about the social consequences of armed conflicts, including conflict-related sexual violence and children born of CRSV and consensual relations between foreign soldiers and local women. Projects and concepts should focus on both audience development and audience engagement; participatory approaches including the integration of CBOW into the transformation in artistic projects, e.g. cast or the rehearsal and or post-performance activities are encouraged, as are concepts that include evaluations of performance art and/or participatory approaches at the intersection of academic research and artistic dissemination.

IMPORTANT DATES
November 2022

Online Workshop involving actors/directors from the selected projects, Children born of War from different settings as well as the academic and artistic partners of the Call.

April/May 2023

Presentation of the projects and symposium on performing arts as a way of communicating scientific topics and findings to the public in Leipzig (Germany).

Children Born of War: Research-Based Performance

Johan Lundin

We invite you to send applications to this year’s Open Call at Galleri CC. In total, we will show the works of 2-4 professional artists. 

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 
 20 october 2022 (midnight) 
 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝: 
 18 november - 18 december 2022 OPEN CALL 
21 december 2022 Kortfilmsdagen  

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲: 
✅ The open call is for professional artists. 
✅ Artists working with video, video installations, video performance or artworks related to time based visual media can apply. 
✅ Artists from all countries. 

 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲: 
✅Deadline: October 20th 2022 (midnight) 
✅Send a link to a portfolio with a maximum of two existing artworks that can be presented in the exhibition. The portfolio should be sent as a web link to a web hosted PDF, web hosted video, or website. 
 ✅The works should be clearly marked with title, year, length, size and a short description of the work (idea, concept, thoughts and other relevant information, as well as special installation requirements if needed). 
✅Please also send us your name, year/place of birth, website, a short artist statement and CV. Send your application to: opencall.gallericc@gmail.com

 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
 ✅ The date of the exhibition is 18/11- 21/12 2022. 
✅ The exhibition is curated by Bahareh Mirhadi and Johan Lundin. 
✅ Galleri CC will pay each artist an artist fee according to KRO - The Artists National Organization’s MU-agreement.
✅ Galleri CC’s space consists of one white room with large windows facing the street, a tiled room (the gallery used to be a bakery) and a basement that is painted black and which is most often used for screenings as we have a projector with speakers installed with two benches. 
✅ Galleri CC will produce posters, flyers and an exhibition text.  We look forward to receiving your application!

 www.gallericc.se https://www.instagram.com/galleri_cc/

Payed Exhibiiton for artists working with video

The Uncoiled 

The Uncoiled Magazine is open for submissions for their 4th magazine issue.
For this, we are calling to all artists who want to contribute and have their work published. 
The theme for this issue is 'Change', in whatever form it may come, whatever it means to you, what you feel when you think of change, what emotions arise, and how it makes you feel. 
Art in any form and medium is welcome (painting, drawing, poetry, literature, photography, video, sound, illustration, mixed media, etc.).

The magazine for now is only an online magazine, but we are planning to make this issue also into a print one. 

Deadline is the 30th of November 2022.

 

The Uncoiled is an upcoming online literary and art magazine with writers and artists from all over the world. 

The Uncoiled Magazine Issue 4 Submission


For more than 50 years, the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) has hosted the nation’s premier exhibition of African American art. This annual show presents more than 100 works of art from professional and emerging Black artists from across the United States.  

Applications to the 2023 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition are now being accepted. Submit your work!

Medium  
Contemporary works created in any visual medium are accepted.  



2023 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition

It is free to aplly but we do charge a 50 EUR fee for each accepted submission.

"The Art of the Poem"

Pirate: Contemporary Art announces its’ Open Entry 2022 juried art show. Pirate has long been recognized for its consistent presentation of cutting-edge art. Founded over 35 years ago, this eclectic, alternative gallery space can always be relied on to present the most audacious contemporary artworks coming out of Denver.

 Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lash has organized a wide range of exhibitions including Keltie Ferris: *O*P*E*N*; BRUCE CONNER: FOREVER AND EVER (co-curated with Dean Otto); the retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; and Swoon: Thalassa. In 2017 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organizedthe acclaimed exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. From 2008 to 2014 Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Lash currently serves as Vice President on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has been a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a member of the curatorial advisory council for the international triennial Prospect New Orleans. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.

Important Dates:
Oct 8 - CAFE submission deadline
Oct 22 - Artists Notified
Nov 4 - Drop Off *
Nov 4 - Shipped Delivery Date *
Nov 18- Opening Reception
Nov 18 – Dec 11 - Show Dates
Dec 11 - Pick Up Date (after 5pm) 

*Drop Off 
Selected work must be dropped off at

Pirate: Contemporary Art (during gallery hours)
7130 W. 16thAve. Lakewood, CO 80214
Fri – 6-10pm   Sat – 12-5pm   Sun – 12-5pm


Open Entry 2022

Thank you for your interest in the 2023 Winter Park Paint Out. Each year, the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens (“the Polasek” or “Museum”) hosts 24 artists during the last full week of April for our signature fundraising event.

The Winter Park Paint Out is one of the oldest plein air festivals in the state of Florida. During its 14 year history, 90 different artists have created over 3500 original paintings capturing the beauty and charm of our unique Central Florida community. Of those paintings, approximately 1250 have been purchased by our patrons, sponsors and supporters for a cumulative sales total of approximately $1,000,000.

The Winter Park Paint Out is a JURIED entry event. We encourage all plein air artists to apply and welcome both local, out-of-state, and international participants. Select artists from the 2022 Paint Out will be asked to return based on their number of sales. The remaining spaces are open to any other artists wishing to return in 2023 or to participate for the first time. To be considered for one of these open positions, please complete our online application. There is no application fee.

Deadline for entry is Friday, November 4, 2022, 12:00 Midnight ET.

ALL artists must submit a completed application, along with three recent plein air images (within the last 2 years and no studio work please). In addition, each artist agrees to abide by the event’s Terms and Conditions of Participation.

15TH ANNUAL WINTER PARK PAINT OUT

Alyssa Milano-Hightower

Want an opportunity to feature your work in a gallery exhibit. Our Forsberg Gallery is the perfect fit! The exhibit space is approximately 100 ft of running wall space. Walls are painted off white and constructed of drywall backed with plywood. Three moveable temporary walls are available for more wall space and differing configurations. Grey Terrazzo flooring throughout. Various pedestal sizes are available for displaying 3D work.

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