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Open Calls for Artists

ArtConnect

We’re on the lookout for exceptional new artistic talents from across the globe to highlight on ArtConnect in 2021. 

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Naz Cuguoğlu

David Reves

Radu Sticlea

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Elinor Sahm

Ayin Es

Lisa McCleary

Dorsey Kaufmann

Anne-Marie Giroux

Laura Hart Newlon

Artists to Watch 2021

La Fenice Art Gallery

OPEN CALLS FOR ARTIST

We currently have 3 open calls:​

1. Group On-Line Exhibition:

"HAPPINESS-SHARED", (emerging and mid-career artists) exhibition period: 

30 October - 29 November2021. Deadline: 26 October​

2. Personal On-Line Exhibition: from 30 October 2021 exhibition period onward.

3. Artist Residency in Koh Phangan Island, Thailand. See page.

You can APPLY for our Open Calls by sending us your introduction letter, CV and 5 - 10 photos of your work to lafeniceart@yandex.com.

​We will give priority to women artists, (but will not exclude men artists).

Opened to mid-career and emerging artists. In Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Video, Performance, Sound, Writing.

This is an opportunity for all those artists who are already international artists or for all those who have the ambition to work internationally-globally or have a wish to exhibit and create in the booming parts of Asia...

1.

"HAPPINESS-SHARED", (emerging and mid-career artists) exhibition period: 
30 October - 29 November 2021.
Deadline: 26 October
THEME: Your best biggest masterpieces that made you happy when you created them and you are proud of them, and you want to SHARE THAT HAPPINESS with the rest of the world.

Categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles.

We look for the artists who work alone without assistants, who's work has intimacy, that we can feel the person behind it, the touch and the closeness, someone's hand, that individual touch. As communication now days is all on the phone and the Internet, we want to reach out for something more personal.

We will give priority to woman artists with at least B.A. Fine Art Degree who had a solid track record of working hard and exhibiting over the years. Who's work is in important collections and who show that they are here to stay.

We will also give priority to women artists that belong to more than one culture due to parents, birth, migration, travel...

Everybody can apply. If selected, there are some exhibition fees, listed below that you will be asked to pay in the 3 days after our positive answer. If your works are sold, the fees will be returned to you. In the opposite case we will donate them to charity, governmental art institutions in Asia that we support. Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and numerous.

-up to 500 x 700 cm 29 Euros for first work, 25 Euros for second work, 19 Euros for third work, 10 Euros for the 4th and 5th work.

We will do an extensive global promotion of your exhibition on our web site, social media and YouTube, offering your works to a huge global audience and will still be selling your exhibition on our site until 3 months after your exhibition is over (negotiable).

We will make a catalog of your exhibition that will sell on Blurb.com. The catalog will outlive the exhibition.

We ask 20% commission from our sold works.

You don't need to send us your artwork to Hong Kong. You can keep them at home. When they sell, we will send you the courier to pick them up. You will only need to pack them well. You will be paid 30 days after the collector receives your work.

Application fee is 15 Euros. Please, use our email lafeniceart@yandex.com for payments with PayPal.  The fee will be donated to Charities that promote Art in South East Asia.

2.
Solo Show (emerging and mid-career artists) for exhibitions

from 30 October 2021 onward. Online.

DEADLINE: 26 October

Categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Video, Performance, Sound.

We are looking for the artists who work alone without assistants, who's work has intimacy, that we can feel the person behind it, the touch and the closeness, someone's hand, that individual touch. As communication now days is all on the phone and the Internet, we want to reach out for something more personal.
We will give priority to woman artists with at least B.A. Fine Art Degree who had a solid track record of working hard and exhibiting over the years. Who's work is in important collections and who show that they are here to stay.

You can be of any age as long as you are an emerging artist.

We will also give priority to women artists that belong to more than one culture due to parents, birth, migration, travel...
Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and to those artists who choose longer exhibition periods.

Everybody can apply. If selected, there are some exhibition fees, listed below that you will be asked to pay in the 3 days after our positive answer. If your works are sold and we (the gallery) make least Euros 1500 for a 1 month show, the fees will be returned to you. In the opposite case we will donate them to charity, governmental art institutions in Asia that we support. Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and numerous.

1. a one month exhibition is Euros550

We will do an extensive global promotion of your exhibition on our web site, social media and YouTube, offering your works to a huge global audience and will still be selling your exhibition on our site until 3 months after your exhibition is over (negotiable).

We will make a catalog of your exhibition that will sell on Blurb.com. The catalog will outlive the exhibition.

We ask 20% commission from our sold works.

You don't need to send us your artwork to Hong Kong. You can keep them at home. When they sell, we will send you the courier to pick them up. You will only need to pack them well. You will be paid 30 days after the collector receives your work.

Application fee is 15 Euros. Please, use our email lafeniceart@yandex.com for payments with PayPal.  The fee will be donated to Charities that promote Art in South East Asia.

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OPEN CALL: HAPPINESS-SHARED Group Online Exhibition for Women Artists

Envision Arts

Still Life II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works depicting a still life arrangement. All genre’s and art styles accepted. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 

HOW TO ENTER
Please read the full guidelines and terms before completing the application process. Please review the dates and deadlines at the bottom of this page. Entries can only be submitted online via the website. A separate application must be filled out for each exhibit.    
NUMBER OF ENTRIES + APPLICATION FEE
Each artist is limited to six (6) images per submission. There is a $10 (USD) non-refundable/non-transferable fee, for up to six (6) images. Payments must be submitted online at the time of application. Deadline to submit work is October 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM CST.

Still Life II Art Exhibit

Amber II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works that exemplify the color orange. All submitted entries should be at least 50% comprised of the color, range, tint or shade of orange. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 

Amber II Art Exhibit

DigitalArt4Climate

The DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition, organized by IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the UN-Habitat youth programme, Unique Network, Social Alpha Foundation,  Exquisite Workers, HubZine and Palette69 wants to inspire and promote climate action through the power of culture and technology and empower the uptake of digital innovation by the creative community in an accessible and meaningful way.

HUMANITY CHALLENGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

We welcome you to submit a creation that embodies your personal interpretation of the ’humanity challenged by climate change’ theme and to reimagine the impact creators can have on the world and on healing of our Mother Earth. In terms of visual storytelling we are envisioning 3 sub-themes: Storm, Haven and Angel. 
These are just a few ideas and should in no way limit the artist into how the theme can be represented.

NFT PLATFORM

The DigitalArt4Climate’s features include – based on its use of the Unique Network NFT platform -  full proof-of-stake (PoS) infrastructure with Polkadot and Kusama (a sustainable blockchain and approach to NFTs), decentralized media storage, credit-card & crypto payments, automatic collaborator splits and payments on primary and secondary markets, customizable royalties, and the ability to create positive impact and undertake the climate change action.

The selected Artworks which enter the public voting of the Art Competition and the COP26 collection will automatically enter the auction in summer 2022 on the NFT marketplace and will receive a share of 15 % of the net revenues or gross proceeds from the auction (NFT sales) on the primary market if there are any. DigitalArt4Climate will promote the winning Artists’ names. Any remaining proceeds will benefit youth climate action projects as well as global technical and institutional Action for Climate Empowerment support infrastructure development, including World Environment Situation Room Youth engagement programme. Creative direction may be provided to the Artist for final release on the website and the DigitalArt4Climate public voting.

Artists whose artwork will be shortlisted for the Art Competition by the curators, but who do not make it into the initial DigitalArt4Climate COP26 collection, will nevertheless have the opportunity to have prime-access to the DigitalArt4Climate NFT marketplace platform during its first months live (summer 2022).

UNITED NATIONS DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition

Fabrica

The In Between Gallery is a temporary exhibition platform for Fabrica’s picture window in central Brighton. This exciting initiative is now in its fifth year. 
 
Fabrica is partnering with Spectrum Photographic, Photo Fringe and Loupe Magazine to present excellent photographic work by UK-based artists who consider themselves to be early to mid-career. 
 
The judging panel will be made up of our partners as well as being joined by photographer and curator Ibrahim Azab, currently exhibiting in the In Between Gallery and independent curator Cairo Clarke.


About
There is no theme to address but artists are asked to submit a work that will function well within the context of a large format print set within the window frame.. Measurements are approximately: 270cm x 225.5cm. 
 
The window faces directly onto Duke Street, one of Brighton’s busiest pedestrianised quarters, located between The Lanes and Churchill Square, two very popular shopping destinations. The main city centre pubs and clubs are also nearby so the street is normally busy into the evening and throughout the night.
 
The image would be exhibited from early December 2021 – mid-February 2022 when there is no large-scale exhibition in Fabrica’s main space.  
 
One artist/artist group and one image will be selected.


Open Call: Photography 

Cine El Patio Film

Cine al patio presents a monthly selection of short films in the unique outdoor setting of La Casa del Árbol Cultural Centre in the heart of Buenos Aires. Our screenings take place in a relaxed atmosphere, catered to an audience eager to experience high-level artistic content from a variety of culture and genres.

We are interested in receiving entries from all manner of fields, be it fiction or documentary, experimental or narrative, live-action or animated, or perhaps a combination of these.

The winner of each month's audience vote will win a digital poster that has been created especially by our award-winning graphic-design team.

The aim of Cine al patio is to ultimately connect audiences through a shared love of cinema, to reconcile people through the power of stories told over a mere matter of minutes.

We very much hope that you’ll share that experience with us.

Cine al Patio: Open call for Film and Video

Chromart Magazine

Chromart Magazine is an online publication with international recognition that supports emerging artists to get the attention they deserve. We now invite artists to submit their work for our next issue.
We aim to offer all creative people, regardless of the stage of their careers, the opportunity to submit their work and ensure that each of their submissions will be selected for our next Chromart online magazine.
If your work is selected for our magazine, you will have your name and your social media account included with your work. If your artwork is not chosen for the magazine, you will be featured on our website.

Emily

Hi There! 

We are producing an immersive experience and searching for a CGI / video artist to join our team to create content for projection mapping in a large environment, most likely a dome. We have a production team that will be able to assist in adapting the content for the projections if necessary.  

The photo attached (link below)  is a screenshot from our current video. We are interested in works that relate to this, are generative, and also flow into new ideas. 

 Our timeline for the project is 3 months.  

 This is a paid job, please send some samples / links to your work, and current availability.  

 Looking forward to hearing from all of you. 

x Emily. 

Link to photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0JT2IQ6yDjB1MOfcpOc5FOikWkelXYt/view?usp=sharing  

OPEN CALL | CGI / VIDEO ARTISTS | IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

Lucca Biennale

LUBICA - Lucca Biennale Cartasia is the world's biggest art event dedicated to paper art. The Biennale takes place every two years, in 2022 it will be held from the 31st of July until September the 25th. The Biennale is looking for emerging and affirmed artists to work in Lucca, Tuscany, during an artistic residency in July 2022. This call for entries aims to select artworks that involve the use of paper and its by-products to show how versatile this material is: artists that work with cardboard and paper are encouraged to participate in the contest with a challenging and innovative project for a monumental sculpture. The selected artworks will be exhibited in the most popular squares of the city during the event and will  then become part of the Biennale's permanent exhibition. 

"The White Page" is the theme of the XI edition
 "White page" has a double-sided message: could represent endless opportunities and at the same time the anxiety of it all, the possibility of a brighter future and a leap of faith into the unknown, a white page is a bridge between the past and the future. 

Open Call: Lucca Biennale Outdoor

ApuliaAste

ApuliaAste is pleased to present the 1st edition of RenovArt | 100 Artists for the Future, the curatorial project dedicated to the best national and international artistic talents.
The curatorial project will be presented in prestigious exhibition spaces in Puglia and Basilicata (Italy) from November 2021 to April 2022 and is part of the famous celebrations for the 25 years since UNESCO recognition of the city of Alberobello, which will last one year, starting from 6 December 2021 until 6 December 2022.   
Furthermore, during the exhibition at the Alberobello site, a competition, promoted by ApuliaAste, to select the best work exhibited for the event, evaluated by experts at national level, which will be donated to Municipality of Alberobello, as an important contribution to the city to enhance and promote the knowledge of Contemporary Artists. In this case, the artist, winner of the competition, will make available a new work to be exhibited during the events and the auction, in order to continue the exhibition itinerary for which he was selected.   
In this climate of annual UNESCO celebrations, the project RenovArt becomes a springboard and an unmissable opportunity for every emerging national and international artist. In fact, the artists, who will be selected to participate in the project, will have the great opportunity to present their works during:

- 1 exhibition in Alberobello, from 25 November to 10 December 2021, during the celebrations of the 25th UNESCO recognition, at a prestigious location in the historic center
- 1 exhibition in Matera, January 2022, at a historic and prestigious location in the Sassi
- 1 exhibition in Turi, February 2022, at an important historical location 
- 1 online auction on the portal Bidspirit in March / April 2022

Participation in the project is limited. The selection of the participants will be carried out by a special judging commission of experts, curators, art historians and art professionals, which will evaluate the applications received, selecting them according to historical-artistic criteria of quality, originality and uniqueness of the works, in order to include the artists in the exhibition for a maximum of 100 participants.
At the end of the evaluation of the applications, ApuliaAste will publish the list of artists participating in the project on the site (www.apuliaaste.com) and social networks. 

The participation provides a registration fee only for selected artists.