Opportunities for juried shows, grants or scholarships
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Due: June 1, 2015
SPESC welcomes proposals for the 2015 SPE South Central Regional Conference:
Spheres of Influence
University of Oklahoma and OKC Museum of Art
September 24 – 26, 2015
Conference Chair: Alex Emmons
Proposals can be for individual presentations, collaborators, workshops and panels from member photographers, writers,
educators, curators, historians, professionals and students. Topics are not required to be theme-based, and may include
but are not limited to, image-making, history, contemporary theory and criticism, multidisciplinary approaches and new
technologies, and presentations of work in photography, film, video, performance and installation.
Requirements:
1/2 to 1 page abstract, preferably in pdf form. Include title, AV needs, space concerns and CV for each presenter.
Minimum of 5 image(s) but no more than 10, if important to the proposal, sized to 1200 pixels on the long side at 100
ppi and saved as a jpg as Lastname_#.jpg. If selected, you will be asked to submit a higher quality representative image
for the conference program
Please send proposals to:
okc2015spesc@yahoo.com no later than June 1st with “2015 SPESC Conference Proposal” as the subject.
Spheres of Influence
Oklahoma City rests at the intersection of many highways that cross the continental US. OKC is known for Boomers and
Sooners, sunsets, beauty queens, red dirt, tornado alley, and a capital with an oil derrick on site. The variety contained
promotes why the locality of Oklahoma City is the perfect place to explore how we identify and reflect on the many
guiding “forces” impacting our creative lives. All of us are affected by a variety of influences from history, culture,
identity, geography, politics, scientific discovery, mentors, and experience to name some. This conference hopes to
address how these spheres of influence impact us as artists, educators, and students and how this manifests in our
photography as discovery, investigations, and recording in our worlds.
The conference organizers look forward to seeing your proposals!
Due: May 4, 2015
Open Theme | SHOTS Magazine
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CALLS FOR WORK are open to all photographers internationally. All processes and techniques are welcomed. Color work will be reproduced in black & white. Please follow guidelines closely.
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Send up to 12 images. No entry form is required, but please enclose a letter (or word document if submitting online) that includes your name, address, email, titles/captions, website, and any other information pertinent to your submittal. There are three ways to submit work: online, on a CD, or original prints.
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Due: May 11, 2015
Alternative Processes | PhotoPlace Gallery
Juror: Amy Holmes George
Platinum, palladium, silver gelatin, mixed media, pinhole camera, plastic camera, collage, albumen, Daguerreotype, multiple exposure, cyanotype, salt print, photogravure, Van Dyke, tintype, photoresist… you get the idea.
Some alternative process, whether historic or thoroughly modern or both, should be at the heart of submitted work. Digital manipulation alone should not be essential to the aesthetic of the final image.
Amy Holmes George has agreed to jury this exhibition and we’re thrilled to have her eye. Amy will choose 40 photographs for exhibition in the gallery, and up to 35 additional for the gallery’s Online Annex. All 75 accepted photographs will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog.
About the Juror
Amy Holmes George is a teacher, fine art photographer, and President of the Texas Photographic Society. She has held teaching appointments at Baylor University, the University of North Texas, Collin College and Stephen F. Austin State University, with a special interest in instructing alternative photographic printing methods. Her dedication to Alternative Processes is evident by her co-founding “alt8”, an alternative processes group active in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Amy has exhibited throughout the U.S., as well as in Italy, England, France and China where her work has been featured in over 100 exhibitions. Her photography is held in the permanent collections of the Getty, The Kinsey Institute, and the Fratelli Alinari Museum.
Submission fee: $30 for five photographs, $7 for each additional photograph.
Due: June 1, 2015
Call for Proposals:
SPE welcomes presentation proposals for SPE’s 2016 National Conference, Constructed Realities, from member photographers, writers, educators, curators, historians and professionals from other fields.
Next year’s theme will address the aspects of myth, fantasy, and reality in photography and deconstruct rhetoric of what constitutes a photograph.
Topics are not required to be theme-based, and may include but are not limited to, imagemaking, history, contemporary theory and criticism, multidisciplinary approaches, new technologies, effects of media and culture, educational issues, funding, and presentations of work in photography, film, video, performance and installation.
Presentation Formats:
Graduate Student – short presentation of your own artistic work and a brief introduction to your graduate program (must be enrolled in graduate program at time of submission)
Imagemaker – presentation on your own artistic work
Lecture – presentation on historical topic, theory, or another artist’s work
Panel Discussion – active discussion among panelists (max 4), moderator and audience to discuss a chosen topic
Teaching & Learning – presentations, workshops, or demos that address educational issues, including teaching resources and strategies
Submission Deadline: JUNE 1, 2015, 11:59 PM EDT
Visit www.spenational.org for full details.
Due: May 13, 2015
Center Forward | The Center for Fine Art Photography
Juror: Hannah Glasgow
Juror:
Hamidah Glasgow is the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography. Ms. Glasgow is dedicated to the advancement of artist’s careers and has created a vibrant community of artists, gallerists and curators who collaborate to promote both emerging and established artists. The Center hosts 20 international juried, group and solo exhibitions in its three galleries annually. The Centers goal is to promote individual artists from around the world through our physical and online galleries, publications and various social media outlets including the Center’s blog, Perspectives.
Honors |Awards:
Juror’s Selection: $1,000.00
Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks
Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission for an upcoming call for entry.
For More Information about the Center Forward Call For Entries, click here
Call for Entry:
Due: March 30, 2015
Water | A Smith Gallery
Juror: Gayle Stevens
wa – ter : rain, tears, agua, springs, drink, rivers, wet, steam, flood, moisture, lakes, humidity, damp, soak, ocean, wash, aquatic, splash…
“The waterskiing bobble heads floated just on the surface. Belle sat on the gravelly shore, her young son sat in the lap of her new boyfriend, Chance, repeatedly asking why his Mommy’s car was in the lake.
Belle was a water baby. Her mother and her part-time astrologist sister set her on her watery path early, constantly reminding her of her Aquarian destiny: living in, around and with water. Being born on February fourteenth gave her her name. Her Grandmother, Belle Tran Ashcroft, a Vietnamese/French war bride was also born on Valentine’s Day in an art deco teak and brick house on a coffee, rubber and cashew plantation northwest of what was then Saigon.
She was a South Vietnamese water skiing champion. She met her future husband when he and his soldier buddies were skiing on “her” lake during a weekend of R and R in 1967. He was also raised on a plantation, in Mississippi.
Grandmother Belle spoke French fluently along with her native Vietnamese. She struggled always with English, easily moving herself to tears of frustration or amusement when trying to create english vowel sounds or recount a story of her youth. Sitting there by the lake, with her reasonably new automobile mostly submerged in the clear blue water, Belle looked down at the tears beading up on her tanned mid section, remembering Grandmother Belle trying to say the word fry…” from the story “Tow Rope” by Franklin Cincinnatus
Juror:
Gayle Stevens will be the juror for “water”. Ms. Stevens has worked in antiquarian photographic processes for over twenty years. Her chosen medium is wet plate collodion for its fluidity and individuality. She exhibits extensively across the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and China. Ms. Stevens received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She is an educator, speaker, juror, curator and an active member of the photographic community. Named one of the Critical Mass Top Fifty Photographers for 2010 and 2014, she received second place in the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards in 2011 and was named a finalist for the Clarence John Laughlin Award in 2012 and 2014. Her work has been featured in Fraction, Square, Shots, Diffusion, B + W Photography, South by Southeast and Fuzion magazines and in Inventing Reality, New Orleans Visionary Photography. North Light Press published a book of Stevens’ work, Calligraphy, in their 11 + 1 Signature series. Christopher James will feature her work in the third edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. Stevens’ work is widely collected and is part of the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Rockford Museum of Art and the Center for Fine Art Photography and recently the University of New Mexico Art Museum, among others. A member of the Posse photo collective, she divides her time shooting in Pass Christian, Mississippi and Downers Grove, Illinois, where she resides. Stevens is represented by Tilt Gallery, Catherine Couturier Gallery, and Gallery Kayafas and Paul Cava.
SUBMISSION | Guidelines:
Digital images should 1000 pixels on the longest side saved in JPEG format at 72 ppi. Each image should be labeled with consecutive numbers followed by your name, i.e. 1FirstName_LastName.jpg. The number should correspond with the number on the application form.
SUBMISSION | Online:
Fill out our online application to apply, send images, and make payment with Paypal. You will receive an email confirmation upon receiving the entry and payment. You can also fill and submit the online application, print out your confirmation email, and mail it with a check for your fees to the address below.
SUBMISSION | Mail:
Please prepare a submission form with your name, address, email address and phone number along with a list of the titles and printing process of each entry. The number of each title should correspond to the image number on the cd. CD’s and submission form should be mailed to:
A Smith Gallery
P O Box 175
Johnson City, TX 78636
The gallery will send an email confirmation upon receiving the entry and payment.
SUBMISSION | Entry Fee:
$30 for the first 5 images, $6 per each additional image.
ELIGIBILITY:
The competition is open to all photographers both professional and amateur working in all photographic mediums and styles. International entries are welcomed. Work that has been previously exhibited in an A Smith Gallery competition is not eligible.
PRINTING/MATTING/FRAMING | information:
The gallery offers printing, matting and framing services for images that are selected. If sending framed work, please use mats and frames that compliment your work and are appropriate in a gallery setting. Colored mats and prints on foam core are discouraged. All images should be ready to hang with wires. Gallery wraps are acceptable. If you have any questions regarding appropriate presentation please contact amanda@asmithgallery.com.
AWARDS | The awards are as follows:
SALES | The gallery will retain 40% of the sales price.
USE RIGHTS | Photographers retain full rights to their own images. The gallery will use the photographer’s images for publicity purposes as well as in the Blurb exhibition catalogue.
FOR MORE INFORMATION | amanda@asmithgallery.com
Due: April 1, 2015
AWARD-WINNING NON-PROFIT JURIED PUBLICATION
(publication + $2,000 in cash awards)
INPHA 4
4th International Photography Annual
An Award-winning Juried Annual Publication of Works of Contemporary Photography and other Photo-based Visual Art
$2000 in cash awards ($1200 first place)
All artists included in the project receive a free copy of the hardcover book.
INPHA is open to a very broad range of lens-based and photographic submissions. This project is not just for ‘photographers’ and ‘photography’ but also for anyone working creatively in a visual art (or design) field with work that incorporates the lens or photographic process in some significant way, including manipulated and mixed-media processes.
As with all Manifest projects, we are very open to learning about and publishing visual art that fits within this broad scope.
The competition and publication is open to any artist submitting original works of art or design created within the timeframe of 2012 – 2015. Professionals, novices, and students in ALL disciplines are encouraged to submit. For this call for submissions Manifest is eager to receive works in a wide range of types, including traditional, digital, and experimental photography, photo-collage, and other lens-based work. As with its other annual publications, Manifest is open to unexpected solutions, broad interpretation, and surprise. Works submitted must clearly feature the photographic or lens-based process as a primary, but not exclusive, characteristic.
*note that artists submitting time-based art (video, etc.) must realize that for the purpose of the publication only still imagery will be used to represent the project in print.
Submission deadline: April 1, 2015
Submit online: http://www.manifestgallery.org/inpha4
Learn more about past INPHA projects here: http://www.manifestgallery.org/inpha
Due: April 4, 2015
Unique by Nature | Juried Art Competition and Exhibition
McKinney Performing Arts Center
April 10 – April 25, 2015
Awards Reception April 10, 2015
Unique by Nature is hosted by the McKinney Performing Arts Center (City of McKinney), with help from the volunteers of the Arts and Music Guild. Sponsors include citizen leaders dedicated to the growth of the arts in McKinney.
This years submissions will be juried by a panel of four: Amy Rosenthal, Director of the MPAC; Linda Spina, Chair of the McKinney Arts Commission; Jake Dobscha (dobschastudio.com); and Sandra Doak (orisonsart.com). Prize winners will be chosen by this year’s judge, Mary Vernon, Professor of Art, MeadowsSchool of the Arts, Southern Methodist University (MaryVernon.com).
Cash and purchase prizes totaling $9000 will be distributed as follows:
ONE large scale work will be awarded the $6000.00 Purchase Prize, and will become part of the permanent public art collection of the McKinneyPerformingArtsCenter.
An additional $3000.00 in prize money will be divided among six works of art chosen by the judge, including one Young Artist Award chosen from among the juried artwork submitted by high school students.
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