Call for Entry | 500X Expo 2015

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Due: September 12, 2015
500X Expo 2015 | 500X Gallery
Juror: Erin Cluley

Application Deadline: September 12, 2015
Exhibition Dates: October 3 – November 1, 2015
Opening Reception: October 3, 2015 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Apply at 500x.slideroom.com

500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest, artist–run, cooperative galleries, hosts one of North Texas’ most anticipated annual juried competitions. Expo 2015 is open to all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas. All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video (artist must supply all required electronic equipment). All work must be ready to hang.

About the juror: Erin Cluley is the owner and director of Erin Cluley Gallery, a contemporary art gallery presenting a provocative program of emerging and mid-career artists from Dallas and the United States. Cluley opened the 2000 square foot space in September 2014, joining a creative movement in the West Dallas/ Trinity Groves development at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.  For five years prior to opening her gallery, Cluley served as the Director of Exhibitions for Dallas Contemporary where she worked on the production of exhibitions by widely known, and often envelope-pushing, artists including Rob Pruitt, Juergen Teller, K8 Hardy, Erwin Wurm, Jennifer Rubell, Shepard Fairey, Inez & Vinoodh, Julian Schnabel, Richard Phillips and others.  Cluley is a native of Wichita Falls, Texas where she received her BFA from Midwestern State University.  She went on to receive her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Artists may enter up to 3 images/videos (including details) for a total submission fee of $30.

Delivery of work is the responsibility of the artist and must be delivered on the designated dates, unless special arrangements are made. Work can be delivered on September 26th or 27th between 2 PM and 5 PM.

Artists will be notified via email Sunday, September 20th if the work has been accepted into the exhibition.  If you do not receive an email, your work has not been accepted. Please do not try to contact anyone if you do not receive notice.

X Proof Member’s Show, 500X Gallery | Sheryl Anaya and Kalee Appleton

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumnae, Sheryl Anaya and Kalee Appleton, for their 500X Gallery Member exhibition, X Proof | Member’s Show. The exhibition runs from September 5 – 20, 2015.

Exhibition Dates: September 5 – 20, 2015

500X is ready to kick off the new season with the annual members show. Welcoming the addition of it’s newest members, this group of emerging DFW artists will be showcasing a range of traditional and contemporary art. Works ranging from photography, printmaking, textile, installation, painting, video, performance, and conceptual works investigate a variety of content and formal concerns. These 16 active artists have ties to and have collaborated with other artist groups such as Art Conspiracy, aphophenia underground, Deep Ellum Windows, Gallery Project in Detroit, Hatch Show Print, Performance SW, Oil and Cotton, and Wild Pony Editions, to name a few. They work in the community as educators, coaches, professionals, and mentors across the DFW area. They work and are involved with institutions such as UNT, Brookhaven College, UTA, Collin College, Richland College, TCU, Dallas Public Library, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, and Urban Outfitters.

As the oldest artist run co-op in Texas, the idea of collaboration, finding fresh talent and building community is what this current group hopes to continue to foster. Come out to the first show of the 2015 season, X Proof.

Current members: Sheryl Anaya, Kalee Appleton, Clint Bargers, Bill Bridges, Lindsey Brown, Kate Colin, Bernardo Cantu, Laura Garcia, M. Kate Helmes, Rachel Livedalen, Jose Rueben Melendez, Rachel Muldez, Justin Strickland Hoff, H. Schenck, Jennifer Seibert, and Syd Webb.

Sheryl completed her BFA in Photography and Sculpture at Texas Woman’s University in 2013. She is currently a Member of 500x Gallery and the Editorial Assistant for Light Leaked, an online photography journal.

Kalee is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from Hobbs, NM, she attended Texas Tech University and received a BFA in Photography in 2005. Shortly after graduated she worked as a commercial corporate and aviation photographer before attending Texas Woman’s University, where she received an MFA in Photography in 2014.

Call for Entries | Gendered Perspectives

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Due: October 01, 2015
Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation into Contemporary Identities
Jurors: Jess T. Dugan and Margaret LeJeune

Bradley University Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Art Department   /   Deadline: 10/01/15

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The Bradley University Women’s and Gender Studies Committee, in collaboration with the Bradley University Galleries, will host the exhibition Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation into Contemporary Identities at the Hartmann Center Gallery, November 16

Location

Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

Fees

$25/$10 Students

Eligibility

Professional and student artists from all media including, but not limited to, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts, and video will be considered. Artists may submit up to 5 works.

Artists whose work addresses issues of gender and identity are asked to submit works. Works that explore the personal, political, environmental, economic, and social aspects of gender are highly encouraged.

Awards

Purchase Prizes totalling $1200

Evaluation Criteria

Jurors: Jess T. Dugan and Margaret LeJeune

Contact Information

Margaret LeJeune
Bradley University 1501 W Bradley Avenue
Peoria, IL 61625

P: 5852782300
W: http://www.bradley.edu/academic/departments/wms/news/story.dot?id=b9acddbf-3870-4881-9469-3aec75c4cb
E: margaretlejeune@gmail.com

Adjunct Instructor, GPC | Allison Jarek

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Allison Jarek, for her recent appointment as an Adjunct Instructor at Georgia Perimeter College in Carrollton, Gerogia.

Allison received her BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2011, and an MFA  in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration at Texas Woman’s University in 2015.

Visiting Artist | Alec Soth in Dialogue with Anne Tucker

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October 21, 2015 | 7:00 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 148
700 Greek Row Dr.
Arlington, TX

VISITING ARTIST: ALEC SOTH – GATHERED LEAVES

The Department of Art + Art History at The University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to announce the First Annual Arlington Camera Lecture Series sponsored by Arlington Camera. The series launches at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in room 148 of the Fine Arts Building, 700 Greek Row Drive.

The event features Alec Soth, a Minneapolis-based photographer known for his photographs and many publications.  He will discuss his newest project, “Gathered Leaves”, in conversation with his friend and colleague Anne Wilkes Tucker.

Soth’s photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. Soth’s first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA(2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) The Last Days of W (2008), andBroken Manual (2010). In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. The Walker Art Center produced a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work entitled From Here To There in 2010 and since that time Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013).

Tucker recently retired from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she served as founding curator of the photography department. It was for her work there that Tucker was named America’s Best Curator by TIME magazine in 2001. Over the course of her career at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tucker organized or co-organized more than 40 exhibitions, including landmark presentations that helped define scholarship of underexplored areas of the medium. These include Czech Modernism: 1900–1945 (1989), The History of Japanese Photography (2003), and the currently touring WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath (2012), an unprecedented exploration of war through the eyes of photographers. She has also authored dozens of publications, including theWAR/PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition catalogue, which received the prestigious 2013 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for best photography book.

There will be a reception for the speakers in the Gallery at UTA beginning at 6 p.m., with the artist’s lecture immediately following at 7 p.m.  Both events are free and open to the public.   For more information, please go to http://www.uta.edu/art or call 817-272-2891.

Call for Entries | 15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition

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Due: October 26, 2015
15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition | TWU East | West Galleries
Juror: Dr. Rebecca Senf

“Nourish: Food as Sustenance and Pleasure”

Texas Woman’s University East | West Galleries   /   Deadline: 10/26/15

Theme: “Nourish: Food as Sustenance and Pleasure”
Food is the foundation of life: both sustenance for our bodies and the source of great pleasure. Juror Dr. Rebecca Senf is looking for photographs of food, defined in an inclusive way. She would like to see photographs that address what people eat, the relationship of food to love and nurturing, farming and food production, food allergies, repulsive food, food still lifes and even photographs about photographing food. Other types of food pictures are also welcome.

Photographers who have worked extensively on the topic of food are encouraged to apply, with the possibility that the juror could solicit additional works for the exhibition during the jurying process.​

Location

Texas Woman’s University East | West Galleries

Fees

Basic Application $35 | Extended Application $60

Eligibility

This exhibition is open to anyone creating photographic images. All photographic and related processes are encouraged including digital, non-silver and photographic book arts. Pieces must not exceed 60” in any dimension.

Requirements

Submissions must be individual JPGs sized to 800 pixels on the longest side. Artists may submit one to five images for $35.00 in the Basic Application and one to ten images may be entered for $60.00 in the Expanded Application. Images of accepted entries may be used for publicity purposes and for presentation of the exhibition on the TWU website. All fees are non-refundable and will be considered a donation to the Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition Endowment.

More Details

Awards

– Solo Exhibition at TWU Fine Arts Gallery (2017)
– Coupralux: $500.00 Printing Award
– Freestyle Photographic Supplies: $500.00 Fine Art Inkjet Papers Award
– Imaging Spectrum: $200.00 Epson Inkjet Paper Award
– Red River Paper: $200.00 Red River Paper Coupon
– Arlington Camera: $100.00 in Gift Certificates

Evaluation Criteria

Judging will be done online, through SlideRoom.com.

2016 Juror Information:
Dr. Rebecca Senf is the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment at the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. Senf grew up in Tucson and went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona. She spent ten years in Boston, Massachusetts where she earned a Ph.D. in Art History at Boston University. In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collection, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalogue. In October of 2012 her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press.

W: http://www.twuvisualarts.slideroom.com
E: joyceelainegrant@gmail.com

Index of Refraction | Deedra Baker

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Congratulations to Deedra Baker for having being selected as a member of Index of Refraction. Index of Refraction is a communally governed online gallery and webstore for up and coming photographers. Entries are accepted quarterly and are voted on by current members. Their aim is to provide a central site where unestablished photographers can show their work to a broader audience. Take a look at her work here.

Deedra received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. She is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Assistant Professor of Art, VU | Arthur Fields

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Congratulations Texas Woman’s University Alumnus, Arthur Fields, for his appointment as Assistant Professor of Art and Design and Director of the Shircliff Gallery of Art at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana

Arthur Fields earned a BFA in Digital Imaging and Photography at Washington University in St. Louis in 2008, and an MFA in Photography in 2011, at Texas Woman’s University. Arthur is Adjunct Professor of communications design in the Art Department at Brookhaven College.

Assistant Professor of Photography, FSU | Leah Gose

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Congratulations Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Leah Gose, for her appointment as Assistant Professor of Photography in the Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Leah M. Gose is a visual artist specializing in photography and book arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at KCAD. Leah holds a B.A. in photography from the University of Colorado – Boulder and an M.F.A. in photography from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.

TRIP Magazine | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for being featured online with TRIP Magazine. The magazine features work from her series, Between Home and Here.

View the feature here.

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. Currently, Rachael is working as adjunct faculty at Texas Woman’s University and El Centro College in Dallas, TX.