The Choice Awards | CENTER

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Due: February 19, 2015
The Choice Awards
Jurors: Phillip Prodger, Enrico Stefanelli, Alice Gabriner

The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter.
The Awards are divided into three categories: Curator’s Choice, Editor’s Choice, and Gallerist’s Choice.
Winners receive recognition via exhibition, publication, portfolio reviews and more.

The Choice Award winners are invited to participate in an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts
in Santa Fe, New Mexico during Review Santa Fe.

GUIDELINES | FAQS | APPLY  Cost to enter $30 members / $40 non-members

2015 Jurors

CURATOR
Phillip Prodger, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London
DIRECTOR
Enrico Stefanelli, President & Director, Photolux Festival, Italy
EDITOR
Alice Gabriner, International Photo Editor, TIME magazine

2015 Award Package

Curator’s Choice, Editor’s Choice, and Gallerist’s Choice Awards
First, second, and third awarded in each category

FIRST PLACE
// The Curve Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts during Review Santa Fe
// Complimentary participation to Review Santa Fe
// Lenscratch publication
// Special invitation to Art Photo Index (API)
// Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org

SECOND PLACE
// The Curve Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts during Review Santa Fe
// Lenscratch publication
// Special invitation to Art Photo Index (API)
// Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org

THIRD PLACE
// The Curve Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts during Review Santa Fe
// Lenscratch publication
// Special invitation to Art Photo Index (API)
// Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org

2014 WINNERS
2013 WINNERS
2012 WINNERS

Project Development Grant | CENTER

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Due: February 19, 2015
Project Development Grant / CENTER
Juror: Sarah Greenough

The Project Development Grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary, or photojournalist works-in-progress. The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work’s final stages.

This grant is awarded to projects that are still in progress and have not been exhibited or published. It requires signing of a contract to participate in an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts during Review Santa Fe.

GUIDELINES | FAQS | APPLY  Cost to enter $35 members / $45 non-members

2015 Juror

Sarah Greenough
Senior Curator & Head of the Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

2015 Award Package

FIRST PLACE
// $5,000 Cash Award (some restrictions apply)
// Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA)
// Complimentary participation in Review Santa Fe
// Santa Fe Photographic Workshops tuition voucher (some restrictions apply)
// A Photographer’s Showcase from photo-eye
// Special invitation to participate in the Art Photo Index
// Lenscratch publication
// Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org

2014 WINNER’S GALLERY
2013 WINNER’S GALLERY
2012 WINNER’S GALLERY

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Madeline Potter

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Congratulations to Madeline Potter for having her artwork, Contemplating the Temporal: Stress, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Madeline currently attends Texas Woman’s University working on her BFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration.

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Tiffany Milow

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© Tiffany Milow 2015

Congratulations to Tiffany Milow for having her artwork, Landfilled Earth, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Tiffany received a BFA with a focus in Photography from the University of North Texas in the spring of 2012 and is currently an MFA student in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Call for Entry | Travellers

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Due: March 19, 2015
Travellers | Blank Wall Gallery

Submit your photos for free participation to Travellers exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery.

Forty photographs from the ones sent will be chosen to be exhibited by our gallery in April.

Photographs of people in ports, airports, bus stations and train stations. People with luggage, departing or arriving, taken in the street, in metro stations or bus stops, waiting for a taxi or getting out of one during day or night. All means of transport are accepted.

Blank Wall Gallery is calling artists to submit photographs for an exhibition with the theme Travellers.

Professional or amateur photographers from around the world, who are over 18, are eligible to participate in the contest.

The total cost of this particular contest (printing, matting, framing, press releases, leaflets, opening night, and invigilation) will be covered by Blank Wall Gallery. Blank Wall Gallery will provide both its floors for this exhibition.

All you have to do is send the photographs you believe that have a position in this exhibition. Forty photographers will be chosen to present their work.

How to Submit:

You can submit your work via email at: submissions@blankwallgallery.com

In the body of your email please include the following info:

Your Name
Exhibition Name
Titles of Included Photos with corresponding file name
(i.e. New York Train Station – firstname_lastname_1.jpg
Heathrow Airport – firstname_lastname_2.jpg etc.)

1. Submission is free

2. You can submit up to three photographs, taken by any photographic means: digital camera, film or Polaroid.

3. Prepare your files. Your photographs should be jpg files, 1200 pixels maximum, on the longest side, set to the highest quality, at 72 dpi.

4. The name of the files should be: firstname_lastname_1.jpg

5. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition will provide a high resolution Tiff or JPEG file for our gallery to print.

For more information click here.

500X Student EXPO 2015 | Heather Ross

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Congratulations to Heather Ross for having her artwork, Moving Through Time, elected by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, jurors for the exhibition, to be included in the 500X Student EXPO 2015. The exhibition is at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX from February 14 – March 8, 2015.

February 14 – March 8, 2015

Opening reception: February 14 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Heather holds a BA in Sociology, an AA in Digital Photography and currently attends Texas Woman’s University working on her BFA in photography.

1/17/15 – 3/7/15 | The McKinney Avenue Contemporary

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© Lilly Albritton 2015
Blue Truck, Los Angeles by Lilly Albritton

1/17/15 – 3/7/15
New Exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary

January 17, 2015 – March 7, 2015

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 17, 2015 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Call and Response
Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Danielle Avram Morgan
part of Dallas Medianale 2015
Square and Large Galleries

The Dallas Medianale will comprise installations, screenings, and intermedia performances in the galleries and black box theater of The MAC, showcasing works by internationally renowned artists working in film and video.

Lilly Albritton:
¡Qué Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!
New Works Space

Albritton presents a photographic essay with an altar-installation displaying devotion to the Virgin Guadalupe along the US-Mexico border that incorporates recordings of celebratory chants.

Click here to find out more information.

Call for Entry | Focus: The Portrait

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Black Box Gallery

Due: February 10, 2015
Focus: The Portrait | Black Box Gallery
Juror: Amy Arbus

Theme: Portraiture

Black Box Gallery will host a juried group photography exhibition on contemporary portrait photography. Pose and Gesture, Image and Identity, Documentary and Street, Constructed Narrative, Self Portrait, Environmental, Vernacular and Snapshot, Fashion and Nude, all have visual arguments to make in the world of portraiture photography. What is the character, attitude and expression that binds this genre together?

Juror: Amy Arbus

Photographer Amy Arbus has published five books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece. Her most recent, After Images, is an homage to modernism’s most iconic avant-garde paintings. Her advertising clients include Chiat/Day, Foote, Cone and Belding, American Express, Saatchi & Saatchi, SpotCo, New Line Cinema and Nickelodeon. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Aperture and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, NORDphotography, Anderson Ranch and The Fine Arts Work Center. Amy Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Massachusetts. She has had twenty-five solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

To view Amy’s work please visit her website.

Exhibition Dates: March 1 – 20, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2015 | 6:00  – 8:00 PM

Each exhibition will have 24 photographs included by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery. An additional 30 photographs will be selected for exhibition in our on-line gallery annex. All 54 photographs from the show will be included in a catalog available for purchase on Blurb Books.

For more information click here.

Residency | 2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program

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Woodstock A-I-R

Due: February 28, 2015
2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program | The Center for Photography at Woodstock

HOW TO APPLY:

We are now accepting applications for the 2015 Woodstock A-I-R program!

Download PDF application here to apply now!

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please submit:

• 10-15 digital images/video on a DVD/CD-ROM of current work. (one copy)

Format still images as JPEGs with a width dimension no greater than 2400 pixels. Please limit video clips or excerpts to no more than 5 minutes (please indicate length of full video) and submit no more than 3 in total. Acceptable file formats include .mpg, .avi, .mov. Please make sure your three videos combined do not exceed 200MB and test your video files to make sure they play on a Mac and PC.

Individuals applying to the Critical Studies Residency should submit 2 writing samples of no more than 1,500 words per sample with visuals, including featured artist work samples and installation views if applicable. (four copies of each)

• Residency proposal (four copies of each) – see application form for guidelines to answering this question.

• Preference for time of residency (please list 3 options) *The program runs from June through September, please request your time accordingly. Residencies range from 3-6 weeks.

• Four copies of the following:

Artist statement (describing your current projects and artistic process) – limited to 500 words.

Resume (listing past exhibitions, residency, and related experiences) – limited to 3 pages.

Images script (thumbnails of your work with caption information) – see page 3 of the application form.

WOODSTOCK A-I-R participants are selected by a peer panel comprised of professionals in the field and have included past participants in CPW’s residency and exhibition program, curators, collectors, and art critics.

Download PDF application here to apply now!

Apply, $ | February Opportunities

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February Opportunities

Call for Entry:

  • On the Street Where You Live | Due: February 9, 2015
    PhotoPlace Gallery
    Juror: James P. Blair
  • Landscapes | Due: February 11, 2015 
    The Center for Fine Art Photography
    Juror: Chantel Paul
  •  Photography Now 2015 | Due: February 15, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock
    Juror: David Bram
  • FotoFest 2016 | Due: February 17, 2015
    Theme: Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet
  • 2015 DART Student Art Contest | Due: February 27, 2015
    Theme: Explore Your World with DART
  • LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015 | Due: February 23, 2015
    LensCulture
    Juror: International Jury
  • 2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program | Due: February 28, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock

Internship:

  • Internship | Penland School of Crafts | Due February 1, 2015

Scholarship:

  • Scholarships & Studio Assistantship | Penland School of Crafts | Due: February 17, 2015
  • Beinecke Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
  • SPESC Student Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
    2015 SPE National Conference Student Scholarship from South Central Region