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Due: February 9, 2015
On the Street Where You Live | PhotoPlace Gallery
Juror: James P. Blair
From front stoops to back alleys, subways to suburbia, Main Street to Wall Street, the streets we call home shape us.
Show us what’s going on where you live, work, or play. Street scenes, portraits, landscapes — we want to see what makes your neighborhood what it is.
We are very pleased that James Blair will be juror for this exhibition. Jim will choose 40 photographs for exhibition in the gallery, and an additional 35 for the gallery’s Online Annex. All 75 photographs will be reproduced in an exhibition catalog.
Submit 5 images for $30; $7 each additional.
About the Juror:
Jim Blair was a staff photographer at National Geographic for 32 years. Between 1962 and 1994, the magazine published 46 of his bylines and over 2,000 of his photographs. His work took him throughout much of the world, and to countless neighborhoods.
Jim studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Today his photographs are represented in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery , the Museum of Modern Art, the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art . Since retiring from the National Geographic Society in 1994, Jim has continued to photograph, teach, and lecture. He is represented by both Getty Images, and the National Geographic Society’s Image Collection.
Details on Submitting Your Work:
To help artists defray costs and to encourage submissions from distant photographers, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes. Custom mat sizes and printing services are also available at moderate additional cost.
All selected work will be included in an exhibition catalog, available for purchase.
Due: February 23, 2015
LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015 | LensCulture
Juror: International Jury
Seeking the New Photographic Portrait:
The LensCulture Portrait Awards is the 2nd annual call for international portrait photography. The importance of portraiture is present in cultures across the world, illustrating the power and endurance of human connection. With over 145 countries represented on LensCulture, in over 15 languages, we’re seeking new global perspectives on the modern day portrait. This is an open call for portrait photography from around the world. 6 Winners and 25 Finalists will be chosen.
Open to All Types of Portrait Photography From Around the World
STUDIO • CANDID • CONCEPTUAL • ENVIRONMENTAL • STREET • ALTERNATIVE PROCESS • SELF-PORTRAITS •
GROUPS & COUPLES • STAGED • COMPOSITES • SELFIES
Portrait photography is among the most iconic work created by photographers and enjoyed by people around the world. Last year, we saw work from over 145 countries and now we want to discover the best portrait photography of the 21st century. We welcome submissions by photographers from every culture and background; from professionals, to emerging talents, students and amateurs — using any and all techniques of photography.
The earlier you enter, the greater your chance for exposure! So, don’t miss this opportunityto be recognized as one of the best portrait photographers in the world.
There are no limitations on age, level, genre or location. For further information, please see our FAQ.
Due: February 11, 2015
Landscapes | The Center for Fine Art Photography
Juror: Chantel Paul
Chantel Paul is the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego, CA. She has curated a number exhibitions at MOPA including Unusual Suspects: The Paintings and Photograph of Holly Roberts (2012), Staking Claim: A California Invitational (2013), which included an accompanying catalog, After Ansel Adams (2014).
Honors | Awards:
Juror’s Selection: $500.00
Director’s Selection: $250.00
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.
Important Dates:
Entries Due | February 11th, 2015
Notice Of Acceptance | February 27th 2015
Exhibition Dates | June 5th – July 18th, 2015
Public + Artists’ Reception | June 5th, 6-8 pm
Submission | Entry Fee:
MEMBERS | $24 for the first three images.
NON-MEMBERS | $38 for the first three images.
ADDITIONAL IMAGES may be submitted for $8 each for members and $10 each for non-members. There is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted. Applicants signing up for membership at the time they submit will receive the automatic discounted entry fee.Note: Images selected by jurors for exhibition at the Center in the previous 12 months are NOT eligible. Images previously submitted but not yet selected for exhibition may be resubmitted.
For More Information about the Landscapes Call For Entries, click here
Due: February 27, 2015
2015 DART Student Art Contest
Your art could win a spot on DART buses and trains, plus $1,000 or other prizes!
2015 Student Art Contest Guidelines
Theme – Explore Your World with DART
Show us some of the unique places you’ve discovered riding DART – or the destinations you have yet to explore.
CONTEST RULES
1. Designs must be original work created by the student and should illustrate the theme
“Explore Your World with DART.” Contest open to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. Limit one entry per
student.
2. Entries must measure 11” high x 17” wide, and the design should be laid out horizontally. The back of the entry should
include: Student’s name, grade level, school name and teacher’s name.
3. Entries due by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 27, 2015 and should be mailed or personally delivered to: Jessica D. Lennon,
DART’s Transit Education Program, 2015 Student Art Contest, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 1401 Pacific Ave. P.O. Box
660163Dallas, TX 75266-0163
4. DART will notify the winners by Friday, March 6, 2015.
5. All artwork becomes the property of DART and may be used with appropriate credit to the artist. By entering the contest,
you consent to have your name and photograph appear as one of the winners.
6. For more information about the contest, please contact Jessica D. Lennon at jlennon@DART.org, or call her at
214.749.2582.
For complete rules, visit DART.org/artcontest.
Due: February 17, 2015
Scholarships & Studio Assistantship Applications | Penland School of Crafts
Due February 1, 2015
Internship Applications | Penland School of Crafts
Summer 2015 workshops are now listed online.
View workshops by studio.
View workshops by session.
Scholarship and studio assistantship applications are processed differently, and this year we’ve moved to an online process, so please take a look at the new way to apply. Scholarship applications are due online on Slideroom by February 17.
Apply for a Summer Scholarship or Assistantship.
The summer lottery deadline is February 11. To give a greater number of people a chance to enroll in the most popular classes, applications received by 5:00 PM on February 11 will be placed in a lottery and treated equally regardless of when they were received. (For example, if a workshop has 12 spaces and we receive 15 applications by February 11, we will take all 15 names and randomly select 12 of them.) After February 11, applications will be processed on a first-come/first-served basis. Apply to the Lottery
The print catalog features an image of letterpressed leaves made last summer by former Penland core fellow Beth Schaible. We hope you’ll consider joining us in the studios for experimentation, too.
Summer 2015 Internships
We have several internships open for the summer, with the first call for applications due February 1, 2015.
View all internships:
Community Collabarations/Development
Gardens
Benefit Auction
Development
Painting/Drawing and Textile Studios
Print, Letterpress, Books, Papermaking Studios
Teaching Artist Initiative
Due: February 11, 2015
Feminism (n.): Plural | Woman Made Gallery
Juror: Claudine Isé
Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce their first call for art of 2015, juried by new Executive Director Claudine Isé.
Exhibition Dates: May 8-June 25, 2015
“When feminism falls short of our expectations,” writes Roxane Gay in her 2014 book Bad Feminist, “we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.” Inspired by the themes articulated in Gay’s book, WMG invites artists of all genders to submit works that ask us to rethink what feminism is, was, and can be.
The guiding premise of “Feminism (n.) Plural” is that feminism is not a monolithic movement but instead an ever-evolving concept. There is no capital F “Feminism” acting as the Law to which its subjects must uncritically adhere-that, of course, is the definition of Patriarchy. There are instead plural feminisms through which people of various gender identifications, ages, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds espouse and enact their belief in a just and equal society.
The thematic concept behind “Feminism (n.) Plural” is intentionally broad; we seek work in all media, and are especially interested in works whose form and/or content addresses feminism in bold and unexpected ways: for example, works that blur categories or create space for nonconforming gender identities, works that take on pop cultural framings of female experience and/or feminism, and works that explore feminist movements taking place in various historical, cultural, ethnic, and/or geographic contexts.
To Submit Work:
The application fee for juried exhibitions is $30 for up to three images of works, including details. Artists who experience financial hardship may be exempt from paying the entry fee; please send us an email to request a fee waiver: gallery@womanmade.org All applicants should submit an artist’s statement explaining how their work relates to the exhibition’s theme. Please visit WMG’s website for more details.
Membership is not required in order to enter juried shows or exhibit at WMG. Artists do not have to log in to submit an entry online, although creating an online entry in a single session is the best way to submit. We suggest that you have your images, titles, mediums, sizes and statement readily available for uploading.
Artists may submit images of up to three works by e-mail with jpgs and application attached, but we strongly prefer that you submit images online as digital files. Please include one detail per work only if necessary, as with book art or three-dimensional works or if areas in two-dimensional work need to be clarified. Accepted artworks must not exceed 72″ horizontally or have been previously shown at WMG.
Due: January 26, 2015
Light Sensitive 2015 | Art Intersection
Juror: Robert Hirsch
Art Intersection presents Light Sensitive 2015, an annual juried exhibition of images created using traditional and alternative photographic processes. Past work has included analog c-prints, platinum, cyanotype, gelatin silver, gum bichromate, wet plate collodion tintypes, chemigrams, and other printing processes.
We are honored to have Robert Hirsch as the Juror for Light Sensitive 2015.
The Art Intersection curatorial staff will select three artists from Light Sensitive to show additional work during an exhibition running from December 12, 2015 to January 9, 2016.
Click here to view the PDF document Light Sensitive 2015 Submission Guidelines
Important 2015 Dates:
26 January : Application and JPEG submissions due
4 February : Notification of selected work
25 February : Selected work due at Art Intersection
7 March : Opening reception from 6 – 8pm
18 April : Exhibition closes at 6pm
Due: February 15, 2015
Photography Now 2015 | The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Juror: David Bram
Photography Now 2015, the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual call for entries. Eight to ten photographers will be selected to be featured in the group exhibition in CPW’s gallery from April 18 – June 14, 2015.
This year CPW has invited David Bram, founder and curator of Fraction Magazine to select the winning entries!
Additionally one photographer will be selected for the Directors’ Purchase Prize in which a print is purchased for CPW‘s Permanent Print Collection, and each selected photographer will also receive a complimentary portfolio review on eyeist.com.
To learn more: Click Here
Due: January 4, 2015
PhotoSpiva 2015 Juror: Shannon Thomas Perich, Curator, Photographic History Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Hosted annually by Spiva Center for the Arts, the competition is open to all amateur and professional U. S. photographers. Established in 1977, PhotoSpiva is now the longest-running competition of its kind.
Competition Deadline: January 4, 2015 | Please note all dates are CST timezone.
Fee: $40 for five photos, extra photos $10 each.
Eligibility:
PhotoSpiva is open to any amateur or professional photographer in the United States or its territories. Submitted images must be the photographer’s own work, and it is the sole responsibility of the photographer to obtain written releases from any recognizable person(s) depicted. Two-dimensional work derived from any photographic process — traditional, digital, or photo-based mixed media — is eligible as long as the work is original and has never been exhibited at George A. Spiva Center for the Arts. Three–dimensional work is not eligible for this competition and exhibition.
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