Monday, May 30, 2011

Call to Craft and Visual Artists - Deadline June 30

Calls For Submission

Rooms Provincial Art Gallery / Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador (St. John's, NL): Call to Craft & Visual Artists, Deadline June 30

The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery & the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Boxed In!

an exhibition of small sculptural works


Deadline: 30 June 2011

Simply put, a box is a container with a lid. Until it is opened, a box protects the secrecy of its contents. It is imbued with mystery and the promise of surprise. As such, the empty box can metaphorically take various meaning such as that of confinement, absence, hiding place. In our day to day life we make casual contact with the mail box, the lunch box or the tool box. And then, there are others such as the fuse box, black box, glory box, coach box, treasure box and ballot box. Each one has its own particularities and functions, a direct meaning that can take on a metaphorical one if we think outside the box.

To bring Canadian artists together, and considering the size of our country and the cost of shipping, we propose an exhibition of small sculptural works that would fit in a specific box and spring from the idea of the box itself or of one of its metaphors. The works must be three-dimensional and can be presented on a shelf, plinth, suspended or mounted on the wall.

Your proposed work should fit in a box no bigger than 16 x 12 x 12 inches, wrapping included with the lid on, without any alteration to the box. Of course, the work can be smaller but not bigger than this set size. The proposal should be for a work of expression, functional or not, that pushes the limits of your practice within a conceptual approach.

Your application must include the attached completed form, a half to one page proposal, artist statement, drawings or sketches of the proposed work and its technical information (medium, finished size, presentation), CV or resume (maximum of three pages), up to ten digital images of recent works (no earlier than 2005) and a list of images. All images (drawings, sketches and previous works) should be in JPG format at a resolution of 72 dpi (no more than 1800 x 1800 dpi in size). For more information: http://www.therooms.ca/artgallery/

Inquiries : box.exhibition@gmail.com

Submissions should be sent to the following address:

Denis Longchamps, curator
Boxed in! Exhibition Project
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
9 Bonaventure Avenue
P.O. Box 1800, Station C
St. John's, NL, Canada
A1C 5P9

Deadline to send your application: postmarked no later than June 30, 2011.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Canada Council for the Arts - Call for Nominations

Canada Council for the Arts  Call for Nominations, Deadline June 1

GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARDS IN VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS 2012

The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts are Canada's foremost distinctions for excellence in visual and media arts.

Help us to honour Canada's finest artists. Nominate someone who you feel is deserving of one of these prestigious awards.

Deadline for nominations:
June 1, 2011

http://www.canadacouncil.ca

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Banff Centre - Call for Submissions

19 Adam Chodzko: Something in the Water. A Search for the Turn of the Backwash
Program dates: November 14 – December 9, 2011
Application deadline: July 15, 2011
It’s a collaboration. Each participant contributing equally. Field trips, hikes, meetings with “real” people, collaborative video projects, individual quests, a lot of “show and tell,” too much late night Googling, and lots of misunderstandings will steer us through this residency.

02 Ken Lum's Master Class: Art and the effects of the Real
Program dates: January 4 – February 21, 2012
Application deadline: July 25, 2011
The most interesting contemporary art is focused on the uneasy relationship between identity and the Real, concerned centrally with the social and spatial impediments that so often divide people from one another. It is the aim of Art and the effects of the Real to investigate the deepening interest of art towards its contingencies. This is an intensive residency with a structured program schedule that includes weekly seminars, discussion groups, and film screenings.

Self-directed Creative Residencies
Self-directed residencies are self-guided opportunities where the artist is free to experiment and explore new directions in the production of their work. Program dates are available year-round.

For more information and to apply:
Office of the Registrar
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989
www.banffcentre.ca/va