Saturday, July 28, 2012

Calls for Submission

Calls For Submission

America's Parks (International): Call to Visual Artists, Deadline October 25


AMERICA'S PARKS

Through the Beauty of Art
Produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C.

COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION

AMERICA'S PARKS Through the Beauty of Art is an exhibition competition open to all artists, the purpose of which is to recognize and promote excellence in original artworks depicting any North American park (national, state, provincial, county, city) in Canada, Mexico and The United States. Selections will be made by a professional jury consisting of: M. Stephen Doherty, Editor, PleinAir™ Magazine; Susan T. Fisher, American Society of Botanical Artists Past President and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute Director; and Todd Wilkinson, Managing Editor, Wildlife Art Journal. Awards will include: America's Parks Curator's Choice Award, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Juror's Choice Award, PleinAir™ Magazine Juror's Choice Award, Society of Animal Artist's Wildlife Art Award, Susan Kathleen Black Foundation Floral Art Award, Wildlife Art Journal Juror's Choice Award. Additional awards are pending.

The 2013 inaugural exhibition of AMERICA'S PARKS Through the Beauty of Art is scheduled as the first of three, with others to follow in 2014 and 2015. The 2013 inaugural exhibition will premiere in Bolivar, Missouri from March 17 - April 14, 2013 at The Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art. The Dunnegan is a noteworthy museum that has hosted such notable traveling museum exhibitions as Art and the Animal of The Society of Animal Artists, Blossom ~ Art of Flowers sponsored by The Susan K. Black Foundation, Exquisite Miniatures by Wes and Rachelle Siegrist, and Paws and Reflect: Art of Canines, all of which have toured under the auspices of David J. Wagner, L.L.C. The Dunnegan has also had a tradition of hosting park art exhibits, notably, ARTS FOR THE PARKS. Coincidentally, David J. Wagner proposed the very first tour of the ARTS FOR THE PARKS exhibition, served as a Juror for that exhibit, managed the ARTS FOR THE PARKS tour for its first five years (1988-93), and served on the Advisory Board of its parent organization, the National Park Art Academy. AMERICA'S PARKS Through the Beauty of Art is an entirely new initiative, produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C.

Original artworks depicting subject matter found in any national, state, provincial, county, or city park, or any park of any other such unit in Canada, Mexico, and The United States is eligible. Original, two-dimensional art completed in 2010, '11, or '12 is eligible. Eligible media includes: oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, mixed media, pastel, pencil, pen and ink, tempera, batik, alkyd, scratchboard, and original prints (e.g., lithograph, etching, engraving, serigraph). Ineligible media includes: any media not listed above such as computer enhanced or generated artwork, photography, reproduction prints, sculpture, video. Not including frame or mat, the maximum size for entered artworks is 900 square inches. Calculate by multiplying the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Example: A 30" x 30" painting would equal 900 square inches. Early entry postmark deadline: August 31, 2012. Standard entry postmark deadline: October 15, 2012. All entries must be received by October 25, 2012.

To download a Prospectus (Entry Form), visit: http://davidjwagnerllc.com/competitions.html

To receive a Prospectus (Entry Form) via email, email: americasparksartexhibit@yahoo.com

For further info, contact:
David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director
David J. Wagner, L.L.C.; AMERICA'S PARKS Competition and Exhibition Office
davidjwagnerllc.com; (414) 221-6878

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Call for Submissions

Human Rights and Equity Offices of Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario): Call to Visual Artists, Deadline August 31, Late Submission Deadline October 31

Human Rights and Equity Offices of Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario

In celebration of its 20th Anniversary, the Human Rights and Equity Offices of Queen’s University is calling for artists, both professional and amateur, from all equity-seeking groups, to participate in a collaborative art project. Artists are asked to submit an original artwork depicting their interpretation of women’s strength and resilience in the wake of gender based harassment or violence. Accepted pieces will be incorporated into a large mosaic piece called “Woman, recreated” which will be exhibited at a show on Queen’s campus in 2013.

Project defined
A design, by award-winning Aboriginal artist Leo Yerxa, is the point of departure for this collaborative endeavor.
Leo’s design has been divided into sixty three fragments which will serve as the artist’s under painting. Artists are asked to choose one (or more) of the 63 fragments of the original painting (example, 9D or 4C) and use it as a background to an original artwork, in which they create their personal interpretation of the theme of women’s strength, resilience, spontaneity, creativity and diversity in the wake of gender-based harassment/violence. For an example of this kind of painting, please click here. http://www.muralmosaic.com/

Thematic Parameters
The Mosaic Project is a visual celebration of the strength of women survivors. It steps beyond the negative imagery of passivity, abuse, assault, harassment and fragmentation, all traditionally used to represent women in human rights campaigns. Our project insists upon the strength, resilience, spontaneity and creativity of women, who recreate themselves after “picking up the pieces” of oppression. It also speaks to the power of community in the process of healing. The Human Rights office reserves the right to select representations which portray positive imagery which reinforces the idea of strength, resilience, spontaneity and creativity while respecting the dignity of represented individuals or groups protected by the Code.

Formal Parameters
We do not set parameters on the media (oil, acrylic, pastel, ink, pencil, collage, quilting, stitching, etc…) or the style (figurative, writing, abstract, expressionist, cubist, graphic, etc…) used to create individual art work. We do, however, insist that artists use the background as a point of departure. The idea is that the new work of art can be easily incorporated into the original painting without changing its original colour scheme or formal design. Art work must be created on/mounted on a canvas panel measuring 1’ by 1’, which will be provided free of cost by the Human Rights and Equity Offices at Queen’s University.

Artistic Parameters
Each submission to the Mosaic Project will be evaluated for its technical proficiency and overall aesthetic value. We encourage all skill levels to submit and participate.

Selection Process
  • All submissions will be evaluated using the above-mentioned formal, thematic and artistic parameters. 63 pieces will be chosen to be incorporated into the mosaic painting: Woman, recreated. Evaluation criteria include:
  • Does the submission respect the formal parameters of the Mosaic Project?
  • Does the submission respect the thematic parameters of the Mosaic Project?
  • Does the submission demonstrate technical proficiency?
  • Does the submission demonstrate overall aesthetic value?

Submission Process:
Artists are invited to email Meri Diamond diamondm@queensu.ca indicating which of the 63 fragments they wish to re-create. Artists may request multiple squares and can apply as a group.
Completed art work can be dropped at the Queen’s Equity Office at B513 Mackintosh-Corry Hall from 8:30 to 4:30. Artists that are unable to pick up a tile/send back their artwork in person are encouraged to write the equity office to discuss possible alternatives.

Deadlines to return completed panels:
- Early submission deadline: August 31, 2012
- Late submission deadline: October 31, 2012

Competition
At a reception held at Queen’s University in March 2013, twelve of the best pieces will be chosen by Leo Yerxa to be published in an online calendar used by Queen’s University to promote multi-faith awareness.

Workshop
If there is enough interest, Leo Yerxa will give a workshop in which artists can meet the artist, watch him work and work on their own contributions to the mosaic project

Friday, July 20, 2012

Call for Submissions

West Central Women's Resource Centre: Call to Visual Artists, Deadline July 30

West Central Women’s Resource Centre is looking for an artist to design and create an art project that can be done in collaboration with community women! 

The West Central Women’s Resource Centre exists to empower women to help themselves, their families and their community to safer, healthier lifestyles. Our home is the diverse West Central neighbourhood of Winnipeg.  We work toward achieving our vision using a Women Centered Approach, informed by the lived experience of the diverse women in our community.  Our shared vision is for a healthy, sustainable, equitable, just and peaceful community where women’s knowledge and experience is valued and respected. Our vision includes women having hope and strength while living out equal social, economic and political rights.


Relevant Information for Artist:

Artists interested in creating an original art piece for the West Central Women’s Resource Centre are called to submit a proposal for our consideration.  The art project must use a participatory approach by engaging community women who access our centre in an act of artistic creation that is unique, regardless of skill level. 

The artist is asked to take the lead in the creation of an art project while at the same time include community women in the process of creation. 

Work Media:  WCWRC is flexible and open to various ideas.  We may consider a mural, collage, painting, photographs, mosaic etc.  The objective of this project is to create a piece of art with some of the community women who access our centre.  The number of community women to participate in the project can be up to the artist.  Our goal is to have a finished work of art that can be displayed in our sewing room while at the same time strengthen community bonds and leave the woman at our centre with a sense of pride because of their role in the creative process.

Work Size: Artists can come look at our space and suggest ideas they think would be suitable for a large wall in our sewing room.  At present, the wall is an empty palette!

Funding: The WCWRC will provide the selected artist with an honorarium of $1225. to cover the cost of art supplies as well as the artist’s time.

Entry Requirements:

1.    Please provide a cover letter describing your art proposal.  Please speak clearly to how you will create a piece of art using a participatory approach with the community women who our organization serves.

2.    Attach images of previous art work to give our organization insight into your style and talent.

3.    An artist resume is ideal but not necessary.

Entries Due: July 30th, 2012

Timeline: WCWRC would like the project to begin in early August with the hope of having a completed piece of art to display in our sewing room by August 31rst, 2012.

Selection Process:  A small committee will review the art proposals and notify the selected artist by Friday Aug. 3rd, 2012.

Selection Criteria:

Appropriateness of project to the audience at WCWRC
Participatory nature of the project
Overall professional quality and aesthetic of work. Creativity.
Ability to accomplish an artwork for public presentation in a timely manner and within the designated budget
Longevity of the art piece


Please submit your proposal to:

West Central Women’s Resource Centre
Att: Candielya Jackson
640 Ellice Street
Winnipeg, MB
R3G 0A7
(204) 774-8975
program@wcwrc.ca
http://www.wcwrc.ca

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Call to Visual Artists

Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver, BC): Call to Visual Artists, Ongoing

Presentation House Gallery seeks submissions to the online photographic project:

The End of the World by Kevin Schmidt

http://the-end-of-the-world.org/

The End of the World is a website that hosts photographs of homemade sign that warn of impending doom. This online photographic archive will grow, indefinitely, over time.

Submissions are cordially invited. If you have an image you may upload it at http://the-end-of-the-world.org/submit

Kevin Schmidt (b. 1972) is a Vancouver based artist who works across diverse media, but primarily in photography and video. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997, Schmidt has received considerable national and international recognition. Recent solo exhibitions include Epic Journey at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2011); A Sign in the Northwest Passage at The Power Plant, Toronto (2011); Wild Signals at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (2009). He has participated in a number of significant group exhibitions including Untrue North, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse (2012); unfinished business, Waterside Project Space, London UK (2010); and Sentimental Journey, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2009). Schmidt is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

This project was launched parallel to the exhibition Phantasmagoria: presentationhousegallery.org/exhibition/phantasmagoria/

Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 3G9
Tel 604 986 1351 http://www.presentationhousegallery.org
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 12pm to 5pm

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Professional Opportunity

Professional Opportunities

The Banff Centre (Banff, AB): Media Research Administration Work Study, Deadline July 16

Application deadline: July 16, 2012
Program dates: September 3 – December 14, 2012 (with possibility to extend)

This work study program provides the opportunity to assist in the development of strategic initiatives at The Banff Centre in Digital Media Research.  The work study participant will develop research, communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills through their work with Banff Centre staff, faculty and artists.  Duties will include research on a variety of topics focusing on transmedia content and delivery platforms, implementation strategies for digital media incubation and assisting with the development of evaluation frameworks. The participant will have the opportunity to engage in discussions about film and media programming, attend formal lectures, workshops, and cultural events, expand their personal artistic network, and participate in various discussion groups, community outreach initiatives, and project committees.

More Information   http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1291&utm_source=The+Banff+Centre&utm_campaign=ea7a5c289e-2012_Research_Associate_WS_Fall&utm_medium=email 

Call for Proposals

Confederation Centre Art Gallery: Call for Proposals for Permanent Public Art Work, Deadline July 15

Confederation Centre Art Gallery seeks submissions from Canadian artists for permanent outdoor sculpture

The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) is seeking preliminary proposal submissions from Canadian artists for a landmark permanent outdoor artwork to be installed on the plaza of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The work, to be completed and unveiled by July 2014, will commemorate the Confederation Centre's 50th anniversary. The work should respond to the Centre's mandate to celebrate the evolution of the country and to inspire through the visual arts, an appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of Canada's diverse cultural heritage through an enhancement of the Centre's public space. The selected work would update and complement existing outdoor sculptures and architecture. This is a major, national-level commission, with projects able to draw upon a commission budget of up to $200,000 for artist fees, fabrication, engineering consultation, shipping, and installation expenses. Preliminary proposal submissions are due July 15, 2012.

Selection will be determined through a two-tier process. An advisory council with national representation will select a shortlist of approximately five proposals in August 2012. Shortlisted artists will be asked to provide further elaboration of proposals, as well as models, by October 2012. Shortlisted proposals will be exhibited in December 2012. Public input, final selection and budget approval will follow early in 2013.

About the Confederation Centre of the Arts:

Confederation Centre of the Arts was founded in 1964 as Canada's National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation, who gathered at Province House in 1864 to discuss the creation of our country.

Every Canadian played a part in the establishment of the Centre: each province and the federal government committed 15 cents per capita for a total of $5.6-million to construct the huge building. This was the first time that all provinces agreed to give money for an institution outside their boundaries.

Covering an entire city block, the Centre stands on what was the site of the old Charlottetown marketplace. It houses several theatres, an art gallery, restaurant, and a gift shop. Open year-round, it showcases the best in Canadian visual and performing arts.

Confederation Centre is the result of a dream shared by all Canadians - to create a place where our country's history and multicultural character is celebrated, and where the talents of its people are nurtured and showcased.

Submission Requirements

Eligibility

    The 2014 Confederation Centre of the Arts 50th Anniversary Public Sculpture Commission is open to Canadian artists. To be eligible, artists must be Canadian citizens or have permanent residency status in Canada.
    Only artists with a record of experience in the creation of permanent public art will be considered for the commission.


Requirements

    Proposals must be for permanent works that will take into account seasonal conditions and be viewable for the whole year.
    They must also be accessible at all times of the day. Lighting and durability must therefore be considerations for all submissions.
    Proposals should present limited ongoing costs and maintenance requirements.
    Successful proposals need not necessarily be monumental in scale, but should have a significant visual impact on the environment of the Confederation Centre plaza and architecture.
    Proposals should respond to the Confederation Centre's mandate, representing excellence in Canadian contemporary art, as well as its existing architectural and sculptural context. They should also consider the thematics around the Centre's role as a national cultural centre and monument to Canadian confederation.
    Preference will be given to new works that respond to the specifics of the commission.
    Proposals must ultimately meet safety standards, electrical codes and other reasonable feasibility requirements for acceptance.


Proposal Package and Submission Details

All materials must be received by mail, postmarked by July 15, 2012.
Please provide:
-Drawings/images (maximum 5 pages) showing components of the work proposed, and how and where it will be placed on the Confederation Centre plaza.
-A written statement about the proposal (theme, fabrication and process details, relationship to artist's practice, to site, etc.), maximum one page.
-A proposed budget.
-Annotated images sent on a CD or DVD (maximum 20 images), identifying materials, dimensions, year, and brief description (maximum 100 words per work described).
-Artist's CV with record of public art experience.
Please note that materials cannot be returned if sent from outside of Canada.

Artists who wish further information on the commission can contact:
Tamara Gough at tgough@confederationcentre.com.

Address Submission Materials to:
2014 Public Art Commission
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Attn: Kevin Rice, Director
145 Richmond Street
Charlottetown, PEI
C1A 1J1

Monday, July 2, 2012

July 2, 2012

Wow what an interesting day, weather wise: sun, heat, rain, more sun and thunder showers and more sun.  We went for a drive into Bridgewater and then to Liverpool and found a few things to photograph. It has been a while since I have tried my hand at photography so it was fun to see the colours and textures that are everywhere around us. Hope you enjoy.

Waterlilies...Monet would love these.

More waterlilies near LaBelle Road

Begonia, love the colour, so cheerful

Simple day lily...

Fog Bank rolling in from the Atlantic

Folk Art

Colourful Liverpool main street

Too bad they hadn't buried the power cables.

Lobster pots waiting for the season

Marigold showing its colours

Wharf in Brooklyn

Brooklyn wharf. Bowater mill in background



This guy has the right of way.  He was being a good pedestrian and walking facing traffic

Decided to take a short cut?

Love colour on the deck

This rose bush doesn't ask for much

Spirea