Calls for Submission

Calls For Submission

Gallery 44 (Toronto, ON): Call to Visual Artists and Curators, Deadline October 1

Gallery 44 | Call for Submissions from Artists and Curators
Deadline: October 1st

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi faceted and ever-changing art form. We encourage the submission of exhibition proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists and curators who are innovative in their use of materials and approach to subject matter. Gallery 44 views photography within the larger context of contemporary artistic practices and relevant cultural issues in today's society.

Submission Guidelines
Please submit the following items 1. through 5. on a disk by mail or by email as a zipped folder to submissions@gallery44.org (images as JPEGs, video as .mov and documents as PDFs):

1. 10-12 images (both single image views and installation views) representing a recent body of work or a specific project. Image files should be JPEGs of 1MB maximum. Please do not send original work and do not use CD sticker labels.

2. An image list indicating artist name, title, dimensions in inches, medium, and year, as a PDF.

3. An artist's statement, curatorial statement, or other written description, as a PDF.

4. A physical description of the proposed exhibition, including the number of works, the space required, equipment needed and/or provided, and any unusual installation requirements, as a PDF.

5. A curriculum vitae, resume or biography of the artist(s) and/or curator (including all artists if it is a curated exhibition), as a PDF. And any other digital support material you would like to include (web links, reviews, catalogues, etc.)

6. A self-addressed envelope (SASE) with sufficient return postage for mailed submissions. Without an SASE we will not return submission packages and will dispose of submission materials appropriately.

Please note:

• Gallery 44 welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with other arts and community organizations.
• Gallery 44 gives priority to works that have not been exhibited in Toronto.
• Gallery 44 handles all material with care; however we cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage of materials.
• Late or incomplete submissions will not be accepted. Please clearly label your envelope/email as "G44 annual call submission".
• Due to the volume of submissions we receive please allow 4 to 6 months to receive a response.
• Artists are paid in accordance with the CARFAC Fee Schedule for works exhibited.


Visit http://www.gallery44.org/submissions for a floor plan of the gallery and further info.

Call for Nominations

Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation: Call for Nominations, Deadline September 21

GET INVOLVED. NOMINATE!
How did Christopher Plummer, Clémence DesRochers, William Shatner, Margie Gillis and Michel Pagliaro become laureates of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards?

They were nominated by people like you—members of the public.

Your nomination could determine the next recipient of Canada’s most prestigious award in the performing arts!

Nominations for the 2013 awards are being accepted until September 21, 2012.

The nomination process is simple and straightforward! 
For complete details, please visit www.ggpaa.ca .

Call for Submission - RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Calls For Submission

RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Call to Painters, Deadline May 9

2012 RBC CANADIAN PAINTING COMPETITION OPENS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced its call for entries for the 2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. With a total of $55,000 in prize money, it is one of the largest competitions of its kind in Canada.

Entries must be submitted by May 9, 2012 and winners will be announced in Toronto on November 29, 2012, with the national winner receiving $25,000 and two honourable mentions each receiving $15,000.

“RBC works closely with the Canadian Art Foundation to recognize and showcase emerging painters and provide them with opportunities to gain national exposure,” said Ann Webb, executive director, Canadian Art Foundation and publisher, Canadian Art Magazine. “Each year, we look forward to this competition so we can support, celebrate and uncover new Canadian talent.”

Details and rules of the competition may be found at rbc.com/paintingcompetition. The submitted works will be short-listed to 15 finalists by independent panels of regional judges. All regional jurors come together in November to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions to be announced on November 29. All 15 paintings will be on exhibit at the Power Plant in Toronto. All finalists will be featured at rbc.com/paintingcompetition.

About the RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition recognizes and supports Canada’s emerging artists. The competition nurtures Canadian visual artists early in their career by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunity. The competition will award one national prize of $25,000 and two honourable mentions will receive prizes of $15,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning paintings of 2012 will become part of RBC’s Canadian art collection comprised of more than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected over the past hundred years.


For more information, contact:
Sandy Kwong, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3511, sandy.kwong@rbc.com
Liz Redston, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3516, liz.redston@rbc.com

Artist contact:
Deborah Dexter, Advisor, RBC Canadian Painting Competition, 416-277-4068

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.