Day: January 3, 2012

New Artist Opportunities For a New Year

Need help crafting your artist statement for the opportunities below? How about saving photographs of your work for submission? The Art League will be hosting free workshops this month on writing about your artwork — “Art * iculation” — and on Photoshop. For more details and to register, visit The Art League’s lecture series and enrichment page.

Courtesy of FindArtInfoBank.com:

Call to Artists: Creatures: Swim, Fly, Crawl – MA
Deadline: January 15, 12. CALL to ARTISTS: CALADAN GALLERY presents a juried exhibition entitled “CREATURES: Swim, Fly, Crawl”. This exhibition will be a survey of our fellow citizens on the planet Earth: Animals! We present these creatures with love and honor. We are searching for uplifting, innovative works representing animals; those that find a way to provide witness to ourselves. We have been extremely fortunate to be creating an exciting, diverse, and active meeting place for artists. We are averaging over 55,000 viewers a month, and have provided a warm and positive virtual atmosphere since 2003. All mediums except video are eligible. Please go to: http://www.caladangallery.com to download prospectus (click on “enter your artwork”) OR write to: Caladan Gallery, Box 391939, Cambridge MA 02139 OR call: 617-838-8929 for more information.

44th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition – TX
Deadline: February 10, 12. CALL FOR ENTRIES: VISUAL ARTS SOCIETY OF TEXAS. 44th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition. BOS $1000; $10,000+ Cash/Merchandise. Deadline: 2/10/12. Juror: Elizabeth Dunbar, independent curator, Austin, Texas. Entry Fee: $35 non-members; max 3 slides/digital images. Full-color Catalog. Prospectus for details. SASE VAST PO Box 1281, Denton, TX 76202; http://www.vastarts.org. Opens 4/26/12. Info: [email protected] or 972.827.8647.

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Artist Opportunities

March Exhibit: “Play”

From March 7 to April 7, The Art League Gallery will be exhibiting a different kind of show. Below, the prospectus for “Play,” a juried show of interactive art and a first for The Art League.

Play
A Juried Exhibit of Interactive Art
March  7 – April 7, 2012
Juror – Judy Bass

In honor of Minds Wide Open: Year of Children in the Arts, The Art League offers this juried exhibit of works that can be touched or interacted with to encourage visitors to become involved in the art work on an entirely new level.  The Virginia Commission for the Arts declared 2012 the Year of Children in the Arts and “Play” will be our kick-off for this initiative.

 Artwork that is interactive can include two or three-dimensional work that

  1. Can be touched or handled (instructions for touching work must be included with submission)

  2. Have objects that viewers can add on or to the work (as in putting additional lines on a drawing, or coloring in an unfinished area or adding collage pieces onto a panel, canvas or sculptural form)

  3. Have a way to view the work through colored lenses or 3-D glasses (which must be provided)

  4. Have pieces to move around (a puzzle or game)

  5. Have examples of the tools and materials used in the creation of the piece that visitors can pick up and handle (pieces of canvas, brushes, etching plate, woodblock plate, etc)

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Artist Opportunities, Exhibits

The Show Must Go Up

Midday snow flurries in Alexandria coincided with a flurry of activity in The Art League Gallery, where jurying was taking place for the January All-Media exhibit.

Ever wondered how the artwork is delivered, chosen, and hung for each show? It’s an involved process which, thanks to the help of gallery volunteers, only takes a day: receiving started Monday after the gallery closed and the work is hung by Tuesday evening.

It all starts with receiving, when member artists drop off works of art — one or two, this month — to be considered for the show and pay the entry fee. Everything is carefully recorded.


After receiving concludes, the jurying process can begin. This month’s juror was photographer and teacher Allen Beland. The juror selects which pieces will make it into the gallery’s limited space. He also selects the artists to receive awards and honorable mentions.

Piece by piece, volunteers present the work, which the judge names a Yes, No, or Maybe — not always an easy decision, with 515 pieces submitted this month and only 153 accepted.



To get an idea of jurors’ thought processes and responses to the work submitted, Communications Director Erica Fortwengler interviews jurors for a juror’s dialogue each month. This month’s dialogue with Allen Beland is here.

Finally, the hanging committee gets to work. Following the juror’s instructions, if any, the hangers install the pieces in a visually pleasing arrangement — and in the process give the drywall a sense of purpose. The hammering and hanging takes only a couple hours, capping an accelerated process for a big, brand-new show.

It takes a group effort.


This month’s award winners were Jane Thomas, who received the Gallery Director Award for her watercolor, The Thoughts, and Sandy LeBrun-Evans, who won second place for her photograph, Truck.

The January All-Media show opens tomorrow and continues through February 6. Also in The Art League Gallery this month are the 2012 solo show preview (Jan. 5–27) and a SOHO photography exhibit (Jan. 28–Feb. 6).

Exhibits