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Slideluck is bringing it all back home to its native Brooklyn for this year’s Bushwick Open Studios.  Join us at Sandbox Studio for a evening of food, drink, and art.

Submit your work today!  We’re looking for Brooklyn-based photographers and visual artists to submit their work. The slideshow will be a Bushwick-Baltimore exchange.  One half will feature 10 artists working in Bushwick – each paired with music by Bushwick musicians and curated by Alanna Heiss and the Clocktower team.  Heiss founded PS1, the Clocktower Gallery and Art International Radio.  The other 10 artists will be selected by Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, and will be paired with Baltimore bands.  

Slideluck features emerging and established photographers and artists whose work is imaginative and thought-provoking. Past Slideluck contributors include Nadav Kander, Bruce Davidson, Gregory Crewdson, Lauren Greenfield, Chuck Close, Shepard Fairey, Alex Prager, Martin Parr, Edward Burtynsky and thousands of others.

Submission deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2014

SLIDELUCK Bushwick III

Saturday | May 31st | 2014

Sandbox Studio | 154 Morgan Avenue

Brooklyn | New York | Morgan Ave (L)

(info from http://slideluck.com/bushwick-iii/)

Baltimore City, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Trust have partnered together to launch the first Baltimore Growing Green Design competition. This competition aims to identify the best designs for transforming vacant lots in Baltimore City through projects that benefit neighborhoods and communities and treat stormwater. Competing teams will include community groups and design firm partnerships, and winners will receive awards to complete the designs and build the projects. If you are interested in learning more or attending the launch event on May 14, 2014 from 1 to 4 pm at The Humanim Building in Baltimore City, please contact Kacey Wetzel, 410-974-2941, ext. 104.

ORGANIZED BY WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS

CURATOR: Blair Murphy, Independent Curator, New York, NY

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists regardless of media

ENTRY FEE: N/A

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 6, 2014 by 5:00pm
EXHIBITION DATES: October 17 – November 2, 2014

LOCATION: VisArts at Rockville, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville MD 20850

ONLINE SUBMISSION

 

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

The notion of intimacy is simultaneously idealized and fraught. It describes human relationships, acting as a metric of the physical closeness, emotional bonds, or personal knowledge shared by two people. It can refer to the accumulation of knowledge about complex topics or–as in the phrase intimately aware–a familiarity with difficult truths. Though we strive for it, it can be difficult to achieve and painful to sustain. It provides us with unbelievable joy and immense disappointment.

Strange Bedfellows will explore intimacy in its various incarnations, approaching the topic from a variety of angles. What do we expect from our closest relationships and how have those expectations changed over time? How are knowledge and intimacy intertwined? How does technology impact the way we build connections and what we expect from relationships? How do we build deep knowledge of other times and places? How do our political and civic institutions cultivate closeness (or, alternately, distance)?

The call is open to all artists regardless of media used or geographic location. Artists do not need to be WPA members and there is no submission fee.

 

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Blair Murphy is a curator and writer based in New York City. Before moving to New York, she spent seven years in DC working as an administrative jack-of-all-trades for various arts organizations, including Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), DC Arts Center (DCAC), and Provisions Library. She was Program Director at WPA from 2011 to 2013 and a curator with Sparkplug, an artist collective sponsored by DCAC, from 2008 through 2011. She holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA from Georgetown University. Blair is currently the New York City correspondent for Bmoreart and a contributor to M Daily.

 

CALL FOR ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions for Strange Bedfellows will be accepted through an online submission form on the WPA website: http://wpadc.submittable.com/submit/29180. Submitting artists must complete the registration form and upload the materials listed below with their submission. For any questions or technical difficulties related to the submission process, please contact Samantha May, Program Director, at smay@wpadc.org or 202-234-7103 x 1

 

Required Submission Material

1. Current CV

2. Artist Statement and/or Project Description
This text may discuss the artist’s work more generally or be a description of a specific project or project(s). 500 word max.

3. Up to ten work samples, either still images or video

If appropriate for the work, artists may submit multiple images or videos to represent a single piece or project, but the number of individual work samples may not exceed ten.

4. Image List

Please list each attached image with: title, year, medium, and dimensions.  If submitting video work that is password protected, please include passwords on the Image List

 

FORMATS FOR SUBMISSION MATERIALS

Text files: CV’s and artist statements should be submitted as .pdf or .doc files.

Images: Submit as .jpg files, 72dpi and no longer than 7″ on the longest side.

Videos: Submit as links to the appropriate video on a video sharing website (YouTube, Vimeo) or personal site. Artists who wish to password protect videos should include the password in the Image List.

 

TIMELINE

●      Friday, June 6, 2014 by 5:00pm: Submissions deadline

●      Friday, July 18, 2014: Notification to selected artists

●      Tuesday, October 14, 2014: Installation

●      Friday, October 17, 2014, 7-9:00pm: Opening Reception

●      October 17 – November 23, 2014: Exhibition Dates

●      Monday, November 24, 2014: Deinstallation

 

ABOUT VISARTS AT ROCKVILLE

VisArts at Rockville is a dynamic, nonprofit arts center dedicated to engaging the community in the arts and providing opportunities for artistic exploration, education and participation. Through educational programming, gallery exhibitions, and a resident artist program, VisArts provides children, teens, and adults with opportunities to express their creativity and enhance their awareness of the arts.

VisArts at Rockville is located three blocks from the Rockville Metro station at 155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD. For information, please visit www.visartscenter.org or call 301-315-8200.

VisArts Gallery Hours:

Wednesday & Thursday: 12-4:00pm

Friday: 12-8:00pm

Saturday & Sunday: 12-4:00pm
Exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

The Hyattsville Community Development Corporation (CDC) in partnership with Maryland Milestones/ATHA, Inc. and the Art Lives Here Initiative, seek muralists to propose and paint designs themed in commemoration of the War of 1812. Murals designs are sought for three distinct locations: upon the Route 1 Overpass, at the union of Baltimore Avenue, and Alternate US Route 1 in the  Gateway Arts District of Prince George’s County. Mural designs of two distinct scales and character are desired. The mural sites will be prepped and primed, and will be ready to be painted by (jury-selected) muralists at the event: “Bursting in Air,” Saturday, July 26, 2014. The call is open to all area visual artists age 18 and older; preference to those who work/live/exhibit in the Gateway Arts District. View the full RFP.
For questions or comments, contact Justin Fair, Hyattsville CDC, (301) 683-8267.

Due: May 9, 2014

The four underpasses that connect the east and west sides of the NoMa neighborhood are heavily trafficked and rather unremarkable. Like most spaces under a bridge, these areas are dark and uninviting to pedestrians and motorists. The NoMa Parks Foundation wants to change that.

The group announced today that they are seeking an artist, team, designer or architect to transform these four underpasses into “art parks,” which “will beautify, enliven and activate” these spaces. (The foundation may select one artist to do all four or a different artist for each one, according to Carrie Cook from Art 4 Business.) A Request for Qualifications doesn’t specify exactly what the foundation is looking for, leaving the door open for a number of possibilities and ideas.

“With this enormously exciting project, we envision each NoMa underpass not only becoming an inspiring and engaging space but, together, they will comprise a signature moment in NoMa,” Charles (Sandy) Wilkes, Chairman of the NoMa Parks Foundation Board of Directors, said in a release.

Cook, whose employer is assisting the foundation with the project, points to other underpass projects that have utilized lights, murals, and tiles: “It can really be anything.”

Artist Bill FitzGibbons, for example, used light in a really fantastic way for an underpass project in Alabama. Reflective fish decals were considered for an underpass in Philadelphia.

RFQs must be submitted by May 9. A winner or winners will be selected in September and installation could begin in 2015. The budget for all four underpasses is $1.75 million.

(via dcist.com)

Due: April 15, 2014

Call for submissions: Jerry Saltz, juror for 57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art

We are very pleased to have Jerry Saltz select this year’s Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Online application deadline April 15. Open to artists internationally: If you know of a deserving or emerging artist who might be interested in submitting work for consideration we would very much appreciate your forwarding this to them. The application link is below.

Don Kimes
Artistic Director, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution
dkimes@american.edu
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57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art

June 22 – July 14/ Opening Reception Sunday, June 22 / 3 – 5:00 PM
The Chautauqua Annual Exhibition is one of the oldest continuously running juried shows in the country. For our 57th year, approximately 25 works from contemporary painters, sculptors, video artists, photographers and ceramicists will be selected for this prestigious exhibition. Internationally renowned critic Jerry Saltz will be selecting the Chautauqua Annual this year. Since 2006 Saltz has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He and Roberta Smith, his wife of 30 years, have been described as a power couple who “shape the New York art conversation, providing competing and compelling points of view in the world’s art capital.”

– See more at: http://www.ciweb.org/art-galleries/eventdetail/396/-/57th-chautauqua-annual-exhibition-of-contemporary-art#sthash.Jaljm220.dpuf

– application at https://chautauqua.slideroom.com/#/login/program/20230

57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
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