The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture is looking for an artist to create a public artwork at the South Recycling and Disposal Station Rebuild Project site, located in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. Deadline is July 9th, 2015. Click through for full information.
This past Friday, June 5th, as part of the Artscape Gallery Network, The Top of the World Observation Level at the World Trade Center Baltimore hosted a free opening reception for the new exhibition, “Shared Visions: Artists from the World Art Center,” co-curated by father-son duo Allyn Harris and Ed Harris. It was a beautiful afternoon in downtown Baltimore, so I decided to make the 10 minute trek from the BOPA office on East Baltimore street over to the World Trade Center after we closed up for the day. Click through to see more photos of the exhibition and read my brief interview with Ed Harris, co-curator and artist featured in this exhibition.
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CALL TO ARTISTS & CURATORS
The City of Norfolk Bureau of Cultural Affairs is accepting proposals for our new Offsite Gallery (formerly the Selden Gallery) located in the World Trade Center at 101 W. Main St., Norfolk, VA 23510. Installations, new media and experimental works are encouraged.
SUBMISSIONS
No entry fee. Submit:
1)Artist statement and resume.
2)Brief explanation regarding the subject and intent of your exhibition. (Include month preferred in 2016)
3)Up to 10 digital images of artwork accurately representing what will be included in the proposed exhibition.
4)A detailed image list with artwork medium, dimensions, title & year completed.
Note: Artists are also expected to present a creative demonstration or program/artist talk in addition to the exhibition.
Submit online to artsnorfolk@gmail.com or submission must be received by 5pm, JUNE 29, 2015 at: Cultural Affairs, 5th Floor, Slover Library, 235 E. Plume Street, Norfolk, VA 23510 / 757.664-6854
http://norfolkpublicart.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CALL-TO-ARTISTS-MAY-20151.pdf
Call for Artists
Forecast Public Art is facilitating two public art commissions for the new Brooklyn Park Library in Brooklyn Park, MN. Artists or artist-led teams are sought to respond to the following two opportunities. Hennepin County Library will commission an artist or artist-led team to create new artwork(s) for each category.
Project #1: Wall Art Project
Budget: $130,000 The new library will feature a monumental wall art project created by an artist in collaboration with a STEM educator telling the story of world culture and/or local geography through the lens of math and science. All mediums will be considered, including paint, tile, glass, lightweight relief materials, etc. The art should be designed to enliven the library interior and to create a welcoming setting that celebrates and explores the unique histories, cultures and environment of the community.
Project #2: Bike Racks
Budget: $30,000 A collection of sculptural bike racks will be created for the plaza in front of the library’s main entrance, referencing the theme of the library in a unique and creative way. The bike racks must be able to accommodate at least 14 bikes and will be bolted to the concrete plaza surface.
Eligibility: Artists residing in the United States
Deadline: July 7, 4 pm CST.
Please visit Hennepin County Library’s website for more information and to download the RFQ: https://apps.hclib.org/buildingprojects/onepercent/?BlogPostID=77
Gallery 788’s Spectrum 2nd Queer Art Show is looking for queer and queer friendly artists in all media: artists in all media, photographers, musicians, performance artists, film, video, etc. Information is below.
Society is strange in its contradictory push for individuality and conformity. Scared to be the same as everybody else because it could mean mediocrity – yet afraid to be too different because it could mean risking acceptance. So we cover ourselves out of shame and fear. We live our lives behind partially drawn curtains, shining light only on the parts of ourselves we have deemed good enough to love.
Gallery 788 invites everyone to pull back those curtains and unite the parts of ourselves that make us whole. Come celebrate the uniqueness in ourselves and in others and share in the love that makes us one-in-the-same at Spectrum: G788’s 2nd Annual Queer Art Show.
Spectrum in its modern usage means there is a unifying theme at either end. We need more moments that cross the line of conformity to unite and celebrate our diversity. We need the arts to help bridge our differences and expand the fabric of our culture. In such serious times we also need to have some fun too. So with these words in mind we set forth a call for artist to show their colors and unite in a show that celebrates our individuality however we want to term it; queer, gay, lesbian, trans……human.
Performing artists TBA!
G788’s Spectrum Call for Artists is open to all queer and queer friendly artists!
Important dates:
Please let us know when you plan to drop-off
Art drop off – Sunday, July 5th 1-6pm
Art drop off – Monday, July 6th 1-8pm
Labels:
Friday, July 3rd by 6 p.m. – Label info to be submitted to
gallery788@gmail.com
Opening Night Reception
Thursday, July 9th 7-11pm
Payment Information:
Cash, check or PayPal: gallery788@gmail.com
20% commission on artwork sold
$100 for 6×9 wall space
$50 for 3×9 wall space
Smaller individual pieces $25 a piece (4 feet or smaller)
• All artwork must be ready to hang!
• All artists must submit all label information (prices, titles, etc)
•All artists must volunteer one gallery sitting shift during the run of the show
Closing/art pick up: Sunday, August 2nd 1-7pm
PERFORMERS TO TBA
FORCE Artist Residency at Pelham is a two week residency with Pelham printmaking studio to produce a limited edition print, with themes focusing on consent and/or supporting survivors of sexual violence, to be exhibited in the FORCE Project Space during 2015 Artscape. And you’re invited to apply!
FORCE and Pelham would like to identify one local visual artist committed to working with FORCE in a professional printmaking studio environment. Participating artist will have a dedicated period of two weeks, from June 13 – 27, 2015, to envision and create a limited edition print in the studio. Pelham will offer up to 12 studio hours each week to the participating artist with flexible open hours. Pelham professional printer will take care of all technical aspects of lithography and printing of the edition. The artist can engage in the creative process and the printer will handle the rest. All materials will be provided. The chosen artist will be asked to donate a series of completed prints from the residency to benefit the Monument Quilt, along with an interview to be posted on the project’s website.
To apply, email a portfolio of eight images, resume and a brief written statement describing your motivation behind working with FORCE and Pelham to upsettingrapeculture@gmail.com. Application deadline is June 10th, 2015.
Call for application opens May 26, 2015
Application deadline June 10, 2015
Residency duration June 13-27, 2015
FORCE at ArtScape Exhibition July 17-19, 2015
Pelham printmaking studio is a venue for collaborating artists. Pelham is a fully equipped lithography workshop with designated creative and print work spaces located in Baltimore City’s Mayfield neighborhood. Pelham provides artists with tools and space to create original prints. More information about the studio can be found at pelhamlitho.com.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration challenging and changing the mainstream conversation about rape in the US, using social media and public art actions. Their current project is the Monument Quilt, a collection of testimonials from survivors of rape and abuse that creates and demands public space to heal. Made of survivors’ stories written and stitched onto red fabric and assembled together in highly visible venues, the Monument Quilt resists a narrow narrative of sexual violence by amplifying many voices, not one. In the project’s culmination, 6,000 stories will blanket the National Mall with the phrase “Not Alone.” Visit UpsettingRapeCulture.com or theMonumentQuilt.org for more information.
Wednesday, June 17, 7pm
at Single Carrot Theatre
2600 N. Howard St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
The Purple Necklace is a video and spoken-word performance about suicide, loss and grief by acclaimed Texas based artist Jim Pirtle. Following the performance, New Day Campaign founder & director Peter Bruun will facilitate a community conversation.
The Purple Necklace is an intimate and powerful performance culled from Jim Pirtle’s writing following the death from suicide of his partner Amanda. The artist began to process what had happened by posting his thoughts in real time to social media—these posts were soon followed across the country by a community of friends who gathered to support him. After 40 days Pirtle called an end to his online grieving and began to put together a performance work based on what he had written and experienced.
In the resulting performance, Pirtle confronts suicide and its aftermath through the use of an edited selection of the online posts and other personal ruminations, spoken word, and with enhanced multi-layered video projections. The work is intended to open the door for a broader understanding and conversation on this difficult topic.
Following the hour-long performance of The Purple Necklace will be a discussion led by Peter Bruun, founder and director of Baltimore’s The New Day Campaign, an arts-based campaign to challenge stigma associated with mental illness and addiction, making the world a more healing place.
Jim Pirtle is an acclaimed artist from Houston Texas. He participated in the communities seminal alternative art scene in the nineteen eighties and nineties, coming to prominence along with such friends and current art luminaries as Rick Lowe, Mark Flood, Mel Chin, and Nestor Topchy. Pirtle, who worked in many genres, became best known for a series of wide ranging at times transgressive yet humanist multi-media performance events. In 1995 he bought a historic building in the Houston’s downtown district and opened the coffee shop Notsuoh. Notsuoh is now a well-known center for Houston’s bohemian enclave to gather, discuss, and present work.
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a7891a56e427682f4a9fbf251&id=d0b2f592ac