Deadline: March 31, 2014

Montgomery College Artist-in-Residence Program

The Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus of Montgomery College offers semester-long residencies for visual artists. Fall residencies run from mid-August through mid-December. Spring residencies run mid-January through mid-May. This program provides artists with a dedicated space to pursue their professional art practice within an academic environment. Resident artists may also be granted access to the myriad other studio facilities available in the Cafritz Arts Center on a case-by-case basis. No living accommodations are provided.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Deadline for application is March 31, 2014. There are no fees for participation in this residency.

For further information and the application form visit http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/residencies/

2014 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards

Deadline: April 7, 2014.

The application process is now open for the annual Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards. This competition, produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, awards one of the largest cash prizes given to a visual artist, with a top prize of $10,000. The competition’s founder, Carol Trawick, is committed to annually honoring visual artists with this award.

Artists who are 18 years of age or older and permanent, full-time residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C., are eligible to apply. All original 2-D and 3-D fine art including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, fiber art, digital, mixed media and video will be accepted.

The awards are as follows:
Best in Show – $10,000
Second Place – $2,000
Third Place – $1,000
Young Artists* – $1,000 *Young Artist whose birthday is after April 7, 1984 may be awarded this prize.

The jury will select up to 10 finalists who will be invited to display their work in a group exhibition at Gallery B in downtown Bethesda in September 2014. The three judge panel includes: Tom Ashcraft, visual artist, founding member of Workingman Collective, Associate Professor and the head of Sculpture in the School of Art at George Mason University; Laure Drogoul, interdisciplinary artist, Director of The 14Karat Cabaret, Co-organizer and Curator of the Transmodern Festival; Jeremy Drummond, media artist and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Richmond.

For a full list of eligibility requirements and to apply please visit our website: http://www.bethesda.org/bethesda/trawick-application

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY:

Deadline: April 15, 2014
Open Call––Exhibition opportunity at Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD

Mark, Trace, Impact: Themed Exhibition Series The mark is at the heart of what it means to be human. It led to the development of writing by attaching meaning to lines and scribbles. The mark fulfills a fundamental need to leave a physical trace. It creates impact, a message, or a memory in addition to its material presence.

The Department of Visual Arts and Design is calling for exhibition proposals for the Open Gallery in The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center that address the theme, “Mark, Trace, Impact.” Four exhibitions will be scheduled for the 2014–2015 academic year.

Proposals must be received by April 15, 2014. Applicants will be notified by June 1.

For detailed information about the exhibition space and the application process visit http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/exhibitions/opportunities.html

Deadline March 24

Artists can get discouraged and their art-making interrupted by practicalities like deadlines, proper studio space, available resources, technology and the biggest heartbreak of all; not enough money. What if an artist was presented with the possibility to create a work of art without these limitations? What if that artist had financial backing, equipment, materials, manpower and experienced technicians ready to take direction and create their vision? What if that artist’s work wasn’t limited by the fact that they live on the planet, Earth, in the year 2014 and are subjected to physical laws?

Art Without Limits: Farther Regions explores what is possible for artists when they are released from practical, economical and physical constraints. What can be accomplished without limitations of natural laws, moral codes or current technologies? Art Without Limits will give artists resources to execute their dream-projects. Artists often create work that is determined by the walls around them. Art making is often a problem that needs to be solved. We would like to solve that problem. You can create art anywhere in the Universe! Show us your gallery inside of a volcano, your sculpture on top of the Great Pyramids, float your work on top of the largest storm in the solar system or Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Unbound by the physical realities of the here and now, the sky is not your limit!

Earthbound Moon seeks proposals from around the nation for fantastically imaginative and absurdly inventive site oriented artworks to be shown at the Landmark Arts Center at Texas Tech University. You have artistic immunity; you have every resource you need. Indulge us!

The requirements of the Artist proposal are outlined simply as:
1) CV
2) Description of the artwork that can be as long or as short as the artist wishes.
3) Rendering of the theoretical artwork.
4) Return envelope with return postage
No entry fee.

Please send Proposals to: Art Without Limits ℅ Carson Murdach
1627 Marion St. NW #2
Washington, DC 20001

Deadline: May 1, 2014

A Regional Exhibition at Flag Ponds Nature Park – on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

June 7 – June 29, 2014.

Indoor Gallery.

$2,000 in Prize Money.

Curator: Margaret Dowell, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, College of Southern MD.

Prize Jurors: Jayme McLellan, founder/director Washington DC’s Civilian Art Projects and Tom Horton, author and former environmental editor for the Baltimore Sun.

Artwork may be any aesthetic, size and year of completion. Artworks should in some way reflect the natural world typical of the Southern Maryland Region. Information at www.calvertparks.org/ARTcade.

Questions: call Anne Sundermann (Executive Director Battle Creek Nature Education Society) at 301-204-4730.

Deadline: Ongoing

The Howard County Center for the Arts, a 27,000 square foot facility located in Ellicott City, Maryland, is seeking proposals from artists and curators nationwide for solo and group exhibits for the 2014-2015 gallery season. All original artwork in any media, including installations, will be considered for the general review.

Qualifications: Work previously shown at the Howard County Center for the Arts will not be accepted for review, nor will work previously submitted to the gallery program in the past year. There is no fee to apply. Artists must be at least 18 years old. Artists and curators should submit 10 to 20 slides or jpgs on a cd with an accompanying slide list, an artist/curator statement, resume and application to exhibit, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for the return of application materials. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Call 410.313.2787 or visit www.hocoarts.org for an application. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. For more info please visit www.hocoarts.org