Opportunity

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in Portfolio Showcase, Volume 3 Book and Online Exhibition.

Opportunity

Submit work for the Applied Arts Student Awards.

Information

The Applied Arts Student Awards is the largest and most respected show of its kind in North America which makes winning an Applied Arts Student Award a great way to launch a student’s career. It’s also a great way to promote your school! All student submissions will be judged by respected senior communications professionals, ensuring that winners meet or exceed the highest standards in the industry.

Categories and online entry form: http://www.appliedartsmag.com/st_awards/

Requirements

Deadline: May 15, 2009

Contact

Contact Carrie Martin at awards@appliedartsmag.com,
or by phone, 416-510-0909 x32 (outside Toronto: 1-800-646-0347).

Opportunity

The University of Richmond Museums presents Warhol’s Photographs and Pictures: Selections from the Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, on view from March 20 to May 15, 2009.

Information

The exhibition includes more than fifty photographs taken by Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) from 1970 to 1987. With photographs ranging from Polaroid portrait sittings to black-and-white candid shots and landscapes, the exhibition offers insight into Warhol’s artistic process and creative milieu.

The exhibition is made up of selections from a gift of 102 Polaroid photographs in addition to 51 black-and-white silver gelatin prints as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy program. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the organization donated more than 28,500 original Warhol photographs valued in excess of $28 million and divided amongst 183 college and university art museums in the United States. This initiative sought to provide greater access to many of Warhol’s works that have remained unseen.

When: Monday, March 23 - Friday, May 15, 2009
Where: Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia 23173

Requirements

Contact

Opportunity

The Red Bull Art of Can is a nationwide hunt for creativity and is open to everyone, from fulltime artists to simply those with a creative flare. Build, sculpt, weld, glue, hammer, bend, fold, print, tape and paint, whatever!

Information

Be bold! Send a message. Make a statement. Your primary material must be a Red Bull can but you will need to add plenty of imagination and creativity. Make a sculpture, a picture, a 3-D model, a mobile, a video or a piece of modern art but make it beautiful, colorful, clever, amusing or outrageous. 

For more information, or to register your art, visit www.redbullartofcan.com
The 2009 Red Bull Art of Can exhibit will be held in Washington, D.C. at Union Station on October 8-19

Requirements

Registration will be open until May 15, 2009.

Contact

www.redbullartofcan.com

Opportunity

Artists are invited to submit entries for pre-selection in the thirteenth annual Sculpture by the Sea to be staged along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama in Sydney, Australia from October 29- November 15, 2009

Information

application-form

entry-form

Requirements

Deadline: April 20, 2009

Only one work per artist will be pre-selected and no entry fees are refundable.
The entry fees are:
• General entry fee is $40 inclusive of GST for the first proposal;
• Concession entry fee is $25 inclusive of GST per proposal. Those eligible include full time students, the unemployed and health care card holders (please provide proof of eligibility, a photocopy of your card will suffice);
• Additional entries. Artists may enter up to 3 works for consideration. For every additional work entered a fee of $25 and another entry form is required (photocopies are fine)
For overseas artists: entry fees can be paid by credit card or by international money order in Australian dollars. Applications will not be accepted if they include payments made in any other currency.

Contact

mailto: info@sculpturebythesea.com
http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/
612 8399 0233

Opportunity

Western Kentucky University, located in Bowling Green Kentucky, seeks artist exhibition proposals for group and solo exhibitions for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Information

The Fine Arts Center galleries at WKU, curated and maintained by the Department of Art, are located on the second floor of the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center and comprise the main, two-story University Gallery and the newly developed 2D Corridor Gallery, opened in 2006. Conveniently laid out and well lit, the gallery houses regular faculty and student shows and a wide variety of temporary exhibitions. Between sixteen and twenty-two shows a year are exhibited in the galleries.

The Main University Gallery has a glass entrance with approximately 88 linear feet of wall space available on the first floor and 100 feet of available wall space on the second floor. The walls are a low pile grey carpeted surface.

The 2D Corridor Gallery consists of locked glass cases that have just over 90 linear feet of space, are six feet high and six inches deep. The walls are a low pile grey carpet.

Submissions for exhibition are reviewed on a yearly basis by the Gallery Director and an advisory committee of WKU Art faculty members.

All media will be considered for exhibition, including video and installation.

- Selected artists for Main Gallery exhibitions will receive a $300 honorarium and are invited to provide an artist lecture and attend a gallery reception at the opening or closing of their exhibition.
- Postcards will be produced for Main Gallery Exhibitions.
- Artists for both Main and Corridor Gallery exhibitions are expected to cover the costs of shipping / transporting their work to and from the gallery.
- Artists are responsible for providing their own insurance while work is on view in the University Galleries.

Requirements

Artists interested in exhibiting in the University Galleries, WKU should send
1. A resume including previous exhibition record
2. artist’s statement
3. 10-20 images of recent work on CD. Images must be 72 dpi, JPEG format, 800 pixels at smallest dimension, and must be labeled with the artist’s last name and entry number corresponding with the list provided. Example: LASTNAME_1.jpg
4. A proposal referencing the specific gallery requested, if applicable.
5. A self-addressed, stamped envelope (at least 9″ x 12″) for return of information and slides.

Interested artists should submit materials to:
Kristina Arnold, Gallery Director
Department of Art
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd
Bowling Green KY 42101

Contact

Opportunity

Amendment , a student literature and arts journal at VCU promoting social change through artistic expression, is currently accepting submissions for our fall 2009 issue.

Information

Our mission is to expand publishing opportunity for emerging artists and writers, while increasing awareness on social and political issues. We publish poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction, essays, photography, drawings, paintings, and other forms of fine and applied arts. Your work may address issues of gender, sexuality, class, racism, oppression, politics, religion, and any other issue you feel is of great importance.

Requirements

To submit, please include your name/pen name, title of work(s), contact information, a brief contributor bio, and attached submission(s) in .jpg format for art or .doc format for writing to the e-mail address listed below. The submission deadline for our fall 2009 issue is April 1, 2009.

Contact

Heather Cohu at amendmentvcu@gmail.com

Opportunity

Opportunity to attend Central Saint Martins 3-week Summer Study Abroad courses in Art and Design in London.

Information

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Requirements

There are no deadlines for applications, however some courses book up quickly. 

Contact

Ashley Palmer
Study Abroad & Projects Coordinator
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Tel: +44 (0)207 514 7285
Fax: +44 (0)207 514 7016
email: a.palmer@csm.arts.ac.uk
web: www.csm.arts.ac.uk

Opportunity

Submit work for The Art of Photography Show.

Information

The Art of Photography show 2009 is an international exhibition of photographic art which will take place August 29 through November 1, 2009 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery , located in the historic Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego, California . The Opening Reception Gala will be on Saturday, August 29th , and will be a world class event!

www.artofphotographyshow.com

Requirements

Deadline: May 22, 2009

Entries must be submitted as digital files in the JPEG format. Image size must be at least 1500 pixels wide (or high, for a vertical image), and must be sent via one of these means:
- Upload via website (preferred method)
- Email to: entries@artofphotographyshow.com
- Mail a CD to the address below
Art of Photography Show
3830 Valley Centre Drive
Suite 705
San Diego, CA 92130 USA

Entry fee: $25 for the first entry, $10 for each additional entry. There is no limit to the number of entries an artist may enter. The entire registration, upload, and payment process can be done securely right on the website.

Contact

Producer, Steven Churchill :
Email: steven@artofphotographyshow.com
Phone: 858-793-0900