OAKLAND ART GALLERY OPEN CALL - BAY AREA CURRENTS 2008
BAY AREA CURRENTS
OAKLAND ART GALLERY
OPEN CALL - BAY AREA CURRENTS 2008
July 18th, 2008 - September 12th, 2008
ONLINE APPLICATION: https://db.proartsgallery.org/oag/bac_08.php
TIMELINE
OPEN CALL CLOSES
September 12th, 2008
JURYING
September 12 -19, 2008
STUDIO VISITS
September 26-28
EXHIBITION
October 15- November 22, 2008
RECEPTION
October 16, 5-8pm
ARTISTS/CURATOR TALK
November 20, 6-8pm
JUROR: Aimee Reed
Aimee Reed earned her M.A. in art history at San Francisco State University, focusing on spatial theory and the previously marginalized artist. She has worked with a variety of artists and curators including LeFalle Curatorial, The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and New York, and with the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery and the International Center for the Arts. Currently she is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, as well as a contributing writer for Artweek Magazine and the website Open Door Contemporary Art Projects (www.odcap.com).
Eligibility
Artists must be at least 18 years of age. Artists who have exhibited at the gallery in 2007 are ineligible to apply. Artists must live or have a studio in one of the 9 Bay Area Counties.
NO EXCEPTIONS
Media Works in all media are acceptable. Works must have been completed within the last two years.
The schedule for studio visits is September 26th, 27th and 28th. Artists must be available (or arrange for a representative) at their studio for a visit during this time.
How do I apply?
The application can be accessed here: https://db.proartsgallery.org/oag/bac_08.php. You simply create an account, fill out an application and submit your images online. There is a $30 application fee. All standard entries must be submitted online. We will only accept works in new media by mail.
All Completed Entries Must Include:
1. Completed Entry Form
2. Up to 5 images
3. Image List
4. Artist Statement: The statement must be no longer than one page. Include your name and contact information on the top.
5. Entry Fee: $30.00 in the form of Visa or MC. New media entries can send a check or money order payable to: Oakland Art Gallery.
CONTINUING OPEN CALL: CALIFORNIA HISTORY WALK
Prospectus for California History Walk at the Oakland Art Gallery
September 2008Artists are invited to create a single work about an experience or memory pertaining to California history. This memory can be personal or traditional/ collective, or evoke the “natural” history of the state.
A personal history can be of a particular place, a remembered event or a personal influence; a childhood field trip, or a more recent visit to a particular site or building. It does, however, need to be something demonstrably evocative of California.
A work based in traditional or collective memory might evoke a “historical” person, landmark or event.
Natural history includes events relating to any flora, fauna, fish or fowl, land or seascape that is California.
Why California? Why history? And why a memory of history?
California has often been invoked as the furthest frontier and the seedbed for the future of the country, for good or ill. It is undeniably a place that nourishes new ideas and trends. But California has as many histories as inhabitants– and few of those histories have been publicly explored.
History is based upon memory as much as fact—and on who has control of the historical narrative. This exhibition offers an opportunity for Californian artists to explore the relationship between their own recollections and experiences and public conceptions of the state’s past.
Memories of course can be investigated and substantiated as the artist see fit.
The work will be judged upon artistic integrity, poignancy and aesthetics, rather than on historical accuracy.
Already existing works can be submitted, (work no older than 3 years please) but this is primarily an invitation to create something new.
The Closing Event:
At the conclusion of the show there will be a closing event in which all artists will be required to participate. Through a “cakewalk,” works will be exchanged for either another piece of art or for a prize. The event will be interactive and non-submitting participants will be able to purchase a ticket to play.
Further details will be given out for participating artists.
“California History Walk”
Open: California
Jurors: Maria Porges, Jo Ford
Media: All except Performance, (Film / Video acceptance based upon willingness to supply media support)
Size: 3′ x 3′ (maximum)
Fee: none
Hand deliver: Sept 4 - Sept 6 (Thursday – Saturday) Thurs / Fri 12pm - 6p.m., Sat. 12-2p.m.
Pick-up of non-accepted work: Sept. 11 - Sept. 13 (Wednesday - Friday) Wed / Fri / Thurs 12p.m. -6 p.m., Sat. 12-2p.m.
Exhibition Dates:September 17 - Sept 27, 2008
Ways to Support OAG
Make a DonationOAG is a non-profit 501(c)3 gallery space, donations are tax deductible. Federal Tax Identification Number: 47-0853006. Help support us today!!
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Call for Entries: Pro Arts New Visions 2008
Pro Arts New Visions 2008
Call for Entries
Pre-Registration Deadline: August 16, 6pm
One Day to Submit Work - Same Day Registration: August 20, 12-7pm
Exhibition: August 28 - October 24Selections by Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator and Director of Programs and Collections, Berkeley Art Museum, and Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California.
New Visions 2008 presents works juried by members of the Bay Area arts community. Selections are made from actual works in person. Participation is open to all artists, from anywhere, of any age. Artists may submit up to five works. See website for entry form and online registration. http://proartsgallery.org/callforentry/index.html
Pro Arts is a nonprofit artist-based organization that nurtures the diverse cultural communities in the East Bay by exhibiting artists’ work and providing a venue for furthering communication in the arts. Pro Arts offers youth and community programs, and provides professional art services to partnering institutions off-site. Last year Pro Arts exhibited 580 artists and produced 53 events drawing an annual audience of 65,000.
Pro Arts is located at 550 Second Street, Oakland, CA, 94607. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon - 6pm; and Sunday, Noon - 5pm. Free Admission. More information available online at www.proartsgallery.org
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A Studio in the Woods Announces Changing Landscapes, Three Funded 6-Week Residencies
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New Application Round Solitude
For the twelfth time in 18 years the international residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude – located in Stuttgart, Germany – is granting approx. 65 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. From 2009 to 2011 a total funding amount of 1.36 millions will be distributed: 860.000 Euro for grants and appr. 500.000 Euro for projects.
A public foundation opened in 1990 and funded by the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, the Akademie Schloss Solitude operates an international residency program awarding live/work fellowships to artists. Hundreds of artists from over 75 countries have developed and advanced projects at the Akademie since its opening, creating a close-knit, global network of Solitude alumni that expands from year to year.
International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: Architecture (architecture design, urban studies, landscape design), Visual Arts (including performance art and curatorial practice), Performing Arts (stage design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, dance, acting, musical theater, performance), Design (visual communication, fashion, costume, product or furniture design), Literature (theory/criticism, essay, poetry, fiction, translation), Music/Sound (sound installation, sound and music composition, sound and music performance) and Video/Film/New Media (including video installation).
For the second time, the application round also offers the possibility to apply for a residency fellowship in the art, science & business program. Scholars, scientists and professionals from the disciplines of the Humanities, the Natural Sciences and Economics are invited to apply.
Persons up to 35 or who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Currently enrolled university or college students (at the time of application) will not be considered for selection. Each fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1.000 per month, in addition to free lodging. The independent jury consists of a jury chairperson and specialist jurors who independently allocate the fellowships for their respective disciplines.
The jurors for the twelfth application round are: Beatriz Colomina, Princeton/USA (Architecture), Dan Graham, New York/USA (Visual Arts), Christoph Schlingensief, Berlin/Germany (Performing Arts), Yves Béhar, San Francisco/USA (Design), Mircea Cartarescu, Bucharest/Romania (Literature), Lucia Ronchetti, Rome/Italy (Music/Sound) and Sarah Morris, New York/USA (Video/Film/New Media). For the art, science & business program: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford/USA (Humanities), Vadim Bolshakov, Boston/USA (Natural Sciences) and Caroline Gerschlager, Vienna/Austria (Economics).
Application deadline is October 31, 2008 (Postmark). As of July 1, application forms can be downloaded from the application website http://application.akademie-solitude.de.
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CALL FOR ARTISANS AND GALLERIES/BERKELEY ARTISANS HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIOS
Dear Artists and Galleries,
Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios is a well respected event, known for the high caliber of the work shown. It is marketed aggressively to an ever growing audience. We are already preparing for the 2008 Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios.
There are many details involved in this project. We are asking that you let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. This helps us plan the event.
This year we will do the following:
- We will do extensive media outreach, local, regional and national;
- Print 50,000 maps/directories and posters (many are still being used and requested);
- Entire Map/Directory printed weekly in The East Bay Express during the event (listing all participating artists, groups and galleries);
- Weekly Advertising during the event in each of the following papers:
- The East Bay Express
- The San Francisco Chronicle
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Website www.berkeleyartisans.com where the map and listings can be read on-line or downloaded with links to participants’ sites;
- Your contact info and link to your site for 12 months on www.berkeleyartisans.com
- Plus more!
Dates: Nov. 29-30, Dec. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 2008
Spaces on the map/directory are limited.
Deadline September 8 (or when full)
Artisans participate from their studios in Berkeley (or nearby).
Susan Brooks
Berkeley Artisans
http://www.berkeleyartisans.com
berkeleyartisans@yahoo.com
2547 8th Street, 24a
Berkeley, California 94710
510 845-2612
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Christmas Present! An open call to artists!
Christmas Present! An open call to artists!
Every year most galleries (ourselves included) end the year with the predictable affordable Christmas miniatures exhibition. We are bored with the timing and have therefore decided to have Christmas in late August instead! Hence the name Christmas Present (as in now not then) and of course that it will be a great opportunity to stock up on potential sticking fillers or great small gifts way ahead of the rush of Christmas. We will celebrate with mince pies and Sherry as it will still be cool enough to simulate a European Christmas.
Artists are invited to submit up to 5 small images, sculptures, multiples or prints for this show in any medium. In addition to the show at gordart gallery, some works will be selected for show at Sell! Sell! Sell! curated for the Aardklop Festival in Potchefstroom late in September by Gordon Froud.
So put on your creative thinking cap and submit something fun, something powerful, something beautiful without the Christmas theme or Kitschy overtones. Smaller than 40cm in any direction including frames but closer to 10cm would be fabulous. We need to receive the work by August 23 to hang for the opening on 31 August. We do however need to know how many people will participate as soon as possible, so drop us a line to confirm. Participation will be charged at R100.00 per artist for up to 5 works. We look forward to your reply. Feel free to forward this email on to anyone who you think will be interested.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Gordon Froud.
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Call for Costumes and Art!
Hello Art Comrades,
I want to personally invite you and/or your artist friends to submit artwork or proposals for a very exciting show and event we are putting on in collaboration with the de Young Museum’s college outreach program here at JFKU’s Arts & Consciousness Gallery in Berkeley. The exhibition will run from November 1- November 23 in the Arts & Consciousness Gallery in Berkeley, and our opening event on Saturday night (Nov.1) will spill into the Berkeley campus halls, studios and classrooms. In addition to displaying 2D and 3D works in our gallery, we’re also looking for time-based performance works, films/videos, installations, djs and “happenings” for the opening night reception/costume party that will run from 6pm-11pm throughout our entire campus space.
Entitled ” Balancing Perspectives: East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art”, this exhibition and event will be a showcase for art work that is inspired, influenced or created through creative processes that draw on East Asian philosophies or influences, but are not necessarily what might be traditional contextualized as “Asian Art”. A community outreach component of the de Young’s upcoming Asian/American/Modern Art exhibition scheduled for fall, “Balancing Perspectives” at JFKU is open to any Bay Area artist who is a current student, alum or faculty of any Bay Area college or university. We’ll also consider inclusion based soley on the work’s connection to our theme. Please read on for more information, and pass this email on to your artsy/dance-y/performing/ film-making/musician friends who might be interested.
Balancing Perspectives: East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art explores the artwork of contemporary artists from diverse ethnic, social and geographical backgrounds who have embraced philosophical influences and expressive styles inspired by East Asian tradition. This exhibit asks important questions about the meaning of ‘Asian’ culture, seen here as a philosophical and spiritual rather than ethnographic term. This exhibition seeks to investigate some of the artistic foundations which make the cultural traditions of China, Korea and Japan relevant to the contemporary global dialectic on culture, meaning and identity. As East Asia emerges as a global economic and political force, its cultural and historical perspectives offer an exciting new way to re-frame contemporary art. <
For more information and to submit work electronically, please go to http://sites.google.com/a/nexusartreach.org/balancingperspectives/
If you have any problems or would like a person to connect with, email Rumin Jehangir:
Hope to hear from you soon! (and please don’t forget to pass this on!)
Robbyn Alexander
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SF Center for the Book Roadworks: Steamroller Prints 9-20-08
On September 20th 2008 SF Center for the Book will be hosting its 5th annual Steamroller Print.
For more information on this event check out the pdf…
Click here to download the pdf for this event
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Call for Entry: The Works Art & Design Festival
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International Video Contest: VIDEOFEST 2008
Hola comunidad!, This years Video Fest 2008 and Contest will be in the
Mission District in San Francisco.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts invite all video artists around the
world to participate with the theme EXISTENCE-CO-EXISTENCE:
http://www.videofest.blogspot.com
Deadline for Entries will be the First of September.
Por favor re-enviar esta informacion a todos los amigos
-gracias-
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