DEADLINE: October 1, 2012!
How
does weather affect the artistic muse? The National Weather Center at
the University of Oklahoma teams up with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of
Art and the Norman Arts Council to explore the theme of weather in art
with the National Weather Center Biennale - the first national juried
exhibition featuring art about weather. The biennale officially begins
Earth Day, April 22.
Prizes totaling $25,000 will
be offered to the top winners. An overall prize of $10,000 will be
awarded to one work for Best in Show, with $5,000 given to the
first-place winners in three categories: painting, works on paper and
photography.
The National Weather Center Biennale is open to artists of any nationality over the age of 18.
Registration began April 22 on the biennale's official website at www.nwcbiennale.org.
Artists may enter up to three works in any combination of categories.
The entry fee is $25 for the first entry and $10 for each subsequent
entry. Registration closes Oct. 1. Works selected for an exhibition to
be held in 2013 will be notified in late 2012.
The exhibition of selected
works, including the prize winners', will open to the public Earth Day,
April 22, 2013, at the National Weather Center and will close June 2,
2013.
Additional information about the exhibition is available on the website and the biennale's Facebook and Twitter pages.
Alan Atkinson, an art
instructor at OU, will serve as the exhibition curator and part of the
initial selection committee. Joining Atkinson as initial jurors will be
Berrien Moore and Erinn Gavaghan, executive director of the Norman Arts
Council. The initial judges will select 100 works from the submitted art
entries for the exhibition.
Three nationally renowned
guest jurors representing national meteorology, contemporary art museums
and current artists will then select the winning pieces from each of
the three categories, as well as the Best of Show prize, from the
initial 100 selected works. These judges will be announced at a later
date on the biennale's website.
The National Weather Center's website is www.nwc.ou.edu. Additional information about the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is available online at www.ou.edu/fjjma and the Norman Arts Council's website is www.normanarts.org.
