It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012

It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012

 

Submission Deadline: January 23, 2013
Winners Release: February 28, 2013

 

Official website: www.itsliquid.com/contest 

 

The contest is open to artists, architects and designers from all over the world without any limit of age and nationality. Solo artists, architects and designers can participate to the contest as well as groups.

 

Submission instructions

 

- Painting, illustration, photography and computer graphics categories:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, 1 picture for each submitted artwork. All the presented artworks can be accomplished with total stylistic and technical freedom, on every support and with any dimension.
- Installation, sculpture and product design categories:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, with a maximum of 3 pictures for each submitted artwork. All the presented artworks can be accomplished with total stylistic and technical freedom, on every support and with any dimension.
- Fashion design category:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, with a maximum of 3 pictures for each submitted work. Clothing or accessorizes can be presented by photos or sketch.
- Architecture category:
can be presented innovative project regarding bio-architecture, Smart Cities, eco-neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes and eco-sustainability. Interior, residential, commercial and urban project are admitted. Each project should be presented on a maximum of n.3 A3 panels in JPEG or PDF format, containing plans, sections, elevations, renders and text description.
- Video-art and performing art categories:videos in any digital format, PAL or NTSC, whose total length will not have to exceed 15 minutes (opening titles and closing credits admitted) and 3 still images for each submitted video.

 

It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo, offers to artists, architects and designers from all over the world the possibility to participate with their works to It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012, with a free theme and divided into ten categories: 

 

.painting
.sculpture and installation
.photography
.video-art
.computer graphics
.architecture
.performing art
.product design
.fashion design
.illustration

 

The contest is born aiming at promoting contemporary art, photography, architecture and design through all the divulgating tools that the communication platform It’s LIQUID has used for years (press release, mailing list with more than 80,000 subscribers, international contemporary art and design events realization). 

 

AwardsIt’s LIQUID International Contest promotes contemporary art, photography, architecture and design all over the world. Artists have the chance to win €50,000 in prizes, chosen both by public vote and professional jurors. And, among others, there are the chances to win a Solo Exhibition in Venice and a Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, leader cities for contemporary art.

 

- 1 Solo Exhibition in Venice
- 1 Solo Exhibition in Istanbul
- 1 exclusive art residence in Venice (public vote award)
- 1 exclusive art residence in Rome
- 2 exclusive art residences in Istanbul
- 3 exclusive art residences in Turin (Italy)
- 1 year of participation in International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo
- 1 year of interviews, publications and specials on the It’s LIQUID Group (more than 80.000 subscribers)

 

Winners will be selected by public vote (which will award the Venice Art Residence, and will start on January 07, 2013) and by professional jurors’vote (which will award one Solo Exhibition in Venice, one Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, Art Residences in Rome, Istanbul and Turin, 1 year of participation in International ArtExpo’s festivals, 1 year of It’s LIQUID Platform services).

 

Official website: www.itsliquid.com/contest 

 

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www.itsliquid.com 

Call to Artists - West End Art Festival

West End Art Festival
 

Call to Artists

   

WHAT:  Fine Art & Fine Craft Fair

WHERE: LaGrange, IL

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday

           September 14 - 15, 2013

           Saturday: 10 - 5; Sunday: 10 - 4  

NOTEWORTHY:

*Maximum of 90 artists. 

*Extensive promotion through media outlets.

*Attendance of over 7,000 visitors.

*Jury/Booth Fees ($10/$285).

*Friday Setup; drive up to your space for load-in and load-out.    

  

*Top Artist Amenities including Continental breakfast both days.

 

Celebrating its 18th year, the West End Art Festival is a LaGrange tradition whose purpose is to bring a quality, fine art event to the Village of LaGrange and surrounding communities and highlight the west end business district. Artists from across the country participate in LaGrange's late summer festival that attracts art admirers and patrons each year.

Presented by the LaGrange Business Association and held in cooperation with the Village of LaGrange, the festival is held in the shadow of the landmark Stone Avenue Station along Burlington Avenue between Brainard and Spring Avenues. The charming and historic West End area of LaGrange provides a picture-perfect setting to showcase art. Other highlights include live music, food from local LaGrange restaurants and children's art activities for an event to be enjoyed by all ages.

     

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

  

New Deadline:

March 1, 2013

  

Notification:

April 1, 2013

Booth Fee Due:

On Acceptance 

  

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit:

www.emevents.com

Email inquiries to:

erin@emevents.com

Or call:

Erin Melloy

630-536-8416 

Call to Artists - Patriot-News Artsfest

Patriot-News Artsfest  Call to Artists WHAT:  Fine Art and Fine Craft Festival WHERE: Downtown Harrisburg, PA, Riverfront Park WHEN: Saturday, Sunday and Monday            Memorial Day Weekend            May 27-27, 2013 NOTEWORTHY: *46th Annual Event. *Limited to 275 juried fine artists and craft persons. *$200,000 advertising budget: print, radio, television and billboards. *Jury/Booth Fees ($25/$370-$800; single to double corner; see website for details). *Friday Setup; drive-up load-in and load-out. *Attendance: 25,000 (source: paid admissions). *Artist Amenities including continental breakfast all three days, Sunday evening artists' dinner, booth sitters, 24-hour security. *For more details about the show, click HERE The Patriot-News Artsfest, held on the beautiful banks of the Susquehanna River in downtown Harrisburg, PA, is a decades-long Memorial Day weekend tradition for area residents.  An exceptional marketing program draws show visitors from both the environs of Pennsylvania's capitol city and across the state.  Easy load-in and load-out and attentive staff and volunteers, as well as large, attentive crowds, make the weekend a favorite among returning artists. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS VIA: www.zapplication.org or directly to the festival.  Click HERE for downloadable application. Deadline:  January 28, 2013  Email inquiries to: Janet Reed jreed@harrisburgarts.org You may also contact by telephone: 717-238-5180

Homing: An installation and Art Exhibit

"Homing:  An installation and Art Exhibit"  

Featuring work by Todd Laby with Audrey Heller and Pamela Merory Dernham

StoreFrontLab, 337 Shotwell Street, San Francisco. www.storefrontlab.org

February 7^th-February 23^rd, 2013

Opening Reception, February 7^th 7PM-9PM, Closing reception, February 23^rd, 7PM-9PM. Exhibit hours: Wed 11:30-1:30 and Thurs.-Sat. 3-7.

Visual artists Todd Laby, Audrey Heller and Pamela Merory Dernham come together to wade through the messiness of how we set our bearings when our notions of origin and destination are in reality mere approximations.  Through sculpture and installation the artists explore unsettled notions of returning to origin, memory as approximation, positioning and finding one’s bearings.

Laby’s installation “Migrating Houses” asks what happens when the ideal of home is uprooted.  He has sculpted a herd of wooden houses, lifted skyward on spindly legs, teetering on a steel ground that no longer offers a way for them to plant their foundations. These delicate, vulnerable forms evoke fascination and empathy, as they seem pulled between collapse and lift off.  Over several weeks, the houses will journey through the StoreFrontLab.  Are they seeking a permanent location?  Are they leaving behind an environment that no longer sustains them? Laby's "Migrating Houses" provokes the viewer to consider our ideal of home, whether it be dwelling, town or country. Do we inhabit the world of this uprooted herd?

Pamela Merory Dernham's passion as an artist is for the depiction of human interaction:  the intertwining of feeling, thought, and experience, expressed by gesture and attitude, that tie us together.  She finds the root of this in our need to rely on each other in order to survive. One of the conflicts of this need is over who is at home where.   How implacable is this concept or how accepting of variability is it?  How influential is our fundamental relationship to each other as human beings?  What influences the answers to these questions?  The history of humankind is full of various resolutions.  This issue is personal for Dernham because half of her mother's family became considered alien in their home and was slaughtered.  How were the survivors to find a home?  Was it possible to find a home?  Dernham's steel wire figures are a metaphor for her rebuilding of her family, her relations, and the connections that she lost.  As Dernham's figures bear witness to the migration of the houses possible answers to these many questions resonate between them.

Laby and Audrey Heller’s collaboration “Moving Boxes” invites the viewer to peer into an array of boxes, representing the objects and emotions that we pack and bring with us from place to place. Each interior holds a tiny scene, a diorama of memorabilia, images of home, daily life and things of the past, or representations of feelings and dreams. The scenes evoke memory, and nostalgia, as well as joy and a sense of connection.   The viewer may find their own memory stimulated by universal images, or question the nature and reliability of memory itself, and the way that our sense of self is tied to our objects.

For more information Please contact: Todd Laby at toddlaby@me.com

Artist Websites:

www.toddlaby.com,  www.audreyheller.com,  www.pmdernham.com

Call to Artists - Tulsa International Mayfest

Tulsa International Mayfest        Call to Artists WHAT: Juried Fine Art and Craft Festival    WHERE: The heart of beautiful downtown Tulsa, OK on Main Street       WHEN:    May 16 - 19, 2013               Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.               Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.                NOTEWORTHY: *Limited to 100 fine artists and 25 crafters  *Cash awards include $1,500 Best of Show and $300 Bests of Medium    *Promotion of the event to the art-buying public in newspapers, radio, direct mail, press releases, billboards, magazines and social media valued at over $150,000 *Jury/Booth fees are $35/$350 for a single booth    Tulsa International Mayfest, in cooperation with the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, is making plans to stage Tulsa's first festival of the festival season, Tulsa International Mayfest 2013, May 16-19. Mayfest is an outdoor tribute to the arts that is a family-oriented event created to promote a broader knowledge of and appreciation for visual and musical arts among serious, as well as casual, art lovers.    Attracting over 350,000 people, Mayfest will feature a variety of arts including visual, music and dance. One of the highlights of spring, Mayfest 2013 will encompass some of the very best in visual and performance arts. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:   Deadline:  January 31, 2013 Notification:  February 27, 2013 Booth fee due:  March 29, 2013 For more information and to apply: http://tulsamayfest.org/ or www.zapplication.org

Women's Studio Workshop Classes in Europe!

SAI is Going Abroad! On the fence about joining Women's Studio Workshop for class in Europe this summer? Prepare to be won over by the gorgeous locations we snagged for our classes! Shelley Thorstensen will be teaching "Color into Print" in the profoundly beautiful Tuscany, located deep in wine country. Meanwhile, Tatana Kellner and Susan Fateh are in charge of our brand new addition to the SAI line-up, "Printing at the Edge," they're taking over a lighthouse on the gorgeous shores in Rubha Reidh, Scotland. Color into Print :  Antica Tenuta Le Casacce, Seggiano, Tuscany  Shelley Thorstensen   Picture the colors of Tuscany, changing hues from dawn to dusk. Rolling landscapes of yellow ochre and verde fields accented by vermillion, poppy, terra-cotta, siena, and umber earth. White-washed medieval architecture surrounded by century-old olive groves. Sepia pasta with porcini fired over the grill, that golden oil which is at times lime or pure molten ore.  You'll be surrounded by the timeless, pastoral beauty of Tuscany. Antica Tenuta le Casacce dates back to 1260 with history as an oil press site. Now, recently renovated in the 1990's, this Tuscan beauty is now the site for producing an extraordinary type of extra virgin olive oil. The breathtaking natural scenery of Tuscany can best be enjoyed by walking, cycling, or riding throughout the area.    Color Into Print Shelley Thorstensen July 9 - 18 $4100 single/ $3700 double Registration Deadline: February 15 Register online or by calling: (845) 658-9133  To learn more about this fabulous Italian getaway, check out their site!  New! Printing at the Edge :  Rubha Reidh, Scotland Tatana Kellner & Susan Fateh    Gorgeous endless skies, rugged cliffs, shimmering shores, and exquisitely long, long days with lingering sunsets. Rubha Reidh (also known as Rua Reidh) in Scotland showcases some of the best mountain and coastal scenery available in Britain.  Spend nine days not only learning printmaking, but discovering the natural beauty of this road-less countryside and all of the incredible wildlife inhabiting it. Rubha Reidh is home to the magnificent, and incredibly rare, golden eagle. Dolphins, seals, otters, and even whales can be seen from the shores of this magnificent location.     Take a hike along the seaside cliffs, through the ancient woodland moors, and along the sandy beaches breathing in the fresh air of Scotland.     Printing at the Edge Tatana Kellner and Susan Fateh June 17- 26 $3600 single/ $3150 double Registration Deadline: Jan. 31 Register online, or by calling: (845) 658-9133 Interested? Check out some more information on Rubha Reidh, Scotland! Call WSW at 845.658.9133 to register today! For more information, check out our website: www.wsworkshop.org Women's Studio Workshop  PO Box 489   Rosendale, NY 12472

Call for Artists/Architects/Designers: SMART Cities & HYBRID Identities | Venice . January 25/26/27, 2013

Call for Artists/Architects/Designers: SMART Cities & HYBRID Identities | Venice . January 25/26/27, 2013Photography / Video Art / Computer Graphics / Architecture / Performing Art   Deadline: January 10, 2013   Prize1 Year of participation in International art exhibitions organized by International ArtExpo, all over the world.   International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short films, photo works, computer graphics works, architecture projects and performances, to include in the next 2013 Exhibition:   SMART Cities & HYBRID Identities - International Art Festival of Photography, Video Art, Computer Graphics, Architecture and Performing Art, at Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Venice, during the fabulous Carnival of Venice.   organizer: International ArtExpo   opening: January 25, 2013 venue: Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Venice dates: January 25/26/27, 2013   The deadline for applications is January 10, 2013   The selections will be based on the main concept of hybridization between identities and urban environment to create a smart life. People, backgrounds, societies, progress and all their inputs creates hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. Mixing sustainable transport; modern (ICT) communication infrastructure; sustainable economic development; and wise management of natural resources, human, intellectual and social capital, is the key to reach a future better life quality. Be smart. Be hybrid. Be better.   The event is open to photography, video art, computer graphics, architecture and performing art.   Send your works submission with all the required material via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:   International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy   The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.   During the event will be exhibited the artworks of “ID / Identities” Istanbul 2012 WINNER.   After the event, our organization will select the winning artist of 1 year of participation (6 events) in International art exhibitions organized by International ArtExpo, all over the world.   International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.   International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari (Italy) +39.0805234018 +39.3387574098 lucacurci@lucacurci.com www.lucacurci.com/artexpo