Exhibition Opportunity: Half the Sky

WCA's International Caucus has created a global opportunity in China for BOTH women artists and essayists for April 2014.

We are so very fortunate to offer Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art. This is an unprecedented, art-based cultural exchange for women artists and essayists in the US to exhibit and share their work with women artists in China at LuXun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang. Luxun Academy is one of the premier art academies in China.

We are also privileged to have amazing jurors:  Alma Ruiz, Senior Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, for the art and Terri Weissman, assistant professor of Art History at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for the essays.

This is a big project!

It is both an exhibition and cultural exchange.  

• Our Call for Art can be accessed on our International Caucus website. Artists working in all mediums are welcome to answer the call. http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/call-for-art-half-the-sky-intersections-in-social-practice-art.html The deadline is October 6, 2013.
  
• Our Call for Essays can also be accessed on our International Caucus website. We are pleased to be able to include writers, professors and historians in this project! http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/call-for-essays-half-the-sky-intersections-in-social-practice-art.html#dashboard The deadline is October 13, 2013.
  
  

• A small working delegation of WCA members will go to LuXun Academy to build community, enhance mutual understanding, share our artistic perspectives and techniques through art-based events that this delegation will lead. More information about the delegation can be found on our Half the Sky home page http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/half-the-sky-2014shenyang-china.html
  
  
• As a whole, the project is social practice art and we will be doing a lot of documenting!

We really need your help!

1) We ask your assistance in sharing our Indiegogo campaign to people you know, through your social media and email contacts. The campaign is also now live and will run through September 14th. Please also share this far and wide. We encourage everyone to contribute as soon as possible. Here is the link to our campaign page  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/466573/wdgi/3967541  And here is the short link  igg.me/at/WCA-China-Indiegogo

Where will the money go?

• $6,000 is our minimum goal for this Indiegogo campaign! It will cover:
• $1200 room and board for the full delegation (4 days/nights at the Academy)
• $100 travel stipends for each delegate (15 delegates)
• editing and printing of catalogs
• printing of signage, posters and postcards
• tech equipment (hard drives, computer tablet, converters, speakers)
• baggage fees for tech equipment
• art materials for interactive events
• gifts for the Chinese artists and our hosts at LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/half-the-sky-2014shenyang-china.html

CALLS FOR ENTRIES

Terrace Gallery and throughout Artisphere::
PHOTO/VIDEO 2013
DEADLINE: JANUARY 29, 2013 
EXHIBITION DATES: Thu June 13 – Sat July 27, 2013
ELIGIBILITY: This exhibition is open to all amateur and professional photographers/video artists (18 years and older) who live, work, study or have a studio in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia or the District of Columbia. Photographers may work in any photographic medium. Video artists can submit work up to 60MB each. Artists may submit in both categories but must pay for each entry fee.
JURORS: Frank Goodyear, associate curator of photographs, National Portrait Gallery and Alberto Gaitán, Arlington, Virginia-based, new media artist, composer, programmer and former Artisphere exhibiting artist. Submissions accepted September 1 , 2012 - January 29, 2013
AWARDS: Two (2) $500 Juror’s Choice Photography Awards / One (1) $500 Juror’s Choice Video Award.
ENTRY FEE: $30
Please click here for more information.

Open Call for New Media & Video: No deadline
Submissions are accepted throughout the year.
Open call for New Media and Video seeks to enrich the creative process by cultivating awareness of and fostering dialogue about innovative projects on visual arts. Multiple projects will be selected for Artisphere’s different spaces via new media technologies and reviewed by a selection committee which includes Artisphere staff. NO ENTRY FEE. If you have a curatorial suggestion for the Terrace Gallery, please email Visual Arts Curator Cynthia Connolly at cconnolly@arlingtonva.us.

Works in Progress Gallery 
The Works in Progress (WIP) Gallery is situated at the entrance to the Terrance Gallery. The WIP Gallery investigates and exhibits works-in-progress from multiple creative disciplines. By examining different processes, structures, experiments, projects and artwork, the WIP provides the public a window into the creative process. Calls will be posted here for the WIP Gallery when time slots become available.

Mezz Gallery
The Mezz Gallery at Artisphere promotes the work of artists and curators who live, work, study or have a studio in Arlington, Virginia as well as artists from our Sister Cities program. (Aachen, Germany; Reims, France; and Oaxaca and Coyoácan, Mexico.) Artists and curators may propose individual or group exhibits to be featured along the 140 running feet of wall space. Group shows may feature work from non-Arlington artists so long as the curator meets the requirements. Shows are scheduled one to two years in advance. Calls for entries for the next exhibition schedule will be posted in 2013.

Call for Art: Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grants for Artists 2012 - DC

(New) Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grants for Artists 2012 - DC

Deadline: September 15, 12. The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund invites visual artists (excluding filmmakers, video artists, and performance artists) to apply for grants to enable recipients to develop their talent and concentrate on their art. Artists must be 40 years or older, and must live within 150 miles of Washington, DC. Three grants totaling $60,000 were awarded in 2011. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2011.  Application forms are available for download from  www.baderfund.org.  Send email inquiries to grants@baderfund.org or call 202-288-4608. Please note that the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund no longer accepts slides. All images must be submitted in digital form. For details, see the application form, which may be downloaded from the Fund's website.

Opportunities: Call for Entry

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
MiniSolos@Touchstone is coming back in August 2012!

DEADLINE TO APPLY:
We were told the amount of time to apply was too short so we are extending the deadline till June 5, 2012 - midnight.
MiniSolos@Touchstone Gallery in August 2012 - Washington, DC

An opportunity to hang as much artwork as possible in a space 10ft x 4ft for the month of August at Touchstone Gallery a contemporary gallery in the heart of Washington, DC. Digital images of all artwork required with application. There will be room for only 38 artists; each space about 10ft high x 4ft and 1 floor space for sculptor 5ft x 5ft. $240 hanging fee; work willbe installed by our hanging committee. No entry fee. Application deadline: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 12 midnight. Must submit filled out application form downloaded fromwww.touchstonegallery.com E-mail it to images.touchstone@gmail.com along with images of the works you intend to show.

Full Prospectus, Application form and
other information are available for download on Touchstone's website: www.touchstonegallery.com

Visual Arts Fellowship with Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Professional artists, graduate and undergraduate art students, graduate art history students, college-bound high school seniors may apply.

Deadline November 9, 2012. Visit www.VMFA.museum/fellowships  for eligibility requirements and application.

Call for Artists: WPA

Call for Entries: Experimental Media 2012, Video Screening Jurors: Max Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Media Art & Technology, Gallaudet University and Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Assistant Professor at Parsons MFA in Design and Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory    Screening Dates: April and May, 2012 (exact dates TBA) Screening Locations: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC and Artisphere, Arlington, VA Submission Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012, 5pm Download the Full Call  Washington Project for the Arts announces an open call for video-based artworks to be screened at The Phillips Collection and at Artisphere, in April and May of 2012. From the videos selected for the screening, one work will be awarded the 2012 Kraft Prize for New Media, a cash prize of $750. The video series is part of Experimental Media 2012, a broader WPA program that also includes an exhibition at Artisphere and a series of free public workshops. The exhibition, screening series, and surrounding programming will explore recent developments in the field of art and technology, including the growth of open source software and hardware, the emergence of grassroots do-it-yourself hacker communities, and the increasing ubiquity of networked devices in daily life. While highlighting the creative potential of this new technology, Experimental Media 2012also seeks projects that explore the broader social and cultural implications of these rapid changes. Within the broader context of developments in art and technology, this call seeks video work addressing the ever-increasing flood of information and data in contemporary life and the tendency to make connections and exchange information across disparate fields of thought. These may include but aren't limited to exchanges and connections that are physical, transmitted, informational, emotional, cognitive, social, political, economic, cultural, chemical, molecular, electric, fluid, sonic, quantum, virtual, or identity-based. While the Experimental Media Exhibition will feature interactive works that employ technology, artificial, and natural systems to build experiences through manipulating the flow of information, the Experimental Media Video Screening will include works that use video as a medium to similarly explore characteristics of this new landscape of data flow, perception, and exchange between systems, whether human, gestural, cultural, chemical, political, or virtual.   For submission guidelines and additional information, see the full call.   About the Jurors   Max Kazemzadeh is an electronic and emergent media artist engineer and Assistant Professor of Media Art & Technology at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. His work focuses on how constructed, semi-conscious interfaces influence human interaction. In addition to widely exhibiting his own work, he has experience organizing and curating festivals and exhibitions. Kazemzadeh organized the conference Texelectronica '06 (Dallas), served as the chair of the electronic media art session at the 2008 College Art Association Conference, served as a juror for SIGGRAPH 2007, and has given annual interactive hardware/software workshops at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing since 2004. His work has been exhibited internationally in such venues as the Microwave Festival (Hong Kong), the Boston CyberArts Festival, Mediala-Prado's Interactivos 08 (Mexico City), Dashanzi International Art Festival (Beijing), IDMA IDEA's Exhibition/Symposium (Ohio), Fotofest (Houston), Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), Maker Faire (Austin), LA Center for Digital Art (Los Angeles), The Gerald Peters Gallery (New York), and the Dallas Contemporary. Kazemzadeh is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth (United Kingdom). He holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas. Dr. Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer based in New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Parsons MFA in Design & Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory (ADHT). From 2001-2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe and from 2006-2007 he was an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes over 77 projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group), recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO, and was a 2006 and 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED, Make, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been presented at events and organizations such as Transmediale, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort, Ars Electronica, Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Palais Du Tokyo. About Washington Project for the Arts  Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the essential resources to support the creative spirit and success of regional artists. WPA presents contemporary art through imaginative and provocative programs, and connects artists with the community in both traditional and unexpected ways. Since its founding in 1975 by Alice Denney, WPA has showcased the works of thousands of artists and has reached hundreds of thousands of visitors and viewers with its programs and projects. Today WPA stands as the oldest and largest 501(c)(3) artist membership organization in the region and the premier source for excellence in contemporary art. For more information about WPA and its programming, visit www.wpadc.org.