7 CALLS FOR ARTISTS - UPCOMING NOVERMBER\DECEMBER
LAST MINUTE REMINDERS…
2021 AKIN STUDIO PROGRAM @ Auto BLDG (158 STERLING)
DEADLINE SATURDAY OCTOBER 31
APPLY HERE: https://www.akincollective.com/autobldg-call-2021
The Akin Studio Program is a unique and publicly open opportunity for art practitioners, curators and writers (hereafter referred to as artists) to lease shared studio space within the historical Auto Building at 158 Sterling Road in Toronto. In addition to a studio space throughout 2021, selected artists will be immersed within a community of peers, offering various opportunities for engagement. Studio members will be encouraged to develop and expand their individual practices while playing a role in the artistic community within the studios itself. Year 1 & 2 Program Cohort members are welcome to re-apply.
Studio Rental Program Start Date: January 7, 2021.
Studio Rental Program End Date: December 31, 2021.
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CALL FOR ART SUBMISSIONS : KEAXU Online Exhibition
DEADLINE OCT 30th 2020
APPLY HERE: keaxu2020@gmail.com
We are calling for artists in what is currently known as Canada to submit their existing works for an art exhibition to be hosted online. The works to be considered for this exhibition will engage dialogues that can be found between our bodies and the land. We welcome submissions from artists working in any media that explore issues related to the relationships between the body, identity, land, and place.
While any medium will be considered, we are especially interested in exhibiting works of art including (but not limited to) land-based performances, actions, and multimedia presentations.
Submission Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2020, Notification of Results: Monday, November 2, 2020
MORE INFO :
Due to COVID-19, KEAXU will utilize diverse online platforms to exhibit and promote the works of the selected artists. This exhibition will run for a month, from November 24 to December 23, 2020.
Selected artists will be given an opportunity to promote their work and the exhibition by hosting a virtual studio visit, an interview, or another live appearance.
KEAXU is a OCADU curatorial collective consisting of Katie Jakobiec, Avery Creed, Xiao Han, Unnikrishnan Kalidas. Portfolio must be submitted by email to: keaxu2020@gmail.com
Please include the following material:
-Artist Statement addressing the relevance to the proposed exhibition (500 words max)
-Bio (one paragraph, 150 words max)
-Current CV (2 page max)
-Portfolio (3-5 examples of work) ○ If you wish to submit video work, please upload to a site such as YouTube or Vimeo and provide a link in your application. Please provide full videos although the selection committee might view the first five minutes of each submitted video. Please number and label your visual submissions, for example (01_name.jpg, 02_name.jpg, etc.). If you are submitting large files you can send us a link via a file hosting service such as DropBox, etc. Please include an image list with the title, date, medium, and dimensions, and any additional information.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/KEAXU-Virtual-Exhibition-2020-110195190863773
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NOVEMBER & DECEMBER CALLS:
KASAHARA GABRIOLA RESIDENCY APPLICATION:
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 16th
APPLY HERE: https://artsgabriola.ca/kasahara-gabriola-trust-artist-residency-call-for-applications/?fbclid=IwAR10HVdg-RARi7W-HINlq2lMfwAZqO9vUmkwJP2rMkd5yg-s7SU9R0CLfNU
Residency 2(currently accepting applications from Canadian residents only)
Residency Period: February 15, 2021 to June 15, 2021
Application open: October 15 to November 16, 2020
This application deadline is November 16, 2020 at 5pm Pacific Standard Time
Please Note: Currently we are under a state of emergency and if it is not lifted by January 1st, 2021, we will not be able to offer the residency.
Kasahara Gabriola Trust and the Gabriola Arts Council is seeking applications for the inaugural residency program from artists working in a wide range of disciplines. Residencies are four months in length and take place on Gabriola Island, BC, the Isle of the Arts. Gabriola Island is a Gulf Island located in the Salish Sea and is a 20 minute ferry ride from Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island.
The Kasahara Gabriola Trust Residency is accepting applications from artists at all stages of their career emerging artists (artists pursuing education within arts field) or established, practicing artist with a demonstrated body of work in a professional artistic environment. Artists within a variety of artistic disciplines will be accepted. The residency provides a live/workspace on an inspirational and intimate island setting, allowing artists the opportunity to imagine, create, experiment, develop new ideas, and ultimately a new body of work. The Kasahara Gabriola Trust Residency is a self-directed retreat, with opportunity for professional development, while giving the local community access to a diverse range of arts practices, theories and experiences.
Gabriola Arts Council is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our organization and art community. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of arts on Gabriola Island including, but not limited to, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.
If you require any form of accommodation throughout the residency application process, please contact directly Carol Fergusson at carol@artsgabriola.ca or 250-247-7409, so we can offer you individualized assistance and ensure equity in our application process.
Selected artists will reside in a beautiful 1700 square foot, 3 bedroom, ocean front home. The home does not have a formal studio space, but the extra bedroom or the front room are suitable areas for studio work. The grounds are large enough to erect a tent for outdoor work. A residency fee of $500 per month is required, and payable in advance of attending the residency.
At the end of the residency the artist is expected to present a gallery show, performance piece, reading, or appropriate sharing of the body of work completed during the residency, to the community. Gallery space/outdoor space/performance space will be provided, and all promotional activities will be provided by the Gabriola Arts Council.
Expenses paid by the artists
Travel
Short term moving costs
Food
Supplies
Housing (residency fee $500 per month)
What practical facilities does your residency offer?
Master bedroom with en suite
2 Private bedrooms
Additional full bath
Kitchen and living space
Internet
Free Exhibition or performance space at Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre
Promotional Services
Networking
Application Criteria
Applications are welcome from Canadian artists working in a wide range of disciplines including visual art, film, literary arts, performance arts or music/sound.
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XAPACE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20th
APPLY HERE: http://www.xpace.info/call-for-submissions-the-way-you-look-tonight/
Xpace Cultural Centre is accepting submissions for artwork and writing from emerging artists, designers and writers for a group exhibition tentatively titled, “the way you look tonight” curated by Philip Leonard Ocampo. The exhibition will run from January 15th – February 13th, 2021.
From the Civil Rights movement of the 1970s, to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, nostalgia has the capacity to eclipse the complicated, often painful realities of the historic events that had transpired during these times; the lens of retrospect can sometimes only preserve that which is amiable or enjoyable about these time periods. If the word nostalgia derives from the Greek word nostos (‘return home’) and algos (‘pain’), “the way you look tonight” seeks to embody the term’s etymological origins through exploring nostalgia as a complex method of both remembering and forgetting. In questioning the ways in which historic decades are preserved and romanticized within the collective consciousness and popular culture, this exhibition asks:
What histories are obscured and erased in treasuring that which is glamorous, entertaining and marketable about the past? Inversely, how are historic experiences of struggle sensationalized and commodified when seen through a retrospective lens?
How is the recalling of previous decades a matter of generational experience (or lack thereof)?
How do we frame the histories that we’re ancestrally connected to, but never lived?
How can we consider the iconography of various time periods outside of the North American canon of popular culture?
How are members of marginalized communities affected by the way that history is documented, archived and remembered?
How might these contemporary times be remembered, forgotten or obscured in the future?
As this exhibition will manifest in part as an online project, this call is interested in works that utilize text, poetry, illustration, drawing / painting, animation, video, archival materials and/or other ways of making that use of digital platforms advantageously in addition to sculpture, installation, etc.
This exhibition will prioritize artists that are Indigenous, Black, people of color, women, 2SLGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and members of other marginalized communities.
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20TH, 2020 at 11:59pm
SUBMIT ONLINE: https://tinyurl.com/y6xkadtq
To apply, you must provide:
1. Artist Statement (250-500 words): The Artist Statement should give a description of your overall practice as it relates to the project you are proposing.
2. Project Description (250-500 words): The project description should give a clear and concrete description of the work you are proposing for installation.
3. Technical Description: a list of all foreseeable technical requirements including equipment and materials necessary for installation within Xpace.
4. Curriculum Vitae (Max 3 pages): Your CV should include education and exhibition history, as well as any relevant experience, reviews, etc.
5. Visual Support Material with accompanying Support Material List (5-10 images and/or minutes of video): Images must be in JPG format. You may provide links to video work/documentation.
If you have any questions about the proposal process, please contact Philip Leonard Ocampo at philip@xpace.info
Works must be ready for exhibition by January 2021. Selected applicants will be notified in late November. All selected participants will be paid an artist fee for the exhibition.
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PROPELLER CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAIL ART - UNLIMITED DADA
DEADLINE DECEMBER 15th
APPLY HERE: https://www.propellerartgallery.ca/mail-art-unlimited-dada.html
Call for Submissions: Mail Art: unlimited Dada
postmarked Artwork & Online submission
Upcoming Exhibition @ Propeller Art Gallery & Online
January 20 — February 7, 2021
MAIL ART SUBMISSION FORM
COVID-19 has created crisis and instability across the world. During this volatile time, with most of us stuck in place, the mail offers us metaphorical transport out of our immediate physical spaces. Mail can travel while we cannot. In response, Propeller Art Gallery is creating an open call Mail Art Exhibition in January with all works available for sale unless otherwise noted by the artist. This creative outlet for the community will serve as a physical artefact of the time we are living through, and recognises that, while many of our interactions have moved to the virtual realm, there is also increased interest in making things by hand.
You are invited to make a piece of Mail Art: art that can travel through the mail with a stamp.
What is Mail Art?
The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus defines mail art as "works produced by artists, often in postcard format, specifically intended to be mailed to other artists or be displayed in an exhibition."
Mail art began in the 1960s when artists sent postcards inscribed with poems or drawings through the post rather than exhibiting or selling them through conventional commercial channels. Its origins can be found in Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters and the Italian futurists. But it was the New York artist Ray Johnson who, in the mid 1950s, posted small collages, prints of abstract drawings and poems to art world notables giving rise to what eventually became known as the New York Correspondence School. Mail art can take a variety of forms including postcards, packages, faxes, emails and blogs. In the 1960s the Fluxus artist On Kawara sent telegrams to friends and family that informed them he was alive. In the mid 1990s, the artist and curator Matthew Higgs set up Imprint, which posted art by young British artists, among them Martin Creed, to critics and curators. David Opdyke “this land” altered vintage postcards and combined them into large scale works and the list goes on.
In your submission:
What emotions are you feeling, and how are you coping? What is one thing you want to remember from this time, or one thing you want to forget? What do you hope for in the future when “normal” resumes? What are you looking forward to? What feels just out of reach? What have you gained through this experience? What has been a surprise to you?
This is an unjuried show, as you, the artists are collectively our curators. Although historically some Mail Art initiatives have been without submission fees, Propeller, as a Members-run non-profit gallery since 1996 that receives no arts council funding, it is necessary to request a submission fee in order to present Mail Art: unlimited Dada.
Submission requirements:
Name, address, email, phone number
Maximum of three artwork images submitted: submission pricing as follows
1 image for 25.00 payable through online submission form
2 images for 35.00 payable through online submission form
3 images for 45.00 payable through online submission form
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XSPACE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AN ILLUMINATED IDENTITY
DEADLINE DECEMBER 15th
APPLY HERE: https://www.xpace.info/call-for-submissions/
Call for Artistic Proposals and Submissions_An ILLUMINATED iDENTITY
Open Call: Undergraduate and Graduate student artists working in and responding to a question of identity and individuality in a context of the Future-Present (democratized surveillance, weaponized branding, mobilized e-motions, and mythological realities).
XPACE/IMAGES festival is seeking proposals from student artists who are interested in responding to a question of the Future-Present. One could think of the term “Future-Present” as being a condition in which our dreams of the future collide with the reality of the present and where the real and imagined world are as one after the idealized World of Tomorrow has been dissolved. We live in a world that integrates technology with daily life, causing physiological and psychological shifts, giving us a kind of cybernetic lens in which to view the world. A lens that not only affects the way we think about ourselves and the world but also the images we use to represent that world. Now that peoples, places, and things are all accessible at the click of a button, what does it mean to be an individual in our contemporary condition and how are our identities formed? Proposals should consider the space the artwork occupies, the media used and its relationship to the subject in question, and a thorough understanding of the relative condition being: the Future-Present. Proposals are encouraged to be innovative and critical but also visually stimulating and sensorially provocative.
Examples may include, but are not limited to:
Online or Web specific art
Computer specific art
3D Prints
Digital Images and/or Videos
Performance Video and/or Live Performance
Animated GIF
Robotics and/or Haptic Technologies
Mobile Technologies
Weaponized Technologies
Archetypal Technologies (ie. LED’s, Electromagnetics, Cybernetics/Body-Mod Tech, Drone, etc.)
Electronic Submissions only can be sent to: david.f.m.hanes@gmail.com
Deadline: December 15th, 2012
Include in your submission:
images of the proposed work (or relevant work) or a link to a website and/or youtube/vimeo
– MAXIMUM of 6 images (72dpi @ 768 x 1024)
description of the proposed work, including physical qualities, spatial and hanging needs, technical requirements, etc. (max. 150 words, PDF only)
brief artist statement and biography (max. 200 words, PDF only)
CV (2 pages MAX, PDF only)
for addition information contact the curator of the project David Hanes:
david.f.m.hanes@gmail.com
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HAMILTON ARTISTS INC: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Multiple Events
DEADLINE JANUARY 12th
APPLY HERE: https://akimbo.ca/listings/call-for-submissions-from-artists-collectives-curators-and-writers-2020/
Call for Submissions
Exhibitions, Billboard, Special Projects and More!
Hamilton Artists Inc. (The Inc.) is seeking dynamic proposals from artists, collectives, curators and writers at various stages of their careers for its exhibition platforms and public programs. The Inc. exhibits a range of artistic disciplines and welcomes applications by artists from local, regional and national communities. We have numerous opportunities available, please read the full description for each call to identify which opportunity is best suited to your practice/objectives.
As an artist-run centre, we are interested in works/projects that push boundaries and engage with critical, conceptual and/or experimental thinking from diverse perspectives. We are committed to providing platforms for risk-taking and creating an inclusive space for exploring expanded art practices. The Inc. supports submissions that showcase artists and curators’ most recent endeavours as well as works that incite conversation and promote a range of intersectional narratives. We pay artists based on CARFAC fee standards.
We welcome submissions from artists of all backgrounds including, but not limited to, Indigenous, Black, and persons of colour; refugee, newcomer and immigrant persons; Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+ and gender non-binary persons, persons with disabilities, and those on low-incomes or living in poverty. The Inc. is committed to equity and inclusion in all aspects of its operations, and will accept submissions in various formats.
Cannon Gallery
Deadline: January 12, 2020
The Cannon Gallery is the Inc.’s largest gallery space and is programmed three years in advance. Artists and curators working in all mediums and at all levels of their careers are encouraged to apply.
James Gallery
Deadline: January 12, 2020
The James Gallery is the Inc.’s dedicated members’ gallery. We always welcome new and returning members, who will then be eligible to exhibit in this space.
Cannon Project Wall
Deadline: January 12, 2020
The Cannon Project Wall is an 8’ x 33’ billboard on the side of our building in downtown Hamilton. The billboard sees upwards of 10,000 vehicular and pedestrian traffic each day.
Special Projects
Deadline: Ongoing
Special Projects are activities that do not take the form of regular exhibitions. They can be one-off events, print materials, multiples, digital platforms, screenings, workshops, outdoor projects in our courtyard, site-specific interventions, off-site projects, or other unique initiatives.
Writers/ Essayists
Deadline: Ongoing
We’re seeking submissions from regional writers interested in producing short, commissioned texts to accompany our exhibitions and programs.