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The following are major art shows scheduled for the Main Gallery at Studio Place Arts (SPA) during 2011, and early 2012. See below for instructions on how to submit artwork to SPA for consideration. Contact SPA to obtain more information at (802) 479-7069.


Weathering It Out
In the past year, we’ve experienced pelting rains, hurricanes, unrelenting blizzards, flash floods, and mudslides.   Some are predicting a dramatic shift in weather patterns for the region; others say it’s an episodic reality.  Artists are urged to explore how they are weathering the weather, using a variety of media and perhaps incorporating items salvaged from a weather event.  Look back and forward.  Let Mother Nature know you’re on the clock.
Show Dates:  Jan. 24 – Feb. 25, 2012
Deadline:  Dec 9, 2011

Storytime: Narrative, Allegory & Graphics
Turning away from Religious and Historical subjects, the Impressionists focused on depicting moments in everyday life, dumping symbolism, and capturing the real colors that light creates. Modernists moved on to purge both sculpture and painting of the narrative, or storytelling impulse. Art should only stand for itself, and form, color, and surface were everything. In contemporary art, we’ve come back to acknowledging the inescapable fact that it’s all about humans, who are storytellers and meaning-seekers. So, we’re looking for installation, video, conceptual pieces, graphic novels, collage and other media – whatever gets us going and asking What happened? and Why?
Show Dates:  Mar. 6 – Apr. 7, 2012
Deadline:  Jan 20, 2012

Never Forget  
This is a multimedia, group exhibit focusing on the challenges and journeys of creative women, past and present and in the United States and overseas.  The show, to be displayed in the third floor gallery space at SPA, will include work primarily by women artists from Vermont and allow others to portray the journey of creative women as they saw it.  This show is supported in part by the Vermont Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Show Dates:  Mar. 6 – Apr. 7, 2012
Deadline:  Jan 20, 2012

Sweet
This sumptuous, multi-media show pays homage to beautiful edible sweets:  hard candies, cakes, pies & gumballs - we’ve all looked into sweets-filled glass cases in awe.  And, throughout history, explorers sought out new sweets to satisfy our desires:  chocolate - or nectar of the gods; sweet spices like cinnamon; and more.  Today, there are “cupcake wars” on television and isn’t Grandma remembered most fondly for her frosting-coated tea ring?  Simply put, we love our sweets. 
Show Dates:  April 17 – May 26, 2012
Deadline:  Feb. 17, 2012

s-EYE-nce:  a science/visual arts fusion
Lots of the visuals that come out of scientific inquiry, like photomicrographs of the mouthparts of tiny insects or traces of elementary particles like quarks,  are both beautiful and compelling.  Some artists are using and modifying such images; others are using the techniques (recording transformations), processes (such as repeating sequences and patterns), and methods (observation and replication) of science to inform their art. Artists are encouraged to explore the evolution and discoveries of science from all sides: existing and emerging sciences and fantastical takes on science. Cool gadgets and equipment get bonus points!
Show Dates:  June 5 – July 7, 2012
Deadline:  April 6, 2012





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Submitting to SPA

Applications should include:

  • Artist name and contact information
  • Description of proposed work (dimensions, materials, date, retail price [65% to artist])
  • Images (send digital images via email [info@studioplacearts.com] – please use jpeg format and limit file size to less than 3MB total, slides, copies of drawings, prints, other relevant materials) of work. Please include a written summary of this information and label the images/slides for ease of review.  Include dimensions, material, date & retail price. 
  • SASE for return of materials
$10 application fee (waived for SPA members)

Mail to:
Studio Place Arts
201 North Main Street
Barre, VT 05641

Questions?
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