calls to artists
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Gallery Exhibitions:
We invite artists to submit their artwork for consideration for future shows. Check back for more shows and opportunities in 2022. Emailed submissions should be sent to: submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com We are currently accepting submissions for the following SPA exhibits and opportunities: Shows & Opportunities:
Face It Newborns can recognize human faces and prefer them to other objects in their environment. We are hardwired to look carefully at what other people's faces reveal -- the lines of age, a gamut of emotions, or even an attempt to disguise what's on their mind. Compelling portraits can reveal the inner qualities of their subjects. We want to share faces -- portraits, and self-portraits, abstracted and realistic, masked and unmasked -- that convey a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, emotions, and expressions. This show will include paintings, collages, assemblages, sculptures, and non-traditional media. (This exhibit will be in the main floor gallery.) Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it? -Pablo Picasso Deadline for Proposals: December 4, 2021 Exhibit Dates: January 25 – March 5, 2022 Drip This show concerns water quality and quantity. Across our country, water problems have been compounding for years, some exacerbated by global warming, some through the absence of planning, and some through greed. In recent years, water has become a touchstone for racial and economic inequities: Lead poisoning in Flint and now Benton Harbor, Michigan; and water shortages or droughts related to rerouting western waterways for food production and lush front lawns. Every summer, there are poisonous algal blooms in our own Lake Champlain, bordered by 2 states and 2 countries with different approaches to agriculture and development. Some problems were described more than 35 years ago, yet political leaders and others seem unable to act. Artists are asked to consider the topics of scarcity and depletion of freshwater sources. Installations and traditional or nontraditional media are welcome. (This exhibit will be in the main floor gallery.) Water, Water Everywhere (nor any drop to drink) From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink. Deadline for Proposals: February 5, 2022 Exhibit Dates: March 15 – April 30, 2022 Now You See It Now you don’t. This show will involve illusion art that plays with human perception of space and depth through paintings, sculptures, and other works. The show includes classic op-art inspired by the 60’s and illusion art that has its roots in historic Greek fresco mural paintings, creating the illusion of movement or depth. The show will also include artwork that uses materials with translucent qualities (wax, glass, screen, fabric), semi-transparency (translucent papers), and pop-up tricks. Additionally, this show will involve peering into vessels or boxes or other containers (an old piece of luggage, perhaps?) to look, see -- and find! The show invites realistic and abstracted artworks, traditional and nontraditional media. (This exhibit will be in the main floor gallery.) Deadline for Proposals: April 2, 2022 Exhibit Dates: May 10 – June 25, 2022 Solo Shows: Quick Change Gallery at SPA Calendar Year 2022-23 SPA has a small gallery made from a vintage telephone booth on its second floor called the Quick Change Gallery that is used for informal, short-term exhibits. Work exhibited in this spaces is unframed and pinned/clipped on a bulletin board-type surface. Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com] and write this in the subject line of your email: Quick Change Gallery. Solo & Small Group Shows: at Other Venues Calendar Year 2022-23 SPA mounts art shows in spaces outside the art center in Barre City, including the AR Market and the Morse Block Deli. Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com] and write this in the subject line of your email: SPA Art Spaces. SPA Studio Residency Program Call for Proposals Calendar Year 2022-23 SPA invites emerging artists from the greater Barre/Montpelier area to apply for an 11-month studio residency program that will take place November 14, 2022 - October 31, 2023. A small private studio will be provided at no charge to an emerging artists who wants to build a new body of work for exhibition. Click here for details... Inviting Solo & Small Group Shows at SPA: Calendar Year 2023 SPA uses its second and third floor space for solo and small group shows. We encourage artists to submit a proposal to SPA for consideration of such a show. (Please visit SPA to determine whether the second & third floor spaces would be ideal for your show proposal.) Submit: A brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show, a CD or DVD with 8-12 images of representative work (please label this information carefully with the name, media, size, price and date of your work). If there is a time of year that you prefer, please note this on your proposal. Please submit your application to: [submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com] and write this in the subject line of your email: Second & Third Floor Galleries. Exhibit Dates: Late Jan-November, 2023 Deadline for Submissions: June 4, 2022 |
Directions for Submitting Artwork - Group Shows
Submissions should include the following:
How to Submit: Please email your submission materials to: submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com -or- Physical materials (CDs & thumbdrives) can be mailed or delivered to: Studio Place Arts 201 North Main Street Barre, VT 05641 *Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your materials returned after review. $10 Submission Fee for Non-Members (free for members) Payment can be mailed by check or paid online via the PayPal button below. *If using PayPal, please enter the title of the exhibition you are submitting to in the field below: Questions? Call: (802) 479-7069 or Email: info@studioplacearts.com Click here for the SPA Freedom of Expression Policy |
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