February 2009 Opportunities & Resources
JURIED SHOW CALL FOR ENTRIES: FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Juror: Sylvia Plachy
The New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking documentary, fine art, and conceptual photographs that explore the theme of weddings. Photographers are encouraged to submit images that portray or comment upon the traditions, customs, symbols and the rich human tableau surrounding wedding rituals.
Selected entries will be exhibited in the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery in June and July 2009, and will also be featured and archived on the Alliance’s online galley.
Submissions Deadline: May 4, 2009
Exhibition: June 6 – July 19, 2009
Submission is open to photographers of all levels using any photographic process. All art submitted must be original work created by the applicant.
Non-Refundable Entry Fee
Members:$25, Non-members: $35, Membership + Submission: $45 ($15 savings)
Please follow the link below to submit online and to view the submission guidelines. http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/callEntry.php_
Sylvia Plachy:
Plachy’s photo essays and portraits have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Granta, Artforum, Fortune, and other publications. They have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Paris and Tokyo. Sylvia’s book, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, a personal history of Central Europe with photographs and text, received a Golden Light Award for best book in 2004. Her first book, Sylvia Plachy’s Unguided Tour, won the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography for best publication in 1991. Her other books are Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry with James Ridgeway and Signs & Relics and Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker . Plachy has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lucie Award (2004). She has taught and lectured widely.
The New Orleans Photo Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to encourage the understanding and appreciation of photography through exhibitions, opportunities and educational programs. PhotoNOLA is a month long celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. The fourth annual series of events are currently being planned for December 2009.
For additional information on The New Orleans Photo Alliance please visit www.neworleansphotoalliance.org.
New Orleans Photo Alliance
1111 St. Mary St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
New Gallery Hours:
Fri 3-6, Sat & Sun 12-4
or by appointment
photoalliance@gmail.com
http://neworleansphotoalliance.org
http://neworleansphotoalliance.blogspot.com
http://photonola.org
http://www.myspace.com/neworleansphotoalliance
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COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ISU SCHOOL OF ART VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM
Each semester, the School of Art at ISU hosts a number of distinguished national and international visiting artists for long-term residencies which last up to four weeks. The School of Art provides long-term visiting artists with studio space located in the Center for Visual Arts building. It is a private, Internet enabled 12 x 40 ft. space, intended for work on new or on-going projects. A privately owned, fully equipped, Internet enabled, furnished apartment in Bloomington’s historical district is available to artists throughout their stay. In addition, each receive a $3,300 stipend.
Travel and other expenses are the responsibility of each visiting artist. In the case of international artists, the residency may be extended to 6 weeks (use of studio, apt., etc.). The 4 week seminar and stipend remain the same.
Long-term visiting artists give a one-hour public lecture on their work and teach a two hour weekly seminar on the topic of their expertise (four weeks total). The seminar, which may engage studio practice and/or theory, is open to both graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the School of Art. Additionally, visiting artists develop their own creative research in a studio located in the Center for Visual Arts. The artists maintain an “open door” policy and are available to students who wish to engage in dialogue. They also meet with each of the students in the class individually (once) for critique/discussion sessions on the students’ work and ideas.
Visiting artists may be invited by art faculty to give talks in various classes, and are welcome to engage in the College of Fine Arts´ community life and activities.
Please note the application deadline is March 20.
Description of the Visiting Artist Program.
Claire Lieberman
Associate Professor of Sculpture
Visiting Artist Coordinator
School of Art
CVA Campus Box 5620
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-5620
309.438.7219
clieber@ilstu.edu
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PARAPHRASE
Call For Entries
The Darkroom Gallery is delighted to announce a call for entries for the group photography show Paraphrase. The object of the exhibition is to allow artists to revisit classical or iconographic photographs by offering their own interpretation of the theme or subject. The opening will take place during the Art for Art’s Sake 2009 event, at the peak of New Orleans’ cultural season.
We invite you to submit up to 10 photographs paraphrasing, spoofing, caricaturing, parodying or lampooning icons of photography for consideration in our Fall 2009 exhibition. With your submissions, please provide references for the works that are the subjects of your efforts, (artist, title, etc…) especially if the original work may not be widely recognized.
Juror: John H. Lawrence is the director of museum programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection where he is responsible for planning exhibitions and other aspects of public programming.
Eligibility: Open to all photographers using any printing process on any media. All art submitted must be the original work of the applicant.
Entry deadline: All entries must be submitted by Saturday August 22, 2009 at 6PM.
Notification: Artists will be notified by August 27th as to whether or not they have been selected.
Selected work: The framed artwork is to be delivered to The Darkroom no later than Saturday September 26th. In order to ensure a cohesive presentation within the group show format we request that prints abide by the guidelines for selected entries
Opening: Saturday October 4, 6-8pm at The Darkroom Gallery.
Sales/commissions: Sales are encouraged and proceeds from the show will be distributed the following way:
• 60% to the Artist
• 40% to The Darkroom
The Darkroom Gallery
504-522-3211
gallery@neworleansdarkroom.com
http://gallery.neworleansdarkroom.com/
1927 Sophie Wright Place
New Orleans, LA 70130