Although the following call is for an exhibit Jan 2025, the deadline to submit work is June 15, 2024.
Waterfall Arts, Belfast, January 17 - February 28, 2025
A collaborative exhibition honoring the beautiful dark, night skies of Maine. With its focus on the night sky itself, (the stars, the moon, celestial phenomena, etc.), as well as depictions of all the wildlife that benefit from dark skies (such as pollinators, night frogs, birds, etc) and the artistic interpretation of “dark skies as a metaphor- -we envision a dynamic show of paintings, photographs and other artworks that celebrates and encourages the appreciation of the night sky.
JURORS: Nancy Hathaway, (President/Co-founder of Dark Sky Maine); Liv Kristin Robinson (photographer); Emily Sabino (painter) & Arlene Jurewicz Leighton (photographer).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15th, 2024
Submission Contents:
(Please read carefully and follow instructions)
• Provide us with the following info in an MS Word Doc:
• Your name and contact info at top
• A list of the works submitted (up to 3 pieces):
• Name of each work (up to 3 pieces)
• Medium
• Dimensions (width x height)
• Price, or “NFS.”
• Provide us with JPGs or PNGs of the works being submitted
(up to 3 works)
• Image Labeling Images must be labeled as follows:
• FirstName_Last Name_Title of work_Dimensions
(ie, framed width and height)_Medium
• Image Sizing
• Images must be sized as follows: 300 dpi sized to
approximately 5 x 7" or with the longest side measuring no
more than 2100 pixels
● Create a FOLDER on your desktop:
○ Label the folder “Dark Skies_YourLastName”.
○ Add your list of works + Photos into the folder
○ Click the below Dark Skies Dropbox Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/bABOtkNAKOj09GctIEcU
○ And Upload your Folder into Dropbox
The Jurors thank you in advance for carefully following these instructions.
Submission Deadline is June 15th 2024. Notification will be sent via email by Sept 15th, 2024.
Exhibition Rules:
This is a juried UMVA exhibition, so make sure your UMVA membership is
current.
All 2D work must be framed and ready to hang.
Size Limitations: framed dimension of 2D work: maximum size: 40” W. & 40” H.
If one framed work is large, please also consider submitting a smaller one in the
event of space limitations. (The Waterfall Arts exhibition space can comfortably
hold 30 works 24’ X 24”.)
Accepted Artwork Drop-off date: Tuesday January 7th 2025 through Friday,
January 10th 2025. 10 am – 4 pm at Waterfall Arts (256 High Street, Belfast, ME,
2025
If /when your work is accepted, you will receive further instructions to provide a statement and short bio as well as a Gallery Agreement form from WaterFall Arts to be filled out and returned. If after reading all of the above carefully, you still have questions, you may email Kristin at livkristinrobinson@icloud.com.
*************************
Call for Submissions: Alternative Visions, at Mainely Gallery, Belfast, August 2 to 21
What is your Alternative Vision? Work will be based on how other living things on earth (bugs/insects, animals, celestial objects, or even machine/robot/satellite/airplanes) see an image and/or digest a landscape around them. The human eye sees things in certain ways in a certain spectrum. But creating a piece of art showing how other living or non-living things “see” maybe interesting. It can be interpreted many ways, and can find home in many styles.
DEADLINE: Images of work plus submission form must be submitted via DropBox by June 22, 2024 to
https://www.dropbox.com/request/q4kDb0bs0A4YwaXdIwSj
Please label your folder Alternative Visions. (The submission form is a separate document.)
This show is open to Midcoast UMVA members. You may submit one piece.
Both 2D and 3D work will be accepted. All 2D work must be framed and ready to hang.
Image of work – 300 dpi – sized at approximately 5 x 7”
Please name your image files in the following convention:
ArtistName_TitleOfWork_Dimensions_Medium_price or NFS
We also need your submission form!
Include one or two sentences describing your alternative vision
Drop off date: July 31, 2024 Run Dates of Show: August 2 to August 21, 2024
Artists’ Reception: August 2, from 5-7 p.m. Please plan on bringing a snack or drink to the reception
Pickup Unsold Work: August 22, or make arrangement directly with the gallery.
Contact Gail Wartell at 207-772-0792 or gail@turtlesong.com if you have questions.
Please copy the following and include in your folder with your images.
Submission sheet to be attached to the email:
Show Title: Alternative Vision Dates: August 2-21, 2024
Exhibitor’s Name:
E-Mail: Phone:
Mailing Address:
Entries: (see call/submission guidelines)
Title:
Dimensions framed: Medium:
Price:
Please include a sentence or two about your alternative vision:
Drop off signature ________________________________________
Pick up signature _________________________________________
Please include for us to create wall labels. Please also print two copies.
One to bring with your work for our “records” book. The other to cut and attach
to the (appropriate) back of each work. This will help us track any sales.
*****************************************************
UMVA
Portrait Pop-Up Call for Art -
The Union of Maine Visual Artists in conjunction with The Lincoln Theatre, 2 Theater St,
Damariscotta, ME, proudly presents the UMVA Portrait Pop-Up, which will
take place in the Lincoln Theatre second floor lobby. The 2D exhibition of
Portraits in a variety of mediums runs from July 30th to August 17th, and features notable works by current and
former members of the UMVA, including the late UMVA founder Carlo Pittore. Pittore is the subject of Maine Masters film,
“Carlo and his Merry Band of Artists”, which will be shown at the Lincoln
Theatre on August 8th.
The UMVA Portrait Pop-Up will be curated by Cynthia
Hyde (Caldbeck Gallery), Emily Sabino and Ann Tracy.
Current members of UMVA explore a theme – Portraits - that
resonated for UMVA founder Carlo Pittore, whose oeuvre includes paintings of
boxers, carnival performers, and modern takes on classical paintings,
portraits, self-portraits, nudes, landscapes, mail art, and his comic
drawings. Because of the size of the space
available, work needs to be NO Bigger than 11 x 14” framed.
Portrait PopUp – Lincoln Theatre, 2
Theater St, Damariscotta, ME 04543
5/6
– Call for art sent to members
5/29
- Deadline to submit work
6/20
– Artists notified
7/28
– Deliver art and install show
8/8
– Artists’ reception
8/18 - Pick up unsold work
Carlo Pittore is one of the founding
fathers of the Union of Maine Visual Artists.
In 1987 he founded "The Academy of Carlo Pittore" in
Bowdoinham, Maine. Here he invited artists from all over to come and share
their knowledge and talents in an academic forum; whilst he himself hosted
drawing classes, painted and drew the artists (and models) and also cooked for
them. The full portrait of
Pittore that emerges in interviews with those who knew him is a collage of Neal Cassady, Pablo Picasso, and Emeril Lagasse. Pittore founded the “Union of Maine Visual Artists” in 1975. The UMVA passed into state law the “Maine
Percent for Art Program” and the “Artist’s Estate Tax Law”. From 1978 to 1980, he was a council member for the "Comprehensive Employment Training Act Artists Project" in New York City. Just before his death in 2005, the Maine College of Art awarded Pittore an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.
The "Carlo Pittore Foundation for the Figurative Arts" was founded in 2006. Carlo was a thoroughgoing humanist devoted to the human figure. He drew and painted just about everyone he knew. His nudes and portraits are very much like the man himself — bold, boisterous even, frank, sensuous, and uncompromising. His oeuvre includes paintings of boxers, carnival performers, and modern takes on classical paintings, portraits, self-portraits, nudes, landscapes, mail art, and his comic drawings.
A figurative painter in the
modernist manner of Lucian Freud or Alex Katz, Pittore painted in the
figurative expressionist and portraiture style; focusing mainly on the nude
form of study. On account of this, critics and objectors occasionally viewed
his work as "erotic" rather than objective art.
Throughout his life, Pittore was
extremely vocal toward such critics and what he perceived to be
"ignorance" toward his art or art in general. He refused the title of
Gay artist. He did not shy away from either voicing his opinion in letters to
the editor or removing his exhibits from art galleries or public showings. The
colors red and green (symbols of the Italian flag) were two essential
components in Pittore's work that defined his belief and understanding of
complementary palette application.
The contrast of these two color schemes arise time and again throughout his works; as can be seen in "Portrait of Blair Tily" (1987), "Opera - Self Portrait" (1981), "La Buffonera" (1983), and "Portrait of a Skeptic" (1996). Pittore's "Lincoln Portrait Series" was the only oil-on-canvas medium in which he worked without color. For this, he painted entirely in black and white due to the fact that the portraits were modeled after 19th-century photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Pittore died in 2005 from cancer.
Here
is a link from an article in the Maine Arts Journal about Pittore -
https://maineartsjournal.com/edgar-allen-beem-the-balancing-act-that-was-carlo-pittore/
We are using a new system
for art calls going forward. Please copy
and paste the info below into a new document with all the information
entered.
You will also need to upload your
high resolution JPG files (300 dpi
approximately 7 x 5”) to this Drop Box URL: https://www.dropbox.com/request/Vw9NRTdZXCm2Ey6J3Urp
PLEASE
label your files: FirstNameLastName_Title_Medium_size_price
Example:
AnnTracy_FunWithOpera_DigitalOnCanvas_11x14_200
Name:
_______________________________
Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #1
________________________________________________________________
Name:
_______________________________
Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #2
________________________________________________________________
Name:
_______________________________ Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #3
________________________________________________________________
***********************************************************************************************************
The Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro will screen the latest film in the Maine Masters series, Carlo and his Merry Band of Artists, by Richard Kane on July 25, 2024. There will also be a small art show entitled Life is a Carnival: from the Figurative to the Abstract that will run from July 5th to August 4th. The deadline to submit high resolution digital files (300 dpi approximately 7 x 5”) will be May 21st . Juror TBA. Members are encouraged to submit more than one entry NO LARGER than 11 x 14”.
Life is a Carnival: from the Figurative to the Abstract, Waldo
Theatre, 916 Main St, Waldoboro, July 5 to August 4, 2024. The documentary Carlo and his Merry Band of Artists will screen July 25 and the
artists’ reception will follow. Current
members of UMVA explore a theme that resonated for UMVA founder Carlo Pittore,
whose oeuvre includes paintings of boxers, carnival performers, and modern
takes on classical paintings, portraits, self-portraits, nudes, landscapes,
mail art, and his comic drawings.
Timeline:
5/21 - Deadline to submit work
6/15 – Artists notified
7/1 – Deliver art and install show on 7/2
7/25 – Artists’ reception
8/4 – Pick up unsold work
Carlo Pittore is one of the
founding fathers of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. In 1987 he founded "The Academy of Carlo
Pittore" in Bowdoinham, Maine. Here he invited artists from all over to
come and share their knowledge and talents in an academic forum; whilst he
himself hosted drawing classes, painted and drew the artists (and models) and
also cooked for them. The full portrait of
Pittore that emerges in interviews with those who knew him is a collage of Neal Cassady, Pablo Picasso, and Emeril Lagasse. Pittore founded the “Union of Maine Visual Artists” in 1975. The UMVA passed into state law the “Maine Percent for Art Program” and the “Artist’s Estate Tax Law”. From 1978 to 1980, he was a council member for the "Comprehensive Employment Training Act Artists Project" in New York City. Just before his death in 2005, the Maine College of Art awarded Pittore an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.
The "Carlo Pittore Foundation for the Figurative Arts" was founded in 2006. Carlo was a thoroughgoing humanist devoted to the human figure. He drew and painted just about everyone he knew. His nudes and portraits are very much like the man himself — bold, boisterous even, frank, sensuous, and uncompromising. His oeuvre includes paintings of boxers, carnival performers, and modern takes on classical paintings, portraits, self-portraits, nudes, landscapes, mail art, and his comic drawings.
A figurative painter in the
modernist manner of Lucian Freud or Alex Katz, Pittore painted in the
figurative expressionist and portraiture style; focusing mainly on the nude
form of study. On account of this, critics and objectors occasionally viewed
his work as "erotic" rather than objective art.
Throughout his life, Pittore was extremely vocal toward such critics and what he perceived to be "ignorance" toward his art or art in general. He refused the title of Gay artist. He did not shy away from either voicing his opinion in letters to the editor or removing his exhibits from art galleries or public showings. The colors red and green (symbols of the Italian flag) were two essential components in Pittore's work that defined his belief and understanding of complementary palette application.
The contrast of these two color schemes arise time and again throughout his works; as can be seen in "Portrait of Blair Tily" (1987), "Opera - Self Portrait" (1981), "La Buffonera" (1983), and "Portrait of a Skeptic" (1996). Pittore's "Lincoln Portrait Series" was the only oil-on-canvas medium in which he worked without color. For this, he painted entirely in black and white due to the fact that the portraits were modeled after 19th-century photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Pittore died in 2005 from cancer.
Here is a link from an article in
the Maine Arts Journal about Pitorre -
https://maineartsjournal.com/edgar-allen-beem-the-balancing-act-that-was-carlo-pittore/
**********************************************************************************
We
are using a new system for art calls going forward. Please copy and paste into a new document
with all the information entered.
You
will also need to upload your high resolution JPG files (300 dpi approximately 7 x 5”) to this Drop
Box URL:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/fOnldoKWkUE2HMYrvTod
PLEASE label your
files:
FirstNameLastName_Title_Medium_size_price
Example:
AnnTracy_FunWithOpera_DigitalOnCanvas_11x14_200
Name: _______________________________
Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #1
_____________________________________________________________
Name: _______________________________
Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #1
____________________________________________________________
Name: _______________________________
Email:___________________________________
Title of Entry #1 _____________________________________________________________
Comments
Post a Comment