2011 Grant Cycle

In 2010 Harpo Foundation initiated a thematic focus to explore the relationship between art and site in a dematerializing world. (2010 funding focus) The 12 projects that received Harpo Foundation´s support are addressing this theme in various ways. Several evoke the tension between global dynamics and hyper-locality. Others seek to stimulate local activation by investing in a community´s sense of place. A few quietly translate the existential experience of place while others draw on a locale´s unique history as a springboard for the work. For more detailed descriptions about these funded projects, visit the Past Grant Recipients section of our website.

Harpo Foundation will continue this thematic focus in 2011 but with a renewed emphasis on projects that directly address the interchange and dialogue between the existential and the virtual. Wanting to expand our understanding of the role each play in contemporary life, artistic projects that grapple with the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment will be considered first. Projects that put these two worlds into dialogue with each other, so as to comment upon each other and allow the qualities of each experience to be illuminated, are of specific interest to the Foundation.

harpofoundation 3851 Kumquat Avenue, Coconut Grove, FL 33133 305.442.8242 [T] 305.447.0624 [F] info@harpofoundation.org

harpofoundation.org/grants.html

Intervention in the public space

Within the framework of the project Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum,Idensitat, CanXalant. Centre de Creació i Pensament Contemporani de Mataró and ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies launch an open call for ideas to develop two projects of intervention in the public spaces ofMataró and Vic.

The project Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum is born as a documentation and reflection exercise on the construction of mobile devices as elements of an expanded concept of the Museum or going as far as being an alternative to it. It is a research project that aims at cataloguing and reflecting on those projects which, circulating in the public space, challenge the conventional notion of the Museum and reformulate instead the functions of the exhibition display as a nomadic platform nurturing direct and self-managed participation, development of social research and dissemination of educational experiences. The project is carried out as a series of activities each of which is designed as a Parking episode. Parking 01, the first of this series, was developed and presented in Can Xalant in July 2010. The project as a whole is a build up of successive Parkings to be carried out throughout 2011. A more detailed definition of the project can be found on the following websites:
idensitat.net - canxalant.org – acvic.org

Wattis Internships

A Wattis Institute internship represents a unique opportunity to experience a contemporary arts institution firsthand.

Working directly with the curatorial team on implementing the institute's exhibition program, interns are involved in a wide range of tasks, from the initial artist research to helping with the opening reception. Tasks vary from project to project and depend on the stage of each exhibition.

Time Period

There is no set application deadline for an internship, and inquiries are welcome throughout the year. However, we offer internships roughly coinciding with each academic term (January to May and September to December) and over the summer (June through August).

The internships are designed to cover a three-month period, with a minimum commitment of three days per week.

Requirements

Applicants must have a good understanding of art history and, preferably, be enrolled or have graduated from an art historical, visual arts, or curatorial degree program.

Applicants need to be flexible, willing to take on a range of tasks and actively participate in the institute's day-to-day activities. Projects are assigned according to the institute's changing needs and the skills and interests of each intern.

Basic computing skills (Mac OS, Word, Excel, and email) are required.

Academic Credit

This is an unpaid internship and no stipends are available, although academic credit may be available. Please contact Sue Ellen Stone at 415.551.9202 or sstone@cca.edu for more information.

Application

To apply for an internship, please send a resume with a cover letter to Sue Ellen Stone at sstone@cca.edu or CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco CA 94107.

www.wattis.org/about/internships.php

HOME...is where the camera is

Home. We photograph our houses, our yards, our children, our friends, our celebrations, our anxieties. And we move beyond ourselves to photograph homes of others--strangers, as well as people we know. Home is where the camera is, and it's where we use it to record our lives and the lives of others. PhotoPlace Gallery is honored that esteemed photographer Julie Blackmon will act as juror for this exhibition on the theme of "Home." She will choose forty photographs for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from March 1st through March 26th, 2011. She will also choose an additional thirty-five photographs of these subjects for the gallery’s “On-Line Annex.” All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Julie Blackmon is known for her photographs of home and family that underscore moments of contemporary life while also drawing on art historical traditions of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. Her photographs have appeared on magazine covers and won prestigious awards, including the 2006 Critical Mass Book Award for "Domestic Vacations," named one of PDN's top 30 photographers in 2007 and American Photo's Emerging Photographer of 2008.

www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id100.html

The New York Foundation for the Arts

Great opportunities for fellowships, internships, residencies and call for entries in the US and Europe. It is constantly updated. Right now deadlines are January 31st

http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_current_detail.asp?id=17&fid=1&curid=884

Global Museum

There are several opportunities under the section Museum Jobs including internships, curatorial fellowships and also opportunities in the fields of public relations and management in museums.

http://www.globalmuseum.org/

The Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College

The Summer Institute in Art Museum studies is a co-educational program designed especially for college undergrads and for recent recipients of the B.A. degree who have not yet enrolled in graduate school. The six-week program is based on the Smith College campus, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and associated with the Smith College Museum of Art. Enrollment is limited to fifteen participants. A certificate will be awarded to all who complete the program successfully.

Dates for the 2011 session are June 12-July 22. The application deadline is March 11, 2011. Generous financial aid in the form of full and partial scholarships is available for students with need.

http://www.smith.edu/siams/

ARTstor Travel Awards 2011

While the digital age is opening up new ways of using images of the world's cultural heritage in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engaging with original works and sites or primary source material, or for attending conferences with colleagues. In recognition of this need, ARTstor is providing five travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each (to be used by December 31, 2012) to help support the educational and scholarly activities—such as flying to a conference—of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field.


To be considered for an award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. These submissions will help us better understand the uses that scholars and teachers are making of the ARTstor Digital Library's content and tools and will provide insight into how we can better serve the educational community. The five winning submissions will be determined by ARTstor staff. Please note that this award is not intended to sponsor new photography for the ARTstor Digital Library.


Deadline for entries: 11:59 PM EDT March 15, 2011;
Winners announced: May 1, 2011;
Awards will be made by: May 15, 2011


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Rijksakademie

The Rijksakademie Residency in Amsterdam is an international place of research and production for emerging professional artists from all over the world. Resident artists work in an individual studio for one to two years on research, experiment, projects and production. Next to technical facilities there are a library and an artists' documentation centre. The Rijksakademie also organizes the Prix de Rome, manages historical and contemporary collections and makes them accessible by way of publications and presentations.

On November 27 and 28 the Rijksakademie is OPEN.

During RijksakademieOPEN 2010 more than 50 artists will show their work.

Please visit www.rijksakademieOPEN.nl for more information.

The Rijksakademie has fifty-five studios. Annually, approximately half of these become available for new residents. For more information and for the online application form: www.rijksakademie.nl. One can apply for the residency 2012 between December 1, 2010 and February 1, 2011.

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Sarphatistraat 470

1018 GW Amsterdam

The Netherlands

www.rijksakademie.nl

www.rijksakademieopen.nl

Berlin Biennale

Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a research investigation, following the conditions below.

We accept artistic material in hard copy formats not bigger than A3 (297 x 420 mm or 11.69 x 16.54 in.), printed images, digital data, as well as DVDs.

PDFs in A4 (297 mm x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 inches) or fax will also be accepted.

Please do not send any original artworks.

We welcome all possible languages of your artistic comments and explanations. However there should equally be an English version.

As the research also focuses on the question whether artists consider themselves to be political, please inform us about your political inclination (e.g. rightist, leftist, liberal, nationalist, anarchist, feminist, masculinist, or whatever you identify yourself with) or whether you are not interested in politics at all.

Please send your artistic statement or presentation as a hardcopy via regular mail, via e-mail or fax to the following address or number before January 15, 2011:

Berlin Biennale

– Open Call –

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Auguststr. 69

10117 Berlin/Germany

www.berlinbiennale.de

2nd edition The Jacob Riis Award

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards organize the second edition of THE JACOB RIIS AWARD (named after the Danish-American photographer, 1849-1914) benefiting Save the Children Foundation. It will focus in portfolios (minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 images) inviting photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.

The Award is open worldwide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. There is no theme for this Award, and the images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work (a theme or images representing the artistic trajectory of the photographer), rather than individual images.

The Jakob Riis Award

Second Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA), with the sponsorship of Save the Children and ZOOM Magazine invites women photographers worldwide to submit images to the Second Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

The winner images will be published in ZOOM Magazine. As in other contests organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, sales of works in exhibitions will be donated to that humanitarian organization.

WPGA will be inviting in this occasion photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award

If you’re ready to submit click HERE or go to page Submit

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Call for Entries 2011: Artist Residencies

Artists who are awarded a month-long residency at the Saltonstall Arts Colony are given time, space, and support for their own creative research. As visual artist, Edith Isaac Rose said, "the spacious, comfortable live/work quarters are perfect. The size of the group was perfect. Our particular group formed a community very quickly....when I think of the Saltonstall, I think of a place I came to and didn't want to leave."

In 2011 there will be 4 month-long sessions, beginning in May and running through September. Artists are chosen by a panel of jurors for each dicipline, and scheduled for one of the 4 sessions.

The categories for 2011 are as follows:
Painting/Sculpture/Visual Art
Photography
Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction

All visual and literary artists are invited to apply for the month-long Summer Residencices at the Saltonstall Arts Colony, located in the heart of the Finger Lakes region of New York State. For each of the four sessions, five artists are chosen to be in residence; one photographer, two visual artists, and two literary artists. Each artist has a private apartment and bath with ample work space. There are two large, well-lit studios for the visual artists and a black/white darkroom for the photographer.

The postmark deadline for application is January 15, 2011.

Please visit www.saltonstall.org for more detailed information about the Saltonstall Foundation, the Summer Residency Program and Saltonstall Arts Colony.

Saltonstall Arts Colony

The Saltonstall Arts Colony is situated on 198 acres. Although just minutes from downtown Ithaca, we are surrounded by fields and woods, offering the artist a quiet studio in a beautiful setting, and the time to let the creative process unfold. Past residents have said the Saltonstall Arts Colony provides one of the best residency experiences in the country. Since its inception in 1995, this small but singular colony has provided time and space for more than 200 outstanding photographers, writers, poets, biographers, sculptors, painters, and visual artists. For them, the Saltonstall experience has been invaluable.

Especially in these times of great economic uncertainty we continue to say to the artists of New York State, "Come here, be fed and housed, walk our beautiful fields and woods, and perhaps, because of this, something you produce will touch and enhance the lives of others in a profound or significant way."

The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Before Connie Saltonstall died in 1994, she hoped that this place, her home, where she had found so much peace and inspiration, would would become a retreat where artists and writers could live and work. The results of Connie's gift have been astounding and continue to multiply. The 200-acre property has seen the comings and goings of many artists with an extraordinary commitment to their work. The creative spirit that infuses this place has profoundly influenced many. As we continue into our second decade, we strive to serve future generations of writers, visual artists and photographers.

For more information go to www.saltonstall.org
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts | 435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road | Ithaca, NY 14850 | (607) 539-3146

Art Toronto 2010

Art Toronto 2010

October 28 - November 1

The 11th Toronto International Art Fair
Metro Toronto Convention Centre

From the brochure:

This year’s Fair boasts over one hundred fine art galleries from 13 countries. From the world’s newest, most exciting contemporary artists to work by modern masters, Art Toronto 2010 offers a unique and first-hand look at what’s happening in the international art world. In addition to 108 international galleries, Art Toronto also features an engaging and diverse cultural program that includes speakers, special curated projects, panel discussions and docent-led tours.

Additional information here.

SPE National Student Scholarship Opportunities

SPE Student members can apply for scholarships to offset the cost of attending the 2011 national conference in Atlanta, March 10-13, 2011.

Ten SPE Student Awards & The SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce feature:

• $500 travel stipend to attend the 2011 SPE national conference
• One-year membership to SPE
• Complimentary 2011 national conference pass
  

The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography features:

• $5,000 cash prize
• One-year membership to SPE
• Complimentary 2011 national conference pass
  

Deadline: November 1, 2010 @ 11:59 PM EST
Fees: $10.00

Additional information available here.

FIND ART information bank

I highly recommend subscribing to FIND ART information bank, an artists locator and resource service, which sends out calls for work.

Revisiting Ephemera: Call for Art and Papers

CALL FOR ART AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

The Revisiting Ephemera Graduate Student Conference and Exhibition is presented by the Visual Arts graduate students at the University of Western Ontario and will take place on January 15, 2011 in the ArtLab Gallery, UWO. Organized in parallel with Bruce Nauman: Audio/Video Piece for London, an exhibition at the Forest City Gallery, Revisiting Ephemera encompasses topics such as but not limited to: ephemera, transience, time, de-objectification, performance, documentation and the archive, as they pertain to the history, creation and curation of visual arts and material culture.

We invite MA, MFA and PhD students from Visual Arts and all related disciplines to put forward submissions relating to the concept of ephemera in visual and material culture. You may submit:

1. A proposal for an academic paper, artistic or performative presentation 20 minutes in length, OR
2. An artwork proposal for inclusion in a group exhibition

Growing out of the recent curatorial, critical and academic interest in the re-staging of historical conceptual art exhibitions, Revisiting Ephemera calls presenters to explore the concept of ephemera in art, artist practices, exhibitions, curatorial studies and in other fields that engage with visual and material cultures.

Conference papers may consider artworks or artistic practices that are conceptual, performance, time-based, ephemeral or in some way distinct from the traditional art object.

How is this work or practice revisited? Can an ephemeral work or performance be preserved? How does the artwork depend on, stray from or relate to its documentation via photo, text or archival materials? Does documentation ultimately replace the event? Is there such a thing as an enduring art object? What happens when so-called ephemera becomes an art object? How does the status of ephemera change when it is part of the archive or historical record?

Presentations may also consider artists who produce ephemera as art, conceptual artists and histories, and curatorial practices both recent and historical that engage with ephemeral or time-based art and the notion of re-staging, the archive and documentation. Topics may also engage with the ways in which the ephemeral has been studied and considered in academic and non-academic discourses alike.

The following list outlines other themes to consider, but is by no means exhaustive; additional topics are welcome:

* Disposable Culture
* Obsolescence
* De-materialization
* Traces
* Death
* Transience
* The Everyday
* Collecting: Permanence and Flux
* Performance
* Events/Happenings
* Liminalilty
* Provisional
* Preservation
* Text
* Organic
* Participation
* Community
* Memory

Revisiting Ephemera is a unique collaborative venture by MA, MFA and PhD students from the UWO Department of Visual Arts comprised of both art history and studio graduate students. As such, we encourage participation from graduate students in studio, art history, cultural studies and beyond.

This one-day conference and art exhibition will host presentations and a keynote address.

All Submissions must be sent electronically to: Ephemera.Conference@gmail.com

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 1, 2010

CONFERENCE PAPER SUBMISSIONS must include: a 200-word abstract and CV, including your name, telephone number and email address.

ART WORK/PROJECT RELATED SUBMISSIONS must include:

1. Art work/project description (max one-page)
2. CV, including your name, telephone number and email address.
3. Support Material must include:

* a maximum of 10 current images.
* Include a separate image list with titles, dimensions, dates and media
* Detail the installation demands, technical requirements for the work (i.e. monitors, speakers) and your plans for shipping or delivery if applicable
* JPEG files only
* 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels high. -1 MB maximum
* RGB, or grayscale colour mode files only (no CMYK).
* Number and title each file (digital still); the number must appear before the title so the order of the images corresponds to the image list, example: 001RedPainting.jpg.
* Do not submit images embedded in the following programs or formats: iPhoto, PowerPoint.

For detailed information please contact us: Ephemera.Conference@gmail.com

Silver Eye Fellowship 2010

Silver Eye Center for Photography
Fellowship 2010
The Silver Eye Center for Photography is pleased to announce Fellowship 2010, our international photography competition. Our distinguished juror is Deborah Klochko, Executive Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California.

As we enter our 11th Fellowship year, the competition is now open to all international photographers, including Silver Eye members, and we are now awarding two Fellowships.

• A $3,500 award is open to all eligible photographers.

• A $1,500 is open only to Pennsylvania residents (who may apply in both categories).

Both winning artists’ work will be exhibited at Silver Eye in shows opening in late November 2010.

Deadline:
Friday, August 27, 2010

Additional information available here.

Visual Studies Reader

Courtesy of Angela,

Visual Studies Reader: The first anthology
written entirely by graduate students
The Visual Studies Reader is an international collaboration of graduate students; it is being developed on a wiki. If you are an MA, MFA, or PhD student, you're welcome to apply. The book will be published in 2013.

Find out additional information at the discussion page and the Facebook page.

Booksmart Studio: Call for Entries

Inhabitation
Exhibition Opportunity at Booksmart Studio
Booksmart Studio is seeking submissions for the exhibition "In Habitation".

"In Habitation" is looking for photographs that help explore the landscape and infrastructure of America, the population responsible for it, and the symbiotic relationship between the two. This exhibition explores the ways in which our urban and rural centers operate and fluctuate, creating a uniquely American dynamic of experience. This exhibition will ultimately present a socio-graphic interpretation of America- a mapping of people and place.

Juror: David Wright

David Wright, 2006 graduate of RIT's photojournalism program, is an editorial photographer based out of Maine. His series "Alebtong, Uganda, 2009" is very well known and he was also the co-founder of the project and exhibition called Pause to Begin.

In January and February 2009 David spent 2 months in northern Uganda photographing for A River Blue, a school providing psychosocial counseling and intense vocational training in topics like tailoring, agriculture, and arts to vulnerable youth.

His series "Alebtong, Uganda, 2009" was selected as 1 of 3 winners in the 2009 Conscientious Portfolio Competition and was exhibited at Anastasia Photo in New York from February 5 – April 14, 2010.

David’s editorial work is represented by Redux Pictures and his Uganda work is represented by Anastasia Photo. Most photographs on this website are available as licensed images and edition prints.

Deadline:
October 10th, 2010

Opening Reception:
December 3rd, 2010

Entry Fee:
$25 for 3 entries
$35 for 5 entries
$5 for each additional entry, with a limit of 10 entries total.

Image restrictions:
1000 pixels max on the largest dimension, jpeg, 100 dpi, no file larger then 3 megabytes please.

Please send your CD/DVD or files with a completed prospectus to:

Booksmart Studio
Gallery Call for Entries
250 North Goodman Street, 1st floor
Rochester, NY 14607

Additional information and Prospectus available here.

Capture Brooklyn: Call for Entries

The Mission:
New York City is indisputably the cultural capital of the world. In the 20th century, the nexus of relevant art was the island of Manhattan. But the 21st century has seen a definitive shift, making Brooklyn the new epicenter of literature, music, art, and photography.

Capture Brooklyn, a new initiative by the New York Photo Festival, is a juried exhibition of contemporary photography that seeks to capture the spirit and essence of Brooklyn, and to showcase the vitality of photography happening in the hottest part of New York right now!

Drawn from submissions received online through August 29, 2010, 80 photographs will be selected and exhibited at The powerHouse Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The show's official opening will take place during this year's Dumbo Arts Festival (September 24–26), an event that draws over 150,000 visitors over 3 days – and will remain open until October 15, 2010.

It is our hope that Capture Brooklyn will not only serve to acknowledge and celebrate the fantastic photography happening in this borough, but also encourage and nurture the growth of Brooklyn's artistic renaissance.

The Rules:
* All work submitted for consideration must have been produced (or published) after January 1, 2009.
* Winners will be notified by September 6 and will need to drop-off their work at The powerHouse Arena no later than September 20, 2010.
* All work must be dropped-off suitably mounted or framed and ready for hanging, or they will not be included in the show.
* All work must be clearly labelled with the artist's name and contact info.
* All selected photographs must remain for the duration of the exhibition. Substitutions will not be accepted.
* Artists are responsible for all shipping costs to and from The powerHouse Arena.
* Artists are responsible for insuring their work. All work will be handled by experienced personnel and the utmost care will be taken to guarantee the safety of the work. However, the New York Photo Festival and The PowerHouse Arena will not be responsible for any loss or damage to the work while on show or in transit.

Entry Fees:
Each participating artist may submit 1-3 single images for a fee of $25 or 4-6 single images for a fee of $50.

Call for Entries: WoRK

There are a relatively few topics we can all relate to, the big ones being birth and death. But what happens in-between, for most of us, is the process of living, of getting by, of succeeding, of toil, and of searching. Work could be your job, your 9-5, it could be someone else's, or it could be the absence of employment, an affliction all too common in this day and age. Work is what we do to feed us physically, emotionally, mentally. Chasing dreams or dollars, show us your WoRK.

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking images that depict the daily drudgery, struggle, joy, and determinism in the life of the human being.

Juror: Andy Adams
Submission Deadline: Aug. 30
Fee for Members: $25
Fee for Non-members: $35
Fee for Membership + Submission: $60

Questions? programming@neworleansphotoalliance.org

Additional information available here.

Student Advocates for the Arts

Student Advocates for the Arts is a grassroots student organization dedicated to educating on and advocating for public policy affecting the arts in the United States. Founded in 2002 by graduate students in the Arts Administration Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, SAA engages students in hands-on lobbying, workshops on advocacy and cultural policy, and discussions on the American system for funding the arts.

Find out additional information here.

SFMOMA Patterson Curatorial Fellowship

JOB DESCRIPTION

The William and Elizabeth Patterson Curatorial Fellowship in Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is an annual fellowship for serious graduate- level students with a demonstrated interest in a museum career in photography. This year SFMOMA is offering one part-time 20-week fellowship beginning in mid-September 2010.

The Fellow will be undertaking in-depth research on SFMOMA’s extensive permanent collection of photography. During the Fellow’s residency, he or she will conduct scholarly research on individual artists and objects, write texts for publication on the Museum’s website, verify and correct existing cataloguing information, and perform data entry. He or she will also be expected to contribute to the department’s day-to-day activities, as assigned. The fellowship requires a 17.5 hour/week commitment and includes a stipend of $7,875. The successful applicant will have a master’s degree (or higher) in art history with an emphasis on the history of photography and a demonstrated commitment to a museum career. He or she will possess excellent writing, research, and communication skills, as well as reading ability in at least one foreign language.

TO APPLY:

Qualified applicants should submit a letter describing their interest in the fellowship, along with a CV, writing sample (not to exceed 20 pages), and two letters of reference by August 1, 2010

Send application materials to:

Patterson Fellowship, Photography Department,
SFMOMA, 151 Third Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110

POSITION: Patterson Curatorial Fellowship
DEPARTMENT: Photography
SUPERVISOR: Associate Curator, Photography
OPEN POSITION: June 25, 2010
CLOSING POSITION: August 1, 2010
SCHEDULE: 17.5 hours/week (includes benefits)
STIPEND: $7,875

This is a Term 20 weeks position

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE!

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art encourages people of color, residents of SOMA,
and other San Francisco residents to apply. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.

Additional information available here.

The Tracey Baran Award

The Tracey Baran Award was established to honor the memory and achievement of Tracey Baran, a young photographer who died after a short illness in 2008. This annual award, with a fellowship grant of $5000, will be given to one emerging female photographer who is a citizen of the United States.

The grant recipient will be determined by a review panel based on artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium.

The jury panel for 2010 will consist of Jen Davis, photographer; Christine Osinski, photographer; and Leslie Tonkonow, Director, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects.

This award was created by the School of Visual Arts BFA Photography Department and the Estate of Tracey Baran. It was funded by the generous artists who donated to the Tracey Baran Memorial Auction.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Application Deadline: September 1st, 2010

Entry Fee: None

Eligibility: The contest is open to all emerging female photographers who are citizens of the United States. Emerging is defined as not having had a major solo show in a commercial gallery or museum, gallery representation or an advertising campaign.

Contact: info@traceybaranaward.org

APPLICATION

How To Apply: Go to http://www.callforentry.org, where, you will find a link to the School of Visual Arts-Tracey Baran Award application, along with step-by-step instructions on how to register, which is free and user-friendly. All entries must be submitted online; we will not process any applications we receive by e-mail or standard mail.

A completed application consists of the following information & files:

Portfolio: A portfolio of twenty image files showing representative, recent work, with text descriptions for each: artist’s name, title, year, medium, and dimensions. All images must be saved at 1920 x 1920 pixels and as standard JPEG’s. All images must be under 1.8MB and use RGB color space, preferably sRGB. Because all images must be saved at 1920X1920 pixels, you may use a black mask if the image does not fit to these dimensions. Please refer to https://www.callforentry.org/image_prep.phtml for further information

Resume / CV

Artist Statement: The purpose of the statement is to give the review panel a better understanding of your work, while they are viewing it. Your statement should be clear, concise and relate to the portfolio you submit.

Call for Work: Low Tech

The Center for Fine Art Photography
http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2010LowTech/index.asp

Low Tech:
The Center is currently celebrating the low-tech processes and is interested in exhibiting the best low-tech images that photographers are producing. This call is open to all subjects and styles of photography that include a low tech means of image making or printing. This includes, but is not limited to; toy, Holga and Diana cameras, Pinhole, Wet Plate Collodian, Photograms, Callotypes, Cyanotypes, Polaroid and other traditional processes.

Juror:
Crista Dix is the Founder and Director of wall space gallery in Seattle and Santa Barbara.

Non-Members: $35 for the first five images.

Entries due: July 13, 2010

Notice of acceptance: July 23, 2010

Exhibition dates: Oct 1 - 30, 2010

Public / Artists’ Reception: Oct 1 from 6-9pm

Call for Artists: 2010 Windows on Main Street

Courtesy of Emma:

Windows on Main Street is a unique and exciting project entering it’s sixth year in Beacon, NY. Participants create site-specific works of art as a means to engage the community, residences, and businesses through a month-long exhibition displayed in store windows located along our mile-long Main Street.

This year’s Windows on Main Street opens August 14th and will run through September 11th 2010.

This collaborative and multidisciplinary project is intended to stimulate interaction between artists, residents, and commercial vendors to explore how art can provide cultural and social understanding, be a catalyst for economic improvement in communities, and strengthen the relationship between residents and artists.

The opening of this event will be part of Beacon’s August 2010 Second Saturday celebration, a monthly celebration of the arts in which galleries and shops are open from noon until 9:00PM for openings, performances and other events. Beacon’s Second Saturday is a project of the Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA). For more information about Second Saturday events in August, please visit: www.beaconarts.org.

CALL FOR ARTISTS:

• Artists are responsible for installing, uninstalling, and any clean up required. All artwork must be family friendly, and artists must get final approval for any installations from their assigned store owner.
• There is no application fee, but if you are interested please send me the following:
• A description of what you would like to create (it can be as brief or as involved as you think is necessary, but I must receive some sort of proposal), and the storefront you would like to install it in (please also select backup options).
• An artist's statement that will accompany your installation.
• A link to an online portfolio or website to give me a sense of the kind of work you create.
• DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS JULY 1, 2010.

Thank you so much, and please feel free to forward this along to anyone else you think might be interested.

Inquiries: katymatic@gmail.com

Click here for the map of Windows on Main Street 2009

Upcoming Slideluck Potshow Deadlines

The following comes from an email to members of Slideluck Potshow:

As membership of the SLPS Network approaches 5000, we encourage you to put it to use! Feel free to use it as a place to post information aboutupcoming shows and opportunities, videos, photo requests, etc. http://network.slideluckpotshow.com

You probably also know that we just relaunched the SLPS Website, and it now has over 2000 artists from over 100 shows in over 40 cities archived on it! There really is a lot to look at on it and we encourage you to check it out. Already, we know that at least 4 photographers have been hired directly through this exposure. http://slideluckpotshow.com

Next, we have a lot of opportunities to present work at upcoming Slideluck Potshows! Here are some upcoming deadlines:

June 22: SLPS Florence
June 23: SLPS Barcelona IV
June 25: SLPS Chicago IV
June 25: SLPS San Francisco III
June 25: SLPS Woodstock
July 16: SLPS Vancouver
September 10: SLPS Philadelphia

All information about these shows can be found on the Network: http://network.slideluckpotshow.com

Flash Forward Festival

Emerging Photographers from Canada, United Kingdom and United States
October 6–10, 2010

The Flash Forward Festival is an international five-day biennial event launching in Toronto’s Liberty Village from October 6–10, 2010. The Flash Forward Festival is an extension of The Magenta Foundation’s successful annual emerging photographers competition, Flash Forward.

The Art of Photography Show

http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/

Due June 1 2010

Judge: Natasha Egan
Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of
Contemporary Photography in Chicago

Fee: $25.oo

Rewards for Personal Projects

From the American Society of Media Photographer's (ASMP) blog Strictly Business, here's a recent post entitled "The Unexpected Profit from Personal Projects."

6x6x2010 Reminder!!

6x6x2010 entries are due this Sunday, May 2, by 5:00PM, at Rochester Contemporary.

Rochester Contemporary: 6x6x2010

6x6x2010 is the third exhibition of thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international and local artists, designers, college students, youths and YOU. Each artwork will be 6x6 inches square and signed only on the back, to be exhibited anonymously. All artworks will be for sale to the public for $20 each to benefit Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Artists' names will be revealed to the buyer only upon purchase and all artworks will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition. Don't miss Rochester's largest exhibition, and a chance to show your artwork in great company and support Rochester's downtown contemporary art venue. All submissions are due by May 2 at 5 pm and should be delivered or mailed directly to Rochester Contemporary Art Center. No fee to enter.

Submission form [Prospectus & Submission Form]

Vox Populi: Call for Submission

The Vox Populi Project Space (VPPS) serves as a versatile incubation space within Vox Populi, in the active arts building at 319 North 11th Street. The space is open to artists, curators, gallerists, designers, and others seeking to pilot a project. The Project Space aims to mitigate risks involved in these upstarts by providing administrative support and the physical space needed to realize discrete projects which have as a primary focus an interest in fostering contemporary visual art, dialogue, and debate in Philadelphia.

Deadline: Fri., April 30, 2010

Submissions should include:
Description of project concept, including timeline and activities
Statement of objectives
Supporting materials such as writings, images, publications, etc.
Current resume(s)
Brief statement describing project needs and why using space at Vox is important to your project
Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and addresses of three professional references who can comment on your recent work and artistic development

Submit materials to:
Vox Populi
Project Space
319 North 11th Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
T: 215-238-1236

Questions? Contact: director@voxpopuligallery.org
Additional information available here.

Image10

Image10 is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and open to all professional, serious amateur and student photographers residing in the United States. Contestants are asked to submit one or more images that were created after January 1, 2009.

ASMP Members (Pro): $25
ASMP Members (Student): $15
Non-members (Pro): $35
Non-members (Student): $25

Deadline: Saturday, May 1, 2010
How to submit an image.

International Photographer Index

iPi — The International Photographer Index at photoeye.com is a visual index of important fine-art and documentary photographers from throughout the world.

It is our mission to become the most focused and useful index and search engine for discovering and exploring fine-art and documentary photography. Unlike all general search engines on the web where pertinent information is buried amidst the less relevant, the iPi search tool focuses only on the art and documentary community of photographers and their work, making it the ideal tool for a discerning audience of curators, gallery directors, publishers, editors, researchers, collectors and all other lovers of art and documentary photography.

The Photography Website Project's mission is to index all significant websites by internationally renowned and emerging art and documentary photographers.

Index Yourself! To apply for inclusion in iPi, simply enter your name, email address and website.

CCNY National Photo Competition

The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce an open call for applications for its Annual National Photography Competition. Photographers and photo–based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Applicants are encouraged to submit a cohesive body of work.

Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition at the CCNY gallery in the summer of 2010 and also on the CCNY website. The first place selection will receive a $500.00 cash award.

Juror: James Casebere
Deadline: Mon. April 19, 2010 (postmark date)

Additional info here.

2010 WPGA Annual Competition

http://www.thegalaawards.com/jury.html

Salon 100 Exhibition Opportunity

Contemporary artworks hung salon style all priced at $100 each--An effort to support artists and provide interesting yet affordable art to buyers.

How to Submit: Email submissions are preferred. Send up to 5 works for consideration (each must retail at exactly $100) along with your artist statement, short bio, and resume to sarah@theeclipsegallery.com

Deadline: Thurs. Sept. 30, 2010.

Additional information here.

STEP UP '10

Real Art Ways announces call for entry:

STEP UP is a series of six solo exhibitions,open to emerging artists living in New York, New Jersey or New England.

As Real Art Ways grows, our commitment to supporting young and emerging artists remains a touchstone of the organization. With the addition of an exhibition space called the Real Room, there are now more opportunities for artists to exhibit their work at one of America’s leading alternative spaces.

Deadline: materials must be postmarked by June 4, 2010

Additional information here.

Luceo Images Presents: Student Project Awards

Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the Luceo Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.

This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 along with mentorship for the project from one Luceo member. For additional information, click here.

Deadline: Sat., May 15, 2010, 11:59PM EST

SPD Student Photography Competition

The Society of Publication Designers presents the 2010 Student Photography Competition, themed Vice & Virtue. No fee to enter. Find out more here.

Deadline: Mon., March 29, 2010, 5PM EST

My SPE 2010 Experience

http://christinboggs.blogspot.com/2010/03/spe-2010.html

If you went, how was your experience??

Has your MFA made you a better photographer?

Fraction Magazine presents the Sunday Night Question: Has your MFA in art or photography made you a better photographer?

5th edition of its MUSAC Artistic Creation Grants

Fundación Siglo para las Artes de Castilla y León, through the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC), is now accepting submissions for the 5th edition of its MUSAC Artistic Creation Grants 2009-2010

http://musac.es/index_en.php?ref=28000

Art school Issues

Courtesy of Lisa:

Art schools: a group crit: a range of issues confront today's booming art schools and university art departments: What skills should young artists acquire? Should they be shielded from the art market or connected to it? Who needs a studio PhD degree? Here, 13 educators, artists and scholars offer their divergent views.......

Sex, Lies, and Fiction

Courtesy of Lisa:

An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled Sex, Lies, and Fiction: How truthful should writers be, and at what cost? By Chantal Corcoran

A good friend came to my home with her husband one evening. She's a writer like me, but a private one, more inclined to poetry by way of personal therapy than fiction for consumption. After dinner, while our husbands stepped outside to smoke cigars, she and I went down to the basement to dig through old trunks. While we crouched in my dusty crawl space flipping through photo albums and buzzing from wine, Lisa pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of her jeans...
Continue here.

Can/should art be taught?

Courtesy of Nick:

Check out this post from Alec Soth's archived blog:

I recently dipped my toes into the art education industry. After several waves of exhilaration and despair, I’m happy to find myself back on the relative terra firma of this blog. But I’m struggling to bring any coherence to my impressions. With only two weeks spent at the San Francisco Art Institute, I’m not qualified to offer much on the topic of arts education. But something is nagging at me. Something seems wrong...

http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/canshould-art-be-taught/

Photography Now call for entries

Here's a good one!

http://www.cpw.org/CurrentOpportunities/PhotoNow/pages/PhotoNow.html

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
It’s the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual PHOTOGRAPHY NOW call for entries where winners will be exhibited in CPW’s main gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010. This year CPW has invited the APERTURE Foundations' acclaimed Book Publisher and Director of Content, Lesley A. Martin to select the most exciting new photography from the national and international field!

ELIGIBILITY
From traditional to digital, all photographic techniques and approaches are welcome. Straight photography, fine art, narrative, documentary, landscape, social issues, still life, mixed media incorporating photography, photographic installations, and digital images & collages - all will be considered! CPW staff and ADV/Board members are not eligible to apply.

EXHIBITION
Accepted work will be exhibited in CPW's gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010.

HOW TO ENTER
6 images: $50 ($30 student/senior discount in this category only) | 10 images: $60 | 20 images: $100

Photography Museum of Art :: Photo Portfolio Competition 2010

The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce its first Photography Portfolio Competition. All applications must be submitted online. how to enter.

Deadline: May 15, 2010
Entry Fee: $40

Slideluck Potshow: Women's Work

Slideluck Potshow is proud to announce Women's Work, a collaboration with Ladies Lotto that will be taking place in Los Angeles this March, during Women's Awareness Month. At this multimedia slideshow and potluck dinner, artists from around the world will present work that illuminates aspects of the contemporary female experience.

If you are interested in submitting a project to Women's Work, or know an artist who should, guidelines can be found here and the submission deadline is Monday, February 15th.

Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB)

CRUMB aims to help those who 'exhibit' new media art, including curators, technicians and artists. CRUMB's website contains interviews, seminars, resources and more.

SNAP! 2010 A Photographic Fundraiser for the Aids Committee of Toronto

Elevator Digital Photo Competition & Silent Auction

Submission Deadline: TOMORROW, Thurs., Feb. 11, 5:00PM EST
Fee: $25/image

Additional information available here.

juried exhibition NYC

http://www.agora-gallery.com/competition/art_contest_main.aspx?86161

Nice enough gallery in chelsea, does feature emerging artists frequently.

Fiona

Pepsi Refresh

Pepsi Refresh is a series of grants. 20 days left to apply and vote.

http://www.refresheverything.com/categories/arts-and-culture

The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award‏

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) open a juried competition for professional and non professional photographers worldwide: The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award.
To submit your images online go to: www.thegalaawards.com

Early Bird Deadline (with discounted entry fees): March 14, 2010
Final Deadline: April 25, 2010

Until the Early Bird deadline: for the first 3 images US$ 32; each additional image US$ 8
Between the Early Bird deadline and the Final Deadline: for the first 3 images US$ 45; each additional image US$ 12.

Submit to Draft Magazine

Deadline: Feb. 11
Quantity: up to 10 images
Size: 8x10 at 72 dpi
Email: submit@draftmag.org

NY Arts Day 2010

The NYS Arts have announced Arts Day 2010:

Date: February 24, 2010
Location: Albany, NY

Arts Day Schedule
in Hearing Room A, LOB

9:00 am: Arts Day Headquarters opens. Pick up arts Day buttons and position papers

9:30 am: Arts Day Briefing,

Judith K. Weiner, Executive Director NYS ARTS

11:00 am: Joint Committee Hearing led by Senator Jose Serrano and Assemblyman Steven Englebright

Schedule your appointments with your legislators before and/or after the 11 am - 12 noon Joint Committee Hearing.

Parking info can be found here.

Sign up for Arts Day 2010 here.

Also check out info on their blog and twitter.

International Photography Festivals

www.rencontres-arles.com
www.hcp.gr
www.mdf-berlin.de
www.faf.art.pl
www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net
www.fotoartebrasilia.com.br
http://www.sedf.sk/
http://www.bpb.org.uk/
http://www.encuentrosabiertos.com
http://www.daeguphoto.com/
http://www.dtdf.de/
http://www.formatfestival.com/
http://www.noorderlicht.com/
http://www.phototriennale.de/
http://www.fotofestival-hannover.de/aktuell.html?&L=1
http://www.photofest.org/
http://www.fotofest.org/
http://www.kasselerfotoforum.de/
http://www.kaunasfoto.info/
http://www.photoszene.de/
http://www.photomonth.com/
http://www.f-stop-leipzig.de/v5/index.html
http://www.fotofestiwal.com/
http://www.cafecreme-art.lu/
http://www.phedigital.com/
http://www.fotofestival.info/en/
http://centrodelaimagen.conaculta.gob.mx/
http://www.admiraphotography.it/ingl/homeita.html
http://www.moisdelaphoto.com/
http://www.mdf.ru/english/
http://www.nyphotofestival.com/site/
http://levallgallery.com/Photo2/
http://www.mep-fr.org/us/default_test_ok.htm
http://www.photolucida.org/
http://www.xposeptember.se/
http://www.backlight.fi/
http://www.fotonoviembre.org/
http://www.photobiennale.gr/main.html
http://www.contactphoto.com/
http://www.monatderfotografie.at/

Colors Magazine

Here's a chance to get your work published.

http://lab.colorsmagazine.com/

Burn: Emerging Photographer Grant 2010

We are now receiving submissions for a grant of $15,000.

Funding is designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission or purely personal artistic imperatives…

The Emerging Photographer Fund grant was initiated by David Alan Harvey in 2008, and is awarded by the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit created by the member photographers from Magnum Photos, Inc…Funding for the EPF has come from several private donors who have chosen to remain anonymous.

The EPF Jury for 2009 was: Martin Parr, Gilles Peress, Eugene Richards, Carol Nagar, Fred Ritchin, Maggie Steber, David Griffin, John Gossage and James Nachtwey…

For additional information, click here.

ArtAwake

ArtAwake is a one-day festival of creativity that brings together students and community to give life to an underused space in Downtown Rochester.

Submission Deadline: Extended to Feb. 14

Red Dog Journal: Printing Tips

Quick Printing Tip: How to Place images perfectly every time

American Photography: Deadline Extension

American Photography Deadline extended to Fri., Jan. 29, 2010.
See previous entry about American Photography Call for Entry.

Chicago Artists Resource

Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is a program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

CAR describes the landscape of opportunity for Chicago artists working in Dance, Music, Theater and Visual Arts through a unique combination of

• an artist-curated resource directory
• links to local and national organizations
• articles from the New York Foundation for the Arts; UIC Center for Health in the Arts; GYST, Ink, and Ann Daley Consulting;
• and the voices, artwork and experiences of Chicago artists.
  

Use CAR to strengthen your own artistic practice, and share your experience by submitting your own Artist Story or Arts Professional Story. To learn more about CAR, check out the FAQs.

The Photographer's Gallery: Annual Graduates Exhibition

freshfacedandwildeyed is an annual exhibition open to recent visual arts graduates, representing the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK.

Following an online submission process, up to 25 artists are chosen by a jury to exhibit online and at The Photographers' Gallery.

Who can apply?
Any photographer/ artist who graduated from a visual arts course, BA or MA level, in 2009.

How and when to submit work:
When: 5 February – 3 March 2010
How: Please re-visit freshfacedandwildeyed then to access the online application form. Work submitted by post or email will not be considered.

You can submit up to 8 images. They should be in jpeg format. You will need to provide the medium, title, date, print size, presentation details and framing specifications of each work.

Artists Unite for Haiti: Call for Art

This is a great opportunity to help disaster relief efforts in Haiti and to participate in an exhibition:

Open to all artists of any level and any country - everyone is welcome to contribute. Help the Disaster Relief efforts in Haiti by donating an unframed work on paper to the Artists Unite for Haiti art sale.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Work on paper or light board any size, but no larger than 11 x 17 inches
• Any medium such as: drawing, painting, collage, photography
• All works must be unframed and unsigned- the work needs to be signed on the back (also include your city and country)
• Work will be hung using clips, so avoid using heavy materials.

Each artwork will be sold for $25.00. The artists will remain anonymous until after sale. Multiple submissions are welcome.

Deadline for submissions to arrive in the gallery is: Thursday February 4th, 2010

Send work to:
The LoDi Project
Attn. Artists United for Haiti
1126 North Blount Street
Raleigh NC 27604 USA

We encourage artists from all over the world to send their drawings, and please pass the word about this exhibition to other artists.

All funds will be donated directly to Mercy Corps and designated to the immediate relief of the Haitian people

Source: Graduate Photography Online 2010

Source Photographic Review, a quarterly magazine of contemporary photography published in Northern Ireland, is currently accepting submissions to Source: Graduate Photography Online 2010. The selectors for 2010 are: Charlotte Cotton (currently Creative Director for the new National Media Museum, previously worked at Art and Commerce, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art) and Elisabeth Biondi (Visuals Editor at The New Yorker).

Deadline: Sun. Apr. 4, 2010

Stay tuned for a discussion about submitting as a class.

The Nadar Award: Call for Entry

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) has launched a Juried competition for students and recent graduates of photography, fine art and design students of institutes, colleges, schools and universities worldwide: The Nadar Award for Students.

The first prize will be the attendance (including round trip from the country and city of residence, lodging, and tuition) to a Workshop organized by Santa Fe Photography Workshops, and the winner images will be widely promoted internationally. Selected images will be exposed during 2010 in US and Europe. As in other contest organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, a portion of its revenue (entry fees and sales of works in exhibitions) will be donated to that humanitarian organization.

WPGA invites all photography and fine art students working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome to The Nadar Award.

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2010
Fees: for the first 3 images US$ 25; each additional image US$ 7

OSI Links

The Open Society Institute has created a Facebook page for their Documentary Photography Project: Moving Walls. Become a fan for announcements about their exhibitions and grant programs, as well as links to work by their grantees.

They also created the "Photo grant opportunities" page as a community resource for fans to contribute links and opportunities. They use this page to post opportunities that they learn about, and use the other page to share new documentary work and program updates.