Bronx Museum

smARTpowersm will send fifteen U.S. artists abroad to work with local artists and young people around the world to create community-based art projects. Travel opportunities of up to 45 days will be awarded to selected artists to design and develop programs in cooperation with local arts organizations in host countries including China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Venezuela.

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NODE Berlin

Node Center for Curatorial Studies was created in order to offer a platform to teach, experiment, and investigate subjects related to curatorial studies and contemporary art practices.

The Center´s core activity stems from the Curatorial Studies Program that offers its participants the possibility of expanding their work experience, with professional feedback and technical support, by developing projects in Berlin.

Each trimester, Node focuses on a key topic that questions inherited curatorial practices and that invents new ways of creating knowledge by finding new possibilities in the exhibition process.

Residents of the Curatorial Studies Program along with artists, curators and guest specialists take on these key topics in order to create a solid body of research.

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Imagine RIT Video contest

Spread the word about the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival by creating a series of short videos to market the festival to its key audiences. Win cash and gain great experience interacting with real clients.

Prize: $4,000 (winner will be responsible for all tax obligations)

Eligibility: RIT students

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ADC Awards

DEADLINES

January 21st 2011 - Design, Photography, Illustration and Design Sphere

January 28th, 2011 - Interactive

January 28th, 2011 - All Student Deadlines

February 6th, 2011 - Advertising and Hybrid

PROFESSIONALS

All entries, excluding those in the Playground and Design Sphere categories, must have been printed, published, aired, or broadcast live online for the first time between February 8, 2010 and February 6, 2011, in any country. Entries may be submitted by any company or individual involved in the creation or production of the work.

Note: A winning entry is not guaranteed in every category.

STUDENTS

Students currently enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs in advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration, and new media are eligible for the competition, and are invited to submit published or unpublished work in any category except the Hybrid, Design Sphere and Playground categories.

Student work will be judged separately but by the same criteria and juries as professional work. All student winners will be included in the Art Directors Annual 90. Higher award winners (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) will be included in the New York and traveling exhibitions and in related advertising and promotional materials.

www.adcawards.org

American Photography 27

The American Photography 27 Call For Entries is open, please enter here

AP27 Deadline is January 28, 2011 with extensions TBA. As the exclusive resource for top art directors, designers and editors, American Photography brings visibility where it matters most in a luxurious, beautifully designed, hard-cover annual. As part of the AI-AP Visibility initiative, our new P.R.E.P Program expands on this by providing copies of the book free to advertising agencies, art departments, publishers and design firms from recommendations made by YOU. Send us by reply the name, company, address and email of someone in a position to hire you and we'll place them on a list to receive a copy of the current AP26 book - or the upcoming AP27 - based on availability, on your behalf.

PHOTOESPAÑA

Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña´s portfolio review, offering photographers the opportunity to present their work to curators and editors specialized in the field with the objective of generating professional outlets for their work.

From June 2 to 4, 2011 to participants will present their portfolios to eight professionals in individual 20-minute appointments.

All of the participants will opt for the Descubrimientos PHE Award, consisting in an individual exhibition in PHotoEspaña 2012.

Descubrimientos 2011

Perspectives

Perspectives is The Center for Fine Art Photography‘s blog. As a photography resource, Perspectives promotes photographers and jurors from the Center’s exhibitions and announces the latest calls for entry and other opportunities for photographers.

http://blog.c4fap.org/about/

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2011 Exhibitions:

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Bangalore, India (March 11-13, 2011). The selection will be presented in a contemporary videoart event with street screenings in Lleida, Spain (January 20-22, 2011). The deadline for applications is January 10, 2011.

The selections will be based on two main concepts. With the first section, Liquid Cities, we will present videos about contemporary cities, future cities and possible connections between videoarchitecture and videoart experimentations. The second section, Temporary Identities, will show videoart works based on the concept of contemporary identities, new technologies and body borders.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

Luca Curci Architects

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33

70122 – Bari, Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

lucacurci artexpo

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

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

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.

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.