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As ARTOMATIC is about to end this Sunday, I want to give whoever this artist is - the signature says "Parrilla", but there's no "Parrilla" in the ARTOMATIC roster of exhibiting artists. Nonetheless, he or she gets the top EROTICA award for 2024 ARTOMATIC.
Enjoy these gorgeous paintings!
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The 2024 Prix Virginia
This photography competition is open to women photographers, regardless of their nationality or age. The competition is organized every two years by the Association Sylvia S. from Paris, France.
Each candidate must submit 12 – 18 photographs on any subject (one cohesive body of work rather than single images).
Photos submitted to the Virginia Prize must never have been exhibited in France.
No Entry Fee.
Hopefully, an ARTOMATIC 2025, but knowing how immensely difficult it is to arrange, work and set up this amazing spectacle and most impressive gift to the planet's art scene, I suspect that it may be a year or two.
ARTOMATIC ends this weekend (April 28) and I want to be the first to send a most effusive WELL DONE to George Koch, the Godfather of ARTOMATIC and to the hundreds of volunteers that made this gorgeous event happen.
The end of such an important art gift to the DMV always brings a bit of sadness, but it also leaves our artistic batteries super charged!
What next?
Maybe an art fair... a really no shit art fair like New York, London, half a dozen Asian cities, and next month Austin have? The city commissars at the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities are thinking about it...
SAVE THE DATE
Embracing Our Differences is seeking original quotations for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images paired with the quotations.
The theme is “embracing our differences.“
The exhibit will be on display January through April 2025 in two locations in Florida.
Cash prizes totaling $4,000 will be awarded.
Entries can be no longer than 20 words.
No Entry Fee.
The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District announces a Call for Artists for a new public art project in downtown Bethesda, MD. The A&E District will select 15 artists whose original designs will be printed onto a vinyl wrap to adorn 15 Signal Boxes located throughout downtown Bethesda. This new project will beautify the signal boxes, provide an opportunity to local artists and bring more public art to our community. We are especially interested in having high school artists participate in this project. If you know a young artist in your life, please encourage them to submit their work
Artists must be 14 years of age or older and residents of Washington, D.C., Maryland or Virginia.
Each selected artist will be paid $650 for the use of their design, and the deadline to apply is Monday, April 29, 2024.
For many years, I have been a member of the advisory panel that recommends to the City of Washington which art to acquire for its city collection via its ART BANK program.
I am always shocked how few submissions we get each year! And the artists who "know about it" keep it up every year to the point that by now, there are artists with almost twenty works of art in the collection of the District of Columbia!
Interested?
In support of local visual artists, District art galleries, and art nonprofit organizations, CAH acquires fine art. The ongoing annual acquisition of art from metropolitan artists becomes a part of the Art Bank Collection. CAH manages artwork in the collection. It is then loaned to District Government agencies for display in public areas and offices of government buildings. The Art Bank Collection, which started in 1986, has nearly 3,000 artworks.
The Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) requests applications from qualified artists and District nonprofit art galleries or organizations for its Fiscal Year 2025 Art Bank Program. Award amounts vary but eligible individual applicants may be awarded up to $15,000 and nonprofit art galleries or organizational applicants may be awarded up to $20,000.
Submission Deadline: 9 pm ET, Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Tips: If your artwork involves any kind of nudity - do not even bother.
Political art? Only one side of the aisle usually considered... cough... cough...
