Hillyer is accepting proposals for solo and group exhibitions

Annual Call for Proposals 2024

Deadline: Friday, September 22, 2023

Hillyer is accepting proposals for solo and group exhibitions that take place between January and December of 2024. Through a competitive selection process, 25 to 30 artists and/or curators will be awarded a one month solo or group exhibition in one of Hillyer’s three gallery spaces.

All proposals that meet Hillyer’s qualifications are reviewed and selected by Hillyer’s Advisory Committee, which is composed of established artists and arts professionals, and chaired by Hillyer’s Director. During the selection process, Hillyer’s aim is to select emerging and accomplished artists that are local, regional, national and international. Curators are also invited to submit proposals. Artists and curators who are selected will receive the following: Mentorship from Advisory members One month solo or group exhibition A $350 stipend Exhibition opening and reception Assistance with installation Assistance with labels and didactics Marketing and press releases Public programs

Submission Guidelines

All submissions will be received by using an online Google form. The form will require that artists submit the following information: Project Title Description of Proposal (150 words) Artist (or Curatorial) Statement (150 words) Biography (150 words) Note: Curators should submit a “curator statement” in place of an “artist statement.” Read the support document to learn more.  Additional information should include: Emerging or Accomplished Artist Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Country BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Online exhibition* Public program description Personal or professional website Article, blog, or review *Online exhibitions are optional. If this option is selected, select artists will be considered for online exhibitions, if not selected for on-site exhibitions.

Media Instructions

Artists are required to submit media to support their proposals. This will require a cloud-sharing service like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, WeTransfer, or Microsoft OneDrive. See the support document for more details. Images  Images should represent the individual works of art referenced in the proposal, but may also include installation shots or other relevant information. Guidelines for submitting images Do not exceed 6 images. Each image should not exceed 3 MB Images must be in jpg format (png or tiff files will not be accepted).  Videos Videos can also be submitted if they are integral to the proposal. Videos must be submitted by sharing a direct URL link to the video. Some options include: Sharing a direct link to a YouTube video. Adding anchor tags to a webpage that links directly to the video. For more information about video links, view the support document. Document One document can be added to the shared folder that includes the images. You can use the document to provide object descriptions, thumbnail images, floor plans, diagrams, etc. DO NOT exceed one page.

Final Review

After the date has closed for proposals, artist submissions will be reviewed over a four-to-six-week period. The artists selected will be announced shortly after. Artists who are not selected will also be contacted at this time.

Submit Your Proposal

To participate in this year’s Call for Proposals, please click on the "Submit Your Form" button below. You will receive an automated response confirming your submission and a follow-up message from Hillyer’s director.

Submit Your Form

Resources

Before submitting your materials it is recommended that you review the support document and/or watch the video tutorial to learn more about how to prepare your materials.

WPA is seeking a Gallery Assistant

The WPA is seeking a Gallery Assistant (part-time internship) to help with the management, promotion, and planning of our events and exhibitions from early Fall 2023 through late Spring 2024. 

WPA staff is a small team made up of artists and curators working collaboratively; the Gallery Assistant will play an active role working with the team. This position provides opportunities for mentorship as well as expanding your knowledge of the DC art scene through supporting our program development and interacting with local artists. 

The right candidate for the position is responsible, enthusiastic, and organized. 

Find more details and apply here.

Call For Entry: CREATING CONNECTIONS

Call For Entry:

CREATING CONNECTIONS

An Acquisition & Print Replication Project

Monday, August 21 by Midnight
Application Deadline

Google Application Form 

Full Prospectus 

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is thrilled to partner with N2K Networks again this year to solicit the replication, reproduction and acquisition of a work of art indicative of “Creating Connections” and cybersecurity. MAP is working with N2K to offer a unique opportunity to female and female identifying visual artists of the greater Baltimore metropolitan area. Collectively, MAP and N2K wish to acquire and license the image of a work of art. The image of that artwork will be reproduced in a limited edition and presented to the guests of N2K’s 2023 Women in Cybersecurity event to be held on October 19, 2023 at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

ABOUT “CREATING CONNECTIONS”: We live in a time where cyberspace has become inextricably linked to the lives of individuals and organizations of all kinds. Cyberspace is the medium of global commerce and communication, and it is one of the most important factors in the social, political, and technological changes we see occurring today. N2K provides concise and relevant daily briefings and podcasts on the critical news happening across the global cybersecurity domain. In an industry overloaded with information, we also help individuals and organizations rapidly find the news and information that's important to them.

The aim of N2K’s reception is to facilitate connections among women working in cybersecurity, and N2K would like to acquire a work of art that reflects the theme of “creating connections.” Inherent in the idea of connections is the idea of networks—social networks, computer networks and support networks—which may be an important point of departure for acquired or commissioned work. This opportunity is open to women and women-identifying artists living and working in the greater Baltimore metropolitan area.
 

The selected artist(s) will be joining a wonderful roster of artists as this program has developed over the last decade. They are: Claire Girodie (year 14’), Anna and Caroline Zellhofer (year 15’), Lindsey McCulloch (year 16’), Carmen Martini (year 17’), and Shanthi Chandrasekar (year 18’), Jackie Hoystead (19’), and Marica Wolfson-Ray (22’). Note: there was a break in this program due to Covid-19.

General Guidelines & Information

• MAP only accepts 2-D works for reproduction - photography, painting, mixed media or similar welcomed.

• All works must be no less than 4 X 4” and no more than 24 X 20”.

• The reproduction edition will be decided on, and agreed-upon at a later date, but will not exceed 500.

• All reproductions will receive a ‘chop or seal’ noting N2K Networks as the publisher.

• All reproductions will be printed on an agreed upon archival fine art paper, expense absorbed by N2K Networks.

• **Artist agrees to not reproduce the selected artwork at the agreed-upon dimensions of this project as this will devalue the edition. Likewise, N2K Networks agrees not to reproduce the image after the edition has ended.

• N2K Networks will cover scanning fees/photography associated with the reproduction.

• Artist agrees to use the artwork image for press and promotional purposes related to this project and event.

• Artist will remain the owner of image copyright.

• Artist is invited to attend the Women in Cybersecurity reception on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

Benefits to the artist: The selected artist will benefit in the following ways:

• $1,000 Cash Award 

• Acquisitions of the original work

• Increased visibility of the artist’s name and artwork through:

  • Press announcements

  • Highlighted on MAP and N2K Networks’ websites

  • The gifting of artist reproduction to attendees of the Women in Cybersecurity reception

  • Acknowledgment at Women in Cybersecurity reception on October 19, 2023

To apply please see the following application and required attachments: Please send your application to imprint@mdartplace.org OR fill out the Google application HERE by MIDNIGHT on Monday, August 21, 2023. 

Application Fee: $10 for non-MAP members. Submit your fee by clicking on “Get Involved”, “Donate” on MAP’s website and simply adjust the fee to $10.  Please attach your payment receipt to your application. Checks can be made payable to: Maryland Art Place | c/o Benefit | 218 West Saratoga Street Baltimore, MD 21201

Member of MAP? Your submission fee will be waived. Please make a note on your submission that you are a member!

TIMELINE

July 20: Release Call

Monday, August 21, 2023 Application Deadline

Week of September 11, Artist Studio Visits/Interviews

September 25, Awarded Artist Announced

October 2-14, Printing/Production

October 16-18, Artist Print Signing Period @ Full Circle Fine Art

Thursday, October 19, 2023 Women in Cybersecurity Reception

Christina Helowicz at the Affordable Art Fair NYC

We'll be in booth C1 at the coming Affordable Art Fair in Chelsea this September 20-24 - drop me an email if you'd like some complimentary passes.  There will be work by Steve Wanna, Christina Helowicz, Seth Fairweather, Dora Patin, Ally Morgan, Jennifer Barlow, Lian Sever, and others.

Wall Sculptures by Christina Helowicz

All Members Exhibition at Studio Gallery

See You Soon

An All Members Exhibition at STUDIO GALLERY

Curated by Susan Raines and Lois Kampinsky

July 19th - August 12th, 2023

The phrase “see you soon” seems to offer many possibilities. A casual farewell between people, the phrase “see you soon” assumes a next meeting. It presupposes that there is a return, a plan, a belief that things will happen as we expect.

Besides being an assurance, it can also be an invitation, a wish, a leap of faith, a longing, a hope that we will be there in the future and witness what has become. With bright colors, or perhaps, dark hues, artists in this exhibition imbue the phrase with their own personal interpretation and nuanced meaning as they navigate our times. - Irene Pantelis

Events:

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22nd, 3-6 pm

*Third Thursday: Thursday, July 20th, 5-8 pm

First Friday: Friday, August 4th, 6-8 pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, August 12th, 3-5 pm

*Studio Gallery will once again be collaborating with the IA&A at Hillyer (9 Hillyer Court NW), The Phillips Collection (1600 21st Street), and ADA Gallery (R & 21st Street NW) for a night of celebrating our wonderful local artists!

All of these galleries are within walking distance from one another, and will be hosting events between the hours of 5pm to 8pm. Click the links above to visit their websites for more details, or click "Visit Our Website"

for a rundown of the upcoming Third Thursday events!

You can view the show online here.

Here are my two picks as sharing Best in Show!

Untitled III by Skyler Henry
Mixed Media on Mat Board

Waiting to be Friended by Wayne Paige
2018 Mixed media (ink, paper on stretched canvas, meteorite fragments)

Tim Tate on this Saturday

 

The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards: 2023 Finalist Announced

Eight regional artists have been selected as finalists for The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, a juried competition and exhibition produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District. More than 300 artists from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., submitted work to the 21st annual competition. 

As usual, I will review the artwork and predict the winner - over the years since this great prize was institutionalized by the great Carol Trawick, I've been batting about 75% in being able to predict the prizewinner once I "study" what the jurors produce themselves! As usual, Baltimore dominates the finalists with 30% of the finalists being from Baltimore!

The artwork will be exhibited at Gallery B from Sept. 7 – October 1, 2023, located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E. Gallery hours are Thursday-Sunday, 12 – 5pm. A public opening reception will be held on Friday, Sept. 8th, from 6-8pm.

2023 Trawick Prize Finalists

Rush Baker IV, Riverdale Park, MD

Rex Delafkaran, Washington, D.C.

Stephanie Garon, Clarksville, MD

Kei Ito, Baltimore MD

 Megan Koeppel, Hyattsville, MD

Giulia Livi, Baltimore, MD

Charles Mason III, Baltimore, MD

Fanxi Sun, Richmond, VA

The 2023 jurors were:

Brandon Morse, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities

Brandon Morse is a Washington, D.C.-based artist who works with generative systems to examine how physical phenomena such as entropy and emergence can function in poetic and metaphorical ways. Through the use of code and the creation of custom computer software, he creates simulations of seemingly complex systems to create video and video installations that seek to draw parallels between how these systems work and how we, individually and collectively, navigate the world around us. Morse received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and his Master of Fine Arts in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University. He has exhibited his work in digital video and sound exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., the Nanjing Museum in China, the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and Kunsthalle Detroit. Morse is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the University of Maryland.

Jon-Phillip Sheridan, Chair of the Photography and Film Department at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Arts

Jon-Phillip Sheridan is the Department Chair of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Arts in Richmond, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2014, Sheridan curated “Expecting Reality,” an exhibition at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. Sheridan has been exhibited in many solo and group shows, including Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape at The University of Richmond Museums. His work was used on the catalog cover. His work has been included in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collections, Markel Corporation, Capital One, and the Federal Reserve Bank.

Naoco Wowsugi, Associate Professor of Art at American University

Naoco Wowsugi is a community-engaged artist and Associate Professor of Art at American University. Wowsugi’s cross-disciplinary projects range from portrait photography and participatory performance to horticulture, exploring the nature of belonging and inclusive community building; while also highlighting and fortifying everyday communal and interpersonal identities. She has been included in exhibits at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC; Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Honolulu, HI and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Wowsugi earned her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and Osaka University of Arts in Japan.

1800s 'Fro

 

Introducing WPA's New Director Travis Chamberlain

WPA's Board of Directors announced a few days ago the appointment of Travis Chamberlain as its next Director. Chamberlain—a curator and director with more than 20 years of experience in museum, non-profit, and for-profit contemporary arts spaces in New York City—will begin his new role on September 1, 2023, becoming the 12th Director of one of the most influential and impactful contemporary arts organizations in the region and the U.S. 

Now in its 48th year, WPA is a trailblazer among the region’s contemporary art institutions, with a dedicated project space, bookstore, and gallery. WPA's mission supports the development of experimental projects that build community through collaborations between artists and audiences, with an emphasis on dialogue and advocacy. Artists are invited to curate and organize all of WPA's programming as an extension of their own intellectual research, and their resulting projects may assume a variety of forms including exhibitions, publications, performances, workshops, symposia, community dinners, and more.

"We feel very fortunate to welcome Travis Chamberlain as the next Director of Washington Project for the Arts,” said Board of Directors Co-Chairs Ashley Givens, Ph.D. and Jocelyn Sigue. “His decades-long commitment to community organizing through art and his extensive experience as a curator, producer, and institutional leader working at a local, national, and international level will be a tremendous asset to WPA and the greater region.”

Chamberlain assumes the role as WPA’s principal executive leader after five years as Executive Director at Queer|Art, a community-based nonprofit with a mission to connect and empower generations of LGBTQ+ artists throughout the nation. Prior to this position, Chamberlain spent ten years as a curator of performance at the New Museum in New York City. 

“Washington Project for the Arts is an incubator for new art that is unrestrained by discipline and anchored by ideas that seek to inspire positive change in the world,” Chamberlain notes. “The fact that WPA is in DC, so close to the Capitol and all that comes with it, only makes the questions we ask and the answers we explore together all the more resonant for artists and communities everywhere. I am excited to join the staff and board in furthering their commitment to facilitating collaborations between audiences and artists. Through our work together, WPA will also become a catalyst for nurturing an exchange of ideas and resource sharing among creative communities on a more global level, with DC as the hub from which all WPA collaborations will flow.”

Chamberlain’s appointment follows an extensive national search supported by Claire Huschle of Good Insight. His arrival coincides with WPA’s 2023–2024 Season Kick-Off and BBQ on Saturday, September 9. The event will introduce the roster of 2023–2024 Artist-Organizers and the projects they will be producing through collaboration with WPA, invited artists, and local communities. All are welcome to attend!

Anderson Campello at Tallyho

Anderson Campello at Tallyho

 

BlackRock Center for the Arts presents “Mandy Chesney is gaudy”

BEST.NEWS.RELEASE.EVER!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On view

15 July–10 Sep 202

Tues–Fri: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM

Sat: Noon–4:00 PM

Sun: 10:30 AM–2:30 PM

Reception & Artist Talk: 18 Aug 2023, 6:00–8:00 PM

IN THE KAY GALLERY

Mandy Chesney is gaudy. Mandy Chesney is gaudy is Mandy Chesney’s first solo exhibition. Born spitting into the wind on the bow of a Mississippi riverboat casino, Chesney has known when to hold ‘em since day one. At age 4, she learned glitter magic from the Lion’s Creek Baptist Church organist, Mr. Robert—known far and wide for his lace drawers. At age 15, Chesney graduated from the Chattanooga Coiffer Academy and spent seven years and a month of Sundays as a beautician to the stars. Her talents have gloried the crowns of Marty Stuart, Pat Metheny, Janice Wendell Crouch, and William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys, among many others. 

But she also knows how to make a home. A master of the Domestic Arts, Chesney cannot be worn slap out. She will split a frog hair four ways, jerk a knot in your tail, and smell great while doing it.

From 2015 to 2017, Chesney graced the halls of the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and she’s lived in Baltimore City ever since. 

Mandy Chesney is not a natural blonde. She’s a 42DD. 

Glitter is a particularly divisive material. Glitter is judged as frivolous in a way that is seen as too feminine, irredeemably low class, and possibly queer… It is loud. Glitter demands to be seen, it steals light. Glitter responds when you move your body, it has a conversation with your eyes. Glitter likes to party, it flirts with the viewer. It winks to something more behind the shine.

—Mandy Chesney, 2021, from an interview with Morgan Everhart for awomensthing.org

IG: @mandychesney

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Sheer genius!!!!

Guess who's in the Washington Post today?

A few days ago I expressed my frustration here about the waste of print space in the WaPo's only column dedicated to our area's art galleries. Today the WaPo published my letter on the subject online and then in print in their Saturday issue.

Read it here.

Arts Beat from 1999

Back from the past: When the WaPo used to have multiple columns looking at gallery shows:

In a group show at Georgetown's Fraser Gallery, "Salvador Dali: A Modern Homage to a Modern Icon," many works feature the artist himself, black eyes ablaze, famous waxed mustache in fine form. In synergy with his explosive, colorful works, Dali had a showman's personality and theatrical looks.

Read the piece by Nicole Lewis here.