Call for Entry: MAP’s 35th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

Application Deadline: August 27, 2016 @ 4pm

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is now accepting applications for it’s 35 Year Anniversary Show, opening October 6, 2016. Each year, MAP serves over 400 artists through exhibition opportunities in its gallery.  To celebrate 35 years, MAP is going back to its roots.  This exhibition will feature contemporary artists that have exhibited with MAP throughout the organization’s history.

Have you ever exhibited with MAP? This call to exhibit is open to all artists that have shown work at Maryland Art Place that are currently residing in the state of Maryland.  Artists must have exhibited work at MAP in any show from 1981 - 2016.  All MAP exhibitors from 1981 - 2016 are encouraged to apply, including artists from exhibitions such as Out of Order, Young Blood, UNDER 500, IMPACT, IMPRINT and any juried or solo exhibitions.To view the full prospectus, click here!


GENERAL TIMELINE

• Call to Artists: August 4, 2016
• Application Deadline: Saturday August 27, 2016 @ 4pm
• Announce selected artist/artist team: September 1, 2016
• Public Announcement: Released the week of September 1, 2016
• Artwork Drop-off: Saturday, September 24, 10 am - 4pm
• Installation: September 26 – October 4, 2016
• Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6
• Open House: Saturday, October 15, noon – 4pm
• Exhibition Closing: Thursday, October 27
• Artwork Pick up: Saturday, October 29

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS (Required) NOTE: Proposals must be sent electronically & by 4pm August 27, 2016. Incomplete submissions WILL NOT be reviewed. Proposals must be received by 4pm, August 27, 2016. Only emailed applications will be accepted, please do not send CDs or hard copies of the application. Artists will be notified of their acceptance by September 1 | Fee: $10 to submit, free for MAP Members. *Please note that work should be appropriate for viewers of all ages.


1. ARTIST RESUMÉ & SHORT BIO, ARTIST STATEMENT
2. IMAGES - Please submit up to 10 images for this exhibition
3. IMAGE LIST - Include dimensions, media and year created (please be specific)


Questions? Contact Naomi Davidoff @ Naomi@mdartplace.org


Please send your proposal to assistant@mdartplace.org by 4pm, Saturday August 27, 2016.


The 35th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXHBITION will run from October 6-27. An ‘Open House’ celebration of 35 years will be held on Saturday, October 15 from noon - 4pm with a reception for Donors in MAP’s Gallery at 5pm that same day. Please mark your calendars. All exhibiting artists are invited to the reception!

Asshole of the Week: Bolivia's National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore

When a museum is part of a "proud" exhibition that honors a murdering, racist dictator (who now holds the record for the longest living dictator on the planet), then that museum is not only an easy "Asshole of the Week" winner, but also an almost certain "Asshole of the Year" award and an early favorite for "Asshole of the Decade" award.

Read about these dictator-loving mutants here.

Juan Villanueva (representative of the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore), you should pray that the disaster that has consumed the unfortunate island of Cuba never visits your beautiful nation.

Raye Leith in “Blueprints”

The Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center will open a solo exhibit the works of artist Raye Leith in her show, Blueprints, on display in the Forum and Passage galleries from Friday, July 29 to Sunday, Sept. 11.

An artist’s reception is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6.
Leith has been painting and drawing the human figure for five decades. She is fueled by a basic desire for connection and communication. Leith is an eclectic artist who also has experience in theatre design.

“In these drawings I call ‘Blueprints,’ I’ve interwoven larger-than-life portraits with miniature cityscapes and expansive landscapes,” Leith explained. “I’ve skewed the portraits to express a sense of gravitational disorientation, and I’ve juxtaposed them with soaring expanses and apocalyptic disasters. Minute detailing in the pocket spaces between human forms creates unexpected shifts of spatial perspective.”

Leith’s individual portraits that will be on display in the Passage Gallery are developed from her weekly model studies. “I do the drawings on Lanaquarelle 300lb paper using indigo- and ivory-colored NuPastels. I’ve favored these pastels for three years for the unique way the crystalline dust absorbs and refracts light to create an especially rich and deep blue,” she said. “For me this blue is soulful — spiritual and expansive. It also brings to mind an earlier age of architectural blueprints and cyanotype photography, two media with which I feel a kinship.”

The Forum Gallery is on the first level of the Schlesinger Center, and the Passage Gallery is on the second floor outside of the Margaret W. & Joseph L. Fisher Art Gallery. The galleries are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and during events in the concert hall.