Call for Artists

UNITED in Passion and Pride.

September 10 - October 22, 2016

 

39th Street Gallery/Gateway Arts Center, 3901 Rhode Island Ave. Brentwood, MD 20722 (Second floor, 39th Street entrance)

This call for visual art is in response to the mass shooting that took the lives of 49 people at the Pulse Night Club, a gay bar in Orlando Florida, in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016.  We are deeply saddened by this attack on the LGBTQ Community and our thoughts are with the family and friends of the people we lost. This tragedy is multi-layered and as such, this call is open to your interpretation of the title and theme. All artists are encouraged to enter work.

The 39th Street Gallery is located in Brentwood Maryland, a quarter mile from the Washington DC Line, in the heart of the Gateway Arts District. The Gateway Arts District strives to be a diverse community that is inclusive to all.

 

Please submit up to 3 pieces (both 2-D and 3-D works will be considered),

Entry Requirements:

1.) All submissions must be sent electronically to be considered.

2.) Images should be submitted in JPEG format, ideally 4" x 6"image size

3.) Any selected work MUST BE READY to Hang, Any pieces selected that arrives not ready to hang will be returned to artist upon delivery

4.) Work should not exceed 60" in any one dimension.

5.) Number and Label all images with the artist's last name and title in the JPEG file (Example: 01_Jones_Untitled.jpeg

6.) Include a corresponding image list with JPEG file name, artwork title, medium, year, size, and price.

 

All work needs to be hand delivered or shipped at the artists expense including prepaid return shipping.  

 

The gallery will not take any commission on sales from this exhibition.

 

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE - Important Dates:

September 10 - October 22, 2016 -- exhibition dates

August  12-- deadline to apply

August 19 -- notifications of acceptance

August 20-27-- shipped artwork to arrive at the gallery
August 27, from 12-3PM -- hand delivered artwork to arrive at the gallery (or by appointment)

September 10, 5 pm - 8 pm -- opening reception

October 22 -- last day of the show

October 23- 27- artwork pick up and shipping (pick up at gallery by appointment)

 

Jurors:

1. John Paradiso, Artist, Curator of Programs, 39th Street Gallery

2. Margaret Boozer, Artist, Founder of Red Dirt Studio

3. Tom Hill, Artist, Senior Advisor, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration

For more information please write or call John Paradiso, 202-487-8458. Email: artprograms@gatewaycdc.org

John Paradiso

39th Street Gallery

Gateway Arts Center/CDC

Curator of Programming 

202-487-8458

Lori Katz at the AAFNYC

Lori Katz
Wall of Squares
55” x 45” x 2.5"

Stoneware with slips, underglaze, glaze, and mixed media including high-temperature wire,
oil paint, cold wax, metal leaf

You will be able to see this piece and many others works by Katz in New York at the coming Affordable Art Fair.

This Friday: Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program Visual Arts Exhibition

 

Opening Reception

Friday, July 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

RSVP here.

DC Commission on Arts and Humanities
200 I (Eye) Street, SE
Main Gallery
Washington, DC 20003

Exhibition closes August 31

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

200 I (Eye) Street SE, Washington DC

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents a  visual arts exhibition featuring some of the District's finest visual artists applying for the FY 2017 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP). Each artist has submitted a piece that represents their body of work and artistic perspective. This exhibition captures the broad scope of the District's dynamic art scene and provides an opportunity for the artists to express their visions directly to the panel of peer reviewers evaluating their applications and to the public

Opportunities for Artists

Non-DCCAH Calls for Artists (lifted from the DCCAH website:

• Center for Fine Art Photography, Deadline is July 27, 2016

• BWI Marshall Art and Exhibits, Deadline is July 29, 2016

• Anacostia Arts Center, Deadline is August 1, 2016

• Events DC, Deadline is August 1, 2016

• Linus Galleries, Deadline is August 3, 2016

• Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Deadline is August 10, 2016

• Hera Gallery, Deadline is August 12, 2016

• City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs, Deadline is August 14, 2016

• Linus Galleries, Deadline is August 17, 2016

• Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Deadline is August 18, 2016

• National Opera Center America, Deadline is August 31, 2016

• Digital Fabrication Residency, Deadline is September 1, 2016

• Greater Denton Arts Council, Deadline is September 30, 2016

• Strathmore, Deadline is September 30, 2016

Washington Area Visual Artists Registry

From Bill Roseberry:

Dear D.C. Artists,

I am in the very initial stages of compiling an historical comprehensive registry of Washington Area Visual Artists from pre-1800's to the present.

Besides names and dates, I wish to focus particularly on studio locations in and around the D.C. Metropolitan area, the neighborhoods they lived and worked, and other cultural and educational affiliations artists had or participated in.

I understand that this will be a very large project. But it is my wish that with enough individual responses and support I can demonstrate the need for institution support and funding in desire to create a larger centrally-located, interactive database with links to individual artists archives.

It simply seems to me that we need a shift in the balance the focus of research and funding in the arts from the end-product (objects on display and in collections) to the artist and his or her active community and primary means of moral and creative support.

To this end I have created this short survey to fill out and return:
https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSdQBHw5oMN8wNmxn…/viewform…

Please feel free to copy and share the form to as many D.C area artists (including former and current art students) you know and have contact with and ask them to return it. The more responses there are the better likelihood we can revive and reinvigorate the culture of artists in D.C. to fill the cracks and holes in the shared legacy that we've all contributed to create.

If you have ideas and suggestions please email me at bill.roseberry@gmail.com

I would very much appreciate your feedback.

If you know of a deceased artist and can enter the following information please feel free to do so on a separate form.

Also visit and invite artist friends to visit https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonDCAreaArtistsHistorical…/ for updates.

Thank you.

Review of Alma Thomas

Thomas, who died in 1978, at the age of eighty-six, was a junior-high-school art teacher in Washington, D.C., whose own paintings were modernist and sophisticated but of no special note until she retired from teaching, in 1960, and took up color-intensive abstraction.

Read Peter Schjeldahl's review here.