Grants and Awards for Maryland artists...
Deadline July 29, 2004.
Individual Artist Awards: Choreography, Music Composition, Playwriting, Poetry, Visual Arts: Crafts, Photography, Installation, Sculpture.
The Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards are grants awarded to Maryland artists through an anonymous, competitive process to encourage and sustain their pursuit of artistic excellence. A limited number of awards of $1,000, $3,000, and $6,000 are offered each year.
All work will be judged anonymously by out-of-state jurors whose decisions are based solely on artistic merit, as demonstrated in work completed after July 29, 2001.
Individuals who are Maryland residents, 18 years of age or older, may apply. Students currently enrolled in a degree program, and collaborating artists are not eligible to apply.
Application guidelines and forms are online here or call 410-767-6555 for more information.
(Next year’s categories: Fiction, Media, Solo Dance Performance, Solo Instrumental Performance, Solo Vocal Performance, Visual Arts: Painting, Works on Paper, New and Emerging Genre).
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Opportunity for Artists...
Kensington Park Senior Living, is looking for artists to exhibit their artwork for a month. The artist will have a social hour to talk and demonstrate their art/talent and an article about the artist will be published in their monthly newsletter. If you are interested, please contact Kathy Ward, Therapeutic Recreation Director at 301-946-7700 or by e-mail at kward@Kensingtonretirement.com.
Kensington Park Senior Living
3620 Littledale Rd.
Kensington, MD 20895
Monday, July 12, 2004
In case you missed it, last Thursday Leslie Walker had an article in the Washington Post discussing Art.com.
It is worth reading.
Founded a decade ago by two college students, art.com now employs 200 people working in a warehouse in Raleigh, NC, and its owners have apparently decided to branch into the original art, as so far art.com had concentrated on posters and reproductions.
Artists can display 16 original works on Art.com for free. People who want to buy the artwork then must negotiate directly with the artist through an e-mail link that Art.com provides.
Artists can also choose to pay $50 a year to display up to 96 images.
With five million visitors a month, and such low cost or free options, and with zero commission, I think that it is certainly worth a try!
Congratulations to Terry Teachout, who has been nominated to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the civilian panel that advises the NEA and its chairman, Dana Gioia.
Opportunities for artists...
Deadline: October 25, 2004.
Coker College's Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery is reviewing slides (all media) for solo shows 2005/06 season.
Ten slides, resume, and SASE by 10/25/04 to:
Larry Merriman
Coker College
300 East College Ave
Hartsville SC 29550
Slides returned late December. For a prospectus send SASE, or request it from lmerriman@coker.edu
Deadline: August 3, 2004.
Texas Artists Museum - Art Competition 10th Annual Gulf Coast National Juried Art Competition.
Open to anyone 18+ living in the USA. 2-D artwork only, no photography. Slides due August 3, 2004. Has an entry fee.
For prospectus send SASE to:
Texas Artists Museum
3501 Cultural Center Drive
Port Arthur TX 77642
Deadline: August 2, 2004
2004 Hoyt Art Center's Mid Atlantic Juried Art Show. Juror is Peter Plagens, Art Critic, Newsweek Magazine.
Entries are restricted to artists 21+ and living in the Mid Atlantic region of the United State (PA, OH, NY, NJ, MD, DE, VA, W. VA, and Washington DC).
All media will be considered with the following exceptions: No video or installations. There is a non refundable $25.00 entry fee for up to two works (3 works for Hoyt members) and an additional $5.00 fee for each additional work.
Exhibition Dates: Oct 5 - Nov 15, 2004. For a Prospectus send a
SASE to:
Bob Karstadt
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts
124 E Leasure Ave
New Castle PA 16101
or call 724-652-2882 or email hoytprograms@hoytartcenter.org
Deadline: September 3, 2004
The 20th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition.
Juror: Tina Kukielski, Contemporary Art Curatorial Dept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Cash awards/exhibition opportunities. Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media. Send SASE for
prospectus to:
The Barrett Art Center
55 Noxon St
Poughkeepsie NY 12601
Or call 845-471-2550
There are a couple of new art galleries in the area. In Baltimore (thanks J.T) Billy Coulbert is in the process of opening Cubicle 10, and in Bethesda, the Ozmosis Gallery just opened last month.
Ozmosis Gallery focuses on abstract and non-objective works. Each month the gallery presents a new exhibition with an opening reception on the second Friday of the month. The opening receptions are from 6-9pm and are free and open to the public as well as being a stop on Bethesda’s Art Walk trolley route.
Currently on exhibition are paintings by Michaele Harrington to be followed in August by Elizabeth Terra.
