Sister Space

CALL FOR WOMEN ARTIST ENTRIES

Whole Woman’s Health, a local abortion and gynecological services provider, wants your art.

We have two waiting rooms in our Austin clinic, and we want to display local women artists of varying mediums and styles. Artists who work with themes that might apply to our work—health, strength, empowerment, compassion, wisdom, etc—are especially encouraged to send submissions. Our hope is to host receptions for each new display, and artists who desire to make their work available for sale would of course be able to do so.

Submissions should either include or strongly represent the type of work you hope to display. For example, if you want to display prints and paintings, please send examples of your work in those mediums. Submissions will not be returned via mail, but can be picked up by the artist after our selection process is complete.

Please clearly mark your package “Artist Submission,” and include the following information:

•    Name
•    Phone number
•    Email address
•    Brief written description of work submitted
•    Brief statement describing why you hope to share work with the Whole Woman’s Health community, and the type of work you would like to display
•    A note detailing whether you would or would not like to retrieve your submission after our selection process is complete

Submissions should be sent by July 15th to:

Whole Woman’s Health
8401 N IH 35, Suite 1A
Austin, TX 78753

All applicants will be notified of our choices by August 1st.

CONTACT: ZELDA ALPERN, GRANTS & PUBLICITY
(802) 635-2727

The Vermont Studio Center Announces the Brown Foundation Awards for Texas Artists & Writers

The Vermont Studio Center, the international creative community located in the heart of the Green Mountains in Johnson, Vermont, USA, announces the Brown Foundation Awards to fund four-week Residencies for three outstanding Visual Artists and Writers from Texas.

The Fellowship will provide 3 outstanding Texas artists and writers with 4-week VSC Residencies in 2007/08, including ample studio space, comfortable housing, 3 meals daily, as well as access to the 6 distinguished Visiting Painters, Sculptors and Writers who are in residence each month.

A Vermont Studio Center Residency is an ideal opportunity for fruitful interaction with American and international professional peers in a non-competitive, supportive environment. The Brown Foundation awards continue a well-established tradition at VSC of offering cultural exchange opportunities for national and international artists. VSC has other ongoing national Residency programs for artists and writers from New England, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as Residency Fellowships for Native American artists and writers. In addition, VSC has international Residency Programs for artists from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Cuba, Latin America, and Mexico.

The Brown Foundation, in Houston, Texas, was established in 1951 by Margarett and Herman Brown and Alice and George R. Brown as a nonprofit charitable foundation. All funds donated to the foundation and income generated from these funds is used for public charitable purposes, principally for support, encouragement, and assistance to the arts and education. Since its inception, the Brown Foundation has awarded grants in excess of $185 million to artistic, educational, medical, and other charitable organizations.

The deadline for all applications is June 15, 2007. Please call Kate Westcott, VSC Receptionist, for more information (802) 635-2727, or visit our Web site (www.vermontstudiocenter.org) for detailed application procedures.
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It’s that time again, we are announcing our annual call for entries.

Women & Their Work announces Annual Statewide Call for Entries for 2008/2009

Women & Their Work is soliciting proposals for individual and curated group exhibitions for its Gallery Artist Series to begin in April 2008.Works in all media will be accepted

ELIGIBILITY
Women artists residing in Texas who have not had a solo exhibition at Women & Their Work within the past five years are eligible. Work done under supervision cannot be shown in the gallery. Enrolled Fine Arts students cannot exhibit. Recent or newly created work in all media will be considered. Artists must be able to exhibit their work by April 2008.The work to be exhibited must not have been previously exhibited in Austin.

HONORARIUM
Women & Their Work will award an honorarium to
the artists or curator.

CRITERIA
Selections are based on a strong, consistent aesthetic vision. Selections will be made by the W&TW Statewide Artists Advisory Council.

CALENDAR
JULY 20, 2007: Postmark deadline for all entry material.
AUGUST 31, 2007: Notification and slides mailed to applicants. Slides of accepted work will be retained by Women & Their Work.
April 2008 - Spring 2009: Exhibitions will be scheduled for five week periods between these dates.

More details at the Women & Their Work website

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs recently sent us their Spring
2007 Public Art Program. All the information for submissions and the
various projects can be found at
http://www.dallasculture.org/callToArtists.cfm. If you have more
questions you can contact Eric McGehearty at
eric.mcgehearty@dallascityhall.com.

The first project deadline is coming up pretty soon on June 15 so if you are
interested in public art waste no time in checking out the website.

Work Call Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition

Now reviewing images utilizing alternative and classic photographic methods as part of the creation process for possible inclusion in Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes, Third Edition.

In print since 1990, Photographic Possibilities provides an inspiring and reliable gateway about how photo-based imagemakers utilize analog processes to realize their visions.

All photo-based concepts and processes using an analog component in all or part of the creation process are welcome. Contemporary and non-traditional ideas and techniques will be emphasized, but classic fine art methods are most welcome. Major topics of interest include: special films and cameras; contact negative making; alternative and non-silver processes; combination and unique processes; artists books; collage, hand-altered; toning; installations and three-dimensional work; as well as analog-digital crossovers.

This revised, expanded, and full-color edition will be published and internationally distributed by Elsevier’s Focal Press and will feature chapters on:

History of Photographic Printmaking, Special Use Films and Processing, Digital Negative Making, Preparing Your Own Formulas, Black-&-White Film Developer, Printmaking: Equipment, Materials and Processes, Black-and-White Paper Developers, Toning for Visual Effects, Special Cameras and Equipment, Introduction to Some Widely Used Alternative Processes, Altering Photographic Concepts, Safety

Please send the following materials:

1). CD with small, quick opening JPEG files. Please include high-quality, contact size printouts (no more than 10 per page) or small reference prints of all images with identification. Also add all text documents in Word on your CD and provide hardcopy of each text document. Include your name on all material as people in different locations will be reviewing the work.

2). Image checklist with an ID for each work that includes: title, date, size, and process.

3). Artists’ statement

4). Detailed technical addendum that specifically details process, methods, and techniques that enabled your vision to be realized. This data is ESSENTIAL for placing the work within the book’s framework. We are particularly interested artists willing to share their formulas and working procedures (on-page credit will be given).

Include a brief explanation of the relationship between your thinking process and working methods and how this combination affects your results, which may be included in extended captions.

We can NOT consider work sent as email. Do not send original materials. Every effort will be made to properly handle submissions, but we assume no responsibility for its return. Include a SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope), if your wish your materials returned. Please enter the subject heading Photographic Possibilities in all email correspondence to avoid the Junk folder.

Send materials no later than August 31, 2007 (earlier is better) to

Robert Hirsch

Photographic Possibilities

146 Newfield Street

Buffalo, NY 14207-1650 USA

hirsch@lightresearch.net

Calling All Artists!

H-E-B Presents First Night Austin 2008 is right around the corner. OK, it is 228 days away + or - a few days (depending on when you read this). The planning wheels are in full motion for the largest New Year’s Eve visual and performing arts festival in Austin, Texas.

H-E-B Presents First Night Austin 2008 will take place on Monday, December 31, 2007. The official Call to Artists is attached with a deadline of June 15, 2007. This year, we are looking for signature projects for major sponsors H-E-B and AT&T as well as other special projects. Email Women & Their Work for a pdf application- info@womenandtheirwork.org

Emerging and established artists are invited to submit proposals in all disciplines of the visual and performing arts including large scale public art, resolution projects, performance, street performance, the grand procession, neighborhood collaborative, youth performance, mobile art, music and more.

Last year, we had more than 130,000 citizens attend First Night and we are expecting an even larger crowd this year. If you have questions/comments or want more information on areas of focus for this year, PLEASE attend the following Artist Meeting featuring a short presentation by award-winning First Night Artist Jaclyn Pryor whose FNA commissioned project PINK is traveling to Portland and Paris in the next year…
***FINAL ARTIST MEETING DATE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 6:30 p.m. @ CENTRAL MARKET NORTH (UPPER CAFÉ MEZZANINE/OUTDOOR PATIO)***

Please rsvp to ginny@firstnightaustin.