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Cre­ate Change Pub­lic Artist Res­i­dency, The Laun­dro­mat Project

The Laun­dro­mat Project (The LP), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Lee­way Foun­da­tion and in part­ner­ship with The Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists, Asian Arts Ini­tia­tive, and Philly­CAM, has announced a call for pro­pos­als from Philadel­phia based artists of color inter­ested in mount­ing a pub­lic art project in their neigh­bor­hood laun­dro­mat, bar­ber­shop, or sim­i­lar pub­lic space. Suc­cess­ful appli­cants will...

Call for entries : Meta-Fiber

Meta-Fiber Art In City Hall & FiberPhiladelphia2012 Philadel­phia, PA March 12 — May 11, 2012 Dead­line: Feb­ru­ary 20, 2012 by 4:00 p.m.  Meta-Fiber, part of FiberPhiladelphia2012 is open to artists work­ing in non-traditional ways and with non-traditional mate­ri­als that uti­lize fiber and tex­tile art mak­ing tech­niques such as weav­ing, sewing, applique‘, quilting…Non tra­di­tional mate­ri­als may include: recy­clables,...

Hum­ble: Pho­tog­ra­phy Small Works Exhi­bi­tion Open Call

Dead­line for sub­mis­sions: Feb­ru­ary 28, 2012, 11:59 PM This June, Hum­ble Arts Foun­da­tion, in con­junc­tion with Magenta Foun­da­tion, will present Small Works, an exhi­bi­tion of 50, 8 x 10 inch pho­to­graphic prints curated by Jon Fein­stein and Amani Olu. Fein­stein and Olu will select works from an inter­na­tional open call to exhibit at the Flash For­ward Fes­ti­val...

East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary, Call for Proposals

Pro­posal Dead­line (for all fund­ing and approvals) Wednes­day, June 13, 2012, 4:00 pm At East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary Art Pro­pos­als — 2013 Season East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary His­toric Site 2027 Fair­mount Avenue Philadel­phia, PA 19130 About East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary was once the most famous and expen­sive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a...

Call for Entries: Take a Seat!

Adiron­dack Chairs reinterpreted. The Mor­ris Arbore­tum and Wood­mere Art Museum, located in Chest­nut Hill, Philadel­phia, are col­lab­o­rat­ing to orga­nize an out­door exhi­bi­tion dur­ing the sum­mer of 2012.   Call for Artists Artists of the Philadel­phia region are invited to apply and com­mit to rein­ter­pret­ing an indi­vid­ual or pair of full size chairs. Child-size chairs can be...
Call for Submissions: Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia

Call for Sub­mis­sions: Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists, Philadelphia

Guest Cura­tor Jenny Moore, New Museum The Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Visual Artists invites you to sub­mit images of your art­work for review by our guest cura­tor, Jenny Moore, Assis­tant Cura­tor at the New Museum. Of the appli­cants, 10 to 25 artists will be asked to present a dig­i­tal port­fo­lio of approx­i­mately 10 images. Two to...

Open Call for Philadel­phia Com­mu­nity Exhibition

DEADLINE: Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 30, 2012 DELIVERY: Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 29, 2012 12 — 7 pm Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 30, 2012 9 am — 1 pm DROP OFF LOCATION: 3rd Street Gallery, 58 N. 2nd Street, Philadel­phia, PA 19106 PICK UP: Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2012 5 — 7 pm Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 27, 2012 9 — 11 am ENTRY FEE: $30 for one work of art $35 for 2 works...
Call for Entries: Experimental Media 2012, Video Screening

Call for Entries: Exper­i­men­tal Media 2012, Video Screening

Jurors: Max Kazemzadeh,and Jonah Brucker-Cohen Screen­ing Dates: April and May, 2012 (exact dates TBA) Screen­ing Loca­tions: The Phillips Col­lec­tion, Wash­ing­ton, DC and Arti­sphere, Arling­ton, VA Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 10, 2012, 5pm Down­load the Full Call as a pdf > Wash­ing­ton Project for the Arts announces an open call for video-based art­works to be screened at...
Residency: Wonder Women 7, The Learning Agency — Call for Entries

Res­i­dency: Won­der Women 7, The Learn­ing Agency — Call for Entries

  Artist Res­i­dency: Dead­line Decem­ber 16th. Won­der Women is cur­rently accept­ing pro­pos­als and port­fo­lios from indi­vid­u­als work­ing in all media and dis­ci­plines from the NJ/NY area. Artists are required to attend weekly meet­ings to take place at _gaia stu­dio in Jer­sey City NJ. Won­der Women is a res­i­dency pro­gram in its 7th year pre­sented by _gaia at...

Call for artists : Refuse Reseen

This exhi­bi­tion encour­ages artists work­ing in fiber to become infat­u­ated with the idea of explor­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of dis­pos­able and dis­re­garded stuff as the basis for submission. The chal­lenge for fiber artists every­where is to take the most ordi­nary, non-precious and every day mate­ri­als and to cre­ate the most extraordinary.   The reuse of every con­ceiv­able mate­r­ial is...

Call for Entries : The Print Center

Call for Entries : 86th Annual Inter­na­tional Com­pe­ti­tion: Photography New for­mat: Selected artists will be fea­tured in an online exhi­bi­tion, June 2012 – March 2013. Three artists will be cho­sen to mount solo exhi­bi­tions at The Print Cen­ter, which will take place Jan­u­ary – March, 2013. Dead­line                       Octo­ber 19, 2011 Juror Jen­nifer Bless­ing, Cura­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy,...
Philly Photo Day — Friday, October 28

Philly Photo Day — Fri­day, Octo­ber 28

Philly Photo Day is com­ing up on Fri­day, Octo­ber 28th! Every­one in Philadel­phia is invited to take a pic­ture of any­thing you like as long as it’s taken on the 28th within the city lim­its. You’ll have until Octo­ber 31st to select your favorite pic­ture and upload it onto our web­site (upload­ing details to come). Then...