Deadline Season continues – please feel free to drop me a line if you’ve seen any that aren’t listed. As usual, it’s my ad-hoc list of upcoming opportunities to exhibit, learn, earn or perhaps even teach, from wherever I see ’em.
** New additions ** ***SuperNewFreshoffthePress additions***
Opportunities with deadlines
Talente. If you’re under 35, why not try Talente here? Deadline for applications, October 15 2013.
Light of the Moon – Exhibition with a lunar theme being held at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts’ Sandra J. Blain Galleries, juried by Namita Gupta Wiggers, Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft|PNCA. Deadline 15th of October 2013, Midnight!
** Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum 36th ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS exhibition. Juror: Julie M. Muñiz – Associate Curator of Design and Decorative Arts at the Oakland Museum of California. Deadline: Friday 18th October 2013.
Northwest Jewelry and Metals Symposium. Hosted annually by the Seattle Metals Guild, this one will take place on Saturday the 19th of October. Check it out!
** Choose Your Own Adventure: An Exhibition Without Borders. “Create a work of art that conjures a specific memory of travel and adventure.” Entries due 26th October 2013.
*** Gift-ed. Christmas show for MANO Contemporary Jewellery & Object, Taiwan. Entries due October 28th, 2013.
** 2014 Artist Trust Benefit Art Auction. Washington State residents – donate a jewellery piece for the Buy it Now section of the auction and get free Artist Trust membership for one year and $75 commission (work to be valued at $200). Deadline October 28 2013.
Gemological Institute of America 2014 Scholarships. “Scholarships are available for distance education eLearning courses and for classes at the Institute’s campuses in Bangkok, Carlsbad, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Taiwan; and at the GIA branch in Dubai.” (thanks to Crafthaus) Deadline October 31st 2013.
Transforming Viewpoints: A National Juried Exhibition (USA). Calling for “work [that] explores issues of multicultural diversity, in any medium”. Deadline: October 31, 2013.
** “Molten” A National Juried Exhibition of Glass and Metal Work. Application Dates: Sep 12, 2013 – Nov 1, 2013 (A second later deadline attracts a larger submission fee. See call for details)
Eco Arts Awards. Annual online thematic arts competition. Application Dates:
Apr 25, 2013 – Nov 4, 2013.
** Lilliputians March: National Small Works Competition. USA residents only, open exhibition of small stuff. Deadline for jurying November 8th 2013.
** 5th Annual Drawing Discourse, at University of North Carolina Asheville. Yup, a drawing show, ripe for you enamellists to step in with some beautiful drawings on metal. Entries due 17th of November 2013.
** Sup Brooch. Already boasting the best title for an exhibition this year, this is an online/catalogue exhibition of brooches for bros, co-curated by my buddy from the Pittsburgh massive, Sharon Massey. Entries due 22 November 2013.
** Ritual. A single sheet book show. No, not jewels as such, but I’m throwing a challenge out to y’all – I wanna see jewellers take over the show with some beautiful images, drawings and such. I’m gonna, whydoncha join me? Deadline November 30th 2013.
REFINED VIII: Maker’s Choice. REFINED is a biennial exhibition of jewelry and metalwork hosted by the Art Metals program in the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University. I’ve been in this one, it’s a good show! Deadline 9th December 2013.
** RAGS wearable art show – Get your work into a juried art show whose proceeds go to help those in need. Donated work is for sale and donors receive a healthy commission and the side bonus, a multitude of good karma! From their site:
“The artists who display and sell their work at RAGS agree to give 33 percent of their sales in the marketplace and 40 percent of their sales in the gallery to RAGS. All of those proceeds go directly to the YWCA Pierce County. The RAGS donation – $97,000 in 2011 – is earmarked to fund YWCA programs that specifically address domestic violence in our community.”
Deadline 13th December 2013.
*** Matchbox Microcosms. Make curios? Ever wanted to be shown in a van that’s going to travel around the UK, showing off your work against its other, curiouser, displays. Wanna be shown to school groups, amongst others? Now’s your chance! Open to all nationalities, not just you of the British persuasion (Yup, I checked). Deadline Dec 31, 2013.
** ONoff: An exhibition of makers that work ON and OFF the body. Juried by Susie Ganch. Deadline for submissions: January 19th, 2014.
TOP Jewels – National Jewelry Design Exhibition, “A showcase featuring the very best artists working in the medium of jewelry design to educate the public about their craft.” USA only exhibition opportunity, entries through CaFE. Deadline April 11th 2014.
New Traditional Jewellery 2014. As a part of the SIERAAD arts fair in Amsterdam, this competition has taken ‘ CONFRONTATIONS’ as the 2014 theme. Registration due 1st June 2014.
Undated Opportunities
** Contemporary Metal in Perth have updated their class timetable and there is some great stuff on offer. Check it!
** Dallas County Community College District – Visiting Artist for our Art Metals Summer Workshop in Summer 2014.
Studio 20/17 seeks guest curators. How often does a well established gallery invite people to play inside their walls? Get amongst it!
Patina Gallery seeks Master International Artists. Make ‘Soul-Stirring’ works? Wanna be one of 3 artists added to their stable? No deadline, but post went up Jan 23rd, so perhaps sooner rather than later?
Tributaries: Call for entries. The Metal Museum, in Memphis, has an ongoing call for exhibitions from emerging and mid-career artists. First deadline Feb 2013, for upcoming shows, and they keep applications on file for 2 years.
The Imperial Centre for the Arts + Sciences in North Carolina have a permanent exhibition call out, with shows booked 2-3 years in advance.
Lord Coconut in Melbourne has outdone himself by publishing this listing of opportunities for artists in his gallery. As ever, this is to exhibit jewellery for men. Thanks to Karen at Melbourne Jeweller for the heads up.