Geographical coverage: USA
Reading Fee: $30
Accepts (genre): artwork
Prize/Payment: none
Contact: exhibits@womanmade.org
"Mothers" seeks work by women in all media that addresses the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. "Mothers" encourages multivalent understandings of this rich topic. "Girl, Please!" seeks to push and transcend the definition of gender while also exploring its relation to individual character amongst collective expectations. Deadline for both calls for art: August 11, 2010.
Call for Art: "Mothers"
"Mothers" seeks work by women in all media that addresses the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. "Mothers" encourages multivalent understandings of this rich topic. Submissions might speak to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, fertility/infertility, or other points of entry. Open to all forms of art that investigate the theme of "Mothers."
Juror: Rachel Epp Buller, Scholar and Artist
Rachel Epp Buller, Ph.D., is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-mama of three whose art and scholarship investigate this balancing act. Her prints have been exhibited in solo and group and shows in Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere and she lectures and publishes widely on issues of motherhood and the maternal body in contemporary art.
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
Entry Deadline: August 11, 2010
Notifications: September 8, 2010
Call for Art: "Girl, Please!"
"We are all born naked, the rest is just drag" -Rupaul
Gender is a performance, an act that is perpetuated and maintained by societal norms and expectations, but how, and to what extent does it define us?
"Girl, Please!" seeks to push and transcend the definition of gender while also exploring its relation to individual character amongst collective expectations. Bearing in mind Rupaul's statement, drag in this case is not disco, but rather an illustration of femininity and masculinity in shades of grey.
Jurors: Kristen Carterand Emanuel Aguilar, WMG Affiliates
Kristen Carter was WMG's Gallery Coordinator. She is a graduate from DePaul University, and has a BA in History of Art and Architecture with a minor in Studio Art, in addition to studying Art History and Fine Art in Florence, Italy. Carter is a Ph.D candidate in Art History at the University of British Columbia as of September 2010. She writes for ArtSlant Chicago for the online art magazine, Jettison.
Emanuel Aguilar is assisting Woman Made Gallery with its exhibition programs. In addition he volunteers his marketing skills to the organization. He is a Fine Arts Major at Columbia College with concentration in Identity Politics and a Minor in Marketing, and he studied in Florence, Italy at the Lorenzo De Medici University. Aguilar works for Chicago's Jean Albano Gallery and A & D Gallery. He has curated several exhibitions, and helped found the online arts magazine, Jettison.
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
Entry Deadline: August 11, 2010
Notifications: September 8, 2010
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