Showcasing VAE's Three Dimensional Artist Group!
DEPTH is a showcase of VAE's Three Dimensional Artist Group who meet at the gallery the third Thursday of every month at 7pm in VAE's Main Gallery.
> Past Calls
For the Love of Art / call-for-art
VAE is an organization for artists, supported by artists. Artists like you! A donation of your fabulous work will help us continue to empower emerging artists in 2017. And if community goodwill wasn’t reason enough, we also offer cash prizes, discounted tickets, and an opportunity to meet with this year’s esteemed gala jurors.
Read MoreANNUAL HOLIDAY EXHIBITION / call-for-art
Artwork Deliver: Friday, November 4, 11am-6pm and Saturday, November 5, 11am-4pm
VAE’s annual holiday exhibition is one of the best ways to make your work available for purchase this holiday season! We shift the focus of our exhibition spaces to be more sales oriented in order to put cash in artists’ pockets around the holiday season (okay, we actually send checks, but cash is sexier!).
FLOAT / call-for-art
Deadline - 11:59pm on March 9, 2017
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create artwork that stay afloat in either water or air. VAE is challenging artists to think off the wall, and in the pool. Create work that rests in fluid transitions. Work that requires the viewers’ transitions. Work that floats on the surface, between substances, and in space.
SCOPE '17 / call-for-art
Deadline - 11:59pm on May 8, 2017
SCOPE is a survey of the southern landscape. While being bold, beautiful, provocative, and enticing the landscape is also set in histories, cultures, and people. These histories, cultures, and people affect and are affected by the political and societal landscapes, that make the South as we see it and talk about it today.
This annual juried exhibition asks artists to create and showcase discussions on the South's natural, political, and social landscapes.
Under Pressure: The Print Exhibition / Call-For-Art
Exhibition June 30 - July 27, 2017
Deadline for entries 11:59 pm on Monday, May 28, 2017
VAE is looking for artists that share in the process of ink, run, repeat.
Under Pressure / call-for-art
June 30 - July 27
Deadline for entry May 28th 11:59 pm
This exhibition will consist of a new performance everyday, for the duration of the exhibition.
VAE is looking for performers, artists, and performance artists to perform for the duration of the gallery’s open hours one day in the month of July 2017.
15 artists/performers will be selected to participate in the exhibition through a juried call-for-art process. All artists/performers looking to participate should submit documentation of a previous and similar performance that is no longer than 5 minutes long. Only original performances will be accepted.
MULTIPLES / call-for-art
Multiples
December 1 - 30
Deadline for submission 11:59 pm on October 27
MULTIPLES, as you guessed it is a show of works in multiple. Which could also be described as an edition. We are looking for artists to create an edition of 25. That edition can be anything from the traditional like an edition of 25 Intaglio prints, to drawing the same composition 25 times, to making 25 monotype video pieces (you can figure out what that is).
For submission, each artist only needs to submit one of the works from the edition. Artists can still submit up to two works or two editions of 25 each.
MEZCLA Call for Art
Exhibition August 4-24, 2017
Submission Deadline: 11:59 pm on July 7th
Artist and Art Educator Claudia Corletto invites artists to submit work for MEZCLA, a group show at VAE. Open to all artists that identify as Hispanic or Latinx. Artists are invited to submit their cultural narrative using a material and style reflective of their own personal work. A variety of media including but not limited to drawing, sculpture, video, and interactive object based installations are welcome.
Hearsay / call-for-art
Artwork Drop-off August 24-26
September 1 - 21
Hey, you're currently alive, otherwise, it would be a medical marvel that you are reading this, and your aliveness means you are affected by current events.
VAE wants to see, read, and/or hear about how current events are shaping your life and influencing your art.
This is an open non-juried exhibition where we will plaster the gallery with art determined through current events and news, including but not limited to the factual.
Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice
Serving Life: ReVisioning Justice
January 5 - 25
Hidden Voices is a radically inclusive, participatory, and co-creative collective committed to creating just, compassionate, and sustainable relationships. This network of relationships connects communities across difference and provides pathways for global change.
Serving Life Exhibit connects the audience to the humanity of those who are incarcerated. How do people end up on death row? Following the lives of 15 men on death row, their personal narratives shed light on compounded layers of systemic oppression. Their path through life highlights the impact of generational trauma and the social and systemic forces that result in a lifetime in prison, or death row. The exhibit creates pathways for empathy and compassionate action.
Hidden Voices and VAE are working together to find local artists to be paired with each incarcerated participant. Artists will create a piece of art that evokes the compassion of Hidden Voices and the accounts of the incarcerated individuals.
DETAILS
● 12-15 local artists will be selected
● The final art piece must be completed by end of July 2017
● The pieces will tour with the Serving Life exhibit for 3-5 years
● Artists will be compensated with a stipend of $500 and up to $500 in materials.
● Artists will not have the ability to meet the participant in person, but will be able to communicate and collaborate through writing letters.
● Audio recording from participants, monologues, and hand written narratives
ENTRY FORM
Please use the online entry form to apply.
The form will ask you to:
> enter your personal contact information
> your experience, skill set, and other details about you as an artist
> any ideas you might have for this collaboration
> your availability
ACCESSIBILITY
VAE’s gallery space is fully accessible and we strive to make the submission process accessible as well. We encourage anyone to enter our open call exhibitions. If you need any additional information or accommodations in order to enter this exhibition or become a VAE member, please email Brandon or call 919.256.6856 for assistance. Visit our accessibility page for more information.
LIABILITY
All entries will be handled with the utmost care and respect. VAE is not liable for artwork during transportation to or from the gallery but does carry a blanket inland marine policy that covers most fine art works and craft items up to $5,000. VAE reserves the right to refuse coverage to artwork with inherent vices, high values or that is deemed unstable. By entering into this show, the artist agrees to abide by all rules and regulations as set by exhibition guidelines.
Contemporary South 2018 / call-for-art
February 2 - March 24, 2018
Deadline - 11:59pm on January 1, 2018
The South is a hub for creativity. Raleigh is doing its part to lead this charge: The City of Raleigh has adopted the Raleigh Arts Plan, a ten-year master plan to strengthen arts and culture for all.
To do our part, VAE showcases some of the most ambitious and timely works by artists from across the region in our annual exhibition, Contemporary South. The purpose of the exhibition is to gather a survey of what artists in the Regional South are currently creating. Since 2012 this exhibition has grown and expanded to become one of VAE's most popular exhibitions.
We invite you to help us make COSO'18 the best iteration yet!
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