CALL-FOR-ART: SCOPE 2016

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 11:59pm on Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The purpose of SCOPE: the southern landscape is to exhibit the widest range of “landscape” works possible in VAE’s Main Gallery. The South is a hub of creativity and Raleigh has adopted a vision to become the Southern Capital for Arts and Culture. To do our part, VAE will exhibit landscape works by artists across the regional south, or works created in or inspired by the southern landscape.

Entries must fit through VAE’s 104″ x 71″ door to be exhibited. Juried with JPEGs. Two entries per artist. Entries must be received by 11:59pm on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

The Juror
Daniel Fuller, curator, Atlanta Contemporary

Schedule
Deadline for entries………………..…....11:59pm on Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Notification of Accepted Works……….Friday, May 13, 2016
Delivery of Accepted Work……….....…Fri, May 27, 11am – 6pm & Sat, May 28, 11am-4pm
Exhibition Run………………….….…............June 3 – 24, 2016
Opening Reception…………..…….….......June 3, 6-10pm
Pick-Up of Unsold Work…………….....…Sat, June 25, 11am-4pm

Awards
The Brancato Award….….……$500
second…………………………......…..$250
third…………………………..……........$100

The Brancato Award
The Brancato Award will be given to an artist whose work has a unique take on landscapes. Kathy Brancato was a valued member of the VAE community who painted innovative landscapes. Kathy was also very supportive of her fellow artists and this award will allow her creative spirit to encourage other artists.

Entry Fees
members………………..…$10 per artwork/$20 for two pieces*
non-members………..……$15 per artwork/$30 for two pieces*
*All entry fees are non-refundable.

Entry Information:

• All files should be named like so: 01_LASTNAME_TITLE.jpg, 02_LASTNAME_TITLE.jpg.

• Still images should be sent as jpegs should be at least 1000px at their widest dimension, not to exceed 2MB per image. 2D artists may submit one JPEG per entry. 3D artists may submit two JPEGS (one full shot and one detail) per entry. Follow the filename format for works as indicated above.

• Video samples should be edited to no longer than 2 minute excerpts. It is strongly preferred that video & audio artists submit their work online through clips or url addresses to online sharing formats like hulu, vimeo, youtube, or dropbox. Videos submitted as uploaded files should be submitted as Quicktime files whose width is no larger than 720px and file size is no larger than 10MB (as that is the largest file eligible for upload on our entry software). Please only submit video art or video documentation of an art piece that requires video to be fully experienced. Do not send video walk-throughs of static exhibitions or video slideshows. While web-hosted submissions are strongly preferred, video and audio samples can be submitted on CD if necessary. Please contact Brandon Cordrey to make arrangements for CD delivery prior to deadline. Follow the filename format for works as indicated above.

• Audio: Audio should be submitted as separate MP3 files. Each track should be no longer than 2 minutes. Follow the filename format for works as indicated above.

• Web-based: Web-based work should be submitted as a URL listed in the work sample list. Please only submit web-based projects. A portfolio website that features audio/video art and still images will not be considered.

Physical Entries
Online entries are strongly encouraged. If you need to send your entries in via regular mail please send your entry form (use 2 entry forms if you wish to enter 3 pieces), a CD with entry files, & entry fee to:

Visual Art Exchange
Attn: Brandon Cordrey
309 W. Martin Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

Eligibility
SCOPE is open to any living artist. A maximum of 2 works of any medium, per artist may be submitted. Two and three dimensional entries will be accepted. Work must be original and completed in the last 2 years. No copies, mechanical reproductions, molds or kit work will be accepted. Visual Art Exchange reserves the right to exclude work due to size or special requirements. Entries must be hand delivered to the gallery or mailed in a returnable container. Artwork submitted on behalf of an artist requires written and signed authorization from the artist. Click here to view VAE’s exhibition policies.

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 please email Brandon or call 919.828.7834 ext 6 for assistance.

Shipping Artwork
Ship artwork using a sturdy, reusable packing materials clearly labeled with your name and telephone number. Do not include return postage in case the artwork sells during the run of the exhibition. Following the exhibition each artist who shipped their work should generate a FedEx label and email it to our Exhibitions Manager so the piece may be returned. Do not use styrofoam packing peanuts. Shipments of artwork will be accepted May 23-28, 2016.

Ship To:
Visual Art Exchange
c/o Brandon Cordrey
309 W Martin Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

Sales
Visual Art Exchange will retain a commission of 30% for VAE members, 50% for non-members on all work sold during the exhibit. If a work is not for sale please indicate with NFS value in appropriate space during registration or on the consignment sheet. Click here to join VAE!

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.

Questions? Email Brandon!

MEDIA

March 4-24, 2016
First Friday Reception: March 4, 6-10pm

The Exhibit
The purpose of MEDIA is to exhibit artwork from across the spectrum of artist’s materials. The exhibition has no theme, but strives to create conversations about the variations in a single medium and aesthetic between different media. The exhibition includes 48 pieces of artwork categorized by painting, drawing/printmaking, photography, video, mixed media, fiber/textile, digital media, and three-dimensional works.

The Artists
Jodi Aker, Beginnings
Bryan Allyn, Decay
Phil Ashe, Intuitive Impression
Phil Ashe, Deep Field
Morgan Benshoff, You’re Doing It All Wrong
Kelli Black, Don’t Worry Ladies, This Won’t Make You Big (After Jillian Michaels)
Chester Brewer, CREATURE PLAY
Jeannette Brossart, The Collector
Zac Buser, Bridal Veil
Jean Cauthen, Earthly Delights
laura (Yi Zhen) Chen, Barns with shadows
Rose Cleary, WEIRDSHAPES4
Renee Cloud, Memory Police, or, the Inability to Remember You Perfectly Twice
Janet Coleman, Preempt
Melinda Fine, The Showgirl
McArthur Freeman, Balloon Bump
Leif Gann-Matzen, Pelagic
Brian Gualillo, Blurred Concepts.
Rich Gurnsey, “I PICK YOU” BY THE AFFECTIONATES
Murry Handler, Daybreak=
Murry Handler, Glyphs#1, Sepia Rosetta
Kelley Hunter, It Started Out Grey
Leatha Koefler, Carolina Blue Lilly
Jana Lankford, Symphony
Elizabeth Laul Healey, On Edge
Elizabeth Laul Healey, Fallen Grace
Stephen Lindberg, Tectonics
Brandon Marshall, Untitled
Randy McNamara, FEELS LIKE TOMORROW
Bronwyn Merritt, Shamanic Medicine Cabinet
Cynthia Meyer, Vivid Color Memories
Luca Molnar, This Is Just to Say
Colin Murasko, Blue, Yellow-Green, Green
Frank Myers, Krispy Kreme Stripes
Constance Pappalardo, When words fail me
Jessica Parnell, Frost
Susan Piercecchi, Enigma
Alexis Price, “stuck in the crosshairs”
Cindy Pryor, “17 of 71 Blue”
Cindy Pryor, “My Father, My Son”
Robert Ringham, Feeding the light
Robert Ringham, Light Seeker
Tim Saguinsin, Critics (My Six Year Old Could Do That!)
Eric Saunders, Stick Castle No. 2
Richard Stickney, starlet
Anne Tello, #thinkdifferent
Richard Usanis, Abstract #156709
Aaron Zalonis, if you let those animals meditate they’ll kill us all

View all of the work exhibited in MEDIA here!

The Juror
Kathleen Rieder, Assistant Professor of Art +Design, North Carolina State University College of Design

About Kathleen Rieder
Kathleen Rieder has been a teaching faculty member in the Department of Art + Design since 1989. Her emphasis is in Design Studies. Kathleen Rieder has taught drawing, painting, color theory, mixed media, 2D Design and 3D Design, and the First Year Experience. She has taught a seminar in Contemporary Issues in Art + Design for juniors majoring in Art + Design for the past 13 years.

In addition to her teaching, she has actively exhibited her art. She has been selected three times to exhibit in the NC Artists Exhibition at the NC Museum of Art. In the past twelve years she has exhibited at the Hanes Art Center at UNC Chapel Hill; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro; Meredith College; NC State College of Design; the Louise Wells Cameron Museum in Wilmington; and more recently at the Caldwell County Arts Council and the Mahler Gallery in Raleigh.

Questions? Email Brandon!

Contemporary South 2016

January 6 – February 25, 2016
First Friday Receptions: January 8, 6-10pm & February 5, 6-10pm

The Exhibit
The South is emerging as hub for creativity. Raleigh has adopted a vision to become the Southern Capital for Arts and Culture. To showcase the best artwork from the region here in Raleigh, Contemporary South highlights artwork from across the regional South. Since 2012 Contemporary South has been one of  VAE’s most popular exhibition, 2016’s exhibition will feature 77 pieces of artwork, made by 74 artists from 12 states across the region.

The Artists
Eric Adams, Self Service
Randy Akers, dawn sage
Mary Anderson, Looking Back
Amy Anderson, the lineup
Amy Anderson, The Wedges
Ashley Arakas, “Brevity and Bliss”
Peg Bachenheimer, Good Day Sunshine-Beatles
Devin Balara, Like A Rock
Brant Barrett, Rooster Time
Tamie Beldue, Bisect
Sarah Bielski, First and Ten; Do It Again
Jenny Blazing, Test of Time
William Breazeale, Across the Tracts (Durham CBD#6)
Zel Brook, Horseshoe Barn Roof
Michael Carlebach, Asheville, North Carolina
Micah Cash, Pickwick Landing, Downstream
Renee Cloud, You’re Obviously Not A Hood Girl
Peter Cotroneo, Sweat Sweater
Yvette Cummings Arendt, Voyeur Series
Dana Flynt, Fading Memories XI
McArthur Freeman, Pine App
John Gallagher, Portent
Laken Geiger, PRESENTPRESENCE
Callie Farmer Goss, Binding the Divergence
George Gregory, The Lovers
Jim Hallenbeck, Clothes on Line Along Huler’s Lawson Trek
Anthony Hamilton, Souvenirs #10
Alyson Hansen, Hidden Oak
Rebecca Jacobs, Erosion
Yalonda M James, Cypress Gardens 2
Kathryn Jill Johnson, Tower and Spire
Andrea Kainz, The Body Electric
Joyce Watkins King, Southern Ladies Must Cross Their Legs
Josiah King, Presence
Josiah King, Floor Advancing
Christin Kleinstreuer, Unraveling
Liss LaFleur, QUEEN
Lauren Lake, olate
Sam Lasris, See, Spot,….. Run
Elizabeth Laul Healey, Working Hard at Da Wash
Stephanie Leathers, walls
Gary James Lee, Blizzard
Cayce Lee, Akasha
Vivian Liddell, Swipes 2
Vivian Liddell, Swipes Video
M. Blair Ligon, While My Schoolroom Sleeps
Richard Lund, Broken Mirror
Sarah Martin, Foam Party
Rachel McClain, The Angelina Effect
Lambert McLaurin, “Motherwell’s Window” (abandoned mill)
Gary Mesa-Gaido, Unidentified Point of Departure #2
Rosalie Midyette, Lene
Julia Morrisroe, Your Eyes Proclaim Series #111913
Chieko Murasugi, Life’s Like That
Frank Myers, Fort Fischer Reenactors
Lake Newton, Clinton, Arkansas 2015
David Norcross, Color Conversation 1
Libby O’Daniel, The Tearing and the Torn: Them #2
Olivia Ouyang, Home
Jena Pendarvis, Terra Incognita #1
Nora Phillips, Voladores IV
Zack Rafuls, Difference & Repetition: For Sun Ra & Gilles Deleuze
Andrew Regan, Coat Check
Branch Richter, Through the Peephole
Kathleen Rieder, screen door
Robert Ringham, Little House on the Prairie
William Ruller, Stone Fist
Eric Saunders, Faces At The Fair
Bryce Speed, Yellow Bark
Caren Stansell, Circulation
Teresa Stephens, Four Sided Pyramid
Sterling Stevens, Home Sweet Home
Megan Sullivan, Open
Kulsum Tasnif, Journey to The Good Life
Daryl Thetford, The Search for Balance
Carrie Tomberlin, Pow Wow Contestant, Cherokee, NC
Jenny Williams, Café

View all of the works exhibited in Contemporary South 2016 here!

The Juror
Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, Manager of Programs @ Pulitzer Arts Foundation

About Kristin Fleischmann Brewer
Kristin Fleischmann Brewer is the Manager of Programs at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, where she has worked since 2011. Over the past 3 years Brewer has mounted over 100 programs; founded a grants program that awarded $60,000 to local and national artists to implement community projects. Brewer is also the co-founder and former director of Enamel Art Space in ST. Louis, which exhibited work of local and national visual artists. Brewer received her MFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 where she was the recipient of the Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for Women.

About Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Mission – Through engaging exhibitions, programs, and partnerships with artists, curators, and innovators across disciplines, Pulitzer Arts Foundation strives to inspire both the St. Louis community and international arts audiences to think differently about creativity in daily life.

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents a wide range of exhibitions, including those of Old Masters, Buddhist art, important modern and contemporary artists and group exhibitions that explore a diverse array of themes and ideas. In addition to its curatorial platform, the Pulitzer offers a robust roster of programs that bring together leading figures from fields such as art, architecture, design, urban planning, social work, technology, and science. Established by curator, philanthropist, and arts patron Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation promotes the significance of art in everyday life and its impact on the health and success of a community.

Questions? Email Brandon!