Artwork Delivery - Friday, November 4, 11am-6pm and Saturday, November 5, 11am-4pm
VAE will showcase creative holiday ornaments as part of our Annual Holiday Show! Artists are encouraged to bring up to 5 hanging ornaments representing any of the winter holidays. These ornaments will be displayed in the Main Gallery, and will make VAE more festive leading up to the holidays!
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.
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.
October - November 2016
Community Exhibits
"An abundance of light, a scarcity of light, how light defines the subject, how light is the subject, how light and subject get together and boogie a bit. Into the Light is a celebration of all of these things." - Marie Leabo-Arondeau
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.
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
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.
October 7 - 27, 2016
THE LAB
Separation & In Between
Jan-Ru Wan accompanied by Jody Casselly + Jude Casseday
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.
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
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.
The Cube is an experimental and installation space programmed by Visual Art Exchange and located within the main gallery at 309 West Martin Street. This exhibition opportunity affords emerging and professional artists with a physical space to explore ideas. The space, a roughly 20×20′ box, is equipped with several electrical outlets and track lighting. The ceiling is 14 feet high. Artists are juried into the space. Exhibits will run for roughly 2 months, with 2 public receptions. VAE is available to provide support in finding accommodations for artists and recruiting volunteer help for install. View previous Cube exhibitions!
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!
Mary Storms / AJ Fletcher Foundation
I express my artistic vision through abstract mixed-media landscapes. I am intrigued and inspired by the natural environment. My intent is to provide the viewer with a sense of the symbiotic relationship between the primeval elements - stone, soil, water and sky - and the lifeforms these elements nurture.
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October 7 - November 4, 2016
Main Gallery
History and society haven’t always been truthful or kind in the depiction of people of color. But whose depictions are they? BLACK On BLACK is an exhibition where curators of color asked artists of color to share their thoughts on identity in their own voice.
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September 2016
Community Exhibits
Susan Peters brightened up United Arts Council's exhibition space with her whimsical and color-filled paintings.
September 2 - 29, 2016
Main Gallery
For the first time ever, VAE hosted a completely video/moving image exhibition in our Main Gallery with OUR OWN TERMS. The exhibition featured 20 videos by artists from across the region and country.
August 20 - October 8, 2016
The Cube
IlaSahai Prouty uses The Cube gallery to host a conversation about identity based on skin color and breaks down the barriers that keep us locked in conventional thinking.
September 2 - 29, 2016
Main Gallery
NEXT DOOR TO PERFECT featured artists' creative and almost adequate solutions to everyday problems.
