Foundwork is delighted to announce the international open call for the 2023 Foundwork Artist Prize, the organization’s annual juried award for emerging and mid-career artists working in any media.
This year’s honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant and studio visits with each of the distinguished jurors. In addition, the honoree and three shortlisted artists will be invited for interviews as part of the Foundwork Dialogues program to further public engagement with their practices.
The jury for the 2023 Foundwork Artist Prize includes esteemed curators, gallerists, and artists based in Los Angeles, Medellín, Miami, and New York:
Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami
Davida Nemeroff, Founder, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Shinique Smith, Multidisciplinary Artist, Los Angeles
Emiliano Valdés, Chief Curator, Medellín Museum of Modern Art, Medellín
Nicola Vassell, Founder, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York
The Prize is open to artists residing anywhere in the world with limited exceptions, and the deadline to register is 5:00 pm PT, September 26, 2023.
To be considered, artists will need to register and maintain a published profile on the Foundwork website, with at least 6 artworks and an artist statement published on their profile page, throughout the selection period: 5:00 pm PT, September 26– 5:00 pm PT, December 31, 2023. Artists should see the FAQ and Prize Rules posted on the Foundwork website for instructions, terms and conditions. If you have further questions, please email [email protected]. Visit www.foundwork.art/signup to register.
About Foundwork
Foundwork is a 501(c)3 charitable organization supporting access and recognition for contemporary artists wherever they are based. We provide a dedicated online platform where emerging and mid-career artists can share their work with curators, gallerists, and other prospective collaborators across the global contemporary art community. We also host ongoing programming, including the Foundwork Artist Prize, to foster engagement and interest for participating artists.
THE SCHOOL OF SOUND is a space to learn about the creative use of sound in the arts and media. Through online events, short courses, research, reflection and our collection of writings, interviews and recorded talks, we offer you the opportunity to re-think how sound operates in the arts and media.
Sound design, human sound perception, non-naturalistic sound, sound as metaphor – the topics range from the practical to the aesthetic to the metaphysical, creating a new awareness of sound for all those working in screen, gallery and audio production.
The School of Sound began in 1998 as a four-day event aimed at exploring the creative use of sound in the arts and media, with a special emphasis on film and screen productions. Since then, the School of Sound has expanded to include weekend seminars, intensive practical workshops,'listening' events, consultancies for professional practitioners and the international 4-day symposium held every two years.
Now we have moved our programme online to allow a wider, more diverse audience of all ages and experience to join our events. And we can benefit from our extensive network of practitioners, artists and academics to present talks throughout the year. Our purpose is to explore sound from all points of view, integrating theory and practice, the arts and creative industries, and experimental and traditional perspectives.
Upcoming Events
Our autumn programme explores the use of sound in theatre, fiction film, documentary, animation, games, radio and gallery art. For full details, go to schoolofsound.co.uk/events.
Currently scheduled:
Sinéad Rushe:
Polyphonic Characterisation - Composing Iago in Shakespeare's Othello
Theatre director Sinéad Rushe discusses the rehearsal process for her forthcoming production of Othello. With sound designer Ali Taie she explains how she integrates the concept of polyphony and live vocal manipulation.
19 September
Stephen Deutsch:
How (Not) To Become a Film Composer
The growing popularity of film music has intensified the desire of many composers to enter the world of film, TV and games music. But how does a sound person take the first steps to enter the profession? What skills do they need, what training should they seek, what attitudes should they develop to help them achieve this goal?
21 September
James Hannigan:
On being a screen composer for games, television and audio drama
With a worldwide reputation for his work in games music (RuneScape, Steelrising, Discworld, and Red Alert), James moved into television series and audio drama. He discusses his work in these diverse media that have widely different narrative demands, production methods and audience responses.
4 October
Martine Huvenne: Embodiment in Sound
With Elias Grootaers, Nathalie Teirlinck and Larry Sider
Four talks in which Huvenne and guests propose an approach to filmmaking as a composition of sound, music, speech and images – an audiovisual chord Looking at fiction filmmaking, documentary and animation, they explore how the first-person perspectives of both the listener/spectator and the creator play a crucial role.
5 & 12 October, 23 & 30 November
Rana Eid: Mute/Unmute
Following Juliette Vocler's statement - 'We have barely started to Listen.' - Beirut sound designer Rana Eid asks ‘What is the act of listening - and why do we, as practitioners, have to ask ourselves this question almost every day?’
27 October
Amie Siegel
Siegel works across film, photography, performance, and sculpture, exposing and connecting multiple strata of meaning. The artist will discuss her unique approach to sound, music, and the plasticity of the film medium, including recent works The Silence (2022), Asterisms (2021) and Winter (2013)
28 November
In early 2024
Rob Bridgett , acclaimed game sound designer and author of Working with Sound: The Future of Audio Work in Interactive Entertainment, will deliver 3 talks on creating for sound for interactive entertainment.
And, following his spring series Sound Design and Audiovision, Gustavo Costantini continues with a close analysis of how music operates within a soundtrack.
All talks are designed for practitioners and academics, students and professionals. In our website, visit READ, LOOK, LISTEN for access to articles, recordings and video interviews. In TEACHING you can read, and contribute to, a blog about how to teach sound design. The SHOP offers recordings for streaming of past events. And in ONLINE EVENTS you can see details and buy tickets for all the upcoming online talks.
The School of Sound
schoolofsound.co.uk
ONETWENTYEIGHT
presents
MAXWELL STEVENS
“LAST DAYS OF SUMMER” NEW PAINTINGS
September 1 – October 15, 2023
Preview Week: September 1 - 8
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 6 - 9 pm
NEW YORK - ONETWENTYEIGHT is delighted to present MAXWELL STEVENS “Last Days of Summer” a powerful collection of new oil paintings. Taking on the grand tradition of gestural abstraction inspired by the North Atlantic coast and especially along Long Island with De Kooning and Pollock, the artist superposes explosively energetic abstractions directly atop intimate beach scenes rendered with meticulous precision. Overpainted in jewel-like blues, aquas, and teal, they are a celebration of leisure, friendship, and family, as well as the mutually voyeuristic nature of public beaches where everyone is willfully exposed. Focusing on the populated shorelines and delving into a personal trove of beach photos taken over many summers spent at Long Beach, one of the most popular beaches near NYC and a summertime destination for many New Yorkers.
As an avid beachgoer, Maxwell Stevens spent his adolescence on the Atlantic coast. “Some of my most memorable experiences have been at the beach, it’s a place of uninhibited leisure and of letting go of everything. At the same time, it is a place for reflection, a site for us to readjust through life’s journey. I want these paintings to convey that same positive effect on the viewer.” The artist’s visual language of sinuous contours and smears has given way to a burst of highly energetic expressions of scattered brushstrokes, sweeping gestures, drips, and plops of paint that fly across the paintings’ surfaces, immersing each scene into his own signature approach to abstraction. The looser and playful compositions skidding into and over the top of beachgoers, sunbathers, and surfers alike.
In the large paintings filling the front of the gallery, bright abstractions and figural compositions shift ceaselessly from image to image. “Beach Scene, Siblings” presents a group of leisurely young sunbathers. The enticing position of the woman fixing her hair is counterbalanced with the innocence of her companions in the scene, as her sisters laugh and relax under their colorful beach umbrella. Hundreds of other beachgoers disappear onto the horizon. In “Beach Scene, In Repose” a young man sits in contemplation as friends chat under the hot sunlight. And in “Bikini Girl” the over-life-size figure turns powerfully away, her athletic physique and dominating scale displaying a sense of self-empowerment and grandeur balanced with classical beauty. In other works, figures, sand, and surf all dissolve entirely into luminous soft focus. In a final set of smaller panels entitled “Last Days of Summer” figures are seen at a distance conversing under stormy skies, as summertime draws to a close. There are many magical moments at play throughout the series, now on view.
Maxwell Stevens was born in Charleston, South Carolina (USA) in 1971. He received an MFA in Painting from the School of Art at Washington University in Saint Louis in 1995, and a BFA in Painting from The Atlanta College of Art in 1993. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited extensively and internationally in contemporary venues from Tokyo to Dallas to New York. His paintings & projects have been featured in publications including The Museum of Modern Art Monthly Bulletin, New York, NY, Wall Street International Magazine, Meer Magazine, Arte Fuse, Contemporary Art Explore, NYArts Magazine, Fine Arts Connoisseur, Art Papers, and Art in America.
MAXWELL STEVENS “LAST DAYS OF SUMMER” NEW PAINTINGS is on view from September 1 through October 15, 2023, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 9, 2023, 6pm to 9pm. For sales inquiries please contact the gallery at [email protected], +1.646.341.0175.
ONETWENTYEIGHT is located at 128 Rivington Street ( between Essex Street & Norfolk Street ) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, Sunday, 12pm to 5pm, and by appointment.
2024 CALL FOR ARTISTS
Submission deadline: October 5, 2023
Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images created by local, national and international artists. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity and inclusion." The exhibit will be on display January 21 through April 14, 2024, in two locations in Sarasota and Pinellas counties in Florida. The winning artworks combine a deep understanding of both medium and message. Awards are given for "Best-in-Show Adult," "Best-in-Show Student," and "People's Choice" categories, with the last chosen by exhibit visitors to each location. Adult winners each receive $2,000; students receive $2,000 with $1,000 to be directed to the student and $1,000 to their school’s art program, if they worked under the direction of an educator.
Artists possess a powerful tool to evoke social change. Without uttering a single word, they can enlighten, educate and effect change around the world. Embracing Our Differences© invites you to participate in creating a society where diversity is embraced and individuality is celebrated. Become a part of this change by submitting your original art to Embracing Our Differences© and its annual international outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard-size images measuring 16 feet (5m) wide by 12.5 feet (4m) high. Each work of art is created by local, national and international artists reflecting their interpretation of our theme “enriching lives through diversity and inclusion.”
The exhibit will be on display January through April at multiple locations in Southwest Florida. Since 2004 the exhibit has hosted over 4 million visitors plus another 529,000 students for a very unique opportunity to experience the importance of diversity and inclusion in our lives.
WHO MAY ENTER?
Artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, students — everyone can participate. National and international submissions are encouraged. There is no submission fee.
WHAT IS THE THEME?
Artists are asked to submit their interpretation of the theme “enriching lives through diversity and inclusion.”
WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?
Your submission must be an original concept and execution and is not a copy or reproduction of the
work of another. Final selections for inclusion will be made by a five-judge panel of art professionals based on artistic excellence and originality in reflection of our theme “enriching lives through diversity and inclusion.”
CASH AWARDS
$6,000 (US) will be presented in the form of three separate awards —
$2,000 each for “Best-in-Show Adult;” “Best-in-Show Student;” and the “People’s Choice” award.
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE COMPLETED ONLINE OR RECEIVED BY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023
To submit online, for details, requirements
& to view past winning entries, visit
EMBRACINGOURDIFFERENCES.ORG
Deadline Approaching!
The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2023 artist grants.
We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists and photographers around the world.
For this open call, we will be providing 6 grants totaling $11,000 USD.
2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000.
This is an open call, all media eligible.
Submissions will be juried by
— Emily Edwards, Assistant Curator, Dallas Contemporary
— Inês Costa, Curator, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers.
In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist, and all winners will have the opportunity to publish an in depth interview about their work in our online journal.
Deadline: May 16, 2023
Visit https://hopperprize.org to submit your work
The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Fall 2022 artist grants.
We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists and photographers around the world.
For this open call, we will be providing 6 grants totaling $11,000 USD.
2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000.
This is an open call, all media eligible.
Submissions will be juried by
— Simone Krug, Curator, Aspen Art Museum
— Rachel Reese Waldrop, Director & Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Chattanooga
Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed @hopperprize, currently reaching an audience over 70k.
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Submit your work at https://hopperprize.org
2023 Embracing Our Differences International Exhibit
Celebrating Diversity
Deadline October 5, 2022
No Entry Fee
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 5, 2022, 11:59 PDT
Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images created by local, national and international artists. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity." The exhibit will be displayed in three locations in Sarasota and Manatee counties in Florida from January 18 – May 29, 2023. Awards are given totaling $6,000.
AWARDS
- Best in Show, Adult: $2,000
- Best in Show, Student: $2,000 – $1,000 to be directed to the student and $1,000 to their school’s art program, if they worked under the direction of an educator
- People’s Choice: $2,000 – selected by visitors to the exhibit
NO ENTRY FEE
ELIGIBILITY
Open to student and adult artist worldwide
TO LEARN MORE/SUBMIT
https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/submit-art-2023-exhibit/
EXHIBIT DISPLAY DATES
Sarasota, FL Exhibit (Bayfront Park): 1/18/2023 - 3/12/2023
North Port, FL Exhibit (Butler Park): 3/22/2023 - 4/19/2023
Bradenton, FL Exhibit (State College of Florida Bradenton Campus): 4/26/2023 - 5/29/2023
JOIN THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF COMBAT PRIZE
FINAL EXHIBITION at MUSEO GIOVANNI FATTORI
September 17 – 8 October
Join the thirteenth edition of the Combat Prize, the international contest finalised to the continuous research of the different paths and talents characterising contemporary art, are open. Recognised among the most important awards of the contemporary art system in Italy, it will be held again this year in a new format.
The Giovanni Fattori Museum - Granaries of Villa Mimbelli in Livorno, Italy, the main venue, will host the final exhibition of the eighty finalists, which will be held from 17 September to 8 October 2022.
Highlights include the new Combat Prize, to the value of ten thousand euros, that will be assigned from the jury panel to an artist from the eighty finalists, in addition to cash prizes for each section, and the Gallery Special Prize where seven galleries, leaders in the contemporary art system, and an independent space will select, each, an artist from the finalists to start a new collaboration which will take the form of a solo or group exhibition, or a site-specific project, in their own spaces in the 2022/23 season, thus giving continuity to the debate opened during participation in the Prize.
The Poliart Award has also been consolidated, with the company, leader in the processing of expanded polystyrene, supporting the production of a work by an artist selected from the finalists, thus strengthening the fruitful dialogue between art, business, and the territory, which is fundamental for the development and knowledge of contemporary artists.
PARTICIPATE IN THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF THE COMBAT PRIZE!
10.000 euros (ten thousand) to the winner of the COMBAT PRIZE
Section’s prizes:
1.500 euros (one thousand five hundred) to the winner of the Painting section*
1.500 euros (one thousand five hundred) to the winner of the Sculpture and Installation section*
1.500 euros (one thousand five hundred) to the winner of the Photography section*
1.500 euros (one thousand five hundred) to the winner of the Graphic Arts section*
1.500 euros (one thousand five hundred) to the winner of the Video - Performance art section*
* (the winning artwork will remain property of the artist)
Gallery Special Prize – Realisation of solo or group exhibition or a site-specific project in the exhibition season 2022-2023.
Special Prizes will be realized in collaboration with the following galleries and independent spaces:
Add-art, Spoleto, Italy
IAGA contemporary Art, Clunj, Romania
Labs Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Lunetta 11, Borgo Lunetta, Cuneo, Italy
Magazzeno, Ravenna, Italy
Marina Bastianello Gallery, Venezia, Italy
Matèria, Roma, italy
SAC spazio arte contemporanea, Livorno, italy
Poliart Special Prize* - with the company, leader in the processing of expanded polystyrene, will award an artist from the finalists supporting the production of a work.
The members of the Jury are:
Ilaria Gianni (independent curator), Francesca Baboni (independent curator), Lorenzo Balbi (director of MAMbo, Bologna) Andrea Bruciati (director of Villa Adriana e Villa d’Este, Tivoli), Davide Ferri (independent curator), Stefano Taddei (independent curator).
For more info visit:
https://www.premiocombat.it/terms-and-conditions
Exhibizone 8th International Art Exhibition – Spring 2022
Win Cash Prizes, Exhibit, and Sell Your Art Worldwide
Deadline: June 09, 2022
Exhibizone 8th International Art Exhibition - Spring 2022
Exhibizone, the house of smart online exhibitions, proudly presents its 8th international online group exhibition in Spring 2022.
In the spirit of empowering visual artists to showcase their prominent arts globally, the Spring 2022 festival invites all artists to submit their artworks in various subjects from anywhere in the world and be part of the 8th edition of the international online sales exhibition by Exhibizone.
The show will present selected artworks created by talented artists and intends to express the most attractive art in terms of idea and technique.
Along with showcasing artworks, the awards for the Spring edition include 3 cash prizes for public choice award winners (USD 600.00), publishing in a colorful stylish exhibition catalogue, digital certificate, lifelong artist profile page, exhibition news circulation, online promotion, social media badges, visitors’ comments and ratings, exhibition progress reports, statistics and insights.
The submission fee is USD 40 for up to 3 artworks and USD 10 for each additional. Each artist can submit up to 10 artworks.
Visit our previous top-rated art shows that so far have been seen by more than 3,000,000 visitors
at https://www.exhibizone.com/exhibitions
Learn more and Apply by June 09, 2022 via:
Direct Link: https://www.exhibizone.com/calls?TPII=ad3
OR
CaFE Link: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=10158
The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2022 artist grants. We are offering grants in the amount of $3,500 (2 available) and $1,000 (4 available) to artists & photographers worldwide working in all media. In total, 6 artists will receive unrestricted cash grants.
Submissions will be juried by
— Jody Graf, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1
— Pamela Meadows, Curator, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 65k.
This is an international open call. All visual art media is accepted. International artists are eligible.
Deadline: May 17, 2022
Submit your work at https://hopperprize.org/
The FiKVA Foundation announces its 2nd international contest for representational & figurative painters. This competition aims to encourage and support artists financially and provide them with an opportunity to exhibit their best work online.
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