Call for Student Art: Fresh Looks 2020

FRESH LOOKS 2020: A Free Juried Student Art Exhibition specifically for graduating art students in Michigan and Ohio

Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University
Deadline: November 14th 2019

In an effort to continually enhance and expand dialog among emerging artists and regional institutions, Eastern Michigan University announces FRESH LOOKS 2020.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY.

This exhibition is designed to celebrate the creative accomplishments of emerging undergraduate art majors in the region, and showcase the diverse approaches to art making found within neighboring institutions in Michigan and Ohio. All media and approaches are welcome! Those selected to participate will represent student excellence and highlight the unique voice of a new class of young artist as they prepare to transition into their professional careers or an advanced degree program.

This exhibition is open to undergraduate art majors who expect to complete their studies during the 2019/2020 academic year. There is no application fee attached to this exhibition. However, selected artists are expected to cover any costs associated with the delivery and return of their work. Questions may be directed to Gregory Tom, Gallery Director at gtom@emich.edu.

See the schedule below for details:

Applications Due: November 14th, 2019

Applicants Notified of status: November 26th, 2019

Deadline for delivery of accepted work: December 20th , 2019

Exhibition Dates: January 13th – January 30th, 2020

Opening Reception: January 14th 4:30-6:30, Ford Gallery

Return Shipping (pick-up) of Artwork: Early February

Edward Burtynsky: Water at CMA

On view through September 22, 2019
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery

As part of Cuyahoga50, a citywide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the last Cuyahoga River fire and celebration of the progress made since toward clean water for all, the Cleveland Museum of Art will present two exhibitions that highlight the impact of human behavior on the environment. Featuring the work of renowned contemporary artist Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955), Water: Edward Burtynsky draws attention to current threats to clean, sustainable water and encourages visitors to reflect on individual actions that can impact the future of our planet.

Burtynsky’s global portrait explores humanity’s increasingly stressed relationship with water, the world’s most vital natural resource. Thirteen monumental color photographs survey locales from the Gulf of Mexico to the shore of the Ganges. Offering both aesthetic abstraction and concrete data, these hauntingly beautiful images encourage us to ponder whether current water-management strategies are among humankind’s great achievements or its most dangerous failures.

Learn more at clevelandart.org

CSUphoto Student’s Show Getting Buzz

CSU photo student, Nico Pico Train has a new photography exhibition at Art on Madison in Lakewood. Her show, “Uncensored: Liquid Sex Series” has been getting some buzz in local media, including write ups in Cleveland Scene and Collective Art Network (CAN) Journal. The exhibit is, well uncensored.

According to the articles,  the work “ingeniously poses more questions than answers about sex, ” and that “formally, the photographs are stunning.”  The work “forces us to grapple with the realness of sexuality, as well as its humorous side. This is not cheap boudoir photography.  [the work] manages to balance her take on erotic art in a yin-yang way.”

Check out the article in Cleveland Scene here.

Check out the article in CAN Journal here.

 

Rania Matar’s “In Her Image” at Transformer Station

Rania Matar
In Her Image

Transformer Station
October 27, 2018 – January 13, 2019

Panel with Artist: November 16, 2018, 7-9pm (free)

 

Danny Lyon at Cleveland Museum of Art

Danny Lyon and Barbara Tannenbaum in Conversation
Cleveland Museum of Art
Wed, Sep 5, 6:30pm

FREE, reservations recommended

Join famed artist and filmmaker Danny Lyon and curator of photography Barbara Tannenbaum as they discuss what motivated him to create the visual eulogy The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, on view through October 7 in the CMA’s Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery.

Reserve tickets at ClevelandArt.org or 216.421.7350

Sponsored in part by there Friends of Photography of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Aja Grant Exhibition at Black House

Aja Grant: Saccharine
Opening Sat, Oct 6
2pm – 7pm
The Black House Gallery
Purchase tickets online and learn the event’s secret address

Come join her as recent CSUphoto alumna Aja Grant will exhibit her new work in Saccharine at The Black House Gallery on Sep 8.

Aja graduated from CSU last spring. She has gone on to work at Cleveland Print Room. She was also awarded a CSU/CIA Post-bac award and has recently started her tuition-free year of study at Cleveland Institute of Art.

Cleveland Print Room Exhibition

Cleveland Print Room
Laura Ruth Bidwell and Lissa Rivera Joint Exhibition
Opening: Friday, Sep 8, 5-9pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, Sep 9, 4-5:30pm

Cleveland Print Room is excited to host a joint exhibition featuring the Cleveland debut of internationally-shown, NYC-based artist Lissa Rivera, and new work by Cleveland artist Laura Ruth Bidwell.

“Beautiful Boy,” the ongoing project of Lissa Rivera, focuses, as she writes, “on my domestic partner as muse, documenting our exploration of femininity and the nuances of photography as a transformative medium. I am using photography as a testing ground for my partner, who is genderqueer, to visualize multiple feminine identities. The photographs provide a canvas to investigate the visual language of womanhood that I was raised with, and that my partner is only beginning to explore. Through watching movies, listening to music and viewing countless photographs, I‘ve absorbed an archive of techniques to share. The photographs recall childhood fantasies of dressing up, tapping into deep-seated narratives about desire, beauty, freedom and cultural taboo. Although our emotional relationship is private and real, we perform a romanticism that is obsessive and decadent. The fantasy of dressing up transforms the experience of being photographed into one that fuses identity-creation with image-creation.” Rivera is represented by ClampArt. For further information on Lissa Rivera, see http://www.lissarivera.com/

About her new work for this exhibition, from her Gratiot series, Laura Ruth Bidwell states, “GRATIOT is a name. A place. A state of mind. Gratiot is a photographic project based on the fictional lives of Charles and Victoire Chouteau Gratiot, immortals who have navigated and thrived by night, across three centuries.” For further information on Laura Ruth Bidwell, see  http://www.laurabidwell.com/

Please join us for the opening this September. The exhibition runs from September 8 to November 4.

 

 

Call for Entries: Summit Art Space – Photography Now

CALL FOR ARTISTS
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – The Art of Seeing

Deadline:  midnight May 12, 2017

Show runs July 14 – August 19, 2017

Click here to apply online.

Photography – “the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (as film or an optical sensor),” is a broad field, and, in the upcoming PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – THE ART OF SEEING juried exhibition, Summit Artspace seeks to explore the range of that field. Regional photographic artists who work with film and use traditional darkroom techniques, those whose images are recorded digitally and processed on a computer, and those who push the boundaries of the medium in new directions, are all invited to enter. The only exception is that instant photography cannot be accepted, due to a concurrent exhibition which focuses on that medium.

Works from traditional to experimental and from representational to abstract are equally welcome, as are images presented on paper, transparency, through projection, or in some other format. What will unify this exhibition is that each selected work will represent the intersection of personal creativity and engagement with some form of photographic technology in order to explore the art of seeing at this moment in time, whether the gaze is turned outward or inward.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to artists residing in or attending school in the following Ohio counties: Summit, Cuyahoga, Medina, Stark and Portage. Unfortunately, if you do not live in or attend school in one of these counties, we are unable to consider your work.

Deadline for Entry: Friday, May 12, 2017, by midnight.

ENTRY FEE: $15 

Cleveland Print Room Call for Entries

PEER SHOW CALL FOR ART

2017 Cleveland Print Room Juried Exhibition: THE PEER SHOW.

DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2017 at 7PM

The Cleveland Print Room is seeking photographic submissions for our THIRD juried exhibition, June 9 – July 16, to be judged by Alexandra Coon, Executive Director of Massillon Museum and Tom Huck, Art Curator at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

The Cleveland Print Room invites members and non-members to submit artwork for our 2017 juried exhibition, The Peer Show. This is a unique opportunity for photographic artists to exhibit their work and receive substantial exposure in Cleveland’s only dedicated photographic art gallery, community darkroom, educational center, and studio workspace. Over 30 selected works will be exhibited in our gallery, with a top prize of $300 to be awarded. All selections and cash awards will be made at the discretion of the jurors and will be final.

AWARDS: Best of Show: $300 Best B&W: $150
Best Color: $150 Best Alt Process: $150
Executive Director’s Award: $100

ELIGIBILITY:
Artists must be at least 16 years of age and reside in the US or Canada.

An entry fee of $30 for CPR members or $35 for non-members is payable upon submission of works. Artists may submit up to two (2) pieces of original art in any photographic medium, analog or digital. Entry fees are non-refundable and the single fee covers one or two submissions. Drop off dates begin on Thursday, MAY 25 and runs until WEDNESDAY May 31 at 7PM. Artists whose work is in the show will be contacted by Friday June 2 at 2PM. Work not accepted MUST be picked up on Friday, June 3, Saturday June 4 noon to 5PM or on Sunday, June 4 11-2pm. All work must be hand-delivered to the Cleveland Print Room (unless submission is sent with a pre-paid return slip).

All work must be READY TO HANG from typical gallery picture hooks without needing special equipment and framed pieces should to be strung with picture wire. Presentation is important! CPR reserves the right to refuse artwork that is NOT ready to hang.

Artists must complete a two-part entry form, one part to be attached to the work, and one part given to CPR at drop-off time. The entry form can be found here: http://clevelandprintroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/EXHIBITION-ENTRY-FORM.pdf

Work exceeding 36 inches in any dimension may be excluded due to space restrictions. Work may not exceed seventy pounds in weight.

All work must be original, executed within the last 5 years, and not been shown previously at the Cleveland Print Room.

All subject matter must be appropriate for public viewing.

Entries must remain in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

Artists must grant permission for Cleveland Print Room to use their images and information in promotional materials.

Cleveland Print Room will retain a 40% commission from works sold. In the event of a sale, the artist will be notified at the closing of the exhibition and mailed a check for 60% of the sale within 30 days.

For further information, please contact Shari at info@clevelandprintroom.com.

Black in America at Cleveland Museum of Art

February 26 – July 30, 2017
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery | Gallery 230

Louis Draper and Leonard Freed: Two photographers – one black, one white – look at life during the civil rights era. Both artists were incredibly talented formalists who put that skill at the service of expression. They also shared a goal: to create dignified depictions of African Americans that portrayed them not as victims or heroes but as individuals.