OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS


CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS
The MCBA Prize 2013
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
(Minneapolis, MN)

The MCBA Prize is the first honor to recognize book art from across the field and around the world, with over $9,000 in total prizes to be awarded.
Add your own work to this exciting and diverse mix! Read all the details at MCBAPrize.org; deadline April 30.

 


CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS
FLIP-OFF!
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
(Minneapolis, MN)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is proud to announce FLIP-OFF!, a flipbook competition and exhibition, as part of our 2013 Book Art Biennial, Directed: The Intersection of Book, Film and Visual Narrative. Biennial programming will explore the many common threads between book arts and film; flipbooks represent the ultimate integration of the two formats. The winner of the competition, to be selected by MCBA staff and other artist community members, will receive a cash prize of $250. The winner will be announced July 27, 2013.

All entries received will be included in the FLIP-OFF! exhibition, where they will be available for handling by viewers. FLIP-OFF! will be on display from May 17 through July 28, 2013. Works will not be returned; after the exhibition, the flipbooks will be accessioned into MCBA's artist's book collection, housed in the organization's Alcott Library and Archives.

To enter, send your flipbooks to:

FLIP-OFF!
c/o Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis MN 55415

Include titles for each submitted work, as well as complete artist contact information: name(s), mailing address, phone number, and email.

Multiple entries are permitted. Artists will be notified by email when their work is received.

Questions? Email Tracy Doreen Dietzel, MCBA Exhibitions Manager, at tddietzel@mnbookarts.org.

Deadline: Books must be received at MCBA by April 26, 2013.

For more information regarding MCBA's Book Art Biennial, visit BookArtBiennial.org.

 


CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS
Superstition 13
San Francisco Center for the Book (San Francisco, CA)

Superstition 13 invites artists to investigate superstition and the esoteric. It is a juried exhibition of the original black art -- the inky arts of the book. The exhibition will explore the ways in which superstitions affect our lives. The exhibition will also take a look at the historical with an educational view of some gorgeous quasi-artists' books of historical esoterica and a discussion of their Jungian influences. And finally, the heart and soul of the art will be captured within a four-color exhibition catalog. Exhibition dates: September 13 through Hallowe'en (October 31). Entry fee: $35 for up to 3 pieces; special rate for CBAA student members ($20).

Deadline: June 30, 2013

More information: website

 


CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS
Tangibles: Beauty and Purpose in the Art of the Book
Northern Arizona University Art Museum (Flagstaff, AZ)

The Northern Arizona University Art Museum presents Tangibles: Beauty and Purpose in the Art of the Book, an exhibition to run from September 17 through November 16, 2013. This exhibition is created in the belief that the physical artifact of a book can offer sensory experiences and imaginative encounters that the realm of digital facsimiles and "virtual" art cannot.

The exhibition will include works that go beyond self-expression to engage with political and cultural issues in the contemporary world. Pieces chosen for the exhibition will employ traditional media of paint, ink, paper, woodcuts, and engravings, but we are equally interested in works that fall outside expected definitions of what a book might look like or how one might experience a book -- creatively defined -- as an aesthetic object.

The entry form will be available online on May 7, 2013. Entry fee: $35 for up to three works.

Deadline: July 1, 2013

More information: website

 


CALL FOR ARTISTS
Animated Type: A Showcase of Letterpress Animation

Submit any form of animation created using letterpress printing. This may include short films, flip books, zoetropes, thaumatropes, praxinascopes, retroscopes, etcetera. Juror: Barb Tetenbaum. Exhibition details to be announced.

Deadline: December 1, 2013

More information: website

 


CALL FOR ARTISTS
Hunger
Crafthaus
(online)

With diet as a way of life for many in our culture, we’ve been taught that one should Eat to Live. We've forgotten that from the 18th through the early 20th century, being fat was a sign of health, prosperity, and an attraction at a time when food was scarce and many went hungry. Hunger, in all its metaphorical forms, is part of our personal and public conversation. Many of us struggle with hunger, and yearn for the pleasure of food, love, possessions, control, sex or power. Twenty-four works will be selected for an online exhibition at the Crafthaus blog, curated by Alice Simpson, on the topic of Hunger. Exhibition dates: January 15 through February 15, 2014.

Deadline: December 15, 2013

More information: website

 


CALL FOR ARTISTS
Artist Residencies
Women's Studio Workshop
(Rosendale, NY)

Women's Studio Workshop has a variety of funded and subsidized residency opportunities for artists, including several specifically for book and print artists:

  • Artists' Books Residency Grant, a 6-8 week residency for an artist to produce a limited edition artist’s book. Deadline: November 15.
  • Art-in-Education Book Arts Residency Grant, an 8-10 week residency focused on creating a limited edition artist’s book, while also working with students during our Art-in-Education program. Deadline: November 15.
  • Studio Residency Grant / Legacy Artists Residency Grant: 6 weeks working in WSW's printmaking, papermaking, book arts or ceramics studios to create a new body of work. Deadline: April 1.

Program requirements and details are available on the WSW website.

Deadline: Applications are reviewed annually at the deadlines mentioned above.

More information: website

 


CALL FOR PAPERS
Openings: Studies in Book Art
College Book Art Association

Openings is the CBAA's peer-reviewed journal publishing critical, historical and theoretical articles, reviews and interviews about book art and its pedagogy.

Deadline: Contributions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

More information: website / email

 


CALL FOR ARTISTS
Collective Atlas
Somethink Collective
(Stirling, UK)

Personal inerpretations of specific places around the world are sought to create a non-traditional collective atlas. Each submission must be made from one sheet of A4 paper, cut and folded to a format of your choice. For examples of past submissions, visit the Somethink Collective blog.

Ongoing project; no deadline.

More information: email

 


 

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
is open to the public seven days a week:
Mon, Wed-Sat: 10am to 5pm
Tuesdays: 10am to 9pm
Sundays: noon to 4pm

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in
the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis:
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.215.2520
Fax: 612.215.2545
Email: mcba@mnbookarts.org

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