JOHN LEWIS SPECIAL EXHIBIT_ Atlanta Quilt Festival

 DEADLINE: June 1, 2024 (ONLINE), via Email

JOHN LEWIS SPECIAL EXHIBIT ENTRY
"Getting Into MY Good Trouble Continuing the Legacy of Congressman John Lewis”
Atlanta Quilt Festival
Southwest Arts Center
South Fulton, GA
August 2, 2024 to  August 25, 2024

In 2024 the Atlanta Quilt Festival will premier “Getting into MY Good Trouble — Continuing the Legacy of Congressman John Lewis”, the final exhibit in the trilogy designed to honor the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis. Congressman Lewis represented the Georgia 5th Congressional district where the Atlanta Quilt Festival is based. In addition to his great work in the Civil Rights Movement, he loved quilts. The quilts will capture in cloth the work that remains to be done to continue to work toward the beloved community. 

OUR THEME

John Lewis made America a better place to live, and his work benefitted all Americans. Part 3 of the trilogy seeks quilts that express how we may continue his legacy. Progress has been made, but there is much that remains to be done. What change do you think is needed to make the world a better place? It could involve voting, sports, education, housing, money, equal rights, abortion, criminal justice reform, etc. Imagine the beloved community and think about what issue would get you off your couch and catapult you into action. We must learn to tell our own stories, and every story is important. You may also want to read John Lewis’s book “Carry On – Reflections For a New Generation” to inform your creativity. We must learn to tell our own stories, and every story is important.

QUILT SUBMISSION DETAILS

Your quilt should not be larger than 60 inches wide. It must be a fiber quilt with a label and a four-inch sleeve on the back. All techniques welcome. It must be delivered to the Atlanta Quilt Festival by June 1, 2024 and be available for display until September 8, 2024. The exhibit may travel in 2025. If so, you will be asked to sign a loan agreement if you want to participate in the traveling exhibit.

Take some time with the title and the story behind your quilt. Acceptance will be based on the beauty of your quilt and the story behind it.

To submit your quilt, send a photo with the title, dimensions, techniques, and story of your quilt to ov.brantley@atlantaquiltfestival.com. Or submit online at atlantaquiltfestival.com under the enter your quilt tab after February 15, 2024. Please submit as soon as possible but no later than June 1. 2024. We can only accept 30 quilts.

Visit website for complete details: https://www.atlantaquiltfestival.com/special-exhibit

Submit quilt via EntryThingy: https://www.entrythingy.com/d=atlantaquiltfestival.com

Politically Charged: Call to Artists

 DEADLINE: July 12, 2024 (ONLINE)

Politically Charged: Call to Artists
Blue Line Arts
Roseville, CA 
August 31, 2024 to October 12, 2024

Amidst the fervor surrounding the upcoming 2024 presidential election, we stand at a pivotal moment in our nation's history. We believe that it is crucial to create a space for productive and thought-provoking discussions about the future of our country. In this bold exhibition, we encourage artists from all disciplines to explore the  curiosities that bud from the current state of American politics. We are interested in the diverse narratives that come from art making in our contemporary political landscape. 

Through your artistic reflections, we hope to harness the power of creativity to ignite conversations, challenge perspectives, and identify common threads. In embracing this taboo theme of politics, we are asserting and strongly believe that art has the potential to transcend ideological boundaries and stimulate dialogue that can drive our community forwards. 

Eligibility (truncated)

This national exhibition is open to artists working in all mediums and of all skill levels. 

All artwork must be original and completed within the last 4 years.

Artwork cannot have been previously exhibited at Blue Line Arts.

Blue Line Arts handles all sales transactions. Non-member artists receive a 50% commission from all gallery sales and members receive a 60% commission.

Visit website for complete details.

Apply to via CaFÉ

Questions/Contact:

Blue Line Arts
405 Vernon Street, Suite #100
Roseville, CA 95678
phone: (916) 783-4117
email: gallery@bluelinearts.org

Atlanta Quilt Festival Juried Exhibit

DEADLINE: June 1, 2024 (ONLINE) (POSTMARK), via Email

Atlanta Quilt Festival Juried Exhibit
Southwest Arts Center
Atlanta, GA
August 2, 2024 – September 8, 2024

The Atlanta Quilt Festival, Inc. (AQF) is pleased to announce its annual quilt competition. In keeping with the mission of the Atlanta Quilt Festival, all interpretations are welcome. The exhibition is open to all quilt makers.

This is a juried exhibition focusing on Traditional, Art, Modern and African American Heritage quilts. All quilts must have three (3) layers (top, batting and backing). Quilts should not exceed 60 inches wide and 72 inches long.

Ribbons and a cash prize will be awarded for best Traditional, Art, Modern, African American Heritage, and Best in Show. 

The AQF is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of African American quilting and other textile art. It showcases some of the finest examples of African American quilts, dolls and other fiber art across the spectrum of all genres including traditional, art, modern and African American Heritage styles.  At the same time, the Atlanta Quilt Festival provides a welcoming environment for beginners to introduce their work to the world.

Entry Fee: $10.00 for each quilt

2024 RULES OF ENTRY (truncated)

• All entries must have three (3) layers (top, batting and backing).
• Quilts that have been exhibited at the Atlanta Quilt Festival in the past are not eligible.
• Adhere to all dates in the Call For Entries.
• ​A description of your quilt is required. Include dimensions, techniques and inspiration.
• Give proper credit to others who worked on your quilt including pattern designers and long arm quilters. Use additional sheets of paper if needed.
• Quilts may not exceed 60 X 72 inches and must have a hanging sleeve and label on the back with your name and name of quilt.
• Submit at least one full view of the completed quilt and one detail view.
• Submit no more than three (3) quilts per person, with separate entry forms for each quilt.

Complete Rules of Entry available on website.

Submit an entry form for each quilt online, or mail to Atlanta Quilt Festival, 505 Stonebriar Way  SW, Atlanta, GA 30331, or email entry form to info@AtlantaQuiltFestival.com.

​​DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE VERSION OF APPLICATION FORM 

Submit Entries via EntryThingy: https://www.entrythingy.com/d=atlantaquiltfestival.com

Atlanta Quilt Festival
505 Stonebriar Way  SW
Atlanta, GA 30331

Portraits, Poses and Tableaux Vivants

 DEADLINE: June 12, 2024 (ONLINE)


Portraits, Poses and Tableaux Vivants
Core New Art Space
Lakewood, CO
July 12-24, 2024



A portrait can tell a story of someone at moment in time, of something happening around them. It could be the memory of someone lost to time and their sweet reflection. Images might suggest that a person was present because of what they left behind. A portrait might be the icons that tell the story of someone's passions, their pets or their personality. Perhaps it’s how they wish to be seen and remembered. We would like to see your take on the genre of portraiture, human or animal.

Core New Art Space invites all artists of any mediums, 2d & 3d (except video/installations). Entries must be submitted electronically by June 12th, 2024 and accompanied by a $35.00 fee (for up to 3 works).

Work must be no larger than 48” inches on its longest side, including frame. Work not within these parameters will be disqualified.

Juror: Mark Brasuell, artist based in Denver, Colorado

Representation:
• Leopold Art Gallery in Missouri
• TALK Gallery in Colorado

Complete details on website
Application via  CaFÉ 

Core Art Space
6501 W. Colfax Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80214
phone: 303-297-8428

Womens Studio Workshop_Studio Workspace Residency

DEADLINE: May 15, 2024 (ONLINE)
 

Studio Workspace Residency
Womens Studio Workshop
Rosendale, NY
Length of residency: 4 - 6 weeks
 

Women’s Studio Workshop envisions a society where women’s visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history.

Our mission is to operate and maintain an artists’ workspace that encourages the voice and vision of women and trans, intersex, nonbinary, and genderfluid artists. We provide professional opportunities for artists at various stages of their careers and promote programs designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness, and support for the visual arts.

The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. This residency gives artists the gift of time, an uninterrupted period to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics.

Artists receive a thorough studio orientation and are expected to work independently, although studio staff is available to provide assistance. Deep technical assistance can be arranged for an additional fee. Artists must provide their own materials, some of which can be purchased from WSW.

As of 2019, all workspace residencies are fully subsidized! This means that while artists are still responsible for their own travel, materials, meals, and other personal incidentals while in residence, WSW provides housing and studio space at no cost.

Application must include:

• A current resume
• A brief description of your proposed project, including the studio(s) you’d like to use. 300 word maximum.
• Up to ten images of recent work
• An image script, which should include the title, medium, dimension, and date of each image

Studio Workspace Residency details

FAQ page for additional information

Apply via Submittable

Women’s Studio Workshop
P.O. Box 489
Rosendale, NY 12472
(845) 658-9133
info@wsworkshop.org

Nocturne: Art at Night

 DEADLINE: April 2, 2024 (ONLINE), (PHONE), (VIDEO), (AUDIO), VIA EMAIL


Nocturne: Art at Night
Halifax, NS
October 17 – 20, 2024


Nocturne is currently seeking artists to participate in our 2024 programming through the development of temporary public artworks that will be exhibited during the signature night-time art experience taking place on Saturday, October 19. Nocturne’s 2024 curator, Shuvanjan Karmaker, has selected the theme of Microcosm as a platform for artists to consider and share stories and to create connections around shared love, experiences, tragedies, and/or responsibilities.

Nocturne pays successful applicants an equitable CARFAC 2024 Fee Schedule, which includes material/production, accessibility, artist care, and travel.

• We encourage proposals that reflect Nocturne’s core values as an independent, non-commercial, and contemporary art festival.
• We encourage emerging artists, creatives, arts workers, and makers to apply.
• We aim to support efforts that are exploratory, challenging, and critical in nature.
• We encourage applicants to propose new work as well as projects that have been started or completed elsewhere.
• We encourage artists in all mediums to apply.
• We seek to view applicants from a lens of equity and aim to create space for equal opportunities.
• We encourage proposals for interactive and engaging installations.
• We are committed to reducing barriers at our festival and do our best to ensure the venues and projects at Nocturne reflect those commitments.

We encourage all applicants to consider their relationship to the land; Nocturne is an opportunity and platform to re-imagine the spaces of our city, both built and natural, and to interrogate the systems and institutions that govern those spaces. It is also a platform to consider the lived and experienced cultural landscapes that make up our city. 

The land (and waters) where Nocturne takes place is Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral, unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Peoples first signed with the British crown in 1725. It’s important that we say unceded and unsurrendered because acts that violate these treaties are happening every day here in Mi’kma’ki and all across Turtle Island. We are all treaty people, and Nocturne strives to uphold the relationships outlined in these treaties that govern this land. 

We also acknowledge the significant foundations that the infrastructure and culture of Black and African Nova Scotian communities have contributed and continue to contribute to this province and country. Nocturne continues to collaborate, amplify, and connect with the many art communities that live and work here in Mi'kma'ki. The Native Land Interactive Map is a great resource and educational tool for learning more about Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.

For accessibility purposes, Nocturne will also accept proposals via phone, video, or audio file as needed by the applicant. Please get in touch via email at info@nocturnehalifax.ca to arrange this submission type. This process will take approximately one hour, and it will include a recorded interview that takes place between an organizer or committee member and the applicant to go through each section of the application together. The conversation will be recorded and shared with the jury via video or transcription.

Call for Submissions

Application Form



Nocturne: Art at Night
1546 Barrington Street, Suite 104
Halifax, NS B3K 3X7
nocturnehalifax.ca
info@nocturnehalifax.ca

Rochester Contemporary Art Center_6x6 2024 Exhibition & Sale

MULTIPLE DEADLINE(S):
April 1, 2024 (ONLINE) (U.S. Entries)
April 6, 2024 (WALK-IN/HAND DELIVERY)
April 8, 2024 (ONLINE) (International Entries)


6x6 2024 Exhibition & Sale
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Rochester, NY
June 1 - July 21, 2024


Each year 6x6 includes thousands of artworks from around the world and every US State! This year we hope to reach deeper into the global art community. This includes obtaining artwork from more national and international artists and celebrities. We would also like to have significant participation from all 12 of Rochester's sister cities. Every year, 6x6 has grown and the consistently high caliber of artworks each year has been astounding. 

All proceeds benefit Rochester Contemporary Art Center. This is a fun initiative that brings together a diverse collection of artists and artworks. It is also an important fundraiser that support our thoughtful contemporary art programming throughout the rest of the year.

We welcome and encourage participation from everyone of all ages and skill levels.

The goal is to gather many pieces of original 6-by-6 works of art. Each person may enter up to 4 artworks.

3D (three dimensional) pieces are accepted. Please keep in mind that in order to install this exhibition our highly skilled staff will only be using push pins and the occasional small nail. If your piece is smaller than 6 inches, please mount it to a 6 by 6 inch board or support.

Global Online Preview Begins: May 10 at 10am
In Gallery Preview: May 28-31
Virtual Art Sale Kick-off: June 1 at 4pm
Global Online Purchasing Begins: June 3 at 10am

Download the Entry Form

Visit website for complete details: https://roco6x6.org/faq

Rochester Contemporary Art Center - 6x6
137 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604

New Perspectives: A Show for Experimental and Dynamic Works at the Arlington Center for the Arts

DEADLINE: March 17, 2024 (ONLINE)


New Perspectives
Members Show
Arlington Center for the Arts
Arlington, MA
April 25 to June 12, 2024


New Perspectives is a show for experimental and dynamic works of art that manipulate how we perceive our world. Strike imagination with saturation and help us facilitate community with  color. New Perspectives is a members' show for all mediums, both 2D and 3D, that explore inventive viewpoints in expressive or unique ways. Whether you play with foreshortening, juxtapose perspectives, dabble in the surreal, or have a new narrative to share with our community, this is the show for you!

Non-members may apply for membership to participate. Visit website for membership information: https://acarts.org/membership

Members are welcome to submit up to three pieces of art for this exhibition.

To apply: complete the form and upload all required materials


For questions contact:
Cat Beaudoin, Education and Programs Director
email: cat@acarts.org
phone: 781-648-6220


Arlington Center for the Arts
20 Academy St
Arlington, MA 02476
acarts.org

The Textile Museum Journal Seeking Article Proposals for 52nd Volume

DEADLINE: March 31, 2024 via Email

The Textile Museum Journal Centennial Volume
Volume 52, 2025
Call for Submissions
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Washington, DC


The Textile Museum Journal publishes high-quality academic research on the textile arts and serves as an interface between different branches of academia and textile scholars worldwide. International in scope, the journal is devoted to the presentation of scholarly articles concerning the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles through time and across cultures.

We are seeking article proposals for our 52nd volume to be published in 2025. This volume will celebrate the centennial of The Textile Museum‘s establishment, and will be devoted to new research on textile objects in The Textile Museum Collection. Submissions may examine any aspect of textiles from all historic and prehistoric periods, and geographic regions, as well as topics related to fabric structures, textile iconography, weaving practices, constructing and wearing clothing, and other subjects. Articles may include case studies on individual textile objects or analyses of a group of textile objects, which forward a greater argument or investigation about these objects’ cultural and/or technical contexts of production.

We highly suggest engaging with The Textile Museum Collection well before the deadline for submission in order to develop research thoroughly.


Volume 52 (2025): The Textile Museum Centennial.
Download Call for Submissions

How to Submit

Manuscript Submissions Guide

Author Style Guide

Production Schedule

    Abstract submissions due: March 31, 2024
    Manuscript submissions due: July 31, 2024
    Peer review: September-November 2024
    Author revisions: November-April 1 2024-2025
    Copy editing and design: April-October 2025
    Expected release: November 2025


Visit Website:
https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal
https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research


Contact Editorial Assistant Daniel Biggs with questions.
email: tmjournal@gwu.edu


The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
701 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: +1 202-994-5200
museuminfo@gwu.edu

Threads of Our Lives Fiber Exhibition

 DEADLINE: March 15, 2024 (ONLINE)


Threads of Our Lives Fiber Exhibition
The ArtCentre of Plano
Plano, TX
May 4, 2024 - June 22, 2024


This is a joint show sponsored by Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild and Fort Worth Weavers Guild. Participants must be members of either the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild, or the Fort Worth Weavers Guild to submit to the exhibition. An individual may join the organization in order to participate in the ‘Threads of our Lives’ exhibition.

Show Eligibility

‘Threads of Our Lives’ will accept applications and artwork from members in good standing of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, the Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild, and the Fort Worth Weavers Guild.  An individual may join the organization in order to participate in the ‘Threads of our Lives’ exhibition.

Artwork can be newly created for this exhibition, but can be drawn from the work of the artist from the past 5 years (going back to 2019). All entries must be of original design, with a focus on fiber and/or fiber techniques. Submissions can be 2D or 3D artwork using any type of fiber technique or process, including but not limited to: basketry, book arts, crochet, embroidery, felting, knitting, mixed media, quilting, spinning, and weaving. 

Work made from a kit or from another artist’s pattern is not eligible. Artwork started, worked on, or completed in a class or workshop is not eligible.

Entry submission

The fees are $10.00 per entry. Up to three entries per artist are allowed.
Payment will be made at the time of submission through the web portal https://dallasweavers.org/threads-of-our-lives/ and accepts credit cards and PayPal.

Download: Threads of Our Lives Prospectus

Questions? Contact

Exhibition Coordinator: Christine Miller
phone: 214-354-5019
email: chris.miller@dallasweavers.org

 

Dallas Area Fiber Artists
P.O. Box 38077
Dallas, TX 75238-0077