CULTURAL MEMORY: TRANSDIASPORIC ART PRACTICES

Submissions are invited from artists whose works embody individual acts of memorialization and remembrance in some way. The works can be about collective, familial or individual memories. The actual art objects could range from small mementos and intimate keepsakes to provisional memorials for collective memories of historical traumas. As a whole, the works will constitute a temporary lieux-de-memoire or site of memory in Pierre Nora's words, in the space of the gallery. Please include a statement with your submissions framing your works in the context of cultural memory. Transdiaspora Project is an on-going series of art exhibits that bring together artists from diverse locations and heritages around overarching themes. Founded by artist and curator, Pritika Chowdhry, The Transdiaspora paradigm seeks to make transverse and horizontal connections between artists of minoritarian communities as well as majoritarian populations. Digital archives of previous Transdiaspora exhibits are available on the website, www.transdiaspora.org Venue: Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL Exhibition Dates: Sept. 4 - Oct. 10, 2009 Entry fee: $24 for images of up to 3 artworks. http://womanmade.org/entryform.html#callforart Entry Deadline: June 17, 2009 Notifications: July 8, 2009 Juror: Pritika Chowdhry explores cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma in her current work. Working in clay and fibers, Pritika creates sculptural installations that function as mobile memorials. Pritika has founded the Partition Memorial Project which exists as temporary art exhibits as well as a digital archive,www.partitionmemorialproject.org. Pritika is the recipient of a Vilas International Travel Fellowship, an Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, a Wisconsin Arts Board grant, a City of Madison project grant, and a Dane County Commission grant. Pritika's works are in the "Erasing Borders 2009" traveling exhibit organized by the Indo- American Arts Council, and will be shown at the Queens Museum, New York, the Aicon Gallery, Manhattan, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery in SUNY-Cortland, and the Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania. In addition, Pritika is showing her works in solo and group exhibits at the DoVA Temporary at the University of Chicago, the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University, Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery, both in Chicago, and the Class of 1925 Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin.

North Country Children's Clinic Art Exhibit/Sale

North Country Children's Clinic and North Country Access Cycling Call for Entries: An art exhibition and sale that will help to "open the doors" to a better quality of life for north country children. Our project will exhibit hundreds, perhaps thousands, of original works of art, made and donated by national and local artists, celebrities, designers, college students, kids . . . and YOU! Each artwork will be 6x6 inches square and signed only on the back. The works will be exhibited anonymously in October 2009 and offered for sale to collectors for the single, affordable price of $20. We welcome artwork of all types - but only one shape and size: 6" x 6" square. More information, art collection sites, answers to FAQ, and official entry forms are available on our website: www.childrens-clinic.org. Or, call 315.782.9450 and we'll be happy to mail you a packet. Submission Deadline: September 30, 2009

3rd Ward: 2009 Spring Solo Show Open Call

3rd Ward wants you! One amazing artist will be awarded fame, fortune, and an incredible Solo Show! The Spring Solo Show is a nationwide open call for work and a hunt for an artist with a groundbreaking voice and a hunger for exposure. We are looking for work from all media -- sculpture, photoraphy, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!

The selected artist will be announced in the 3rd Ward Publication with two-page spread and will receive:

$1,000 cash grant
1-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL facility access
A solo exhibition in 3rd Ward's gallery, complete with a massive opening reception
City-wide exposure
Submissions will be evaluated by a judging panel: Janet Ozzard, Editor at New York Magazine, Liz Dimmitt, Curator of Gawker Artists, and Jarrett Gregory, Curator at the New Museum.

Submit your best work now. Deadline is February 11th.

THE ART OF SAVING THE EARTH'S WATER
January 31, 2009, 10 am–noon

GIVE INPUT: How would you save the earth's water?

How can we focus Women's Caucus for Art, WCA vision on the Women & Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration exhibit and create new ways to conceptualize the global water crisis.

Co-sponsored by WILPF, the Women’s Caucus for Art, & the U of M in 2010.

Opportunities to create: Calls for the water themed art exhibit Feb.23-March 25, 2010. Lucy Lippard, juror and keynote speaker.

For more information contact Liz at 612-333-8150, lizartist@me.com

Cliff Dweller's Club seeks art.

Cliff Dweller's Club on Michigan Avenue is seeking art to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Submit a Lincoln portrait on canvas. All portraits will be hung. Canvas does not have to be framed. Deadline: January 31. Drop off at the Frame Warehouse in Oak Park or Evanston before January 31. Pick-up on March 1 at these same locations. Details: Paul Hamer, paul@fwchicago.com.

Festival Entry: Late Deadline January 23, 2009

The application for our 12 festivals in 2009 is now available at: www.amdurproductions.com. The deadline is January 12, 2009 and the late deadline is January 23, 2009. From January 13 on, all applications will have an additional special handling late fee of $25 per festival. We urge you to apply on or before January 12 to avoid the special handling fees. ALL JURY AND SPACE FEES ARE AT OR BELOW LAST YEAR'S PRICES.

1. Overview: As we celebrate our 26th year as art festival producers, we invite you to be part of our first-ever digital jury! Attached please find overviews of our 12 Chicago area festivals for the 2009 summer art festival season. Follow the instructions at www.amdurproductions.com to apply online. Jury will be the week of January 26. A jury of national museum and art professionals will review the digital submissions. Notifications on your festival status will be emailed February 9, 2009.


2. Chicago Eastside Millennium Art Festival: In addition to our well known festivals like the Gold Coast Art Fair (July 31, August 1 and 2) and the Port Clinton Art Festival (August 29 and 30), we are bringing back the Chicago Eastside Millennium Art Festival (previously named New East Side Artworks) June 5-7, located on famous Michigan Avenue just one block from Millennium Park, known to be a top selling show to many such as jeweler Harry Mackie. "A great location, great crowds, and great sales, I'm glad to see this show come back" says Mackie.


3. Economy: With consideration and in response to the current economic climate, we will wrap up the 2009 summer art festival season with two shows marketed to the public as places to find great art at great prices: the Joliet Last Call Art Fair, September 26 and 27, space fee $185 and the Highwood Last Call Art Fair, October 17 and 18, space fee $215. All art will be discounted at the artists' discretion. Both of these locations are on the fringes of the Chicago market area so as not to compete with our regular festivals featuring art at full prices. Both shows will be a great place to sell remaining inventory from the summer: the odd piece, the slightly bruised piece, the piece in the scratched frame. Jury fees for both shows are only $10 each


4. North Shore Festival of Art: July is a great art month in the Chicago area highlighted by our North Shore Festival of Art July 25 and 26. This festival continues a long tradition of this art fair at the much loved Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Illinois. Amdur Productions took this show over in 2008. More info is at www.amdurproductions.com


5. Jury Review: Those artists wishing to receive feedback on their submitted jury images may opt for a 'Jury Review' to be done by Amy Amdur in the fall of 2009. The review includes constructive comments on body of work, individual images and booth image. Cost is $50. Go to www.amdurproductions.com and hit apply now to order this service.


6. If you have any questions on the jury process , our festivals, or related topics, please contact us at 847-926-4300 or email info@amdurproductions.com. Lennette, Alana and I are ready to take your calls Monday through Friday between 9 am and 5 pm central time.


7. If you are already in process of applying, click on this link www.juriedartservices.com to log in. Your user name is clairan ferrono. If you need your password please go to the home page to request it be sent to you.

Wishing you a wonderful new year, looking forward to seeing you soon.

Amy Amdur
Amdur Productions Inc.
www.amdurproductions.com
847-926-4300

Open Calls

CLEVELAND, OHIO ARTIST REGISTRY
Cleveland Public Art is seeking artists’ portfolios to be considered for public art projects throughout Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Public Art, 1951 W. 26th Street, #101, Cleveland, OH 44113-3440, 216-621-5330, http://www.clevelandpublicart.org.

ARTISTS WHO TEACH
Open to artists worldwide who teach and have taught in the past are eligible. Free listing at www.artistswhoteach.org. Artist must have a web site. No fee to join. Contact Leighann Foster for portfolio review and acceptance: foster3@gvtc.com.

SPACELAB in Cleveland, Ohio
SPACELab provides an environment for emerging and student artists to present work that challenges their aesthetics and interacts physically and socially with the public. Two SPACELab projects are exhibited for three weeks. Site-specific work is encouraged. Artists will receive a small honorarium for their exhibition.

Print an application form at www.SpacesGallery.org/labform.html, and mail along with a one-page proposal and at least 10 images or a video, to: SPACELab Committee, SPACES, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH, 44113.

MINNESOTA PERCENT FOR ART ARTIST REGISTRY
Open to all professional visual artists 18+. Resource for selecting artists for state building projects. Information is sometimes shared with architects, designers, and public or private organizations at their request for use in identifying and locating artists to create works of art. Create an artist profile at http://www.percentforart.us/.

Skokie's (IL) Public Art Advisory Committee (PAAC) is seeking art in a wide variety of media and styles. All sculptures must be durable and suitable for outdoor placement. Only professional sculptors and artists who have worked on large scale format should apply. Details: www.skokie.org and complete an artist application form.

International Museum of Surgical Science is seeking submissions in any media with medical themes for quarterly exhibitions. Fee: $25. Submit proposal, statement, 10 - 15 images, resume, SASE to: Anatomy in the Gallery, International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60610.