Cleveland West Art League is excited to announce our Six in Studio call for artists! We are delighted that this year’s exhibition will be curated by artist Arabella Proffer.  The "opening" will be Friday, March 20th and the closing will be on Friday, April 17th during West 78th Street Studios' monthly Third Friday.  The six selected artists will spend the month between those dates working on their installations, and the completed work will be shown at the closing reception.  2-D, 3-D, and installation work is welcome, as are collaborations between the selected artists.

Please submit your artist statement along with 3 jpeg examples of your work for consideration by Wednesday, March 6th, 2015 to cwartleague@gmail.com. 
This has been a wildly popular project in the past and CWAL looks forward to an exhilarating showing in 2015!

*Please note that you have to be a member of CWAL to have your work viewed by Arabella. Membership can be bought up to and at the time of submission. To become a member or to renew your membership please visit http://www.clevelandwestartleague.com.

Call for Artists! 

Power of the Press Exhibition  

Exhibition Dates: August 27, 2015 - October 31, 2015 

Entry Fee: $20  

Deadline: June 30, 2015  

Ashland University’s Coburn Gallery seeks socially and politically engaging prints for the exhibition Power of the Press. Cash awards of over $500 for Best in Show and Juror’s Honorable Mention will be awarded. The theme of the exhibition Power of the Press focuses on emotionally passionate prints displaying content relating to social or political issues. Selected prints will build on the university’s historical collection of satirical and expressionist works by artists Honoré Daumier, Francisco Goya, and Käthe Kollwitz. Liz Maugans, one of Zygote Press’ co-founders and managing directors, will serve as the juror for the exhibition. She is a native of Ohio who received her Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Maugans teaches drawing and printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and has taught at various other institutions in the Cleveland area. She has exhibited nationally and her work is held in several collections. Entries must be original works created through traditional or experimental printmaking.

We encourage submission of works that address social and political issues that are currently impacting our society. Artists working in the United States, age 18 and older are eligible to submit up to 2 artworks with a $20 entry fee. All works must have been created within the last 4 years. Artists are responsible for shipping costs to and from the gallery. The deadline is June 30, 2015.

Please address any questions to cpetry@ashland.edu. Prospectus at www.ashland.edu/coburngallery .

Lets congratulate OAL member artist, Kimberly Colleen Rhyan on her solo exhibition “Widening the Solstice of the Soul” at Columbus State Community Library! 

Exhibition runs through February 28th, so check it out while you can!

Kimberly speaks about her work:

“My paintings embody many stories; each painting reverberates emotion through the exploration of relationships; my canvases continually contextualize and unveil the narrative, as it is perceived through the discovery of play. The act of painting is a metaphor for the complexities that have weaved in an out of my life, and yet, there is immense beauty somewhere between the intention and the outcome.

All throughout my life, creating art has helped me process life and progress as a human being. Ever since I was a young child, I have felt compelled to make art. My biological mother was an artist and I would sit in awe and watch her stucco everything (literally, our entire house). She was always making something out of nothing; she filled my world with her creativity, but she also caused my world to crumble when I was placed in foster care at 14.

Last year, my biological mother was diagnosed with brain cancer; we finally reconciled. As her final months and days passed, I realized that no matter the chaos, my mother was responsible for the cosmos of my artistry which inspires me to embrace life to the fullest. No matter the wounds of the past, I will always share my mother’s creative DNA. These paintings are the culmination of a year and a week of healing – to dig deep and accept that life is messy, but it is also filled with beautiful awakenings.

The creative path is explored by pressing found objects onto the canvas, either straws, credit cards, paint chips, cardboard, shaving cream lids, Legos, or marker caps; they are tools for building layers and revealing vulnerability; painting with acrylic is a process that allows emergent layers to convert into an arrangement of understanding; this all happens to be the ultimate manifestation of transformation.

During the process, I am exposing my own layers of identity as an expression of becoming more whole; this route to progress unveils inspiration to confidently capture the fullness of being known; these paintings are clothed with my determination to express life itself. Painting is a conduit to knowing and seeing; to approach the canvas is to reinvent time and overcome struggles of pugnacious resistance to widen the solstice of the soul and experience healing.”

Want to see all the paintings in this collection? Interested in acquiring one of her lovely, bright, organic artworks? Well take a look at the exhibition presentation

Columbus's own ROY G BIV Gallery is calling for new, cutting-edge works for the New School -- a juried exhibition which will be held at M I N T Art Gallery from April 17 - May 15, 2015.

New School  aims to connect student artists from a wide array of schools in order to better prepare them for the road of professionalism that may lie ahead. Jurors Mark Zuzik, Ken Aschliman and Erin McKenna will select the exhibiting artists, and entries are open to any artist currently enrolled in an undergraduate program. 

Deadline for submission: Friday February 20, 2015

Let's get started, submit today!

Find out more about ROY G BIV or New School by clicking here.

Firelands Association for the Visual Arts - FAVA - is hosting its 32nd Photography Juried Exhibition. On odd numbered years, FAVA displays work from Ohio and our surrounding states for a 3 - 6 week period at the gallery in Oberlin, OH. 

Works must have been completed within the past three (3) years, and any photographic process or subject matter - traditional or experimental techniques - are welcome to enter.

Deadline: Sunday, March 1st by 5:00 PM

SUBMIT YOUR WORKS

Exhibition runs from March 8 - April 3, 2015.

CASH PRIZES
Awards are determined by the juror, including (but not limited to) the Luciano Architecture Award and the Kirtz/Van Nortwick Prize for Composition w/ Human Figure.

SALES
Sales will be encouraged; FAVA will retain a 30% commision. Artists will receive checks for the works sold within 30 days after the show closes.

Find out more about FAVA and the Juried Photography Biennale

Intelligent Objects: Empathetic and Smart Art
Creative Arts Workshop
New Haven, CT 
May 1, 2015 - June 1, 2015

Call for artworks that act as independent agents and explore the cross-section of analog and digital media. The art in this exhibition need not be kinetic or sculptural; it is open to any combination of traditional and new media. This exhibition explores artistic objects - or their 2D and 3D representations - that appear to be responsive to our existence, or at least demand empathy, if not an emotion.

Eligibility: Open to all media. Each entry must have been completed within the past 2 years.

Juror: George Fifield, media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization that produced the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Exhibition dates: May 1 - June 5, 2015.

Entry fee: $35 covers up to three entries. Entry fees are non-refundable.

Download Prospectus: IntelligentObjects_Prospectus.pdf

Visit website for complete information: creativeartsworkshop.org/smart

The Central Park Apartments have beautiful, luxury apartments located at 105 Radio City Blvd., Columbus, OH 43235.

Until May 1st, they will be showing works by OAL member, Lea Gray.  

The lobby is open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 12:15pm-5pm. 

Lea Gray specializes in painting, innovating Origami designs, and accessory design.  She describes her art:

Her exhibition will last through May 1st, and anyone interested in buying one of her pieces should contact OAL at 614-299-8225 or oal@oal.org as we are representing her in this matter.

See the exhibition at our Flickr.

So check out Lea's exhibition and visit Lea Gray's Website -- where you can see the full spectrum of her amazing work!

McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Ohio is proud to announce its Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition for the Healing Art Project. This call for entry allows for an opportunity for artists to exhibit and sell two-dimensional work for up to one year!

The 2015 Healing Art Project is a regional show open to artists within a 100 mile radius of Oxford, OH, or to those artists who have a personal connection with the hospital. Artists are encouraged to explore the concept of art as a therapeutic element or healing instrument. Work will be judged on originality, theme, design, concept, technique, and appropriateness to the space and facility. 

DEADLINE for SUBMISSION: March 9, 2015 (postmarked)

Download the Prospectus here

Up to seven pieces selected for a purchase award will become property of the McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, and artists may submit up to three works each.

2015 Healing Art Project Press Release

Selected artists will be notified mid-March, and artwork will be on public display April 24-- the same date of the Opening Reception. 

Click here to find out more about McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford.

Currently, the Dave Bown Projects network reaches over one hundred thousand people who are committed to the visual arts. Announcements will be sent via email to an aggregation of tens of thousands of subscribers (collectors, curators, galleries, museums, writers, etc.

This 10th Semiannual competition is open to all visual artists (18+) -- that means YOU! -- operating in all styles and mediums. 

Deadline for entry is June 6, 2015

SUBMIT

Check out the jurors:

Claire C. Carter, Curator of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator for Collections, Guggenheim Museum, New York

Anna Stothart, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art