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This Week: Peter Scholleck opening reception at Arting Gallery, OMOB kick-off with Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ernest Shaw artist reception at The Silva DC, Bearing Witness artist talk at Eubie Blake, Dewey Crumpler opening reception at the Driskell Center, Crow’s Nest inaugural show reception, Esther Kläs opening reception at CPM, Unidos En El Arte opening reception at Creative Alliance, TLaloC opening reception at VisArts, “all water has a perfect memory.” opening reception at Current, BmoreArt City of Artists panel at The Walters (free!), and an opening reception for Connie Imboden at Katzen Gallery — PLUS Fellowships at the National Gallery of Art and more featured opportunities!

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The Unknown Paintings of Peter Scholleck | Opening Event
Thursday, September 5 :: 5-8pm
@ Arting Gallery

ARTING Gallery is honored to present:

The Unknown Paintings of Peter Scholleck

September 3-29, 2024

Opening Event September 5, 2024, 5:00-8:00 p.m. with refreshments

Remarks at 6:00 p.m. by curator George Ciscle and Eileen Scholleck Koenigsberg, the artist’s daughter.

In addition, join us at any of the salon events listed below.
Please rsvp to [email protected] if you are able to attend. Remarks by George Ciscle and the artist’s daughter begin 30 minutes after the start time of each salon.

Tuesday, September 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m. with breakfast
Monday, September 16, 5:00-6:30 p.m. with light refreshments
Sunday, September 22, 3:00-4:30 p.m. with light refreshments

On view, are 12 paintings by self-taught artist Peter Scholleck from an extraordinary body of 157 works created from 1946 to 1967 that have never been viewed by the public.

Painter Peter Leo Max Scholleck (1923-1969) was born in Munich Germany to Jewish parents. At age 15, in 1938, Scholleck was not allowed to remain at the Episcopal boarding school where he was enrolled because of Hitler’s antisemitic laws. Later that year, the horror of Kristallnacht took place in Munich and his step-father, Wilhelm Nussbaum, was taken to Dachau Concentration Camp. He was released six weeks later but was in ill health from beatings sustained at Dachau. Scholleck’s mother had been resistant to leaving Germany, but after Kristallnacht the family began the process of obtaining documents for emigration to the United States. Just prior to their departure, the Nazi security police came to the family residence to determine if the items and small amount of money they intended to take with them were permitted by the government. Though he rarely spoke of his life in Germany, Scholleck tried to describe to his daughter the fear that he felt with the Nazis present in his home. The family arrived in Baltimore in May 1939 where Nussbaum died just 20 months later.

How the sum of Scholleck’s experiences and those as a soldier stationed in the Pacific during World War II were internalized, cannot be wholly known. Seeking to understand how his personal history informed the works that he ultimately created is perhaps best understood by the tension and urgency in each piece. There is a raw need for expression that is delivered in a rich and methodical process. Scholleck’s execution reveals his deep devotion, passion, and earnestness toward his works. He made art because he had to: prolifically, energetically, experimentally. His daughter, Eileen Scholleck Koenigsberg, recalls that her father was compelled to paint. He had an inner drive to create that he could not ignore.

This exhibition is a first step to introduce the collection to the public; it is not a commercial venture. The intention is to place Scholleck’s works in public spaces or with collectors in order for the work to be seen and enjoyed beyond the walls of his daughter’s home.

Visit www.peterscholleckart.com to learn more about the artist and his work.

Arting Gallery will be open from 3:00-5:00 p.m. on September 10, 15, 17 and 24, and by appointment. To schedule a visit outside of posted hours, email [email protected].

Arting Gallery (www.artinggallery.net) is located at 3500 Parkdale Avenue, Building 1, Suite 212, Baltimore, Maryland 21211.

 

 

One Maryland One Book Virtual Kickoff with Myriam J. A. Chancy
Thursday, September 5 :: 6-8pm
presented by Maryland Humanities

Maryland Humanities kicks off the 2024 One Maryland One Book author programming on September 5, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. EST with a virtual panel featuring Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of the 2024 Book Selection What Storm What Thunder. She will be joined in conversation with Haitian writers, scholars, and thinkers. Dr. Mamyrah Prosper of the University of California, Irvine will serve as the moderator followed by an audience Q&A.

Chancy’s novel follows a cast of characters during the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti.  The Haitian-Canadian-American author masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster in scenes before, after, and during the earthquake. She artfully weaves together the lives of an NGO architect, an expat and water-bottling executive; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children; Leopold, a small-time drug trafficker; Didier, a musician and cab driver who lives in Boston; and many more.

Click here to join us for the wonderful conversation: register here.

Reading What Storm, What Thunder is not a prerequisite for enjoying the event: it welcomes both readers of the book and those interested in learning about Haiti as it explores Haitian culture and literature.

Along with Chancy and Prosper, the panel includes:

• Dr. Ermion Pierre of Essentia Center for Integrative Health, LLC;
• Dr. Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo of University of the West Indies, Mona Campus; and
• Dr. Sabine Lamour of Brown University and Université d’État d’Haïti.

Learn more about Maryland Humanities’ One Maryland One Book program here.

 

 

Movement and Memory: Solo Exhibition featuring Ernest Shaw | Artist Reception
Thursday, September 5 :: 6-8pm
@ The Silva DC

Through multi-layered imagery, Shaw’s work uses energetic linework and areas of color blocking to fuse realistic portraits of contemporary young Black males with sketches of historical ethnic tropes. In presenting his subjects in this manner, Shaw reveals an intimate reflection of his personal journey of grief, vulnerability, and healing after the loss of his young son to cancer.

“These works reflect my lived experience as an Afro-Diasporic man born and raised in the U.S.  who searched for healing from the trauma of the transcendence of his son. For fifteen years I searched for a therapist to assist with grieving this new reality and the day-to-day struggles that life affords Black men. This body of work exhibit my preparedness to receive therapy and the benefits of finding the correct fit for my needs as a member of the human family.” – Shaw

This exhibition includes new artworks by Shaw, created within the last two years in parallel with his earnest dedication to therapy to process his own grief and healing. The vibrant applications of color, often surfacing black and white photography and charcoal sketches, present a dynamic and intimate insight into each figure. Shaw invites us into each young person’s life to experience the totality, preciousness, and collective memory they each embody.

The exhibition title Movement and Memory corresponds to one conceptual category of the Africana Studies framework created by Black Scholars as an intellectual pursuit contrasting the metamorphosis of African American studies in academia. This aspect of the framework highlights how Afro-Diasporic people move through time and space utilizing memory as the context needed to live in the present, while charting a path to the future that makes space for Afro-Diasporic people to exist in their full humanity with autonomy and authenticity.

Shaw has expanded the honoring of his son, Taj, and processing his own grief by visually centering his relationships with young people and students during a two-decade+ career as an educator in Baltimore City Public Schools. Symbols depicting his memories of his son are collaged into portraits of other young Black males in his immediate community, molding actual and collective memories as one.

“As I was advised by one of my mentors shortly after Taj’s transcendence, there is only one spirit and my son’s spirit will be experienced through my relationships with my students.” – Shaw

Ultimately, the presented collection of artworks calls the viewer to witness the therapeutic markings of healing, and the visual weaving of collective memory.

 

 

Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore | Artist Talk
Thursday, September 5 :: 7-9pm
@ Eubie Blake Cultural Center

Featured Photographers: Daisy Brown, John Clark Mayden, I. Henry Phillips, Sr.,I.H. Webster Phillips, III, Brian Pinson, and SHAN Wallace

About Bearing Witness: Provocative, insightful, unfiltered.For almost 200 years, Black photographers have intentionally documented Black communities. They have used their cameras and creativity to portray Black people “as they see them” and redress the racialized narratives which are common in popular media. In Baltimore, Maryland, Black photographers have played a critical role in representing lives too seldom celebrated and too often forgotten. With their images featured in spaces ranging from family photo albums to national publications, these artists embody a tradition of witnessing and storytelling from a Black point of view.

The Bearing Witness exhibition highlights the work of six local Black photographers who explore historical and contemporary depictions of Black family life. It features a mix of established and emerging artists whose images of Black Baltimore from the 1950s to the present display how Black folk live, love, struggle, and triumph in their everyday lives.

 

 

Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies | Opening Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 5-7pm
@ David C. Driskell Center

Join us for our fall exhibition titled Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies on Friday, September 6th, at the Driskell Center.

Crumpler’s current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video, and traditional painting techniques. Dewey Crumpler (b. 1949) considers painting a way of processing history and interrogating the sensuous data that comprise Black life. The artist works in series, focusing on select forms that recur as motifs throughout his decades-long oeuvre. These include the tulip, void, container, and hoodie. For Crumpler, studying these forms is a way of examining the histories and industries that inform Black life and culture.

 

 

Crow’s Nest Inaugural Exhibition | Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 5-8pm
@ Crow’s Nest

Tackling the twin challenges of climate change and environmental injustice can be overwhelming. These crises are so complex and vast that it’s hard to visualize them and figure out how we can make a difference. This exhibit will showcase approximately 20 selected works from artists with powerful messages on the climate emergency, its impact on ecosystems and communities, and what we can do about it. Each in their own way, these paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures enable us break down the ecological crisis, help us process our feelings about it, and challenge our preconceived notions on how to address it.

 

 

Esther Kläs,“How to Imagine Difference” | Opening Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 6-8pm
@ Critical Path Method

CPM Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition of recent works by Esther Kläs, entitled How to Imagine Difference. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. The opening reception will be on Friday, September 6, from 6 – 8 pm and the exhibition will run through October 19, 2024.

Esther Kläs’s sculptures occupy a space between inner experience and external reality, heightening the sensation of objects and bodies in space. Intuition, imagination, and poetry often inform how Kläs works with found objects, fabricated elements, and traditional art materials.

This exhibition will include three works that incorporate found materials—a marble slab, a steel ring, and a rusted metal pipe. These objects are combined with pink, blue, and green neon elements designed by the artist. The play between the neon and the natural and artificial light of the gallery engages with the wall, the floor, and the ceiling.

As you enter the space, the large wall to the left will display a hanging sculpture consisting of thin ceramic forms that the artist worked by hand and glazed with muted greens and pinks. These pieces were assembled together with metal wire into a tapestry-like pattern.

There will also be text based mono prints stemming from writings that describe the initial thought process for the making of this exhibition.

 

 

Unidos En El Arte | Opening Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 6-9pm
@ Creative Alliance

Exhibition Opening: FRI SEP 6 | 6-9PM
On View: FRI SEP 6 – SAT OCT 12

View Online

Celebrate Caribbean and Latine/x talent with this exhibition where the vibrant pulse of Baltimore’s creative spirit meets the rich tapestry of Hispanic culture. Each artwork not only reflects the unique perspectives and experiences of Baltimore’s diverse communities but also celebrates the broader cultural influences that shape our city. Join us in honoring the burgeoning talent of the artists, whose work enriches our understanding of heritage, identity, and artistic determination. This is an initiative to uplift the deep-rooted traditions and the contemporary voices that contribute to the ever-evolving cultural landscape of Baltimore.

Artist Bios:

Natalia Celine Arias (she/her/they) is a Belizean Cuban American creative from Miami, Florida. Their journey into the world of art and design began with a deep-rooted passion for multidisciplinary expression and a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices.Lázaro Miguel García is an artist, and illustrator making fantastical, whimsical, and cartoonish illustrations that harken to the folkloric, the mystical, and the goofy. They also specialize in children’s book illustrations; as well as making and selling prints and art books. Born in La Habana, Cuba, Lázaro has lived in the U.S. since 2004 when their family settled in Miami, FL. They currently live and work in Baltimore, MD where they graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2022.

They earned their BFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. During their time there, Natalia delved into diverse disciplines including Sound Art, Illustration, and Video/Film Arts, shaping them into a versatile and multidimensional creative. Currently based in Baltimore, MD, Natalia serves as the Senior Digital Designer for ITHAKA’s Brand + Creative Team, where she brings her expertise in branding and visual storytelling to the forefront. Their work is integral to advancing the mission of mission-based organizations.

Beyond her professional role, Natalia embraces a dual identity. Under her alter ego, CELINE, she explores experimental music, adding another layer to her artistic repertoire. Their ventures extend further as the owner of Play By Celine LLC, a creative services business dedicated to promoting gender diverse, queer, and BIPOC narratives in media and entertainment. Their dedication to inclusive storytelling and innovative design solutions reflects their unwavering commitment to making a profound impact through art and design.

 

 

Los Extranjeros (The Foreigners) | Opening Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 7-9pm
@ VisArts Rockville

Los Extranjeros (The Foreigners) is an immersive solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist, illustrator, and designer TLaloC. The multi-sensory exhibition, which features interwoven sights, sounds, and scents, centers around the perceptions, sentiments, and resulting interactions with what the viewer might categorize as foreign, and takes a winding, adventurous road towards revealing that our most basic understanding of the relationship between a person and a place in fact mirrors our own view of the world.

Using stereotypically dystopian elements such as industrial waste and transforming VisArts’ Kaplan Gallery into an Borgesian labyrinth that shifts the viewer’s gears into trying to navigate an eerie space, TLaloC seeks to explore visual and perceptual discomfort that seeks to echo the deepest insecurities a foreigner might feel in a new place and harkens to a sociopolitical reality many immigrants, especially of the global majority, might feel daily.

The interpretation of the word “alien,” which the United States government uses to describe non-citizens, is central to the exhibition: humanoid figures wearing bespoke headdresses and removed from the visitor’s path via chain-link fence, highlight the divisive nature of the word.

However, in the world that TLaloC creates, there are silver linings: through the fog, over the fences, and in the fauna in the gallery is a quiet welcome, thus begging the question, is protection necessary? Breaking the more stereotypical links between signs of danger and anarchy and the threats they might represent and thus making physical barriers dispensable, TLaloC instead asks the viewer to be present with the discomfort they might feel and notice the unlikely havens they may find just at the edge of recognizability – from a set of piano strings to the artist’s bespoke neon symbols that may as well be an alphabet.

Inspired by the signs and scripts of universal cultures, TLaloC highlights that understanding is not always necessary to feel comfort in the presence of someone or something new.

Through a collaboration with composer and musician Miguel Soto, TLaloC provides an audiovisual experience that weaves together dialogues between the two artists and a group of individuals who have, at a time in their life, found themselves to be foreign to a place. The answers reveal the diverse ways the human mind navigates and adapts to the new, delivering representational and abstract accompaniments to TLaloC’s winding paths.

The audience is invited to Soto and TLaloC’s interactive performance, which will incorporate responses from immigrants, at the September 6 opening celebration.

 

 

“all water has a perfect memory.” | Opening Reception
Friday, September 6 :: 7-10pm
@ Current Space

“all water has a perfect memory.” An exhibition of works by Fleesie Hubbard, Jamilla Okubo, and Jessica Whittingham, curated by Teri Henderson.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 6th from 7-10pm!

Exhibit Runs: September 6 – October 11, 2024
Opening Reception: September 6, 7-10pm
Closing Reception: October 11, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm, by appointment, & whenever we’re open (check out the show anytime you’re here)!

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“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there, and the route back to our original place.”
– Toni Morrison From a talk given at the New York Public Library in 1986

As an elemental force shaping landscapes and lives, water holds a profound resonance within the Black diaspora. It is a vessel for transformation, a mirror reflecting cultural heritage, and a conduit for spiritual connection. all water has a Perfect Memory invites viewers to immerse themselves in the work of three female artists—Fleesie Hubbard, Jessica Whittingham, and Jamilla Okubo—as they explore the multifaceted nature of water as a vehicle through photography, collage, and painting.

Rooted in the shared histories of the diaspora from Baltimore to the Bahamas, this exhibition traces the indelible mark of water as a vehicle for Black communities. From the Chesapeake Bay to the Caribbean Sea, these bodies of water have been lifelines, sources of sustenance, and sites of cultural exchange. The artists in this exhibition offer unique perspectives on this shared heritage, transforming personal experiences into evocative visual narratives.

The exhibition of works also explores the deeply resonated spiritual qualities embedded in water: water as a healing balm, water as a channel, and water as a direct connection to the Divine. Photographer Fleesie Hubbard’s images were taken worldwide, and many of the images on display were made in Africa during her travels as a research scientist. Her work invites viewers to witness the power and beauty of natural landscapes and human connection. Jessica Whittingham employs collage to create vibrant and layered works that reflect the spirit of the Bahamas. Her pieces blend personal memories with cultural symbolism, exploring the
interconnectedness of water, land, and people. Jamilla Okubo offers a contemporary vision of water through her paintings and video installation. Her work delves into this essential element’s emotional and spiritual dimensions, inviting contemplation on themes of identity, memory, and transformation.

Together, these artists illuminate the transformative power of water, revealing its capacity to inspire, heal, and connect and its role as a site for memory and rememory.

All water has a perfect memory invites viewers to examine their physical and emotional journeys on this planet, as well as their connection to water as an essential element, and its enduring significance within the Black experience. The exhibition presents a group of works that elegantly reflect the multiplicity of Black life.

 

 

Artists Inspired by Place and the Past, Connecting to the Present, Co-hosted by BmoreArt
Saturday, September 7 :: 2-4pm
@ The Walters

Location: Graham Auditorium
Free, Registration required.

How are artists inspired by the places around them? Why do so many artists choose to call Baltimore home? What conversations emerge when artworks from different times are displayed together? Artists Jessy DeSantis, Herb Massie, Jackie Milad, and René Treviño sit down to discuss these and other questions with Dr. Gina Borromeo, Senior Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Ancient Art. Join us for an engaging conversation about how the subjects of place and the past inform living artists’ work in the present and for the future. The program includes a Q&A session, followed by mingling in the Museum Cafe.

This discussion is inspired by and connects to the BmoreArt publication City of Artists: Baltimore and the Walters Art Museum’s exhibition Reflect & Remix: Art Inspiring Artists. Reflect & Remix displays artworks that resonate with the past while reflecting their own present moment. This exhibition is on view in our Temporary Exhibition gallery through September 8, 2024.

REGISTER

City of Artists: Baltimore is the first full-length book from BmoreArt, Baltimore’s art and culture magazine, featuring 220 pages of personal reflections from leading writers alongside portfolios from some of the city’s most celebrated visual artists. The book offers a diverse, multifaceted perspective of art in Baltimore through inspired text and rich visuals, in which authors explore specific moments that shaped their creative vision and visual artists offer bodies of work influenced by materials, ideas, and experiences from their hometown.

2 p.m.: Introductions
2:15 p.m.: Panel Conversation
3:15 p.m.: Q&A Session
3:30 p.m.: Mingling in Museum Cafe

Available resources include: ALD Devices, Accessible Seating, Sensory Kits

Accessibility resources and accommodations are available for programs and events. Please email [email protected] with questions and requests. We will make every effort to provide accommodations. Visit our accessibility webpage for more information on accessibility across the museum.

About the Artists
Jessy DeSantis, raised in a Nicaraguan household in Miami, Florida, and now residing in Baltimore City, is a self-taught artist creating meaningful, vibrant work. Their paintings’ stark contrast of vibrant color and white space draws the viewer into their subjects. They are inspired by their connection to nature, food, family, and their Central American roots. Their paintings, which often depict birds, are more than just visually beautiful; many also carry the intention of a story to be told. DeSantis seeks to pass on these stories of heritage and truth, with all their complexities, to their children and future generations. The artist states that as they grow and evolve through life, their art will evolve and shift with them. They are currently mastering the art of portraiture and storytelling through a cultural and historical lens.

Herb Massie is a teaching artist from Baltimore. In 2016 the Maryland State Arts Council named him the recipient of the Sue Hess Maryland Arts Advocate of the Year Award. With well over 25 years of experience, in addition to teaching at Clayworks and Jubilee Arts, Massie has hosted ceramic workshops and classes in Baltimore City schools, with teens, adults, and community elders, as well as people in addiction recovery and those formerly incarcerated.

Jackie Milad is a Baltimore-based artist whose mixed-media abstract paintings and collages address the history and complexities of dispersed cultural heritage and multi-ethnic identity. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries, including the Academy Art Museum; the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Harvey B. Gantt Center; The Mint Museum; the Walters Art Museum; the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Milad is a multi-year recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and a 2024 Creative Capital Grantee. Milad received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her MFA from Towson University.

René Treviño is a Baltimore-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in paint, fibers , and installation. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2003 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005. He has exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; the Wadsworth Atheneum; the Walters Art Museum. He was awarded a 2009 Baltimore Creative Fund Individual Artist Grant and won the 2009 Trawick Prize and a 2016 Rubys Artists Project Grant. In 2019, Treviño received a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant in collaboration with the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas. The Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton, New York, exhibited his first museum survey in 2024. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Glasstire, Hyperallergic, BmoreArt, and ARTnews. Treviño teaches at Towson University and MICA.

 

 

Endless Transformations: The Alchemy of Connie Imboden | Opening Reception
Saturday, September 7 :: 6-9pm
@ Katzen Arts Center, American University

Connie Imboden, Artist
Kristen Hileman, Curator

Immerse yourself in the psychological force and haunting beauty of Connie Imboden’s photography. Working in mirrored studio environments and choreographing complex underwater shoots, Imboden uses the camera lens to create layered and fragmented visions of the human body that evoke historical painting, global mythologies, and concepts from Jungian analysis.

Over 50 black-and white and color photographs are included in the exhibition. While her images invite Queer and feminist readings, the Baltimore-based artist is first and foremost inspired by art’s ongoing role of offering connection and catharsis in the midst of human struggles.

 

 

< Calls for Entry >

 

Altered States Regional Juried Show
deadline September 13
posted by Alliance Gallery

Open to current Arlington Artists Alliance members and artists from Arlington, Falls Church, Alexandria, and Washington, DC.

Show Dates: October 17-November 24, 2024

Entry Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024 by 5 pm

Alliance Gallery invites artists to apply for its first Regional Juried Show featuring artists from Arlington, Falls Church, Alexandria, and Washington, DC. Alliance Gallery is a new art space located at The Crossing in Clarendon  and is operated by nonprofit arts organization Arlington Artists Alliance.

The exhibition explores artists ‘interpretation of the show’s title, Altered States. Themes could include but are not limited to: transformation and change, alternate realities, inner or personal growth, shifting perspectives, or visual distortion. Altered States could also be represented by the physical use of artists’ materials.

This call is open to all mediums, including any form of 2D or 3D work. The show will be juried by artist Rosemary Feit Covey and there will be cash prizes awarded.

Requirements: All mediums, including any form of 2D or 3D work, are welcome to apply. Entry fee is $30 for Arlington Artists Alliance members, $45 for non-members. Artists may submit up to 2 digital images (jpg or png format only).

Location: Alliance Gallery (The Crossing Clarendon, 2700 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite R330, Arlington, VA 22201)

 

 

Guggenheim Fellowship
deadline September 17

Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. As such, grants are made freely, without any special conditions attached to them; Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.

 

 

Arts in the Park Vendor Application
deadline September 20
posted by Chesapeake Arts Center

Join us for Chesapeake Arts Center’s 10th annual free family-friendly arts festival, Arts in the Park, on Saturday, October 5, 2024 from 10 am – 3 pm! The event is rain or shine.

This event is free and open to the general public. Traditionally this event, which includes both fun family activities, door prizes, and live entertainment, has attracted more than 1000 attendees of all ages.

RSVP for the event here!

Please review our guidelines and FAQ before submitting your application. Applicants MUST fill out the application form with a portfolio, all social media links and logos (all applicable), AND submit vendor payment for their application to be complete. Please fill out the Application Form (right side of page) and click next to submit portfolio, social media links, and image and/or logo to be used to promote vendors on CAC’s online Artisan Marketplace. The final step of the application is to submit vendor payment for the event.

 

 

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
deadlines: September 21, October 15, November 15
posted by National Gallery of Art

The Center awards fellowships to scholars across various career levels, from predoctoral students to senior professionals. We host around 20 fellows at any given time at the National Gallery of Art and support predoctoral fellows conducting research around the world.

Fellows are at the heart of our residential community, joining appointed professors, postdoctoral research associates, undergraduate interns, and staff to create a thriving group of approximately 50 people. Fellows who relocate are provided office space in the National Gallery’s East Building and housing nearby, subject to availability.

Throughout the academic year, fellows have opportunities to share their research at weekly gatherings and are encouraged to attend lectures, symposia, tours, and gallery talks organized by the Center.

We are currently accepting applications for all fellowships.

 

 

We Will Be What We Want to Be: Community Art Book
deadline September 22
posted by Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid and the Jensen-Khamis Art Collective

Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid and the Jensen-Khamis Art Collective are teaming up to continue engaging in collaborative projects at the intersection of art and resistance.

We invite you to join us in creating a community art book that documents and extends the vision of the We Will Be What We Want to Be exhibition.

You can use sheets of paper and pens to contribute to a book/zine/cartonera that we will be curating and hand-stitching on Sunday, October 6, at Nomunomu Gallery, in commemoration of the one year anniversary of the Gaza Genocide.

Use this form to upload anything you would like to submit to this curated book project.

 

 

Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist Residency
deadline September 23
posted by Tyler School of Art + Architecture

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture offers a five-month residency (January through May 2025) in the Art Department, which is composed of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Ceramics, Fibers and Material Studies, Glass, Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The residency will be awarded to an artist whose work is primarily focused on the history and lived experience of North American federally recognized tribal citizens and who exemplifies the art and activism of the artist Edgar Heap of Birds in bringing attention to the lives, struggles and triumphs of Native Americans. The artist in residence will have the opportunity to mentor and advise Tyler students. The residency will culminate in an exhibition to be held in the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery in Temple Contemporary, Tyler’s center for exhibitions and public programs.

The residency will provide an opportunity for an artist to expand their personal practice while offering access to Tyler’s state-of-the art studio facilities. Tyler’s programs encompass a wide range of areas in the study of art, design, art history, art education and architecture. In each program, students benefit from a rigorous curriculum and a large, diverse campus community.

Residency includes:

-Individual studio -24-hour access to shared studio facilities and equipment -$1,500 materials budget -Opportunity to teach, mentor, and/or advise students -Participation in a solo exhibition -Stipend of $3,500 per month

 

 

McColl Center Summer 2025 Parent + Educator Artists-in-Residence
deadline September 25
McColl Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program is an internationally acclaimed program that serves as a catalyst for artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. We host three residency terms per year:

Fall – August-November
Winter/Spring – January-May
Summer – June-August

Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. While in residency, our artists have the freedom to fully focus on artistic research, exploration, and creation while also engaging with McColl Center’s Igniters community and the local creative sector. While in residence, artists also have access to our shared labs and studios including:

3D Lab (3D printer and laser cutter)
Ceramics + Sculpture Studio
Darkroom
Media Lab with a large-scale printer
Woodshop

Artists-in-Residence participate in a group exhibition and lead one to two community engagements centered around their practice.

An Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center is a moment to think big, take risks with your creative practice, and explore ideas within the context of Charlotte.

Questions? Please contact Bethany Salisbury, Programs Coordinator, at [email protected].

 

 

Foundwork Artist Prize
deadline September 26

This year’s honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant and remote studio visits with each of the esteemed jurors. The honoree—and three shortlisted artists—will also be invited for interviews, as part of our Dialogues program, to further public engagement with their practices.

To be considered, artists will need to register (if you haven’t already) and maintain a published profile on Foundwork, with at least 6 artworks and an artist statement published on your profile page, throughout the 2024 selection period: 11:59 pm PT, September 26–11:59 pm, December 31.

 

 

Garden Reverie
deadline September 27
posted by Baltimore Clayworks

Juror: Leigh Taylor Mickelson
Application Deadline: Friday, September 27 by 11:59pm
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 25
Work Due in the Gallery: Friday, December 13
This national juried exhibition will showcase ceramic artists who draw inspiration from the ubiquitous garden. Wild and tame, exotic and sweet, foreign and familiar, resilient and vulnerable, the garden is a sacred space of botanical dreams, natural beauty, and the cycle of life, producing abundant metaphors for all kinds of thoughts, feelings, and narratives, human or otherwise.

For this exhibition we seek sculpture, wall work, utilitarian works, and installations that explore all that is, in, and around the garden.

 

 

Cullman Center Fellowships at New York Public Library
deadine September 27

The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers Fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.

The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible.

The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.

A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of $85,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.

 

 

“Cinematics Pictures” Call for Exhibition
deadline September 27
posted by LOOSEN Art

The works collected thanks to this call will put into evidence the most intrinsic meaning of the photographic medium within the cinematic narrative/visual scene.
Fragments and extrapolations of contexts, settings, characters, details etc. which highlight the aesthetic value of a narration or place emphasis on the salient features of a story.

The position of the spectator in viewing the cinematographic product is always determined by the photographic/filmic eye that captures, and the exhibition will therefore highlight the role of the photographer with his technical and aesthetic choices in determining the involvement of the user in the construction of a story.

 

 

Call for Entries, Abandoned
deadline September 30
posted by SE Center for Photography

Richard McCabe, Juror

The Abandoned, people, places, and belongings that once mattered, are now unremembered, out of mind, left behind.

Items once significant to someone, personal items, buildings, objects, persons, a place that once had importance to another, the possibilities are all around us.

Our Juror, Richard McCabe, is a curator, photographer, and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. In 1998, he received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. Since 2010, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has organized and curated over thirty exhibitions including: Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, The Mythology of Florida, The Rising, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s – 40s, The Colourful South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and New Southern Photography.

Submissions Now Open, Submissions Close 6/30/24, Exhibition Opens 9/6/24