Calls for Art

Deadline: Monday, April 2, 2012.
MassArt Spring Sale
Call for Submissions

The MassArt Spring Sale will be held May 7 thru 12. This year, Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 13. The Spring Sale is the perfect opportunity for shoppers to find great handmade gifts for Mom!

Works in all media and craft may be submitted for consideration, alumni receive 65%, additional proceeds provide financial support to students.

Submissions forms: http://inside.massart.edu/Campus_Life/Student_Activities/Holiday_and_Spring_Sales.html

Be a part of this great MassArt tradition!
If you have questions, email elizabeth.dicicco@massart.edu.

 
Deadline: March 15, 2012
MassArt Alumni Call for Art

If you are a Mass Art alumnus/a living in the New Bedford/Southcoast MA area, please consider submitting your work to our Salon Show, opening at The Ropeworks Alumni Connection Event on Saturday, April 7, 2012.

Please submit no more than five (5) jpeg images (800 pixels wide) of your work to Tracy Silva Barbosa ’99 (Glass) at tracy@tsilvabarbosa.com by March 15, 2012. We will accept all media, but no work may be larger than 48" in one dimension, and sculptural work must be accompanied by hanging mechanisms or pedestals.

Up through April 30, 2012, the show will be an sum of many different life experiences of our fellow MassArt alumni, and will provide fodder for great conversation during our April 7th event!

If you have any questions, call Tracy Barbosa at (631)745-5017 or e-mail her at tracy@tsilvabarbosa.com.

Deadline: Friday, March 9, 2012
Lowell, MA: Two Calls for Entries for Public Art Creative Signifier Projects



Eligibility: The two projects are open to U.S. artists. Artists from Lowell and surrounding communities are encouraged to apply.

The City of Lowell, Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) and Lowell National Historical Park (LNHP) invite artists to apply for two public art projects:

1. Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center creative signifier
Budget: $100,000-$125,000. Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee.

2. Point Park creative entranceway feature
Budget: $150,000-200,000. Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee. Fundraising for this project is in progress.

The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (UrbanArts) developed a public art master plan in the context of these two initiatives, available for download along with the RFQs.

Contact: Christina Lanzl, Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design christina.lanzl@massart.edu or 617.879.7973

RFQs: http://www.massart.edu/About_MassArt/Urban_Arts_Institute/Opportunities.html

Appearances Provincetown
Green Arts Festival, April 20−29, 2012
International Ecocentric Arts Festival

Appearances is a "Green Arts Festival", bringing awareness to the Provincetown community and visitors of the majesty and fragility of our environment, as well as showing the strengths of the naturally occurring energies that can be harnessed—such as wind, sun and water—by creating kinetic artworks, recyclable artworks and works that will be transformed by the elements during the duration of the event, as well as ecocentric works from other artistic disciplines such as painting, photography, poetry, readings, short films and performance art exhibited or performed at sites throughout Provincetown. Outdoor sculpture/installation submissions are strongly encouraged and will be displayed on Provincetown Conservation Trust sites and other settings.

The trust is seeking artists who would like to participate (group projects are encouraged) in creating works of art that will "appear" in and around Provincetown, to coincide with the return of spring. Spring is marked here not only by the warming of the sun, budding of plant life and returning migratory birds, but also by the return of sea animals, most notably the hundreds of Humpback, Right and other whales who arrive in the region in late March.
http://www.provincetownconservationtrust.org/

Kulturpark in Berlin
Sign up to participate in the Kulturpark-Exchange Program, a series of creative seminars and a master planning effort for an abandoned amusement park in Berlin this June! Partners, sponsors, and participants are being sought. Download the Kultur-Exchange Berlin program for more information. To get involved, please contact Christina Lanzl of the Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the local Kulturpark cultural partner, at 617.879.7973 or christina.lanzl@massart.edu.
http://www.massart.edu/About_MassArt/Urban_Arts_Institute/News_and_Events.html