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EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BAY AREA AND BEYOND

We’ve Come a Long Way…?

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What The Art Center Highland Park is rounding out a year of focusing on women in our exhibit schedule, highlighting women as curators, featured artists, and guest jurors. Our final call for entry for 2023 is looking at the phrases ‘women’s work’ and ‘You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby’ to raise the terms more as a question …have we come a long way at all?
TAC is putting out a call for entry searching for artists exploring gender stereotypes that call into question societal behaviors with a critical and interesting eye, expressing the many interpretations of the phrases, women’s work and We’ve Come a Long Way….
TAC invites contributing artists to explore the concept including the affects of stereotyping gender roles. All mediums accepted with an open interpretation of the theme.
This exhibit will coincide with the traveling exhibit curated by Sawyer Rose, The Carrying Stones Project, which combines art and data visualization to jump-start public conversation about women’s work inequity. Her works encourage viewers to confront issues of equity, labor, and community by pairing human faces and stories with the numbers behind them. Sawyer Rose- The Carrying Stones Project- Center Gallery (https://www.carrying-stones.com)
Juror:  Sawyer Rose
Where: The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL
When: November 3 - December 9
Deadline: Sept 29
Apply:  ​https://theartcenterhp.org/call-for-artists/

Devastating Loves & Transcendent Hatreds
​NCWCA Call for Art for Western Regions

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What artwork created by women (including those who identify as female and non-binary) in a variety of media and materials that tell stories of these extreme emotional states − of passion and obsession, devastation and transcendence. 
Eligibility women artists including those who identify as female and non-binary residing in the Western Region of the United States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Jurors Robert Abrams, Owner, Artist, Abrams Claghorn Gallery and sculptor and Leah Andrews, Curator, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA.
Where Abrams Claghorn Gallery, 1251 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
When Nov 1-30
Deadline Sept 25
​Apply here

Time, Memory, Mythos

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What What is the essence of time? How does time relate to and affect memory? How do we create our personal myths?
Memory is the fabric of life experience. Although life events may be experienced with others, memory is a solo journey because it is a reproduction of events filtered through personal perception, combined with an interpretation of past experiences. Beyond nostalgia, memory holds an essence of our awareness of ourselves. It is a template for how we perceive relationships and informs our interactions within them. The stories of our personal histories live in our bodies along with the stories of our ancestry, which we carry in our DNA. These stories shape how we view the world and our place within it. Together, these narratives form a personal mythology. Time and memory inform this mythmaking.
Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is our “real” story? What stories do we tell ourselves about this story? Which stories do we own and which ones own us? And how do we break free of those that don’t serve our greatest good? In what ways do time and memory inform the larger mythos that shapes life philosophies and religious beliefs?
Juror Monica J. Brown
Where Woman Made Gallery, 2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
When Oct 14 - Nov 11
Deadline Aug 31
Apply ​​https://womanmadegallery.submittable.com/submit/263572/time-memory-mythos


19th Annual Wabi Sabi

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What “…celebrating the simple, the rustic, the unassuming; the dignity of things imperfect, uncontrolled and incomplete; the transient beauty of the natural world…”
When seeking to understand Wabi-Sabi, it is helpful to contemplate the idea that beauty is inherent in a simple object, which in turn evokes a quiet, thoughtful mood and atmosphere.
The emphasis of this exhibit will be not on the final perfected form of the work, but on how well pieces reflect a sense and feeling of this elusive concept. In particular, the focus will be on the imaginative use of natural materials that may include found objects.
Jurors Suzie Buchholz & Yoshi Tome
Where O'Hanlon Center, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley
When Sept 5 - Oct 12
Deadline Bring artwork Aug 25-26
Details https://www.ohanloncenter.org/2023/07/wabi-sabi-2023-call-for-entries/


Black & White

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What For this exhibition, we seek works that limit the color palette to black, white, and/or the blending of the two. Creating art with these constraints makes one concentrate on elements other than color - composition, value, lighting, and form. Abstract works, images of nature, images of the human form, photography, marble sculptures, welded metal objects, mezzotint, etching, woodblock, lithograph and other traditional printmaking media, op-art, pop-art and embroidered or crocheted fiber art are just a few examples of works that could dazzle in black and white. We look forward to seeing your masterpiece.
Juror James Bacchi
Where Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco 
When Nov 18 - Dec 16
Deadline Sept 11
Apply ​www.arc-sf.com/black--white-2023.html#dashboard

The Space Between

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What Nothing is black or white. “The Space Between” showcases artwork that records our passions, memories and dreams with images of the ephemeral, a space where the personal becomes the universal. On themes of myth, consciousness, intuition, symbols and ritual, the works express the power of the human condition. What power and source does your creativity stem from? What does that look like to you?
Through the lens of self-identified women and non-binary artists, in exploring one’s unconscious realities and portraits of dreams and fantasies, the exhibition is a portal for recognizing or re-knowing one’s self to understand the passages of consciousness, inner journeys, memory, and being impacting emotional, poetic, spiritual, and subconscious planes. The artists portray the space between, where creativity is born and then lives as a powerful talisman through the stories that we tell ourselves and to others in search of the divine. 
Juror Karen Gutfreund
Where The Project Gallery at Arc, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco
When Nov 18 - Dec 16
Deadline Sept 13
Apply karengutfreund.com/portfolio/call-for-art/


Annual Bay Area Artists' Choice

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What Bay Area artists are invited to submit up to 3 entries to our October Gallery exhibition, Annual “Artists Choice.” All Bay Area artists are invited to submit their favorite works for consideration to be included in this prestigious annual exhibition. This show reflects the best of the best in The Bay.
Juror Devon Bella
Where SFWA, 647 Irving, St, San Francisco
When Oct 3 - Nov 10
Deadline Aug 26
Apply 
https://www.sfwomenartists.org/open-call-for-entries-october-2023/​


Free Expression and the Inexpressible

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What This exhibition invites work from artists working across all forms and disciplines who are interrogating the edges of free expression, mining its history, and positing new ways of thinking about what we can and cannot express. 
Juror Aliza Shvarts
Where A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY
When January 6 - February 4, 2024
Deadline September 30
Apply https://airgallery.submittable.com/submit/266871/open-call-currents-2024


mine, yours, ours

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What we gather to share what’s mine
with you, the food becomes ours,
nourishment for our hearts,
we connect and we belong 
"People migrate carrying with them remembrances of joy and burdens of life. Departing their homelands forcefully with grief and resistance or willingly with dreams and hopes for freedom, safety and bread. The new land belonged to someone else — it was stolen, and generations of cultures were erased due to genocide. With gratitude and compassion to the original inhabitants, we now call this land home.  We seek to acknowledge the colonial injustices, and racial exploitations as we explore uncharted territories. We embrace, adopt, adapt, and adjust to cultural climatic shifts, barriers, and expectations. Many communities choose to acculturate by preserving their ancestral heritage, native language, familial values and traditions, while many others take refuge in cultural denouncement and assimilate. Our cultural roots connect us with our histories which could be comforting or horrid, glorified or marginalized, celebrated or stereotyped. Our cultural experiences are bound with our communities and our home, preserved in our memories, and passed down as seeds for generations to reap. our kitchens tell our unique story. The way we eat, the ingredients we buy, the utensils we use, the foods we cook and serve, the familiarity of tastes are influenced by our ancestral cultural roots and amalgamated identities. Food is an expression of our cultural experiences and emotions. It brings people together during joyful celebrations or sorrowful moaning moments.   
Food binds us socially to build community and foster a sense of belonging. It is a catalyst for creating cross-cultural awareness, understanding, appreciation, and respect. Food is the first level of digesting another culture. The juried call mine, your, ours, invites artists, designers, and performers based in the United States to submit their distinctive ways in treasuring their traditional food recipes while exploring adaptive methods of cooking. What are their kitchen stories and familial traditions? How are their ancestral or indigenous foods cooked and shared with others? What are the challenges or marginalizations encountered by them for sustaining their familial food traditions for future generations to embrace? How is food consumed for sustenance during joy or conflict or despair at home or in their communities? How do they bring diverse communities of people together, establish belonging, and promote hope through food?"
Juror Archana Shekara
​Where Woman Made Gallery, 2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
When Jan 20 - Feb 17, 2024
Deadline Nov 11
Apply womanmadegallery.submittable.com/submit/269544/mine-yours-ours

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