Thursday, December 12, 2013

W2S 2015 Call for Artists deadline approaching - Jan. 12th, 2014

THE SCULPTURE CENTER'S ANNUAL CALLS FOR ARTISTS
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W2S CALL FOR ARTISTS
WINDOW TO SCULPTURE EMERGING ARTIST SERIES

THE SCULPTURE CENTER'S 2015 W2S CALL FOR ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN THROUGH JANUARY 12, 2014
The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its 2015 WINDOW TO SCULPTURE EMERGING ARTIST SERIES with an open Call for Artists. Through the W2S Series, begun in 1991, The Sculpture Center fosters and promotes the careers of exceptional sculptors during the first ten years of their profession. Sculpture, installation and expanded media artists are chosen annually for one-person exhibitions in either the Main or Euclid Avenue Gallery with a full color brochure.
THE REGION
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania (the western half of the state), western New York (Rochester and west) and Ontario, Canada
THE EARLY CAREER ARTIST
The sculpture, installation or expanded media artist must have a connection to the region by birth, residency or schooling, but does not need to be currently residing in the region. By the application deadline (January 12, 2014), the sculptor must have completed his/her schooling, apprenticeship or period of equivalent self-taught experience and be no more than ten years into h/her career. Submitted images should be of sculpture, installation or other expanded media that indicates current work and may include a specific proposal for the W2S exhibition. The W2S artworks or installations may not have been previously exhibited in northeastern Ohio. The creation of a new or further developed body of work for the W2S series is encouraged and preferable.
THE COMPLETE ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION: Click here.
THE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Click here. Note application fee of $35.
THE DEADLINE: Sunday, January 12, 2014 @ midnight - notification by mid-February
THE QUESTIONS
Email or call Ann Albano at 216.229.6527. Artists are welcomed to visit The Sculpture Center before applying.
APPLY ONLINE HERE. NO HARD COPY APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED.

2012 W2S artist Sarah Paul's installation, Little Miss Cleveland and the Flaming Sunset

AFTER THE PEDESTAL
Through an occasional open call for artists, The Sculpture Center invites sculpture, installation and expanded media artists from our region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York and Ontario, Canada) to submit work for a juried exhibition of smaller sculpture. The next iteration of After the Pedestal has not been scheduled.
Past curators for After the Pedestal have been Second Generation Ab Ex sculptor Richard Hunt (2005), designer and artist Viktor Schrekengost (2006), sculptor and urban activist Don Harvey (2007), painter and Chair of the Visual Arts Division, Columbia University, New York, Gregory Amenoff (2008), the Cleveland Museum of Art's Curator of Contemporary Art Paola Morsiani (2009), Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery Astria Suparak (2010), and Judd Foundation (New York and Texas) Executive Director Barbara Hunt McClanahan (2011). Images from past exhibitions can be found in the Exhibition section of our website.

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