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

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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.

Alley Cat Housing Project - Call for Artists

Not to be confused with Music Saves Alley Cat Fridays, the Alley Cat Housing Project hopes to draw attention for the needs of the community to act together to deal with the local stray cats of North Collinwood. Artists are asked to complete a design and to execute their work (if selected) on a pre-assembled wood 'cat-house'  which will be displayed during the October 4, 2013 "Walk All Over Waterloo" street fest.

Artists will receive an honorarium of $300 upon completion and delivery with the addition of a $50 people's choice award which will be awarded at the Oct. 4th event.

One cat-house will be raffled off with the proceeds to benet the Waterloo Alley Cat Project, a North Collinwood nonprofit organization which concentrates on neighborhood cats.  The remaining five shelters will be placed in the Waterloo area.

Call for artists pdf

Timeline:
Rendering Due Date - 2013.08.19 @ 5.30pm
Jury Selection - 08.22
Artist Notification - 08.23
Delivery/Pick-up of Homes - week of 08.26
Payment to Artists - 10.04
Completion Party - 10.04

Via: Creative Compass

2013 Sustainable Cleveland Photo Contest

Sustainable Cleveland is looking for photos that capture Cleveland becoming a "thriving green city on a blue lake", something that should be pretty easy to do. Just check your file folders in between all your ruin porn of the flats/midtown/Broadway Ave./Lorain Ave./etc.

Cash money prizes for all your hard work and there are various categories.

Via Sustainable Cleveland Photo Contest -via Vibrant NEO 2040

 click to view flyer 

From the Sustainable Cleveland website…

Overview           

Sustainable Cleveland 2019 is a 10-year initiative that engages people from all walks of life, working together to build a thriving and resilient green city on a blue lake. You are invited to submit up to two photos that highlight how this vision is being made a reality in Cleveland.

You are encouraged to submit photos that relate to the Sustainable Cleveland celebration topics and key areas for climate action, including:

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• Local Foods
• Waste Reduction and Resource Conservation
• Clean Water
• Sustainable Mobility
• Vibrant Green Space
• Vital Neighborhoods and People
• Public Health

Awards

• 1st place: $1000 cash award and framed photoAmateur category
• 2nd place: $500 cash award and framed photo
• 3rd place: $250 cash award and framed photo

Youth category

• 1st place: $500 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo
• 2nd place: $250 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo
• 3rd place: $100 gift certificate to a local camera shop and framed photo

All Entrants

The top 20 photos will be exhibited at the Sustainable Cleveland Annual Summit on October 3rd and 4th, the Sustainable Cleveland Center in Tower City, and other venues.

Entrants must be amateurs or students. Commercial photographers and post-secondary photo educators are not permitted to participate.

Eligibility Requirements and Contest Rules

• Entrants can submit up to two photos. Entrants can only win one award.
• Photos must belong to the entrant, be their original work and must not infringe the rights of any third party to the best of photographer’s knowledge. The original image may be cropped but must not be altered or edited beyond brightness, contrast and color adjustment.
• Entry into this contest constitutes the entrant’s irrevocable and perpetual license to Sustainable Cleveland, without further compensation, to use, reproduce, print, publish, transmit, adapt, enhance or display such submission for the promotion and conduct of this and future Sustainable Cleveland photo competitions. Photos will be credited to the photographer in all cases to the best of the sponsors’ abilities.
• Decisions of the judges are final and binding in all respects.  Judges reserve the right to disqualify any image.
• Contest open only to legal residents of Ohio.
• Cash Award Winners must complete and sign an IRS W-9 form with their name, address and Social Security number as a condition of receiving prizes.
• While all submitted photos must be less than 1 MB in size, all Winners will be asked to provide a high-res image for print purposes.  Make sure to save your larger file!
• There is no fee to submit.
• Entry deadline is September 1, 2013 (11:45PM EST).

Photo Submittal

Submit your information and photo(s) at the following site:  https://sustainablecleveland.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4m1/

If you would like to submit two photos, you need to fill out and submit this form twice.

If you have any questions, please email sustainability@city.cleveland.oh.us.

CLOG call for submissions: MIAMI

One of my favorite architecture journals (potentially my favorite) has announced their new call for submissions which strikes a particular chord for those of us from Cleveland. 

Miami.

Yes the home of CSI, Dexter, Vice and some basketball player who finally won a championship (without an asterisk) is the topic for CLOG's finely curated study.

Even as Miami stirs the architectural soul a bit as OMA and BIG battle royale for the rights to recreate the Miami Beach Convention Center in their own illustrious images (or at least in contextual interpretations) CLOG attempts to crash the party properly, shining a spotlight before the dawn (and eventual scattering) discovers the image of a new[er] city.

Courtesy of CLOG:

CLOG New York, July 16, 2013 CLOG Announces Call for Submissions for CLOG : MIAMI Photo © Andrew Kenney If you're having trouble reading this, view it online here. Submissions Due Aug 15 The largest city in the southeastern United States, Miami has long been subject to a range of unique forces—natural, political, and cultural—which have brought both booms and devastating busts. Despite setbacks, however, Miami has become a vibrant and broadly American city that mixes the historically Anglo-dominated North and the Latin South, vividly presenting many characteristics of today's United States: cosmopolitanism, an ever-shifting balance between public and private interests, economic volatility, and environmental tightrope walking. When it comes to architecture, something is definitely happening in Miami. Not only is real estate and development booming, but recently, significant civic projects have demonstrated a potentially serious public/private commitment to infuse the commons with design and the arts, as seen in the Wynwood Art District and Art Basel Miami. Miami invented a strand of mid-century Modernism, epitomized the design aesthetic of the 1980s, hosted the major intellectual center of the New Urbanism movement, and is now providing opportunities to a new (and hungry) crop of international architects in projects like the Miami Beach Convention Center, Coconut Grove, the New World Center, One Thousand Museum Tower, 111 Lincoln Road, and more. So like LeBron, it’s time for CLOG to take its talents to South Beach. Submission info here.

Loren Naji Studio Gallery Call 4 Artists and New Exhibition Space

Knock Knock. “Who’s There?” Opportunities. “Opportunities Who?” Opportunities Knock! Loren Naji Studio Gallery makes a Call to Artists and Announces New Exhibition Space!

Member Loren Naji Studio Gallery | Neighborhood Ohio City 

Issue Summer 2013 | Author Loren Naji

Loren Naji Studio Gallery offers a shotgun blast of news for the summer, including exhibition space expanding into another room, a planned expansion into another neighborhood, and plenty of opportunity for artists.

 First, my familiar main gallery space has expanded into the adjacent, furniture-filled room, which has become “The Lounge Gallery.” Meanwhile, that original gallery will henceforth be called “The Parlor,” unless someone comes up with a better name!

 But I have even bigger news. I have been awarded a property, along with two grants in order to create a new one -of -a -kind art venue in Collinwood. I have wild ideas and shows planned, and I even need a live- in curator—not to mention other curators and artists–to help bring these shows and adventures to fruition! Each of the twelve rooms in the new Collinwood venue will feature installations by individual artists. Indeed, every room and surface of the house will be used for exhibition, including the exterior.

 In fact, the exterior of this house will literally become a gallery turned inside-out. Using weather resistant paint on panels and repurposed frames, artists will create work to be attached to the facade. This spectacle will allow onlookers to view art from the sidewalk and street! As paintings are sold, they will be replaced by new ones, creating an ever changing, mosaic-like exterior. This striking marvel will create intrigue and draw viewers to enter the space to discover the artist installations.

I need local artists to create works for the exterior, installation artists for the interior and one more special person to live rent free in one room of this gallery and act as gallerist, curator and co-director. Please call me at the gallery, 216.621.6644 for information.

Following are more opportunities associated with upcoming shows:

“Tall Walls, Unjuried, Uncensored” show, a co-production of CWAL and Loren Naji Studio Gallery, opening July 19, 2013. Anyone with art and a $25 dollar entrance fee can participate. Start creating controversial and even offensive art for this extravaganza!

My sister Jamilla Naji, a painter from Albuquerque, will curate a show depicting “the human condition,” with narrative vignettes, opening October 4. Contact my gallery for details.

Skulls, curated by Mary Urbas, opening November 1, 2013. Contact her or myself for inclusion possibilities.

Cleveland Kids Create, curated by my 10 year-old daughter, Brielle Naji, opening December 6, 2013. Featuring work by children between the ages of 5 and 13. Have your kids start creating a piece for this show! All work will be sold for $20.00, providing great holiday gifts and help to a charity for children!

Loren Naji Studio Gallery

2138 West 25th Street

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

lorennaji.com

216.621.6644

Larchmere Streetscape Call for Artists - due 2013.07.15

via LANDstudio

DEADLINE: Call for Artists, Larchmere Streetscape

Date: July 15 from 5:00PM - 5:00PM

The City of Cleveland, in partnership with the City of Shaker Heights, is seeking proposals from artists and designers for the design of benches and bike racks or other street furniture to be incorporated into planned streetscape improvements along Larchmere Boulevard, between East 121st Street and North Moreland Boulevard.

The participation of artists on this project is funded in part by the City of Cleveland’s Public Art Program, which requires that certain capital projects undertaken by the city, including streetscape improvements, set aside funding for public art.

Submission deadline is Monday, July 15, 2013, at 5 p.m. For details, please go to our resources page and click on "competitions."

$20,000 Fellowships for Individual Artists Available - Creative Workforce Fellowship Program

The new CPAC Fellowships calls have been announced. Yes, this is one of the grants I was fortunate enough to receive this year which is helping me realize many of the projects that I currently have underway (and are in various stages of getting done).

If you are an artists who lives in Cuyahoga County involved in Professional Dance, Literature, Music and/or Theatre I suggest you check out the following.

Via: Community Partnership for Arts and Culture

$20,000 Fellowships for Individual Artists Available

Workshops for CPAC’s Creative Workforce Fellowship program

CLEVELAND — Professional dance, literature, music and theatre artists who make their home in Cuyahoga County have an opportunity to dream bigger with the 2014 cycle of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC)’s Creative Workforce Fellowship program. Individuals who meet eligibility requirements can compete for one of up to 22 awards.  20 Fellowships include the following:

• $20,000 financial award
• one-year membership in the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE)
• tuition waiver for CPAC and COSE’s Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute (AEI)
• inclusion in a video catalogue of Fellows’ work            

CPAC will also award two Seth Rosenberg Prizes of $2,500. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

Artists interested in applying can attend a free workshop. CPAC will present seven workshops that walk through the online application.  These meetings will be held on the following dates:

• Friday, May 24 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Spanish American Committee
• Friday, May 31; 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.; Rainey Institute
• Wednesday, June 12; 6 p.m.  – 7:30 p.m.; Happy Dog (Underdog)
• Saturday, June 15; 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.; Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
• Tuesday, July 9; 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Heights Arts
• Friday, July 12; 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.; Cuyahoga County Public Library Warrensville Hts. Branch
• Tuesday, July 16; 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.; Karamu House

The deadline for the online application is Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Guidelines and application information can be found atCultureForward.org/Our-Programs/Fellowship/Guidelines2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) will also be available in both English and Spanish.

About CPAC

The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to strengthening, unifying and connecting greater Cleveland’s arts and culture sector. CPAC provides counsel and research to foster a more informed dialogue between representatives of the arts and culture sector and public leaders concerning arts and culture’s role in the region’s development. It also supports the advancement of artists, arts and culture professionals and other civic leaders through an array of programs and services, such as the Creative Workforce Fellowship, as well as tools like cultureforward.org andmycreativecompass.org.

About Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s mission is to inspire and strengthen the community by investing in arts and culture, and since 2007, CAC has invested more than $95 million dollars in more than 200 local arts and cultural organizations.  In 2011, for every dollar CAC invested in arts and culture organizations, nearly $20 was put back into the local economy; and CAC-funded organizations supported nearly 9,000 jobs in Cuyahoga County's creative sector. Learn more about Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and its grant programs at www.cacgrants.org.

Cleveland Public Theatre RFP for Interactive Art Installation - deadline 2013.04.15

Cleveland Public Theatre Requesting Proposals for an Interactive Art Installation

Deadline for submissions is Monday, April 15, 2013

Cleveland Public Theatre is seeking proposals for an interactive art installation to be presented as part of pARTy in the Square.

On Saturday, June 8th, the Gordon Square Arts District & CPT will welcome thousands of guests to discover this revitalized neighborhood and introduce them to the vibrant artistic scene. This family-friendly event will feature music, theatre and visual art throughout the neighborhood at multiple venues.

CPT is seeking proposals for a family-friendly, interactive art installation in our century old church building. Guests visiting the installation will have the opportunity to engage in an artistic activity that will in some way add to the overall installation. This activity will be appropriate for all ages. 

Artists interested in submitting a proposal for this unique opportunity should click here to and carefully review the details in the RFP and complete the application.

CPT link

CUDC launches COLD competition

CUDC launches new competition
COLD (Center for Outdoor Living Design)
COLDSCAPES: New Visions for Cold Weather Cities

"COLDSCAPES: New Visions for Cold Weather Cities" is a multi-disciplinary design competition intended to reveal the often overlooked potential of cold climate cities. COLDSCAPES invites artists, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers to submit conceptual and built projects, of various scales, which reveal exciting opportunities for revitalizing cold climate urban places. The competition is organized by Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC).

Intended Visions

COLDSCAPES aims to provoke a critical assessment of idealized representations from warmer seasons and challenge designers to engage more creatively with the unique conditions presented by winter. Submissions should explore new visions and emerging possibilities for enhancing livability in cold weather cities. We're interested in encouraging designers to inspire other designers to become cultural change agents, ultimately enabling cities to embrace their winter identities. Projects may fall within the domain of a particular discipline (architecture, public art, landscape architecture, urban design) or may cross over multiple disciplines. Entrants are encouraged to explore responses within a wide range of scales: city-scale urban form, mid-scale public spaces, or smaller street interventions. The competition does not specify a single site for submissions. Entrants may choose their own specific sites from around the world or submit proposed interventions that could be deployed in multiple geographic locations. The submission should provide an effective visual (and potentially aural, if using video) presentation of a built project or conceptual proposal that responds to critical design questions. What novel urban experiences can designers enable for winter city residents? How can the built environment become more responsive to changing outdoor conditions, enabling long-term resiliency? What visualization techniques can be employed to meaningfully communicate the ephemeral atmospheric qualities of winter environments? How can the urban environment respond to the needs of vulnerable populations in cold climates and increase opportunities for social inclusion?

Submission Format

In order to encourage a broad range of communication techniques, submissions may consist of still images or video. Various kinds of visualizations may be used, optimized for on-screen browsing, such as conceptual perspective renderings, explanatory diagrams, or photographs of built projects. A submission may include a maximum of three images or one video that clearly express the project's cold weather design intent. Each image must be in 16:9 aspect ratio (maximum size of 1024 x 768 pixels), in .jpg, .png, or .pdf format, with a maximum file size of 10 MB for each image. Video submissions must have a 16:9 aspect ratio and no more than 3 minutes in length. Videos must be submitted in .mov format and may be no larger than 100 MB. Submissions will be uploaded to the competition website as digital files. Mailed submissions will not be accepted. (A link to the full registration/submission page will be made available in mid-April 2013. See Competition Guidelines section below.) Creators of winning submissions and honorable mentions may be asked to submit higher resolution versions of their projects for inclusion in the online archive, physical exhibition, and print publication. Please do not include the entrant's name anywhere on the submission, since the submissions will be judged anonymously.

Text

In addition to images or video, entrants are required to submit text describing their projects. The text may be a maximum of 200 words and should focus on communicating the cold weather related design intentions of the submission.

Jury & Awards

A jury of artists and designers familiar with cold weather design issues will select three thought-provoking and visually compelling projects, each to receive a $1,000 award. A larger set of submissions will receive honorable mentions and comprise an online archive, providing an evolving, interactive resource for designers, residents, and public officials in winter weather communities. A final list of jurors will be announced before the registration deadline.

Exhibition & Publication

In addition to the online archive, a curated selection of entries will be included in a physical exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio, currently scheduled for November 2013. Winning entries will be published in Volume 6 of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative’s Urban Infill journal series, focused on advancing the design of urban environments for winter weather.

Ownership

By entering the COLDSCAPES competition, entrants grant Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) ownership of all prize-winning and honorable mention design submissions. Entrants acknowledge that the CUDC may exhibit all entries in an online archive, physical exhibition, and print publication. In entering the design competition, entrants grant the CUDC unrestricted license to exercise the entrants' rights regarding their design submissions, including, but not limited to, reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution of copies of the design submission, and the right to authorize such use by others.

COLD Competition timeline:

April 1, 2013 - Competition announced

May 24, 2013 - Registration deadline

July 12, 2013 - (6pm EST) Submission deadline

July 26, 2013 - COLDSCAPES competition winners announced

COLD Competition guidelines:

The entry fee is $20 per registrant. Each registrant may submit up to 3 entries. For team submissions with multiple individuals credited, only one registration fee is required. A link to the full registration page will be provided in mid-April 2013, so please enter your contact information to receive an email notification by clicking the "Enter Now" button below:

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CLOG - UnPublished call for submissions

One of my favorite journals has offered up another call for submissions which I think would be extremely perfect for so many folks and places around Cleveland. See below:

CLOG : UNPUBLISHED (call for submissions)

With relatively few outlets devoted to architectural criticism today and a professional tendency to declare a new architectural movement every ten years or so, a staggering amount of built work goes unexamined. How many times have we seen the same signature building reviewed? How many unknown projects must, by extension, never receive a critical appraisal? 

CLOG : UNPUBLISHED will critically examine completed buildings that have thus far flown under the radar and/or have been forgotten. The submission process will be two-part. 

Stage 1 (Due April 1, 2013)

Contributors are to submit 1-2 images of a building from any time period along with a two-sentence statement explaining why that particular building deserves a critical examination. Assessments may be positive, negative, or mixed. CLOG is not seeking portfolio projects or simply “favorite” buildings. The subject must have been built, and must not have been recently published in major publications, historical surveys, or blogs. 

Examples of a potential subject include—but are certainly not limited to—a building that has never received a critical appraisal in the mainstream architectural press and/or historical surveys; a building that was critically appraised or once widely-studied soon after completion, but which has since been largely forgotten by architecture critics and historians; a building that has been examined and appraised in the past, but not for its architectural qualities (for example, a building that may have been widely studied by social historians but never given a critical architectural assessment). 

Submission forms are available at www.clog-online.com/submissions and once completed should be emailed to submissions@clog-online.com accompanied by up to two 300 dpi images no less than 5.5” wide. 

Stage 2

Those contributors that have been accepted in Stage 1 will be invited to submit a more in-depth critical assessment of the proposed building which can consist of a (up to) 500 word text and/or a graphic piece (to be due at a later date).

LANDstudio call for artists and design survey

Totally ganked from some spam they sent me.

LANDstudio, you should like them (in real life, not just facespace), they do stuff.

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Calling All Artists - Submit Your Qualifications by March 11, 2013! LAND studio and RTA are seeking artists who are interested in designing a suspended artwork that will hang in the entryway of a new RTA station to be built in University Circle / Little Italy. The budget for the artwork is $50,000. This includes artist fees, fabrication, transportation, installation, and project insurance. Of the artists who submit their qualifications, three will be selected by a panel of art and design professionals to develop full proposals. Each of the selected artists will be awarded an honorarium of $1,500 for this work and one artist will be commissioned to implement his/her proposal.Visit Read more about the project and how to submit your qualifications! for all the details!

Help Envision New Downtown Public Space! We want your input! In order to fulfill both the vision of the Group Plan and the needs and desires of the public, we ask that you take a moment to give your feedback on the downtown Mall enhancements and select an option presented for the Mall activity amenities. The input we receive will be reviewed by our design team and cataloged for use in the development of this plan. Read more and take the survey here! The Group Plan Commission is currently leading a process to fulfill Cleveland's commitment to a sustainable, healthy city, to provide amenities that focus on both residents and visitors, and to strengthen and reconnect to what is already successful and thriving in downtown. Bringing people and projects together through these great public spaces can spur another renaissance for our city, county and larger region.

Kent State CAED MATr Project 2013 - Call for Participants

Kent State CAED MATr Project 2013 - Call for Participants

Due: Friday, February 15, 2013

The Lecture Committee in Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design seeks participants for MATr PROJECT – re-envisioned as a variable (1-3) credit workshop dedicated to providing students with an opportunity for physical engagement with real material knowledge and the physical material world.

The 2013 MATr project will be run by Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee of Matter Design. While both are academics (Clifford teaches at MIT and McGee at the University of Michigan), Clifford has bachelors and masters degrees in architecture while McGee has a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering and a master degree in industrial design.

ELIGIBILITY | MATr Project is open to all students in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. In addition, a limited number of spots will be reserved for alumni of the CAED for a participation fee of $100.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION | Friday, February 15, 2013 at 5pm

LEARN MORE HERE |  Call for participants_sp2013

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Inspired Art call for artists

Inspired Art Cleveland

For the Artists

Inspired Art is a collaboration of Cleveland artists and young Cleveland poets. Put on by the local nonprofit America SCORES Cleveland, the event asks local artists to create and donate original works, drawing their inspiration from poems written by Cleveland youth enrolled in SCORES after-school programming. Through this cycle of inspiration and influence, students will witness their creativity brought to life, artists will connect with their community and SCORES’ supporters will see the profound impact these children’s words can have on others.

We are looking for artists of all mediums to participate in this cycle of inspiration. Artists are asked to choose one poem from the Student Poetry Collection available on the Inspired Art Project website and then create and donate an original work (or submit a previously completed piece) inspired by this poem.

The artwork will be displayed alongside the original poem and sold at a benefit silent auction on June 22, 2013 at at smARTspace at 78th, 1305 W. 80th Street, Suite 1 on Cleveland’s west side. Proceeds will benefit SCORES’ work in providing creative programming to Cleveland youth.

Deadline

Artist registration deadline is February 15, 2013. Download the Artist registration form here.

Interested artists should also submit at least three (3) digital photographs of your work or a hyperlink to your online portfolio to Alissa O’Neill by February 15, 2013 at aoneill@americascores.org . All accepted artists will also be eligible to enter artwork into the Cover Design Contest; winning artwork will be featured on event marketing collateral and the benefit program cover.

For questions, please call Alissa O’Neill at (216) 881-7988 or e-mail at aoneill@americascores.org .

*Call for artists direct link

W2S 2014 Call for Artists deadline approaching - Jan. 6th!

THE SCULPTURE CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT W2S, OUR KEYSTONE EXHIBITION SERIES, IS NOW OPEN TO EARLY CAREER SCULPTORS OF OUR ENTIRE REGION. 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 sculptor, installation artist, 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 2013), 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, if possible, the nature of the proposed 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 DEADLINE  Sunday, January 6, 2013, at midnight! FULL INFORMATIONFor the complete Call for Artists, eligibility, responsibilities, application requirements and application form,  click here.       APPLY HERE QUESTIONS? Email or call Ann Albano at 216.229.6527

Sculpture Center W2S 2014 Call for Artists

THE SCULPTURE CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT W2S, ITS KEYSTONE EXHIBITION SERIES, IS NOW OPEN TO EARLY CAREER ARTISTS OF OHIO AND OUR ENTIRE REGION. THE REGION  Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania (the western half of the state), western New York (Rochester and west), or Ontario, Canada. THE EARLY CAREER ARTIST The sculptor, installation artist, 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 2013), 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, if possible, the nature of the proposed 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 DEADLINE  Sunday, January 6, 2013, at midnight! FULL INFORMATIONFor the complete Call for Artists, eligibility, responsibilities, application requirements, and application form,  click here.       APPLY HERE QUESTIONS? Email or call Ann Albano at 216.229.6527 Linky!

Big Ideas for a Small Space Call for Artists

Big Ideas for a Small Space Call for Artists - 2013 Call for Artists

Brought to you by LAND studio and Cleveland Public Library

About the Competition

Program DescriptionSee Also is an annual program of the Cleveland Public Library in partnership with LAND studio that invites artists, designers, and other creative professionals to create temporary public art projects in the library’s Eastman Reading Garden. The program commissions innovative, thought-provoking works of art that add to the library’s already broad range of educational and cultural programming. Each year, one artist or team of artists is selected to exhibit an artwork from May until October in this highly visible and beloved space. The Eastman Reading Garden is located in the heart of downtown Cleveland between the library’s historic Main Building and the newer Louis Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library.

2013 ThemeThroughout Cleveland’s history, people have dreamed big, offering unique depictions of what a cityscape could contain. This ambitious visioning has produced a range of concepts, big and small, fantastic and far-fetched, that could redefine Cleveland’s landscape. From attaching ferris wheels to bridges to erecting a giant Superman across the Cuyahoga, Clevelanders have long conveyed fearlessness and creativity in their dreams. 

For the 2013 See Also installation, we are asking artists to think BIG. In the spirit of thinking big for our city, Cleveland Public Library and LAND studio challenge artists to design thoughtful, wacky, novel or whimsical concepts for a jury of local stakeholders to consider for installation in the Eastman Reading Garden. Artists are encouraged to develop concepts that deal with the garden space specifically, or present ideas for sites throughout the city at the scale of the garden. 

One or more artists will be selected to create an installation for the garden that showcases their big dreams for a small space.

Eligibility

See Also is open to established and emerging artists from the Great Lakes Region (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario). Artists may work individually or as part of a team.

Location

Cleveland Public Library 
Eastman Reading Garden
325 Superior Avenue East
Cleveland, OH 44114

Requirements

What to Submit
One 24”x36” display board, to be organized as follows: 
 
The front side may include graphics, models, renderings, images and/or any other creative means of clearly depicting your concept. While a cost estimate is not required, we do ask that you consider the budget as submissions will be evaluated from a feasibility standpoint. Budget information can be found below. 
 
The back side should contain a brief written statement summarizing your concept and approach to the project.
 
The back side should also contain all identifying information, including:
Name
Address
Email
Phone Number
Website (if applicable)
*Submissions with identifying information on the front side are subject to disqualification.

Awards

PrizesBased on overall concept and project feasibility, one grand prize winner will be awarded $1,000. First and second runners-up will each be awarded $500.

Considerations

DeadlineAll proposals must be received at LAND studio’s office by 5:00pm on Friday November 9, 2012 (postmarks are not acceptable). Hand deliveries will be accepted. If you have any questions regarding the site or the materials that are to be submitted, please call LAND studio at 216-621-5413 x117 or email ssiebert@land-studio.org.

Please send all proposal materials to:
LAND studio
See Also
1939 West 25th Street, Suite 200
Cleveland, OH  44113

Projected TimelineAnnounce Design Competition               September 2012
Proposals Due                                      November 9, 2012
Review Proposals                                  November 2012
Identify Winners                                   December 2012
Installation & Garden Opening              May 2013

Budget

The chosen artist(s) will be commissioned to develop his or her proposal to be installed in the Eastman Reading Garden in May 2013. The budget for the artwork is $15,000. An additional $3,000 is available for artist(s) fees. Please note that the jury reserves the right to divide the artist fee and artwork budget among multiple winning artists. The artwork budget must cover all project-related costs including but not limited to materials, fabrication, transportation, insurance, and installation.