Art Competitions & Other Opportunitie$ from DARts

This page includes all our art ops. There is no mailing list.
Follow all the rules if you want your opportunity published here.

The Rules

These are the only rules. Any Opportunity is acceptable if artists in Dallas, Texas, USA are eligible. If you ignore these rules, I'll ignore you, unless yours is a local, Dallas or Dallas-area deal, in which case you get some benefit of my doubts.

Amateurish "opportunities" will be made fun of. Beware of those who make grandiose promises, like that rich patrons will see your work and pay you big money and give you shows, or that your donation will cure cancer. Know better. Red text warns. Pink type indicates dates & deadlines. Editor's comments are in gray.

The Editor is deeply suspicious of people who seek art donations for altruistic causes yet do not list the organizations benefitted. Beware of scammers. If don't list your benefitee, I won't list your "opportunity." If I do not make links of link information, it is because I have doubts about that opportunity. Caveat artor.

Text in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS will be deleted, making text around it look stupid. Do not abbreviate. Spell everything out. If your opportunity does not include an email address or a URL, and a deadline, it will NOT be included — or it will be presented stupidly. Unless I really like your op.

Send info at least a month before deadline, preferably much longer. If you're working on a fancy brochure, send us the info soon as you finalize it for the printer.

List the exact URL of the page on your site that describes this opportunity, not just the home page. Enter URLs in full http://www format. I don't want readers to have to seach all over a site to find the right info.

Email the shortest possible version of your notice. I won't waste space on information you should have on a web page. Snail mail is ignored. Send ops to our latest email listed near the top of the Contact Us Page using "OPs" as the subject.

Instead of submitting new information, if I ask you to do that, submit the whole thing again with the new information. I do not want to puzzle your pieces together.

Listing here in no way implies DallasArtsRevue or its publisher J R Compton supports or recommends any of these "opportunities," if they even are opportunities. Ops without deadlines will be deleted at inopportune moments.

If you send the same opportunity more than once, we won't run your opportunities.

Out and out scams, which some of these may well be, are listed/explained at the bottom of this page.
Re-title also has a page of Fraud Alerts.

Warning: someone has been contacting individual members of DallasArtsRevue asking to buy art. The same person seems to appreciate vastly different sorts of art, and it sounds like a scam.

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Recent Ops with Local Ops on Top

New Texas Talent XVI at Craighead Green, submission deadline May 28, exhibition July 31 through September 4, more information at http://craigheadgreen.com/newtalent_2010.htm

Call for new members, 500X, Texas' oldest, artist run, cooperative gallery, is looking for membership applicants for the 2010-2011 season. More information at http://www.500x.org/opportunities.html, application deadline Thursday, April 1

Red Bull Art of Can, a national juried exhibition inspired by Red Bull or crafted from the cans. Sculptures, paintings, digital/graphic designs and mixed media will be considered. The 2010 Red Bull Art of Can Dallas Exhibition will be July 31-August 22 at Galleria Dallas. Deadline is May 10, 2010. Registration forms and details at http://www.redbullartofcan.com.

Self, an exhibition of selfhood. Self-portraits are welcome, as are more abstracted explorations of who is I? Open to all artists over 18, all mediums considered. Deadline is Friday, April 30, show dates are July 1-31, 2010. This year's juror is Aaron Sacco, artist and illustrator. Croft Art, 712 Austin Avenue, Waco, Texas. http://www.croftartgallery.com/artists/selfjuriedexhibition.html

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site seeks proposals for its 2011 tour season and beyond. Deadline 4 pm Tuesday, June 15

The Art Interview - 20th International Online Artist Competition, deadline Tuesday, March 31, more information at http://www.art-interview.com/competition_form.html

Katharine Butler Gallery seeks entries for 5th Annual National Juried Exhibition June 16-July 10, 2010. Original 2D and 3D artwork in any traditional medium, including fiber, ceramics, metal, and glass from the past three years. No Giclees or videos. Entry fee $35 for up to 3 works. Juror: Adam Justice Curator of Art at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL. Application deadline April 17. Cash awards.

Prospectus and application at http://www.kbutlergallery.com/documents/5thAnnualNationalJuriedExhibitionProspectusandApplication.pdf, e-mail Chris Falk at falkc@kbutlergallery.com, or send SASE to Katharine Butler Gallery, 1943 Morrill St., Sarasota, FL, 34236

The Rome Art Program is designed to inspire artists to expand their vision through painting and drawing on the streets of Rome and Florence, and in the countryside of Umbria. Application, including a fee of $60, deadline is February 20, 2010. For more information, visit romeartprogram.org or contact Kara Matthews at info@romeartprogram.org or 347 415-2428

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 at La Macina di San Cresci. We are located above Greve in Chianti in the heart of Tuscany, between two great cities of the Renaissance: Florence & Siena. The artist residency program provides the ideal combination of living and working in a setting of truly inspirational beauty. Artist residency consist of sojourning from 7 to 90 days, with a possible time extension subject to availability. This period covers a program based on the personal project proposal presented. As an archive of activities is scheduled to publish a yearbook representative of the various experiences hosted and produced using photos and texts of artists and events. The artists with a special interesting project have a public event that offer a venue to test their ideas in a dialog with other artists, and the general public. Help will be given from La Macina di San Cresci staff to organize a local exhibition on a theme related to their Residency project. Residencies are available between 1st January and 31th December 2010. Please see www.chianticom.com for details and an application form.

Promise of Peace Community garden and open air market on East Grand. I am looking for artists who might be interested in obtaining a market stall in the open air market that will be built soon at 7446 East Grand.

1st New International Art Competition online is open for artists working in 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, all styles.
Deadline: 1st October, 2010.
Juror: Nadia Russ.
Entries fee: $35.00 per image. You can submit unlimited number of images online - .JPEG Format.
Winners' work will be published on the cover of the book NEW Millennium ART.

Winners will receive the following Prizes:

1st - Winner will have his/her artwork featured on the front cover of the book 'New Millennium ART,' 1st Vol.,
published at the end of 2010 - beginning 2011 (equivalent to $4,500 in cash);
2nd - Winner will have his/her artwork featured on the back cover of the book 'New Millennium ART,' 1st Vol.,
published at the end of 2010 - beginning 2011 (equivalent to $2,200 in cash);
3rd - Winner will have his/her artwork published on the back cover of the book 'New Millennium ART,' 1st Vol.,
published at the end of 2010 - beginning 2011 (equivalent to $2,000 in cash).

Also, additional 15+ art images from other artists submitted their work to this art contest will be featured in this book
pages (Juror's pick).

Other 15+ artists-participants' work will be featured in this book pages (juror's pick.)
To submit your work please visit: www.neopoprealismstarz.com/competitions . Contact: mail@neopoprealismstarz.com

Deadline: July 15, 2010
The DHM Digital Gallery invites designers working in fiber, clay, wood, metal or glass/plastic to participate in The Art of Applied Design, an international juried competition. All submitted works must be functional objects commonly used within interior spaces, such as furnishings (hard or soft), utensils, fixtures, or containers. Objects that are purely decorative are not eligible. Evaluation will be based upon uniqueness and creativity, craftsmanship, and quality of the submitted digital image. The online exhibit (from Sept. 15 to Dec. 1, 2010) will include e-mail addresses of accepted artists to facilitate independent sales of work. For a prospectus and entry form, visit http://ches.okstate.edu/dhm/gallery.

Open Heart Publishing is seeking artists and illustrators for their yearly short story anthology, "An Honest Lie," as well as other publications. Please email us at ahlsubmissions@yahoo.com for further details. Payment structure for original art will be based on the project it is for. The deadline for Volume 2 submissions is March 15, 2010. Link to Vol. 2 submission guidelines: http://anhonestlie.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/its-that-time-again/

Visualise Music - The Lumix Award for photographing the music of life www.lumixaward.com/register.php

Art City Austin 2010

The following months are currently open for application in the Eisemann Center Forest and Virginia Green Mezzanine Art Gallery May 2010, June 2010, July 2010 and into 2011. Individual artists and groups will be considered by the Eisemann Center Visual Arts Committee. Submission does not guarantee acceptance. Full Information at www.eisemanncenter.com/tickets/ProceduresForArtExhibitions.html

Other Art Opportunities Pages on the Web

I Googled art opportunities and got these

Visit Re-title.com's Artist Opportunities for other upcoming art opportunities.

http://www.theartlist.com/

http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/

ArtShow http://www.artshow.com/juriedshows/page5.html

City of Phoenix http://phoenix.gov/ARTS/artop.html

City of Las Vagas (but I found one for Frisco, Texas here) http://www.lvartscommission.com/artist-opportunities/

Art Job Online http://www.artjob.org/cgi-local/displayPage.pl?page=index.html

Art Deadlines List http://www.artdeadlineslist.com/

Art Alliance Austin seeks Artists http://www.artallianceaustin.org/ or 512 481-8600 x 204

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CentralTrak

houses a gallery and live-work space for artists-in-residence and UT Dallas graduate students. Central Trak has a full calendar of events that includes bimonthly gallery exhibitions, lectures, poetry readings and performances. The only university-backed artists residency in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Central Trak accepts applications from artists working in new media, performance, installation art, sound art, theory, criticism and creative writing, architecture, urbanism, painting, drawing and sculpture.

The Photo Review Competition

http://www.photoreview.org/compete.htm

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Egolamento "2˚ Premio Internazionale Di Pittura Arte Laguna

It's in Italian. www.artelaguna.it/regolamento2premio.asp

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Dallas Public Art Newsletter

Send your email to beth.taylor@dallascityhall.com or call them at 214 670-5639 to get all the Dallas Public Art news via their newsletter "soon to be online."

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Nikon Photography Competitions

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E-mail lists for future opportunities

Send a message to BathHouseVisualArtists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to receive Gallery Calls for Entries for group shows. Call 817 215-8760 to get on the Fort worth Transportation Authority's mailing list for occasional one-page notices of upcoming opportunities.

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The Fort Worth Public Art Registry

provides art and design professionals, such as studio artists, designers, architects, and landscape architects, an opportunity to express their interest in working on public art projects in Fort Worth by allowing them to submit contact information and images, which serves as a resource for artist selection. The Artist Registry consists of: artist resumes, letters of interests, community and public art experience information, images of past work, and image information sheets.

www.fwpublicart.org/nu_site/page.php/id/artist_registry to view PDF with registry form and instructions.

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Scams

If you get emails from South America or Nigeria or Irving, Texas promising to send you a "certified cashier cheque" (or other wording) for your art or your boat or your Sousaphone, pay attention. It is very possibly — if not likely — they are attempting to scam you.

The classic format involves them sending you a check for more than you agreed to charge. You are expected to go to a bank, cash the (probably bogus) check and send the difference back to the thieves who are preying on your desire to sell art, boat, Sousaphone.

I (the editor) know it's a scam, because many DallasArtsRevue artists have beentargeted.

That said, many people see something on the internet and assume it is for sale, even if no price is mentioned. They flail about attempting to buy it or multiples of it (warning! warning!).

There are legitimate buyers of art out there, and they may contact you, and you may do business with them. But pay attention. Google the phrasing they use, and you'll find pages warning about scams. I googed "certified cashier cheque" and found More internet scams, Wedding Photographer, Musical Instrument Sales and Fraud Attempts on your Classified Advertisements on the first two pages of results.

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