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42nd ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION

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Posted by: Durango Arts Center
Deadline: Sun, April 22nd, 2018

42nd ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION

Dates of Exhibit: June 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018

This annual competition is open to all artists working in any 2 or 3 dimensional media.

Awards

Best in Show is $400, Second Place is $200, Third Place is $100. Awards will be presented at the reception on June 1, 2018. Artists do not have to be present to receive awards. Checks will be mailed after the reception.

Juror:

Josie Lopez is currently the curator a 516 ARTS. She received her B.A. in History and M.A. in teaching from Brown University. She completed an M.A. in Art History at the University of New Mexico and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Jacob K. Javits fellow from 2009-2013. Her dissertation on Mexican lithographer Constantino Escalante considers 19th-century caricature and visual satire of Mexico, France and Spain. Her 2013 publication “Picasso and the Forgotten War” appears in Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation: War and Peace in the Era of the Cold War and Since, edited by Jonathon Harris, Liverpool University Press.

Josie was recently a guest curator at the Albuquerque Museum. She wrote The Carved Line: Block Printmaking in New Mexico and curated the accompanying exhibition. Her research interests include examining art as a discursive agent in the political arena, modern and contemporary Latin American art, 19th century France and Mexico, and the history of New Mexican art with a focus on printmaking. As the 2013-15 Eleanor Tufts Fellow at SMU she taught courses on modern Mexico and the prints of Francisco Goya. She has also taught courses on the history of printmaking and European art at the University of New Mexico. 

Dates to Remember

2/1/18 - Online Submissions Open

4/22/18 - Online Submissions End at Midnight 

5/1/18 - Notifications of Acceptance/Rejection Sent

5/21-25/18 - Shipped Artwork Delivery 

5/27/18 - Local Artwork Drop off, 11am-4pm

6/1/18 - Opening Reception, 5-7pm

6/19/18 - Portfolio Reviews With Juror (Local Member Artist Benefit Only)

7/1/18 - Local Artwork Pick Up, 11am-4pm

7/13/18 - Shipped Artwork Return Shipped On/Or Before This Date

More Info and enter your Artwork Here: https://durangoartscenter.submittable.com/submit

Entry Fee

-There are two (2) fee amounts based upon membership and status as a student.

-There is a $10.00 fee per entered artwork as a DAC Member or Currently Enrolled Student and a $20.00 fee per entered artwork for Non-Members or Non-Students with a maximum of five (5) artwork entries per artist. (For Example: $20.00 for two (2) artworks and $50.00 for five (5) artworks entered by a Member or Student). Fees are non-refundable.

-Submit only 1 composition image and up to 2 detail images per work. Composition and detail images must be clearly labeled with title of work.

Enter Artwork Here: https://durangoartscenter.submittable.com/submit

 

Durango Arts Center | 802 East 2nd Ave, Durango, CO 81301 

 

802 E. 2nd Ave.

Durango, CO 81301

 

More Info and enter your Artwork Here: https://durangoartscenter.submittable.com/submit

 

Posted on Tue, February 27th, 2018
Expires on Sun, April 22nd, 2018

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