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Wharton Esherick Museum 31st Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition

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Posted by: Wharton Esherick Museum
Deadline: Mon, January 6th, 2025

 

Wharton Esherick Museum 31st Annual Juried Woodoworking Exhibition

Theme: Renewal

Deadline: 1/6/2025

Across his career, Esherick took renewal seriously. After training as a painter he renewed his artistic identity time and again, finding inspiration enough to make everything from illustrated books to stage sets and costumes. He believed in renewed approaches to form, as seen in his refusal to make furniture that looked like anything previously on the market, instead creating objects that existed between function and sculpture. He believed in renewing materials, giving second lives to wooden objects like hammer handles and wagon wheels (Hammer Handle Chair, Wagon Wheel Chair). Where others saw cast-off scraps, only useful for firewood, Esherick envisioned a renewal: the now-iconic floor of the Studio’s Dining Room, a sensual and organic mosaic. 

For the Wharton Esherick Museum’s 31st Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition we invite you to think about renewal, and how it exists in your artistic life. Have you made an artwork that represents a moment of personal, professional, or ideological renewal? When have you transformed a material, giving it new life in the process? What objects facilitate moments of renewal, restoration, or caretaking? Is there a way to renew meaning from the past through artwork that’s wholly contemporary? 

 

With these initial prompts, we encourage applicants to think about this idea broadly and hope that you’ll submit entries across the spectrum of thematic approaches (so long as they contain wood in some way). We look forward to seeing it all.

To learn more and apply please visit: https://whartonesherickmuseum.org/31st-annual-juried-woodworking-open-call/

 

 

Posted on Mon, December 2nd, 2024
Expires on Mon, January 6th, 2025

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