Michelangelo Lovelace, West 80th
Miller Horns, Valid Self Portrait
Call Now Open through April 15
seenUNseen
An exhibition of work by African American artists from NE Ohio alongside work from the Kerry & Betty C. Davis Collection
on view September 20 – November 16, 2019
African American artists of NE Ohio are invited to submit work for inclusion in seenUNseen, a curated Cleveland exhibition of selections from the renowned Kerry & Betty C. Davis Collection (Atlanta, GA) and artwork by NE Ohio artists. This is a unique opportunity to have your work exhibited side-by-side with some of America’s finest African American artists. A PDF of the call can be found here.
Kerry Davis is a noted collector of African American art based in Atlanta Georgia. His collection includes works by Romare Bearden, Calvin Burnett, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Sedrick Huckaby, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, Richard Mayhew, Mildred Thompson, Clarence White, John Wilson and many more artists of historical significance. The work will be displayed in both The Sculpture Center’s Main Gallery and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR). Learn more about the exhibition here.
Initial submissions of 5-8 pieces per artist in a digital format will be taken for the first round, from February 15 – April 15, 2019. The final selection of artists will be made from studio visits conducted by Kerry Davis, AAWR, and The Sculpture Center. Submissions in all media are welcome, with no size limitations at this time. A small number of artists included in this show will be invited back by the Archives and The Sculpture Center for a second exhibition in 2020 focusing on larger bodies of work by each artist.
AAWR Open Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 – 4pm, Saturdays from 12 – 4pm
Please contact AAWR for more information: www.artistsarchives.org | 216-721-9020 | Info@artistsarchives.org
Sara O’Keeffe, Associate Curator at the New Museum in New York City
Call Now Open through May 5 at midnight
After the Pedestal, the 12th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
on view Friday, June 14 – Friday, August 2, 2019
Juror Sara O’Keeffe, Associate Curator at the New Museum in New York City
Annually through an open call for artists, The Sculpture Center invites all sculptors, including students, currently living and working in our greater region of Ohio, its contiguous states, W. PA (west from Harrisburg), W. NY (west from Syracuse), and Ontario, Canada, to submit recent work for After the Pedestal, the summer juried exhibition of small sculpture. This always critically well received exhibition is juried by an artist or curator of national and international reputation.
Juror 2019
Sara O’Keeffe is an Associate Curator at the New Museum. She was part of the curatorial teams that organized “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” (with Johanna Burton, 2017-2018), and the “2015 Triennial: Surround Audience” (with Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin, 2015). She curated “RAGGA NYC: All the threated and delicious things joining one another” (2015) and “Screens Series: Dynasty Handbag” (2018-2019), and co-curated “Jeffrey Gibson: The Anthropophagic Effect” (2019); “MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project”(2018-2019); “A.K. Burns: Shabby but Thriving” (2017); “My Barbarian: The Audience is Always Right” (2016); “Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: Song, Strategy, Sign” (2016); “Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials” (2015-2016); and “Wynne Greenwood: Kelly” (2015), all with Johanna Burton.
Download PDF for all information about Call, full Application Requirements, and Application form here.
UPLOAD APPLICATION MATERIALS HERE.
Important Dates
Entry Deadline: Sunday, May 5 at midnight
Payment Due: Friday, May 10
Notification Date: No later than Friday, May 17
Exhibition Dates: Friday, June 14 – Friday, August 2
Opening: Friday, June 14 at 5:30-8:00 p.m. All accepted artists are encouraged to attend the opening where they will have the opportunity to speak about their work.
Questions: Email Executive Director Ann Albano (aalbano at sculpture center.org)
Past Jurors
Second Generation Ab Ex African American 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), Judd Foundation (New York and Texas) Executive Director Barbara Hunt McClanahan (2011), sound and installation artist and Oberlin College’s Professor of Art and African American Studies Johnny Coleman (2015), the Toledo Museum of Art’s Associate Director and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy Gilman (2016), African American artist and Professor of Art Education at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Steve Locke (2017), and Chief Curator at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, Cathleen Chaffee (2017).
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Michelle Illuminato, Professor of Art and Design at Portland State University, Visiting Sculpture Center artist
CLOSED / Check back in the Spring for the next visiting sculptor
Call for Sculptors: Cleveland Sculptors Network (CSN) Master Reviews & Collective Discussion
with visiting artist Michelle Illuminato
on Sunday, February 17, 2019
Deadline: Sunday, February 3 at midnight
Cleveland Sculptors Network
Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with Michelle Illuminato
Sunday, February 17, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. – noon
Location: The Sculpture Center (1834 E. 123rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio)
No fee to apply.
The Sculpture Center’s visiting artist and educator Michelle Illuminato will lead a private group critical feedback discussion of the work presented by selected sculptors (four to six) of our region. The reviews are held within the group and are not open to the public.
The Master Reviews & Collective Discussion is preceded on Saturday, February 16, by the eighth panel of the Cleveland Sculptors Network/Getting There from Here, Next Question: A Slowed Down Practice, with visiting artist Michelle Illuminato, W2S 2019 artists Kelley O’Brien and Ryan Dewey (We too, traverse the earth and Lines of Descent), and moderator artist Elizabeth Emery.
.Sculptors selected for the Master Reviews & Collective Discussion will be able to meet with the panelists, moderator, The Sculpture Center’s Executive Director, and each other at 6 p.m. at the Goldhorn Bar, courtesy of The Sculpture Center, before the panel event begins.
Call Eligibility
Open to sculptors currently living and working in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, the western half of Pennsylvania, western New York (Rochester and west), and the province of Ontario, Canada. This is not a student event. Sculpture as defined by The Sculpture Center includes individual objects of all media, installation, expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance.
How to Apply
Application must be a single PDF no larger than 5 MB that includes the following:
– Short Letter of Interest (no more than 300 words)
– 10 images of recent work. This can include up to 3 minutes of time based work per video that can be accessed online from a hyperlink from an image, but no more than 10 minutes total of viewing time for all combined videos. Alternately, your videos can be combined into one series of shorts no more than 10 minutes in length.
– Image list with the following information: Title, date, size/duration, medium, and brief description if needed
– Art resume or CV that includes your correct email address and phone number
Title the PDF “artist last name_artist first name_year”
Email your PDF to Executive Director Ann Albano (aalbano at sculpturecenter.org) with Master Reviews in the subject line.
Deadline
Sunday, February 3, 2019, at midnight
Notification of selections
No later than Monday, February 11
Questions
Email Ann Albano (aalbano at sculpturecenter.org) or call The Sculpture Center at 216-229-6527.
Michelle Illuminato is recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Key to the City of Aliquippa and Best Event in Pennsylvania. Most recently her project the Lost & Found Factory was recognized nationally as one of the most compelling public artworks of 2015 by the Americans for the Arts and Public Art Network. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work has been featured on the CBS national radio program The Osgood Files. She has been artist in residence at the Cite? Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2009/2013 and at Internationales Waldkunst Zentrum in Darmstadt Germany. Her project Tripoli Street BakeYard, located in Pittsburgh, is a public cob oven and 70-foot arrow-shaped table that encourages people to get out, make a fire, and bake bread. It continues into its second year with local folks serving pizzas, hosting bake-offs, and providing a place for community to happen. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she now lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon.
Previous Cleveland Sculptors Network panels followed by Master Reviews & Collective Discussion include:
The Sculpture Center thanks our ongoing funder for the Cleveland Sculptors Network, the Callahan Foundation, and our former generous partners, 2931 Prospect Contemporary Art (formerly in business) and Happy Dog, and our original funder, the Ohio Arts Council.
W2S 2021 Call for Artists Will Open in Early Fall 2019. Check Back Then!
The Sculpture Center invites early career artists of our greater region whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance to apply for inclusion in our annual W2S series (Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist series). Through W2S, begun in 1990, The Sculpture Center promotes the careers of exceptional sculptors and expanded media artists from our region during the first ten years of their profession. Four – six artists are selected annually by our Exhibition Committee for one-person, full gallery exhibitions of new work in either the Main (1000 sq. ft.) or Euclid Avenue (750 sq. ft.) Gallery with a group catalog (if funding is available). We encourage and fully support risk taking and new directions of creative by the artists selected for W2S.
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