Cleveland Sculptors Network (CSN) Master Reviews & Collective Discussion
with visiting curator Sara O’Keeffe
Call for Sculptors
Saturday, June 22 (note change of date from last posting)
Deadline: Monday, June 3 @ midnight

Cleveland Sculptors Network
Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with Sara O’Keeffe
Saturday, June 22, 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 curator and juror, Sara O’Keeffe, 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 Friday, June 21 by the ninth panel of the Cleveland Sculptors Network/Getting There from Here, Beyond the Walls: Support for Artist Driven Research and Production, with visiting curator Sara O’Keeffe and Amanda King.

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 panel location.

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 
TBA
Notification of selections
TBA

Questions
Email Ann Albano (aalbano at sculpturecenter.org) or call The Sculpture Center at 216-229-6527.

Sara O’Keeffeis 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.

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.

CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR SCULPTUREX 2019: MATERIAL | IMMATERIAL

Undergraduate and Graduate Students who are currently in school or have completed school within the 2018/2019 academic year are invited to submit work for the SculptureX 2019 exhibition juried by artist Scott Hocking, a Detroit-based artist.

This year’s symposium exhibition will focus on undergraduate and graduate level work that engage in the exploration and expansion of ideas surrounding materiality.  “Materiality” is a loaded term within the space of sculpture.  Historically, we’ve used it to specify our medium and media, but over the last six decades the field has expanded in such a way that the idea of materiality has been redefined and moved beyond the traditional boundaries of “medium”.

SCULPTUREX is seeking artwork and expressions of constructed forms, actions and interactions that examine or reexamine any of the following conditions or states of material and materiality:  physical matter such as stone, metal, clay, glass, fiber, natural or human made objects; expanded media forms including immersive, performative, virtual, generative, environmental and/or social; as well as research-oriented models focused on informational and diagrammatic outcomes.

Brian Carpenter,  Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Toledo School of Art, will be curating and designing the exhibition.

Deadline to apply: June 15
Entry fee: $15

Entry Procedure

Go to CATOLEDO.ORG/sculpturex-submission 

•  Have ready the following information:

  • Name, email, phone number

  • short bio/artist statement (optional)

  • List of artworks you are submitting with the following information

    • Artwork title

    • Year

    • media, materials

    • dimensions (please note weight of piece in your artist statement if it is more than 50 lbs.)

•  Upload files: Minimum of 3 files, Max of 10

  •  For images  – please submit JPEGs only; no smaller than 1920 pixels on the longest side; file resolution – 72 ppi/dpi; file size – 5MB max

  • Label each image entry Lastname_Title’ or ‘Lastname_Title_detail’

  • For 3D works, please include at least one detail and/or alternate view per piece.

  • If you have difficulty submitting form, please contact us. 

•  Submit payment of $15

Entrants will be notified by July 15.

Further details

 IMPORTANT DATES

• Entries due:  June 15

• Notifications to artist on or before:  July 15

• Delivery of Artwork: Between August 1 and 15 (during gallery hours)

• Exhibition Dates: September 6 – October 5

• Opening Reception: 10/5/2019 6-9

• Pick-up Artwork: 10/6/2019

CALL CLOSED / Check back next spring for After the Pedestal 13
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.

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).

Join our Email List to receive our annual calls for After the Pedestal and W2S artists.

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.

Join our Email List to receive our annual call for W2S artists and annual call for After the Pedestal, the summer juried group exhibition of small sculpture from the region.

Call Closed
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 30, 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

Calls from other institutions, galleries, cities, online magazines, residencies, and the like that include sculpture are now posted on The Sculpture Center’s Facebook page.

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