Call for Artists

The Sculpture Center

Steve Locke in The School of Love at Samsøñ (2016). Courtesy of the artist, Samsøñ, and kholstomer photography.

EXTENDED
Cleveland Sculptors Network
Call for sculptors and artists who work across media
Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with artist Steve Locke
on June 11 at The Sculpture Center
Call extended through May 21 at midnight

Master Reviews & Collective Discussion
Sunday, June 11, 2017 @ 10 AM – 12 Noon
at The Sculpture Center
Artist Steve Locke leads a group, critical feedback discussion of the work presented by selected sculptors and artists who work across media. Students receiving their degree by June 2017 are eligible to apply. These reviews and discussions are intended to foster ongoing ties of the sculptors with the visiting artist and among the sculptors of our region for future interactions. The reviews are not open to the public. Before the June 10 panel the selected artists will meet privately with all the panelists.

The Master Reviews & Collective Discussion are preceded by the Cleveland Sculptors Network panel.
Unfettered, Artists who Work across Media
featuring Steve Locke, Irina Koukhanova, and others
Saturday, June 10, 2017 @ 6:30-8:30 pm
Panel @ 7 pm
The Sculpture Center
1834 E. 123 St., Cleveland, OH
Free and open to the public

Call Eligibility
Open to sculptors and artists who work across media, including sculpture, and students who will have graduated by June 2017, 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. Sculpture as defined by The Sculpture Center includes individual objects of all media, installation, expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance. When Steve makes his selections, we will let you know the format(s) in which he’d like to see your work.

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
– Resume or CV
This PDF document must be titled “artist last name_artist first name_year”
Email your PDF to Executive Director Ann Albano (aalbano at sculpturecenter.org)

Deadline Extended
Sunday, May 21 @ midnight
Notification of selections
Monday, May 29

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

Previous Cleveland Sculptors Network panels followed by Master Reviews & Collective Discussion:
Take Form: A Sculptors Panel, with keynote sculptor Nathalie Miebach and Kate Budd and Elizabeth Emery as panelists and moderator Isabel Farnsworth, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Kent State University, Read more about it here.

Broadband to Infinity, Current Issues in Expanded Media with keynote artist Luca Buvoli and expanded media artists Julia Christensen and Jacob Ciocci with moderator Rian Brown-Orso, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and New Media, Oberlin College. Read more about it here.

Keynote panelist for Unfettered and Juror for After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
Steve Locke is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, themes of masculinity and homosexuality, and systemic violence to African Americans through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio (1963), raised in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has had recent solo exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), Samsøn, Boston, and Mendes Wood gallery, Sao Paolo Brazil. Steve’s recent exhibitions, The School of Love and Family Memories (Nov. 2016), have been reviewed in Big, Red and Shiny (Nov. 2, 2016) and Lense Scratch (April 25, 2017), among other publications.

The Sculpture Center thanks our former generous partners, 2931 Prospect Contemporary Art (now out of business) and Happy Dog, and funders for the Cleveland Sculptors Network:

CLOSED – Call for Artists
After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
juried by Steve Locke with cash awards
on view June 9-August 4

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, 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. This year’s juror, artist Steve Locke, will speak during the opening on June 9, 5:30 – 8 pm.

Steve Locke
Juror for After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
Steve Locke is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, themes of masculinity and homosexuality, and systemic violence to African Americans through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio (1963), raised in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has had recent solo exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), Samsøn, Boston, and Mendes Wood gallery, Sao Paolo Brazil.

Steve is also be the visiting artist for the third Cleveland Sculptors Network panel, focused on artists who work across media, Saturday, June 10 @ 7 pm with Master Reviews & Collective Discussion on June 11 @ 10 am – noon (for selected artists only. Not open to the public.)

Past Jurors
Second Generation Ab Ex 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), and the Toledo Museum of Art’s Associate Director and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy Gilman (2016).

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Call and Application Form: Click here
Application materials are submitted online. Application form and fee of $35.00 are submitted by mail only.

Deadlines and Dates
Online Application Deadline: Sunday, May 7 @ midnight
Application form and fee: Friday, May 12 due
Notification date: No later than Monday May 22
Artwork Delivery: May 23-26 and May 30-June 1
Opening: June 7 @ 5:30-8 pm
Exhibition dates: June 7-August 4

Call Eligibility
Sculptors, including students, living in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, and Ontario, Canada, and working in all media of sculpture, installation, and expanded media are eligible.

Parameters
Artists may submit up to 3 works that are no larger than 3 x 3 x 3 feet, all dimensions added together, and no older than 3 years. Video work with a sculptural component may be submitted. The sculpture can be for exhibition on the floor, a pedestal, and the wall, or as a ceiling suspension if it is lightweight. The work cannot have previously been exhibited in northeast Ohio (with an exception for student artworks). Artists are responsible for round trip shipping, insurance en route, and difficult installations. The Sculpture Center fully insures all artwork while on its premises.

How to Apply
Application materials must include the following. See the upload page for how to title your PDFs and jpegs:
– PDF of your CV
– PDF of your artist statement of one paragraph
– Up to 9 high resolution jpg images (set no larger than 300 ppi and 8 x 10 in.). Include your last name at the beginning of the title. Do not use apostrophes, dashes, or symbols when naming your images as this corrupts the files.
– If you are submitting a video, insert a hyperlink in an uploaded image from the video. Also indicate that there is a video, with the hyperlink repeated, in the image list. The video should be no longer than 3 minutes.
– PDF of image checklist keyed to the images that includes: title, date, media, dimensions (height x width x depth)

Application materials are submitted online. Upload your application here.
Application form and fee of $35.00 (check, money order, or cash) must be received by mail or in person no later than Friday, May 12.

Questions
Contact Ann Albano by email (aalbano at sculpturecenter.org) or phone (216-229-6527).

Steve Locke
Juror for After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
Steve Locke is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, themes of masculinity and homosexuality, and systemic violence to African Americans through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio (1963), raised in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has had recent solo exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), Samsøn, Boston, and Mendes Wood gallery, Sao Paolo Brazil.

Steve will be at The Sculpture Center for the June 7 opening. He will also be the visiting artist for the third Cleveland Sculptors Network panel, focused on artists who work across media, Saturday, June 8 @ 7 pm with Master Reviews & Collective Discussion on June 9 @ 10 am – noon (for selected artists only. Call for artists will open April 10.)

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W2S 2019 Call for Artists will open Fall 2017

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. We encourage and fully support risk taking and new directions of creative by the artists selected for W2S.

This series supports the careers of promising sculptors by invigorating their momentum and promoting their professional and artistic development. Unique among its kind, the W2S series provides opportunity for a sculptor to heighten their profile, prompting leads toward gallery representation, graduate school admission, university positions or tenure, and, most importantly, a maturing of their artistic oeuvre through the creation of new work, free of external constraints.

[Excerpt from the W2S 2016 catalog introductory essay by Robert Thurmer, Chair of the Exhibition Committee, Sculpture Center board member, and Director and Chief Curator of the Galleries of CSU]

Our region encompasses Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, the western half of Pennsylvania, western New York (Rochester and west), and the province of Ontario, Canada. The artist must have a significant connection to the region by having lived, worked, or attended school here, but doesn’t need to be currently living in the region.

For the W2S series, The Sculpture Center defines an early career sculptor as an artist who is a year beyond training (academic, apprenticeship, or self taught) and no more than 10 years into their career at the closing date of the call.

Artists apply through our call for artists that opens each fall and closes in early January. The solo exhibitions are held the following year. Call or email (info at sculpturecenter.org) any time if you have questions about this exhibition opportunity.

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Other Institutions’ Calls for Artists/Proposals/Symposia/Residencies

Note: As a courtesy, The Sculpture Center will post other institutions calls, etc. Please format your information as per below and email to: info at sculpturecenter.org. The Sculpture Center provides no endorsement of any of the activities listed below

Calls

An Open Call to Artists Residing/working in Ohio – Musical Themed Exhibition

In the Fall of 2017, the Columbus Cultural Arts Center (CAC) will host a large exhibition of contemporary works by Ohio artists, in a challenge set forth by guest curator, local poet and writer, Steve Abbott. Framed by a nod to synesthesia, “THE SIGHT OF MUSIC” will present visual representations of the aural arts, exploring how we interact with music as a central aspect of our humanity.
Artists submitting works for consideration by the juror(s) are asked to consider the myriad ways in which music is or has been created, and/or how the ineffable emotions produced by music can be represented visually as they create works of contemporary significance, meaning, and materials. Work may be 2-D, or 3-D, and in any traditional or non-traditional style or medium (consistent with gallery rules and limitations).
Jurors: Dr. Melanie Corn, President, Columbus College of Art and Design; Christopher Purdy, noted WOSU classical music host and musicologist. Jurors Awards: 1st- $500 2nd- $300 3rd-$200.
For more information click here.
Deadline: August 16

11th Annual HWD (Height x Width x Depth) Juried Sculpture Exhibition

HWD is a judged exhibition celebrating three-dimensional artwork by artists from Ohio and surrounding states. Juror for 2017 is Virginia Kistler who has a Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University and Master of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and photography while using a variety of media.
Deadline: 11:59pm, Thursday, July 27, 2017
For more information click here.

Ongoing Calls

CPAC and Creative Compass

The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture of Cleveland, OH, has an online platform for artists to connect with other artists and create a community called the Creative Compass. This website allows artists to build their connections and share information to contribute to each artist’s success.
More information here

SPACES Call for Exhibition Entries

SPACELab
SPACES exhibition series
SPACES strongly encourages experimental, site-specific works that challenge the artist and interact with the public. The series features emerging and student artists and continuously reviews applications year round. SPACES is located in Cleveland, OH.
www.spacesgallery.org

Grants/Fellowships/Residencies/Nominations

Self-Directed Artist Residencies: Art, Design, or Photography Production – including sculpture
Summer and Fall Sessions in Southern Mexico

Arquetopia Foundation in Puebla, Southern Mexico, offers directed sessions of 4 to 12 weeks during Summer or Fall in the majestic central historic district of Puebla.EXAMPLES OF TECHNIQUES OFFERED (BUT NOT LIMITED TO THESE)
Drawing • Painting • Paper • Printmaking • Graphic design • Textiles • Sculpture • Ceramics • Mexican ceramics (Talavera, loza vidriada) • Wood carving • Performance • Ephemeral (including food and other perishable materials) • Photography: digital photography and alternative photographic processes • Digital media • Design and illustration. Spaces are limited. Committee processes all residency applications when they are received vs. after the deadline has passed.
Apply here: http://www.arquetopia.org/our-artist-residencies/art-design-or-photography-residency
Deadline for 2017 past

Job Postings

There are no Job Posting at this time.

The Sculpture Center

EXTENDED
Cleveland Sculptors Network
Call for sculptors and artists who work across media
Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with artist Steve Locke
on June 11 at The Sculpture Center
Call extended through May 21 at midnight

CLOSED – Call for Artists
After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
juried by Steve Locke with cash awards
on view June 9-August 4

W2S 2019 Call for Artists will open Fall 2017

Other Institutions’ Calls for Artists/Proposals/Symposia/Residencies

Calls

Ongoing Calls

Grants/Fellowships/Residencies/Nominations

Job Postings

Main and Euclid Ave Gallery Hours

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The Sculpture Center

EXTENDED Cleveland Sculptors Network Call for sculptors and artists who work across media Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with artist Steve Locke on June 11 at The Sculpture Center Call extended through May 21 at midnight

CLOSED – Call for Artists After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region juried by Steve Locke with cash awards on view June 9-August 4

W2S 2019 Call for Artists will open Fall 2017

Other Institutions’ Calls for Artists/Proposals/Symposia/Residencies

Calls

Ongoing Calls

Grants/Fellowships/Residencies/Nominations

Job Postings

Main and Euclid Ave Gallery Hours

Office Hours

EXTENDED
Cleveland Sculptors Network
Call for sculptors and artists who work across media
Master Reviews & Collective Discussion with artist Steve Locke
on June 11 at The Sculpture Center
Call extended through May 21 at midnight

CLOSED – Call for Artists
After the Pedestal, the 10th exhibition of small sculpture from the region
juried by Steve Locke with cash awards
on view June 9-August 4