CALL FOR ENTRY: Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation into Contemporary Identities at the Hartmann Center Gallery, November 16 – December 10, 2015. Due October 1, 2015.

The Bradley University Women’s and Gender Studies Committee, in collaboration with
the Bradley University Galleries, will host the exhibition Gendered Perspectives: An
Investigation into Contemporary Identities at the Hartmann Center Gallery, November 16
– December 10, 2015. Artists whose work addresses issues of gender and identity are
asked to submit works. Works that explore the personal, political, environmental,
economic, and social aspects of gender are highly encouraged.

The goals of the exhibition include (1) bringing awareness to contemporary gender
issues; (2) creating a platform for discussion of gender, gendered spaces, and gender
dynamics; and (3) raise funds to support the programming and benefit the students of
Bradley University Women’s and Gender Studies.
Works from all mediums including, but not limited to, photography, painting, drawing,
printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts, and video will be considered. Artists may
submit up to 5 works via email at genderedperspectives2015@gmail.com.

Submission Guidelines:
-Images and artist statements should be submitted in one email.
-Still images must be submitted in JPG format, at 72 dpi with 1280 dpi on the longest
side.
-Video submissions should include a link to a URL or Dropbox file
-Include numbered submissions in body of email to correspond to attached file along with
title, medium, size, and date
-All submission files should be labeled with the artist’s last name and number (Smith_1)
-An artist statement should be included in the body of the email (500 word max.)
-Student artists must submit image of student ID with the email submission
-Artists who submit video or multimedia work will be required to supply their own A/V
equipment
-All works must fit through a double door and weigh less than 75 lbs.
-Any works that require special hanging should be noted in the submission email
-Artists whose work require unusual or challenging installations must be able to travel to
Peoria for the installation
-Submission Deadline: October 1st at 11:59 p.m. central time zone
Entry Fees:
- Entry Fee for five (5)works - $25
- Student Entry Fee (for those enrolled during the Fall 2015 semester in undergraduate or
graduate programs) - $10

Payment
Payments can be made via check, money order, or credit card. Checks and money orders
should be made payable to Bradley University Galleries. Credit card payments accepted
by telephone at 309-677-2967.
Mail Entry Fees to:
Erin Buczynski
Director of Bradley Galleries
Bradley University
1501 W. Bradley Avenue
Peoria, IL 61625

Shipping and Work Drop-Off Guidelines
Artists are responsible for transporting their work to and from the gallery. All shipped
works must be packages in reusable materials (no Styrofoam peanuts) and include a
prepaid return shipping label. Works that do not arrive at the gallery with a return
shipping label will not be returned. Works will be insured during the exhibition but not
in transit. Artists are responsible for procuring insurance to cover work during shipping.
Artists who live in the greater Peoria region are invited to drop off their works between
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. to the Art Department office in the Heuser Art Center on November
9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th. Please note that the office is closed for lunch between 12-1 pm.

Jurors
Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and
community. She has been photographing within queer and trans* communities for the
past decade and is deeply committed to the transformative power of photographic
portraiture. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent
collections of several major museums. Her first monograph, Every breath we drew, was
published in September 2015 by Daylight Books and coincided with a solo museum
exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park,
Florida. She is the recipient of a 2015 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Jess is
represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL and Gallery Kayafas in
Boston, MA.

Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator with an interest in issues of
constructed gender, sexism, power dynamics, and stereotypes. She earned her MFA in
Visual Studies from Visual Studies Workshop. Her work has been exhibited at The
Griffin Museum of Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Newspace
Gallery, Workspace Gallery, Morean Arts Center, and the Cander Field Museum and at
numerous colleges and universities. LeJeune has served as juror for The Inland
Experience SPE Women's Caucus exhibition, The Peoria Art Guild's Fine Art Fair,
and Herstory at the Mercer Gallery in Rochester, NY. She currently serves as head of the
undergraduate and graduate photography programs at Bradley University.

Juror’s Talk and Opening Reception
An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, November 19th from 6-8 p.m. at the
Hartmann Center Gallery. Jess T Dugan will give a juror’s talk at 6:30 p.m.. We invite
all artists to attend the event and celebrate this momentous exhibition.
Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: October 1st
Notification to artists: October 10th
Artwork delivered to Bradley University: November 9th - 12th
Exhibition Dates: November 16th – December 10th
Opening Reception: November 19th 6-8 p.m.
Return shipping and artwork pick up: beginning December 14th

For more information: http://www.bradley.edu/academic/departments/wms/news/story.dot?id=b9acddbf-3870-4881-9469-3aec75c4cbed

CALL FOR ENTRY: 1st Annual Excellence in Fibers Exhibition, Due October 1, 2015.

Excellence in Fibers is an innovative juried exhibition. Selected works will appear in the First Annual Excellence in Fibers catalog which will be presented to curators and directors of 50+ museums and galleries that feature fiber work and a select group of fiber and fine craft collectors. It also will be integrated into the special expanded issue of Fiber Art Now, a subscriber-supported publication that also is sold on over 400 Barnes & Noble newsstands in the US, 200+ Chapters Books in Canada, and select newsstands in the UK.

Important Dates

Submission form opens: July 1, 2015
Submission deadline: October 1, 2015
Notification: by October 15, 2015
Exhibition Catalog Release: December 10, 2015

Jurors

David Revere McFadden

Jane Sauer

John Hopper

Lena Vigna

Entry Requirements

• Entries must be original work completed after January, 2012.
• Artists must be 18 years of age or older.
• Collaborative works will receive recognition as one entry.
• Work of any size will be accepted. Please note that the impact of installation work is severely limited by the print medium.
• Work must be original in concept and design and not be the result of a class or workshop.
• All work must be either fiber in content or executed in a fiber technique.
• Each artist may submit up to three artworks.

Submission of Digital Images

Submit one overall digital image and one detail digital image for each artwork.
Digital images must be saved as a high quality JPEG file (No TIFF files).
Finished images should be at least 3000 pixels on the longest side.

Catalog

Excellence in Fibers is a print exhibition. A full color catalog of the exhibition will be published within the winter, 2016 issue ofFiber Art Now magazine. It is essential that the image provided is of a quality that will reproduce accurately and meet the high standards of a professional art publication. Exhibiting artists will receive a complimentary copy. Catalogs will also be available for purchase.

Fees

Subscribers to Fiber Art Now magazine $30, Non-subscribers $40

For More Information

If you have any questions, please contact Submissions Fiber Art Now at submissions@fiberartnow.net. If you have technical questions about the on-line system, please contact Lisa Ellis at lisa@ellisquilts.com.

To Apply:

http://fiberartnowentry.net/

Tim Gunn will be speaking at Jesse Auditorium on September 24 at 7:30pm for the Delta Gamma Lectureship based on ethics and values.

Tim Gunn is the Emmy-winning co-host and mentor for Lifetime’s Project Runway. He worked as Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne Inc, and was a member of the administration and faculty at Parsons School of Design for 29 years.

In August 2000, Gunn was appointed Chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons, and under his direction, helped transform the institution into an indispensable leader in fashion design education in America.

In addition to his prominent role in the world of fashion, Gunn is a New York Times best-selling author.  He recently released his fourth book, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating and Making It Work!

Gunn’s speech will focus on imparting lessons from his personal experiences including mentorship, teaching, learning, bullying and diversity…and of course from behind the scenes at Project Runway!

Tickets are free for MU Students with a student ID, and $20 for the general public. Tickets are available at the MSA/GPC Box Office on Mizzou's campus. They are also available on Ticketmaster.

http://boxoffice.missouri.edu/event/tim-gunn/
http://deltagammalectureship.missouri.edu

CALL FOR EXHIBITIONS: Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium

CALL FOR EXHIBITIONS

Savannah, Georgia, October 19th – 23rd, 2016

Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium

Organized in collaboration with Savannah College of Art and Design.

Timeline

Submission process opens: May 1, 2015

Abstract Submission Deadline October 1st, 2015

Notification of Acceptance to Presenters and 1st round exhibition proposals (via email): December 15, 2015

Deadline for presenters to submit need-based fee-waiver applications: January 7, 2016

Deadline for 2nd round exhibition proposals: February 12, 2016

Notification of Acceptance of 2nd round exhibition proposals: March 15, 2016

Deadline to Confirm Participation: March 15th, 2016

Registration Opens: May 16th, 2016

Deadline for Presenters to Register: June 15th, 2016

Apply here: https://textilesociety.submittable.com/submit/35107

Organizers (artists / curators) are encouraged to submit proposals for group exhibitions that focus on the theme, Crosscurrents: Land, Labor and the Port as outlined in the Call for Papers. Proposals may be for exhibitions of contemporary work, ethnographic, and/or historical textiles or a combination. Contemporary textile art is widely defined to include 2D, 3D, site-specific installation, video, and performance-based work. Indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces are available.

Eligibility is the same as for other submission categories. The exhibition organizers must be TSA members at the time of submission and proposals will be blind juried by a panel of peers. If accepted, it is understood that the organizer(s) will register and participate in the 2016 Symposium. Organizers are also encouraged to coordinate a panel discussion of exhibiting artists, academic papers, or a roundtable. Where appropriate, these sessions may be held in the space of the exhibition.

Submissions will be handled in two parts. First the organizer(s) submit a project description with images. Submissions that are selected will be sent details of the potential exhibition space including architectural plans. In the second phase, organizers will work to formalize the project through drawings/layout and expanded project proposal. The exhibition spaces vary in size and type of facilities available (i.e. height of ceilings, natural light, installation assistance, museum quality lighting and environmental controls).

To ensure safe handling of materials and quality of display, all formalized (2nd stage) project proposals must be approved by the exhibition committee in conjunction with the staff at the exhibiting location. The exhibition coordinator will act as a facilitator between organizer(s) and exhibition venues. Each venue will work with the exhibition organizer(s) to work out the details of a site specific contract and the insurance of artworks while on site (TSA will not provide shipping, insurance for art works, or artist fees).

TSA will provide a listing & map of all participating exhibitions and venues and will publicize the exhibitions.

Shipping of work will be at the expense of the artist and or organizers(s). Organizers proposing site- specific work and those requiring special handling are expected to be on-site for installation. Proposals requiring engineer documents must be handled by the submitting body and approved by the exhibition location. We encourage exhibition organizers to apply for outside funding to support installation, shipping, and artist participation. TSA offers financial assistance to Symposium attendees through a competitive fee-waiver application (details online). If additional opportunities for exhibition-related funds become available we will let exhibition organizers know.

http://textilesocietyofamerica.org/symposia-2016/

Academic Program Co-Chairs:

Jessica Smith, Professor of Fibers, Savannah College of Art and Design (jrsmith@scad.edu)

Susan Falls, Professor of Anthropology, Savannah College of Art and Design (sfalls@scad.edu)

Sheila Hicks, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Always temporary. Always contemporary. September 11, 2015 - December 27, 2015.

Sheila Hicks, Voyage of Serpentina, 1985. Linen, silk, wool, and synthetic fibers, 19 pieces, approximately 34 x 54 inches each. Courtesy Saint Louis Art Museum.

Paris-based American artist Sheila Hicks has been creating hand-woven, abstract fiber-based installations and sculptures for nearly sixty years. From large-scale commissions to gallery exhibitions, her multifaceted practice traverses the spheres of commercial production and fine art and simultaneously references indigenous traditions from around the world. The artist plays with and builds on classical textile techniques—weaving, crocheting, dyeing, spinning—to develop her own experimental and idiosyncratic style, incorporating natural fibers, synthetic blends, and even everyday office supplies. Hicks’s tactile objects and installations of riotous color and breathtaking form expand fiber’s kinship to both painting and sculpture.

Featuring works from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition brings together major works from private collections and the Saint Louis Art Museum with recent examples of the artist’s ongoing series of small-scale portable weavings, or minimes. The works on view exemplify a number of formal leitmotifs that Hicks has returned to over the years. Modular arrangements recur throughout her practice, as in The Evolving Tapestry: Blue (1967–68), a collection of twenty-five woven units of fringed linen and silk and Voyage of Serpentina (1985), comprising nineteen stuffed and knotted silk tubes and brightly colored skeins of fiber. Her ongoing interest in the relationship between painting, sculpture, and textile media is explored in works like Masonry Panel (1981) and Forêt de Lin Wall Hanging (c. 1968, reconstructed 1983), a large-scale diptych of undyed, wet-spun linen tassels that cascades off the wall in a reinterpretation of bas-relief. Other works demonstrate Hicks’s playful adaptation of quotidian materials and interest in industrial design. The minime Ringlets (1993), for instance, is made of intertwined multicolored rubber bands and paper clips and also serves as a study for larger objects. Still other works incorporate elements of the natural world, including feathers and porcupine quills. Together, these works map a cross-section of Hicks’s practice over the last fifty years and exemplify her masterful and ongoing articulation of color, materiality, space, and scale.

Sheila Hicks (b. 1934, Hastings, Nebraska) lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Foray into Chromatic Zones at the Hayward Gallery, London (2015), and L'État du Ciel at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014). The major survey Sheila Hicks: 50 Years debuted at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 2010 and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina in 2011. Hicks’s work has been widely exhibited in major group exhibitions including Threadlines, The Drawing Center, New York (2014); The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); and Fiber: Sculpture 1969–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa) (2014–15).Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; the Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto; and many others. Hicks is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal (2010), Officier des Arts et des Lettres, France (1996), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Sheila Hicks is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator.

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 10, a regional collaborative event celebrating fiber art.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
3750 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
(314) 535-4660
info@camstl.org
http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/sheila-hicks/

Art Department Chair, Jo Stealey featured in Material Revival, at Edwardsville Arts Center.

September 11 to October 16, 2015
Opening Reception:  Friday, September 18, 6-8 pm

Artist talk on Sunday, October 4 between 3 and 5 pm.
The talk is part of Fiber East Self Guided Tour
which will also visit galleries in Alton, IL.

Artists:
Erin Cork Woolfolk
Sarah Gillespie
Jo Stealey
Laura Strand
Erin Vigneau Dimick
Pat Vivod - curator

Material Revival renews and celebrates a collaboration, begun 4 years ago for Innovations 9, between friends and colleagues who share a student/teacher/mentor relationship and who strive for a collective conversation that will take them out of their comfort zones to expand how they work conceptually, materially and how they think about their work. Erin Cork Woolfolk, Jo Stealey, Laura Strand, Erin Vigneau Dimick, and curator Pat Vivod are joined this year by new member Sarah Gillespie in the challenge to create inspired new bodies of work by integrating the shared materials from each other’s studios into their own work.


Material Revival is part of Innovations in Textiles 10.

Hours:
Wednesday – Friday, 10 AM – 4PM
Saturday, 11 AM – 3 PM
Sunday – Tuesday, Closed

6165 Center Grove Road
Edwardsville, IL 62025
*On the Campus of Edwardsville High School

Telephone: (618) 655-0337
Email: office@edwardsvilleartscenter.com