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Call for Submissions: CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival
Call for Submissions: CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023
Festival Dates: June 14 – 23, 2024
Every summer since 2010, CURRENTS New Media presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, CURRENTS brings together the work of established and emerging new media artists from the USA and around the world.
This year’s submission categories include:
Installations (Interactive and non-interactive)
Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Environments
AI/Artist Collaboration
Robotics/Kinetic/Electro-Mechanical Objects and Installations
Multimedia Performance
Digitally Generated or Fabricated Objects
Wearables
Interactive Installations for Children
Outdoor Installations and Projections
Experimental Single Channel Video/Experimental Documentary/Animation
Submission Fee: – $25/single, $20 each/multiple
To begin the submission process go HERE
Our Mission:
We are an annual art + technology festival, year-round exhibition/experience space, and non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. We support 21st Century art making and innovative creatives. Our festival, educational programs, and exhibition space give the public year-round access to immersive and expansive art experiences.
The Festival is the result of a collaboration between Parallel Studios, its partners throughout the city and the many volunteers who invest their time to support this project.
Sky | Juried Art Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our juried art exhibition and competition, Sky.
All artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their work in any medium, style, and genre.
Acceptable mediums include all traditional art media (e.g., oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, gouache, egg tempera, pen and ink; drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, scratch board, markers, metal point), digital painting, arts and crafts (beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).
All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at upwardgallery.com.
The winners are interviewed by the UPWARD Gallery editors for publication in the printed edition UPWARD’s Quarterly and on our site.
Each entrant of the competition receives a personal page in the UPWARD gallery. Selected works will be featured in curated galleries on our site. All entrants will receive digital certificates based on the results of the competition.
Entry fee: $12 for entry, $10 (2-4 entries), $9 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/65/sky for a full information.
Call for Artists Qualifications, Veterans Memorial Park Public Art, City of Carlsbad, CA
The City of Carlsbad’s Library & Cultural Arts Department seeks to qualify an artist or artist team to enter into an agreement to develop a site-integrated artwork for the Veterans Memorial Park (Capital Improvement Program, Project No. 4609) is located on 93.7 acres, near the intersection of Faraday Avenue and Cannon Road, Carlsbad, California. The park’s permanent public art featured prominently on the upper plateau, where visitors can enjoy views of the lagoon, ocean and golf course. As a site-specific piece, the public art will serve as a truly special way to honor and evoke the spirit of those who have served our country.
The City of Carlsbad Veterans Memorial Park site is located southeast of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon. It’s bordered on the west and south by Faraday Avenue, to the north by Whitman Way, and to the southeast by the Macario Canyon and Veterans Memorial Park Open Space Preserves. The site is 93.7 acres of which 48 acres are developable. The reminder of the site is protected habitat. The topography of the site is characterized by gentle south to southwest facing slopes. The Parks Department worked with RJM Design firm to develop the Veterans Memorial Park Master Plan which is the basis of design for entitlements and construction documents and reflects the community’s recreational desires while balancing park development in a way that is sensitive to the surrounding natural habitat.
The total budget for the artwork is not to exceed $350,000.
The Call for Artists Qualifications is established professional artists residing and eligible to work in the United States. Special consideration will be placed to those artists who have served in the military services or who have immediate family connections to those who have served our country.
Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023 by 4 p.m. (PDT)
Seeking Artists for Walmart Community Mural Program
Seeking Artists for Walmart Community Mural Program
Calling artists nationwide to create art that celebrates communities.
Selected artists paid compensation. Read details & submit RFQ below.
Rolling Application Deadline: September 30, 2023. This RFQ process and curation is lead by NOW Art, a public art agency.
About the Program
Walmart Community Mural Program is a celebration of communities across America and an important part of a new or newly transformed facility. Inspired by the community and together with every store manager, each mural reflects the local diversity and cultural references. Every mural is a unique, original artwork. Walmart works with NOW Art, a public art agency, to curate artworks and engage artists across the country. Today, community murals are featured in hundreds of Walmart stores, and original artworks are unveiled weekly in newly transformed stores.
Artists Across the Country
Since its inception, this program has connected local artists with communities across the country. These murals are a chance for artists to have their work seen by the thousands of people who visit Walmart stores every day. We are looking for artists who can bring each community’s unique story to life.
Details
This opportunity is with NOW Art directly to be included in our pre-qualified directory of artists for mural commissions. To participate in this program and be selected we are considering artists who create compositions in the following styles: contemporary, street art, illustration, landscape and watercolor.
This will not require any onsite work. Artists will create the designs remotely and submit the work digitally in high-resolution format, and our organization prints and installs their work in the stores. The selected works will be significantly enlarged, so detail and an understanding of scale are key.
Compensation
Compensation for the mural will be up to $800 – $1,000 per project. Artists must be able to create a render within a week. Artists of all ages, levels of experience, and talent are welcome. Inclusion in the directory does not guarantee a mural commission.
How to Apply
If interested, please fill out the Request for Qualifications at the link. There will be introductory Zoom interviews for artists we would like to move forward with.
Rolling Application Deadline: September 30, 2023
Goldilocks Zone: $500 for Authors/Artists
Sunspot Lit seeks a story, essay, excerpt from longer prose pieces, artwork, graphic novel, or poem that combines excellence in craft with reader or audience appeal. Feedback for fiction and nonfiction submissions available for additional fee. Prize: $500 cash and publication for the winner; publication for runners-up and finalists. Closes September 30, 2023. Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/269320/goldilocks-zone-2023-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/form.aspx?id=LEAD98D-LIXJW-LeLV84G.
