Call for Artists: Loss, Redemption, and Grace

What is your response to grief? Have you spoken to loss through artistic expression? Have you been inspired to answer injustice with the energy of creation?

This juried exhibition at EBD4 in Atlanta, invites artists to share their own interpretations and expressions of how they have channeled creative forces in response to loss, redemption, and grace.

The exhibition runs from June 8 – July 20, 2019, with an opening reception on Saturday June 8. Elyse Defoor, director of EBD4, will serve as curator. Jerry Cullum, Ph.D., and Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Ph.D., will serve as jurors. Three cash awards totaling $800 will be given for Best in Show, 1st place and 2nd place.

Where:
EBD4 is a creative industrial space that brings a fresh, creative vibe to metro Atlanta’s contemporary art scene. It offers a platform to examine edgy, daring and thought-provoking contemporary artwork often unavailable in a traditional gallery setting.
www.EBD4.com

Curator:  Elyse Defoor
In her 25-year art career, Defoor’s focus as a curator has been to usher both emerging and under-represented artists in solo and group exhibitions at EBD4 and the Arts Exchange. Her own work has been exhibited in Atlanta, New York City, and throughout the American South. In 2018, she presented a large-scale installation of “Unbridled” in a solo exhibition at the City of Atlanta's Gallery 72.

“Loss, Redemption, and Grace” stems from Elyse Defoor’s first solo exhibition, “Talking Back”, at Callanwolde Arts Center in Atlanta. This series was an exploration of grief following her brother’s murder in 1999. Now, as she marks the 20th anniversary of his senseless death, she is inviting others to share artistic interpretations relating to their own response to personal or public loss as pathways to redemption and grace.

Jurors:
Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Ph.D.: Bramlette Reeves is director of curatorial affairs at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University. Her education in curatorial work began in graduate school at Virginia Commonwealth University where she worked for the Anderson Gallery. This experience led to jobs in New York at Artist Space, the Guggenheim Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She was formerly the assistant director of The New York Kunsthalle and gallery director and curator for the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, as well as a Senior Lecturer at Georgia State University. In addition to her curatorial and teaching experience, she is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited and represented internationally.

Jerry William Cullum, Ph.D.: Cullum is an award-winning art critic and curator whose reviews and essays have appeared in Art in America, ArtPapers, ArtsATL and Burnaway. The first recipient of the Nexus Award from The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Cullum holds a BA in Literature from Eckerd College, a MA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. from Emory University’s Institute of the Liberal Arts. An accomplished poet, his work has been published in numerous printed poetry collections and audio presentations.

Awards:
Best in Show: $500
First Place: $200
Second Place: $100
Two Honorable Mentions

Entry Deadline:
Deadline for all applications is Sunday March 31, 2019, 11:59 pm. EST

Notifications:
Accepted Artists will be notified through CaFE by April 15, 2019.
Detailed information regarding delivery dates will be sent to the accepted artists at that time.

Eligibility:
This is a juried exhibition for American artists, 18 years of age or older.

Fees:
$40.00. Three (3) images are required for this call for entry. $10 for each additional image. Entry is limited to (5) five images total.

Sales/Commissions:
All artwork must be priced for sale. The price represented on the artist entry form must include the EBD4 50% sales commission. No changes will be allowed.
Note: Artwork cannot be withdrawn, nor sales shipped, before the end of the exhibit.

Submission Specifications & Requirements:
• Only original works may be submitted.
• Media: Only wall-mounted works of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, wall mounted sculpture, textiles, mixed media, and collage may be submitted.
• Size: Artwork not to exceed 80” high (100lb maximum) and crating must fit through a doorway that is 34” wide x 80” high.
• Year created: (Excellent art has no expiration date. There is no date restriction.)
• Brief artist statement (200-word maximum) required.

Presentation:
Framing: All artwork must be suitably framed to a professional standard. All framed work must use Plexiglas, except hand-delivered work less than 24” x 30”. Wall mounted sculpture, canvas and wood panels do not require a frame. No clip frames, saw-tooth hangers or taped edges are permitted. 

Hanging and labels: Work must be wired or have a cleat attachment and be ready for hanging. A label must be affixed to the back of the work that indicates which end is the top and includes the following: Artist Name, Title, Medium, Dimensions, and Price. This information must correspond with the accepted image as listed on the notification form. No artwork may be substituted.

Shipping:
Artists will be responsible for delivery and return shipping of all their artwork. The artist assumes all responsibility for insuring artwork against shipping damage or loss.

Liability:
Site: EBD4 is not responsible for any damage, breakage, replacement or cost associated with any damage or breakage that may have occurred during transport or unpacking the work. Every precaution will be taken in handling the work, but EBD4 assumes no liability for any loss or damage to any artist’s work while in our care, custody or control, before, during or after the exhibition. Each artist, if they wish, needs to provide their own insurance.

Contact/Questions:
Please direct all questions to EBD4arts@gmail.com

Entry Agreement:
With the submission of artwork into the “Loss, Redemption, and Grace” exhibition, the artist agrees to all the terms and conditions set forth in this prospectus.

Application Requirements

Eligibility Criteria