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528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition 2020
Entry Deadline: 9/30/19
Application Closed

Entry Fee (528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition 2020): $35.00
Work Sample Requirements
Images | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Audio | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 3
Video | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 3
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: Regional
State: Colorado

The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition is open to artists residing within a 528.0 mile radius of Denver, Colorado. This exhibition will be sponsored by the Invisible Museum and take place at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, Colorado. The number 5,280 refers to Denver’s status as the Mile High City. This exhibition seeks to celebrate the expansive diversity of contemporary printmaking found within this western region. It will fill the Arvada Center’s Main Gallery, a nearly 6,000 square foot space, and at the same time in the Arvada Center’s other two exhibition spaces, an exhibition of Print Educators of Colorado will take place, all in conjunction with Denver’s Month Of Printmaking (March 2020).

Eligible Artworks 

The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition 2020 aims to highlight both traditional and alternative printmaking methods being used in the field of contemporary printmaking. Submissions must utilize a form of traditional hand printed media as their primary technique but may include digital output elements within the greater work. Artwork submissions may include but are not limited to: monoprint, monotype, screen print, intaglio, photopolymer, photogravure, collagraph, stone or plate lithography, woodcut, linocut, steamroller, letterpress, and book-arts. Book-arts submissions must contain printed artworks and cannot be blank journals or inkjet-based text blocks. Any oversized steamroller prints accepted will require installation instructions provided by the artist. Installation, mixed media, video**, and audio work** will be considered if it includes the use of hand-pulled prints and is accompanied by detailed presentation/installation instructions and images within your application. Finished artworks that are composed solely of inkjet, risograph, photocopy, laser engraving, or giclée reproductions will not be accepted. For questions regarding eligible artwork, please contact galleries@arvadacenter.org

**The Arvada Center has basic projectors, media players, and an assortment of TV screens. Please describe how best your new media work would be displayed. If you would like to provide equipment, that is also an option.

About the Arvada Center Galleries:

Galleries at the Arvada Center host a dozen or more fine art exhibitions each year in three distinctive galleries with 10,000 square feet of space. The Arvada Center prides itself on keeping its exhibitions free and open to the public seven days a week, something that it has done since inception in 1976.

The Arvada Center galleries are open Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. The galleries remain open until 7:30 p.m. on evenings with theatre performances.

arvadacenter.org/galleries

The Invisible Museum is a consortium of thinkers assembled to facilitate projects in the visual arts that would not otherwise be imagined, proposed or completed. Its invisibility stems from its ability to make what was formerly invisible or at least unseen – visible. In addition, the Invisible Museum encourages exhibitions, symposiums and critical discussions in a variety of spaces and places.

The Month of Printmaking Denver (Mo’Print) is a celebration of the art of making original prints to inspire, educate and promote awareness through a variety of public events and exhibitions in Denver and the metropolitan region. 

Jurors

Brandon Gunn is the Education Director at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM, responsible for training printers from around the world in every aspect of lithography and collaboration. He has previously taught printmaking at Illinois State University, Santa Fe Community College, Concordia University in Montreal, Brigham Young University Idaho, and Indiana University in Bloomington. He holds a BFA from Brigham Young University, MFA from Illinois State University, and Tamarind Master Printer certificate from Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, and has worked and studied with numerous renowned printers and artists. In addition to his teaching and personal artistic practice, Brandon works collaboratively with world-renowned artists and institutions to create fine art lithographic editions for public and private collections.

 

Karen Kunc is a Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has taught since 1983. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her MFA from Ohio State University.  Her awards include Fulbright Scholar Awards to Finland and Bangladesh; two National Endowment for the Arts awards; the 2007 Southern Graphics Council International Printmaker Emeritus Award; Nebraska Arts Council Master Award 1992; Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship 1982.  Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, recently: the National Academy Museum, NY; Art that Binds, Sheldon Museum of Art; Polychromatic Perspectives, Davidson Galleries, Seattle; Krakow Print Triennial, Poland; Excellence, L’Estampille Gallery, Chamalieries, France; Invisible Cities, Ca’ Zenobio, Venice, Italy.  

Her prints and artists books are in numerous public collections:  Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Library of Congress; New York Public Library; Stanford University; Milwaukee Art Museum; Haas Arts Library Yale University; Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland; Huntington Museum, WV; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Zimmerlie Art Museum Rutgers University; Cleveland Museum of Art; Honolulu Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum; Walker Art Center Library Collection. 

She has taught workshops around the world, in Egypt, Italy, Finland, Poland, Japan, France, Mexico, Iceland, Bangladesh, Spain; and she has lectured as a visiting artist to over 200 institutions, including: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, University of Tennessee, University of Georgia, Cornell University, American University Cairo, Academy of Art Helsinki Finland, University of Virginia, Kyoto Seika University Japan.

In 2014 she opened Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska, as a creative work-site for print, paper, and book, inviting artists for residencies, workshops, print publishing and project collaborations, and features exhibitions and community activities to further creativity and culture.

Collin Parson currently serves as the Director of Galleries and Curator for the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in Arvada, Colorado and is a former member at the historic Pirate: Contemporary Art cooperative and a past artist-in-residence at RedLine Denver. An arts administrator, artist, curator, and designer he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Design and Technology with an emphasis in Lighting and Scene Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master of Arts in Visual Culture and Arts Administration from Regis University in Denver. Over his tenure at the Arvada Center, he has curated well over 100 hundred exhibitions in a range of concepts, media, and artistic styles. He has had the privilege of jurying many arts festivals and exhibitions throughout the region and has received many awards and recognition for his creative projects. He was awarded 100 Colorado Creatives by Westword magazine in 2013 and has been featured innumerous regional publications and broadcasts. Growing up in a family of artists in Denver, Colorado, Collin is proud to be continuing the educational and creative traditions. 
 

Submissions Guidelines – Please read thoroughly before beginning your application!

 Applicants must reside within the circle that extends approximately 528.0 miles out from Denver, Colorado. For the purposes of this exhibit it will include the entire states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. In addition, Northwest Arizona including Flagstaff; Northwest Texas including Amarillo, Lubbock, and Wichita Falls; Oklahoma west of Tulsa; the southwest quarter of North Dakota including Bismarck and Dickinson; Southeastern Montana including Bozeman and Billings (not Missoula or Butte); Southeastern Idaho including Idaho Falls and Pocatello; and Iowa including Sioux City and Council Bluffs. Please email galleries@arvadacenter.org if you are unsure if you reside within the allowed area.

  •  There are no size limitations on artworks that can be submitted
  •  If accepted, all artworks must arrive framed and gallery-ready. Wire or d-rings must be installed on all 2D, framed artwork, and installation, video, and audio works must be accompanied by a description of desired equipment** (if necessary) and installation process.
  • All submissions must be made online via callforentry.org – No paper or emailed applications will be considered
  • Shipping instructions will be sent to accepted artists at the time of notification of acceptance. Shipped artworks should arrive no later than December 20, 2019.
  • All shipping and shipping insurance costs to and from the Arvada Center are the responsibility of the artist. Return shipping must be arranged by the artist by March 20, 2020. A prepaid return shipping label included with original shipment is preferred. Artworks will be returned in the packing materials in which they arrived. If the cost of returned shipping is not arranged by the artist by March 20, 2020, the package will be returned COD.
  • Artworks may be for sale during the exhibition. Artists will receive 50% of sale proceeds. Arvada Center will retain 25% of sales, the Invisible Museum will retain 25% of sales. Sale proceeds will be paid to the artist within 30 days of the end of the exhibition.
  • Any artworks not for sale must be accompanied by a fair market value insurance value. All artworks, whether for sale or not, will be insured while on the Arvada Center’s property, the Arvada Center is not responsible for shipping insurance. Artworks for sale will be insured for their wholesale value (50% of retail value).

The Arvada Center reserves the right to all final curatorial, educational, and promotional decisions, and reserves the right not to exhibit any piece that is not faithfully represented in its application, arrives damaged, is not properly prepared for exhibition, or is deemed too fragile for effective display.

Awards:

3 Cash awards will be given to Jurors Choice recipients (1 per juror). Other awards may also be given.

  • Awagami Paper Award - 50 Sheet of Awagami Editioning Paper ($300 value). This award will be selected after the exhibition opens. 

Important Dates:

  • Call for Entry deadline: Monday, September 30, 2019 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (late entries will not be considered)
  • Notification to all artists via email: November 1, 2019
  • Artwork delivery or shipment deadline: December 20, 2019
  • Exhibit opens: Thursday, January 16, 2020
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., Free and open to the public
  • Last day of Exhibition: March 29, 2020
  • Work returned to artists: Week of March 30, 2020

Application Requirements

Eligibility Criteria