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Entry Fee (Artworks Center for Contemporary Art): $40.00
Images | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 8
Video | Minimum:Min. 0, Maximum:Max. 3
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 11
Eligibility: International
State: Colorado
Out of Place, Out of Bounds: An International Exhibition of Fiber
What does it mean to be “out of place”? Places hold particular connotations for individuals. “It’s my place.” “Take your place.” The place you are from. The place you wish to go. The place where you can dream. Thoughts of time and identity are wrapped into the word “place”. Are we bound in place? Certainly in the last year many felt this to be true. But, what happens when a sense of place is not ours — when we are “out of bounds”? When we no longer have a place to dream?
This exhibition calls for artists working with fiber or fiber techniques to recall, contextualize, and give form to ideas about belonging or not belonging to a place. Places can embody time, thoughts, physical places, metaphorical places. What happens when we reach beyond the places we inhabit? What happens when we cross geographical or mental boundaries? What becomes of us when we are “out of bounds”? Artists are encouraged to submit high-quality works that consider conditions of location and journeys through space that philosopher Gaston Bachelard described as an “exploration of the recesses of the psyche, the hallways of the mind.”
Exhibition Dates: July 9- August 28Notification: June 4
Jurors:
Tom Lundberg is a visual artist who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Art & Art History at Colorado State University, where he coordinated the program in fibers. Lundberg has lectured and led workshops in the United States, England, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and South Korea. Lundberg began university studies at Iowa State University, apprenticed with potter Clary Illian, and completed his BFA in painting at the University of Iowa. Lundberg received his MFA in textiles from Indiana University. His embroideries are exhibited internationally and are in collections of New York’s Museum of Art and Design; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Arkansas Arts Center; Indianapolis Museum of Art; State of New Mexico Art in Public Places; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; Racine Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of Louisville; and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Denver. His work was showcased in a feature exhibition at the 2019 International Fiber Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, South Korea.
Steven Frost (they/them) is an instructor in the Department of Media Studies, an interdisciplinary fiber artist, and the Faculty Director of the B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on textiles, memes, queer history, pop culture, and community development in DIY spaces and libraries. In his studio practice, he often combines traditional materials like wool and cotton with non-traditional materials from a range of sources, exploring the ways history and time are embedded in materials. His artworks evoke specific narratives and stories, referencing aspects of his personal and family history, and the history of the LGBTQIA+ people, among other topics. In workshops and interactive performance events, he works to amplify marginalized voices and foster communities to produce their own forms of representation.
Frost has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), Basement Projects (Santa Ana, CA), CU Boulder Art Museum (Boulder, CO), 350 E 3rd/ ArtX (Long Beach, CA), Robert Bills Contemporary (Chicago, IL), Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN), and Pleasant Plains Workshop (Washington, DC) and in group exhibitions at Union Hall Gallery (Denver, CO), the Center for Visual Arts (Denver, CO), Alto Gallery (Denver, CO), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (Rancho Cucamonga, CA), Imersten (Vienna, Austria), ACRE Gallery (Chicago, IL), Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), and the AU Museum at the Katzen (Washington, DC) among other venues. He’s recently taught workshops at the Art Student’s League (Denver, CO), Redline Contemporary Art Center (Denver, CO), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and the Haystack School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME). Frost is the founder of the Colorado Sewing Rebellion, an offshoot of the original Sewing Rebellion founded by Frau Fiber (Carole Francis Lung). He is a co-founder of the Experimental Weaving Residency (with Dr. Laura Devendorf). Frost is also is a recipient of several other honors including the Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship. He holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics & Design at Alfred University.
Shipping of works: All works must be received by July 1, 2021. Each work must be accompanied with the work’s title, medium, size and sales price. SHIPPED WORKS should be packed in reusable containers. DO NOT use Styrofoam peanuts when packing artwork. Shipping costs are the responsibility of the artist. Artwork should be shipped prepaid via UPS, USPS, DHL or Fed Ex, and must be accompanied with a prepaid return-shipping label. COD deliveries will not be accepted.
Awards: Best in Show will receive a solo exhibition at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in 2022.