An Introduction to CaFE.

Call for Entry (CaFE) is a clearing house of opportunities for artists from all over the US. It lists exhibition, public art and other opportunities. IT IS FREE for artists to create a profile and use. I encourage you to at least review the site on a weekly basis to see what opportunities might be appropriate for you. Below are some upcoming deadlines. You can get more information and register at www.callforentry.org.


Upcoming Deadlines - APPLY TODAY!

City of San Jose - Multiple Projects

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Entry Deadline: 1/28/10

City of San Jose – Multiple Projects REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS DEADLINE: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended The City of San Jose Public Art Program seeks to commission site-specific artworks in several different locations throughout San Jose. Some of the projects are community-focused and others will be integrated into Capital Improvement Projects. Artists can be considered for more than one project, but will not be commissioned for simultaneous projects with the City of San Jose.


City of El Paso Art Windows 2010

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Entry Deadline: 1/29/10

The City of El Paso International Airport (EPIA) seeks to establish a pool of artists or artist teams from the Greater El Paso area for consideration in upcoming exhibits for Art Windows. The Art Windows program will introduce artists to our community and provide them with valuable exposure and gallery space for temporary exhibitions.


2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships for Visual and Media Artists

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Entry Deadline: 1/29/10

The South Florida Cultural Consortium is a partnership between the local arts agencies of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties. The Consortium’s Fellowship program is intended to nurture the artistic development of eligible visual and media artists who reside in one of these counties. Fellowships are not project-based; recipients may use the Fellowships according to their individual needs.


Border Art Biennial 2010 / Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010

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Fee: $1.00 (El Paso Museum of Art: Frontera Biennial Arte Concurso 2010/2010 Border Biennial Art Competition)
Entry Deadline: 1/31/10

The Border Art Biennial 2010 is a juried exhibition which highlights the often under represented art along the border region. This year the El Paso Museum of Art & Museo de Arte in Ciudad Juarez has extended the parameters to all border states in both Mexico and the United States. La Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 es una exposición con jurado que pone en relieve artistas poco conocidos de la región fronteriza. El Museo de Arte de El Paso y el Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez han extendido este año los parámetros a todos los estados fronterizos, tanto de México como de los Estados Unidos. 2010 Jurors: - Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. - Itala Schmelz, Director at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Miembros del jurado 2010: * Rita González, Curadora Adjunta del Departamento de Arte Contemporáneo del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Angeles * Itala Schmelz, Directora del Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil


TEXAS NATIONAL 2010

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Fee: $35.00 (Texas National 2010)
Entry Deadline: 2/1/10

JUROR: Judy Pfaff. TEXAS NATIONAL Art Competition and Exhibition is celebrating its 16th year on the national scene. It was created in 1995 by the Department of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) as an annual event for artists living and working in the United States. Jurors for each year's event have been internationally known artists including: Leon Golub, Faith Ringgold, Doug and Mike Starn, Martha Erlbacher, James McGarrell, The Art Guys, Donald Sultan, Sandy Skoglund, Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, Ed Moses, James Surls, Paul Brach, MANUAL, Roger Shimomura, and Mel Chin. Works may be of any medium (except video or performance). Participants are eligible for $3,500 in awards, and each will receive an illustrated catalog.


Prospectus #207 Tamarind Institute

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Entry Deadline: 2/4/10

The Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee for the Tamarind Institute seek to commission an artwork for the Tamarind facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Local Selection Committee is interested in commissioning a professional photographer to document visiting artists, master printers and students working at the facility.


City of Denver: Police Training Facility/Firing Range

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Entry Deadline: 2/5/10

The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) seeks to commission one or more artists or teams of artists to create site-specific artwork for the Traffic Operations/Firing Range campus. The new facility is being built along Interstate 25 and the South Platte River at Park Avenue West and Globeville Road, Denver, Colorado River. The funding currently designated for public art at the site is approximately $95,000 including design, fabrication, potential lighting and installation. The project is open to all artists in the U.S. working in all media and materials. Applications must be submitted on www.callforentry.org by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 5, 2010.


City of Longmont, Colorado; Art on the Move 2010-11

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Entry Deadline: 2/8/10

OPEN TO COLORADO ARTISTS. The City of Longmont, Colorado is seeking submissions for the Art on the Move (AOTM) program, where artwork is displayed for 11 months in various locations throughout the City. Deadline to apply: February 8, 2010.


Design Team Roster (Portland, Oregon)

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Entry Deadline: 2/12/10

The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) in Portland, Oregon, invites artists/teams currently living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Northern California to submit qualifications for the RACC Design Team Roster. The deadline for submissions is 11:59PM (Mountain Standard Time) Friday, February 12, 2010. Artists previously selected for RACC’s Design Team Roster must reapply. Applications will only be accepted through the CaFE™ system (www.callforentry.org).


Liberadores / Liberators

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Entry Deadline: 2/12/10

MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS in Denver invites artists and visionaries from throughout the Americas, North and South, to submit exhibition or project proposals addressing the theme Liberadores / Liberators. El MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS en Denver, Colorado extiende una cordial invitación a todos los artistas y visionarios del Continente Americano a someter una propuestas o proyectos para participar en la exhibición titulada: Liberadores de las Americas A multi-media, multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring selected artwork, projects and / or performances will premiere at the Museo de las Americas as part of In Good We Trust 2010, DENVER BIENNIAL DE LAS AMERICAS, June 17 - August 12, 2010. Propuestas o projectos pueden ser multidiciplinarios . Los projectos seleccionados se exhibiran en el Museo de las Americas como parte de DENVER BIENAL DE LAS AMERICAS, En lo Bueno Nosotros Confiamos 2010, del 17 de Junio – 12 de Agosto 2010.


Adams County Government Center - Interior Courtyard Pieces

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Entry Deadline: 2/15/10

The Adams County Visual Arts Commission is conducting an open entry competition to select permanent, site specific public art, including three dimensional pieces, to be placed in two 30 X 60 foot interior courtyards flanking the main entrance of the new multi-million dollar Adams County Government Center. The Center is currently under construction at 124th and Sable Blvd., Brighton, Colorado and is due to open in the Spring of 2011. The art should reflect the background, history and future of Adams County, and should be appropriate for the function and location of the Complex. Submissions may be designed separately for each courtyard or may integrate both courtyards. The submissions may be original works or limited edition works with geographic restrictions. The courtyards sites will abut pedestrian corridors, but will not be accessible to the public. The 60 foot long corridor side walls will be floor to ceiling glass and two of the other courtyard walls will have large glass viewing windows from the level of approximately two feet off the ground. One of the short side walls and about one-half of the long back wall of each courtyard will be brick. The courtyards will be easily visible from the exterior of the building through glass walls on the outside of the pedestrian corridors. The courtyards will be in a one story area and open to the sky, but the works must not extend above the height of the interior walls. Works must require minimum maintenance as the courtyards will have only limited maintenance access. There will be limited power to the courtyards and no lighting. Artists are encouraged to submit a separate independent work intended for one of the courtyards, or an integrated work tying both courtyards together conceptually, or both. The courtyards will be separated by approximately 300 feet and will not be visible from each other. PLEASE SEE ATTACHED IMAGES OF COURTYARD ROUGH INS


WASHINGTON SCULPTORS GROUP: CONSTRUCTED PLACE

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Fee: $45.00 (Washington Sculptors Group: Constructed Group)
Entry Deadline: 2/15/10

Open to new and current members of the Washington Sculptors Group, Constructed Place at Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park and Arts Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Solomons, MD, will showcase works that form environments, or that are themselves environments. Works should invite viewers to interact with, or be immersed in the spaces that are created. Freestanding, wall-hung, and lightweight ceiling-hung sculpture will be accepted. Performance works, time-based, and new-media works will also be considered. Artists are encouraged to propose site-specific or previously unrealized works that can be completed on site. Outdoor work for Constructed Place will be installed in the sculpture park alongside the 25+ works that are currently on loan from the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Selected indoor work will be featured on the first floor gallery of the recently-constructed arts building which has 22 ft. high ceilings and an 8' x 8' ground level entry. A first place prize sponsored by Annmarie Garden will be awarded.


Miami Dade Art in Public Places: New Media Project for SPCGC Lobby

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Entry Deadline: 2/19/10

NEW MEDIA PROJECT-Stephen P. Clark Government Center Lobby Project: Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places/GSA Budget: $165,000 Location: 111 NW 1st Street, Miami, Fl 33128 Deadline: February 19, 2010 Eligibility: Open Call to all artists residing in Miami-Dade County The Miami-Dade County General Services Administration (GSA) and Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs through its Art in Public Places Program request qualifications from professional artists working in new media technologies to create an installation for the lobby of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, downtown Miami. The selected artist will develop a creative response to the activities that take place at the government center and transform the lobby into a merger of art, technology and culture.


City of Seattle - First Hill Streetcar

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Entry Deadline: 2/22/10

The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs seeks an artist to develop site-integrated artwork for the new Seattle Streetcar line serving the Chinatown/International District, First Hill and Capitol Hill neighborhoods. The selected artist will work with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and their consultants from the early stages of design through construction of the First Hill Streetcar. The artist will develop a combination of artwork(s) and design enhancements to be integrated during construction of the streetcar line. The artist will be asked to apply a consistent design sensibility throughout the project. The design should include reproducible or repeating elements and components that contribute to the overall identity of the streetcar line. Artists with experience in both art and design will be well-suited for this project. The street right-of-way provides very limited space for artwork. Free-standing sculpture will not be considered. The application deadline is Monday, February 22, 2010, 11:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time.


Prospectus #205 Santa Fe Community College

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Entry Deadline: 2/25/10

The Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee at Santa Fe Community College seek to commission an artist or artist team to create artwork that responds visually and conceptually to the campus on Richard’s Avenue in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The committee anticipates the artwork to be highly interactive, instructive, thought provoking, pleasant, fascinating and connected to the core values of this community based institution of higher learning. Professional artists who are legal residents of New Mexico and who are experienced in creating public funded commission projects are invited to submit qualifications to this opportunity. $84,250 is available for this project.


Alaska Contemporary Art Bank

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Entry Deadline: 2/28/10

The Alaska State Council on the Arts is seeking 2D and 3D relocatable artwork for the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank, an Art in Public Places program. ALASKAN ARTISTS only. Deadline for submission is 09:59 PM AST, Feb. 28, 2010.


CraftTexas 2010

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Fee: $35.00 (CraftTexas 2010 Application Fee)
Entry Deadline: 3/1/10

CraftTexas 2010 is open to all artists currently residing in Texas. In the Fall of 2010, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) will host one of its biggest and most loved shows, CraftTexas 2010, the sixth in a series of juried exhibitions showcasing the best in Texas-made contemporary craft. Formerly known as CraftHouston, the show’s new title, CraftTexas, more accurately reflects the participating artists from all over the state who work in clay, fiber, glass, metal and wood media and in found/recycled materials. This unique show, which will be captured in a DVD catalogue and may be toured, provides Texas artists the opportunity to be considered for inclusion in major national museum and private collections. The exhibition also serves as a starting place for the general public to appreciate the depth and breadth of art being made in our own communities and across the state. CraftTexas 2010 will be juried by Gail M. Brown, independent Curator of Contemporary Craft from Philadelphia, PA; Cindy Hickok, internationally acclaimed fiber artist from Houston, TX; and Paula Owen, president of the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts in San Antonio, TX.


California Community Foundation: Fellowships For Visual Artists 2010

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Entry Deadline: 3/5/10

For more than 90 years, the California Community Foundation (CCF) has recognized, encouraged and supported the Southern California arts community by funding and nurturing a full range of artistic expressions. The Fellowship for Visual Artists is designed to support local emerging and mid-career artists in advancing to the next level of professional development. Must be resident of Los Angeles County to apply.


Alameda County Arts Commission: Artist Registry - Site Specific Public Artwork

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Entry Deadline: 3/19/10

Open to professional artists residing in California.* Many of Alameda County’s capital improvement projects include a Percent-for-Art Program in which professional artists are commissioned to make artwork for each site. Due to the upcoming schedule of construction projects, many of the artists commissioned for these public art projects will be selected from two registries of pre-qualified artists (Artist Registries). This Registry is for artists who have experience making permanent, site-specific public artwork; opportunities will be available for exterior and interior projects, be appropriate for artists working in a variety of materials and styles, and have a range of project budgets. Individual contracts may range from approximately $20,000 to $200,000. (*Additional eligibility restrictions for artists who currently have work in the Alameda County Art Collection. Refer to the complete application for details or call the Arts Commission office for more information.)


Alameda County Arts Commission: Artist Registry - Small Scale Artwork Commission Projects

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Entry Deadline: 3/19/10

Open to artists who live, work, or rent/own a studio in Alameda County, California.* Many of Alameda County’s capital improvement projects include a Percent-for-Art Program in which professional artists are commissioned to make artwork for each site. Due to the upcoming schedule of construction projects, many of the artists commissioned for these public art projects will be selected from two registries of pre-qualified artists (Artist Registries). This Registry is for artists who are making small to mid-sized, wall-mounted, two-dimensional or low-relief artwork. Individual contracts may range from $4,000 to $20,000; artists may be commissioned to make a one new artwork or a new series of work.


Prospectus #206 New Mexico State University O'Donnell Hall

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Entry Deadline: 3/25/10

The Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee at New Mexico State University seek an artist or artist team to create a site-specific commission project at O’Donnell Hall, home of the College of Education, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Professional artists who are legal residents of the United States and who are experienced in creating public funded commission projects are invited to submit qualifications to this opportunity. $170,900 is available for this project.


18th Annual Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) International Exhibition

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Fee: $35.00 (18th Annual Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) International Exhibition)
Entry Deadline: 3/31/10

The Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA This annual exhibition is limited to works in 100% colored pencil and is the only venue where CPSA members can earn the CPSA Signature Status. The exhibition features over $16,000 in awards including the $2500 Best of Show award and CIPPY Trophy.


2010 Art on Parade - Northglenn CO

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Entry Deadline: 3/31/10

The Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation (NAHF) is conducting an open entry competition to select six sculptures ─ valued at no more than $20,000 each ─ to be part of Northglenn’s “Art on Parade” on-loan sculpture program. The selected pieces will be installed for a period of one year at E.B. Rains Junior Memorial Park surrounding Webster Lake in Northglenn, Colorado.


Artspace: Artists Association Professional Membership

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Fee: $30.00 (Artspace Artists Association Professional Membership)
Entry Deadline: 4/1/10

Artspace Artists Association (AAA) is an organization of artists working together in Raleigh, NC to promote growth of the individual artist, to provide an environment of interaction with other artists and with the public, and to foster the mission of Artspace. Professional artists interested in becoming a member of the Artspace Artists Association must be juried in through a two-stage jury process. The first phase of the jurying takes place through www.callforentry.org. Artists who pass the first phase of the jury must be able to bring their work to Artspace in Raleigh, NC for the second phase of jurying.


Piedmont Craftsmen 2010

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Fee: $30.00 (Piedmont Craftsmen 2010)
Entry Deadline: 4/16/10

Thank you for your interest in Piedmont Craftsmen and welcome to the annual jury process for exhibiting members. Since its founding in 1964, Piedmont Craftsmen has evolved into one of the nation’s most highly respected craft guilds, presenting an annual Fair that is considered one of the finest in the southeastern United States. Total sales by 125 exhibiting craftsmen are estimated at nearly $400,000. Piedmont Craftsmen’s Gallery and Shop anchor the Arts District in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. The gallery attracts over 18,000 visitors each year, and grossed more than $250,000 in sales of fine craft. Visit www.piedmontcraftsmen.org for more information about Piedmont Craftsmen. Piedmont Craftsmen holds a two-part jury process each year for craftsmen interested in becoming Exhibiting Members. Part 1, the Image Jury, is being conducted on CaFE at www.callforentry.org in partnership with the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). This online process requires that all application images and materials be submitted in digital format. Applicants must live and work in one of the Southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia or the District of Columbia. Deadline: The application, images and other required materials must be submitted electronically by midnight, Thursday, April 16, 2009 to www.callforentry.org.