Call for Entries: What’s so Funny?
Metalsmith Brigitte Martin has joined up with Schiffer Publishing to develop a book about the role humor plays in contemporary craft, and they welcome your submissions in image, text, audio, and video.
What’s so funny? People of all ages and cultures respondto humor enthusiastically and
craft artwork definitely can be very funny ! Often, the work exudes a sense of the absurd due to exaggerated size
or by being executed in unusual materials. Craft artwork can be
highly ironic, political, sarcastic, or just plain amusing, and it
comes in a variety of media, such as metals, wood, fibers, ceramics,
glass, mixed media etc. Brigitte Martin has joined up with Schiffer
Publishing to develop a book about the role humor plays in
contemporary craft, and we welcome your submissions in image, text,
audio, and video!
They are looking for the following contributions: – images of humorous artwork,
-texts/essays by the contributing artists, commenting about humorous
aspects in their artwork,
– audio art
– video art (the book will contain a CD of audio/video art depending
on qualifying submissions)
– essays by writers about the role of humor and fun in craft.
Can you show us humor in all its shades expressed through craft
artwork and text ? Who decides what’s funny and what isn’t ? What
topics are off-limits ? Is irony funny ? Sarcasm ? Are politics
funny ? Religion ? This book aims to provide the viewer with
entertainment, commentary, and of course, many fine craft pieces by
makers from all over the world. Humorb has no borders. Or does it ?
It might be interesting to learn how a piece will be hilarious in
China, but only garner mild astonishment in Sweden andvice versa.
This call is open to craft artists working in all craft media.
crafthaus membership is not required. International entries are
particularly welcome and encouraged ! The book is scheduled to be on
the market in 2012. This is a rolling call: THE SOONER YOU SEND IN YOUR ENTRY the greater your chance to be considered ! Final deadline: March 1, 2011. Artists: To submit your work for initial consideration, please email: humorincraft (at) (our good friends) yahoo com – low res image(s), – information regarding media, measurements, – brief blurb about your work and your views on the topic of “humor
in craft” – Audio/Video artists: Please email an excerpt of your piece or
direct me to a website where your work can be heard/seen. Once selected, you will receive detailed information about the image
requirements for printing, as well as other pertinent information
and a deadline for final submission. Image requirements for eventual inclusion in book: Be prepared to submit your photos at 300 dpi and sized 15 x 10
inches !
Format: tiff or jpg AdobeRGB1998 preferred but not necessary
Pixel count for a 9 x 7 image is: 3500 x 2800 pixels Writers: Please submit a brief outline on your proposed essay topic, as well
as some information about you to (the same email as above.)
Exhibition Opportunity: Call to Artists, Architects + Designers Opening Reception: September 3, 2010 **submission receive deadline is August 10, 2010** The BECA Foundation is pleased to present SHIFT, an exhibition of new works of art + design featuring works that express, reveal, embody or address a change or movement on some level – be it social, cultural, physical, metaphysical, political, technological or any other relative shift. For the purpose of this Call, submitting artists, architects and designers are encouraged to freely interpret the meaning of the word ‘shift’. Those at least 18 years of age from any country are eligible to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. The BECA Foundation will host the exhibition at New Studio A.D., a new multi-functional studio, exhibition and event space located in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. The space allocated for the exhibition is 650 sqft (60 sq meters) with a ceiling height of 14 feet (4.3 meters) allowing the exhibition to fill a full 9,100 cubic feet (258 meters cubed) of viewing space. Of the entries submitted, three individual artists, architects, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the exhibition opportunity which will run from September 1 – 14, 2010 with an opening reception from 6 – 8pm on September 3rd, during Downtown Albuquerque’s First Friday ArtsCrawl. Download complete submission guidelines from: 
